Welcome to the first installation of our new series What’s On Your Homescreen? A new series providing you insight into the personalities of the various writers on droiddog.com by taking a look at the homescreen for their daily device. First up is Steve Raycraft. Welcome to my homescreen. As you notice, there is not much to it. I’m a big fan of… Read more
The CyanogenMod team was recently hit with a cease and desist for the name of their new clock widget: Chronos. A company had a trademark on the name “Cronus” and sent that C&D. Though the CM team felt that they didn’t infringe on that trademark, they rightfully dropped it. A company that provides a free product can’t go wasting money on court fees…. Read more
Chronus is a renamed version of “Lock Clock” from CyanogenMod. The name led people to assume it was limited to the lockscreen, but it also did just fine on your homescreen. The widget displays a clock along with weather and calendar events, all in one place. It is configurable in Settings and the settings apply to all the instances of the widget (both… Read more
So I’ve never had a big issue with it until today, but I know that getting your wallpaper set up the way you want it on your phone can suck. Today, I flashed the newest leak on my Epic 4G Touch (I know… I said the OTA was ready. If you want to ask me about it you can… it’s pretty much ready) and all of a sudden I couldn’t get my wallpapers to… Read more
This is the second in a continued series of video tours of various products, mostly Android related. Today is a tour of my Galaxy Nexus homescreens. This is the kind of thing that changes all the time, based on various inspirations and newly available tweaks. My bootloader is unlocked, but my Nexus is not rooted. This is the stock launcher, the stock… Read more
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