Android Virus Threat

Just a heads up, they have a report of a virus hitting Android users.

The chance of infection is minimal but wanted to give you the heads up.

Android Centeral link for more information

Launcher Pro

The review for today is LauncherPro, a home screen/launcher replacement app. One of the only areas of Android that I found seriously lacking from the start was the home screen. If you run a lot of the larger widgets like I run; Adgenda widget, Facebook, Twitter, and some of the music player widgets are a few examples of the large widgets I'm talking about, you run out of space fast with the stock Android Launcher. I've tried several home screen replacement apps, and still do from time to time, but I always seem to come back to LauncherPro.

You can set it for anywhere from 1 to 7 home screens, giving you lots of room for whatever widgets you may want to run.

If you look at the screen caps you'll also notice there is a 5th row of icons across the very bottom of the screen. This bar is also scrollable independently of the home screens, notice how the icons are different in the second screen cap, it's a total of 15 icons (3 rows of 5). Both the bar, and now the home screens in the latest update, can be programed to scroll in an endless loop so if you reach the left edge of your home screens and try to scroll left it'll jump you to the right end of the screens.

It also offers the chance for you to apply custom icons to your shortcuts, giving you the opportunity to give your phone a more personalized look. There is also the opportunity to expand the grid on your home screens from the stock 4x4 to anything from a 1x1 grid up to a 10x10 grid and anything in between.

There is both a free and a paid version of the app, the paid version unlocks some additional widgets as well as the ability to re-size your widgets. The paid version goes for $2.99. The developer isn't in the us so the paid version isn't available from the market. There is a link inside the app that takes you to a page to purchase and unlock key for it through Paypal.