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No More WM 6.5 Lock Screen Delay
Thanks to Mindfrost82, who modified the work of NRGZ28 and made it public, users of WM 6.5 will no longer have to experience a delay in waking up your device when it is locked using the WM 6.5 lock screen. This fix is portrait only at this point but we can confirm that this fix [...]
tPRO v2 Released – A Better Skin For S2U2
You’ll probably recall when demonizator released a TF3D skin for S2U2. Well he’s been at work and has now released an updated version. It’s a pretty impressive list of improvements including improved graphics to match the Rhodium’s look, support for all screen resolutions, and a second call screen. Here’s a complete list of the [...]
Get An Answer To Anything With ChaCha
It seems like voice controls are already preparing to take over for finger controls and here’s another example. ChaCha is a free service that lets you ask a question and get an answer by text. It’s like Google SMS but you can ask the question without any typing. All you need to do is [...]
WM 6.5 Plugins Galore
I know some of us forgot what a plugin is because of TF3D but if we go back about 18 months it was as good as things got. Well, with WM 6.5 comes a new set of plugins to add to your home screen. And thanks to thedaniel of XDA we have a complete [...]
The Real Battery Life of Your Phone
Whenever we compare phones we always talk about battery life and as we’ve all learned the numbers reported by the manufacturers have almost no correlation to reality. The problem is that the battery life reported is from lab results and not real life use. Well the other day I was browsing around the web [...]
Two Way Video Calling For Free
As we all know, video calling is almost non-existent in America for a variety of reasons. Some carriers don’t support it or they cripple it and when there is some support for it then it is very expensive. Well, how about free two way video calling? I’ve been playing around with VZOMobile (it’s in [...]
Touch Pro 2, Meet Your Competition – The Omnia Pro
What if you took an Omnia and added a slide out keyboard? We’ll you’d have an Omnia Pro which is a yet be officially announced. It’s rumored to be sporting a 624mhz CPU and have a 5mp camera (yup both specs beat the Touch Pro 2 with the processor about 20% faster) as well [...]
Tennis Anyone?
OK, let’s finish the sports theme weekend right with a little tennis. Heliosdev of XDA put together a nice app that keeps track of the score of a tennis match and it actually has a lot of functionality. You can change the name of the players, toggle how deuce/ad is treated, play a single [...]
Touch The Music Test Cabs Released
For those of you who are fans of games like Guitar Hero and Tap Tap Revenge there’s a competitor getting ready to enter the ring. Arlanthir and Shoddy_me of XDA have released a v.1 of their application called Touch The Music which is a complete song so there is now a complete level for [...]
Any Golfers Here?
I’m keeping with the sports theme for the weekend cause the weather is really getting great. And I figured we’d move from running and biking to golfing. I don’t golf much (PETA came after me last time I played because they thought I was aiming for squirrels but I was seriously trying to hit straight;)) [...]
