A bit of technology

LauncherPro Beta (free)

This is THE BEST launcher application available today! Ultra fast! Ultra smooth! Ultra capable!

It has a lot of performance tweaks in the settings, so you can adapt it to your device. It has tweakable memory manager. It has graphics quality settings. And in the end it gives you super smooth scrolling, super fast and responsive interface. And yes, it has all the bells and whistles too! No compromises were made!

You can choose how many home screens you want, how to scroll them, it even supports five rows for icons. LauncherPro has a very powerfull and customizable dock. And you can add up to three docks to suit all your needs. Dock shortcuts also support notifications. LauncherPro comes with great icons and graphics made with style. It will look native on any stock ROM, it can be user-styled to fit any Sense/MotoBlur/whatever. It has support for scrollable widgets and two different app drawers (2D and 3D). It...

You still reading this? GO AND GRAB IT! LauncherPro is free, by the way.

AdFree Android * root (free)

Tired of ads all over your Android device? Here's the solution! AdFree Android downloads fresh list of domains with ad systems and puts them into your hosts file to block. So it requires rooting your devices. The best thing is that this way ads are blocked all over device: in browser, in apps and so on. No ad will survive!

AdFree host lists are updated from time to time, so it will keep you updated and ad free as best as possible. It can also restore your hosts file - that will be needed to send your device to repair service or if you are app developer and want to test ad services.



Better Terminal Emulator Pro (3,99 $)

As You know Android is based on Linux kernel and GNU infrastructure. So some geeks might want to do some stuff inside terminal/console. Official emulator from SDK includes basic terminal emulator, but retail devices does not. The easiest solution would be to install terminal from SDK, but this one sucks. I recommend Better Terminal Emulator Pro. Yes, it costs four bucks, but it is worth every penny! It has a lot of options, useful shortcuts, includes better shell (default one is total crap!), ssh client and much-much more! I use it at least once a week to check remote servers and sometimes "browse" my phone through console.

If you do not have Market or paid apps in it for some reason, then you may visit official app website - they have a solution for you. They also have other geek-targeted apps and tools on their site, so take a look.

jkAppSwitch (free)

Android lacks proper task switcher by default. You know, like Alt+Tab in MS Windows. The only device with proper task switcher out-of-the-box was Acer Liquid before 2.1 update. This is why everyone is using jkAppSwitch. You can bind it to Search key long press or put it in status bar and easily switch running apps by these two methods. It can also kill these apps if needed. As far as I know, Android 2.2 Froyo is not yet supported, but everyone else should enjoy it without any problems.

I think jkAppSwitch is a must-have application for your Android, just like Barcode Scanner. I did not write about this switcher before simply because I had one built-in (:


OS Monitor (free)

Another geek toy for Android. This app monitors your device status while running: show current processes (real ones, not virtual from Dalvik), network connections, network interfaces, logs, and other stuff.

OS Monitor does not require root for most of its functionality, but some actions will trigger SU request. For example, killing system process will require root. Changing CPU frequency will require it too. By the way, this latter feature does not work for me, I don't know why. Anyway, this tool is very useful if you know what you are doing. It maybe harmful if you don't. So be warned!



I hope you enjoy my application selections, have a good day!