Something most people don’t know they want is the ability to personalize their computer. I don’t mean cute noises and background images. I mean make it do what they want, when they want it to do it. The people who know how to make their computer the way they want to go through a lot of work to make it that way. WinBubbles is an app that has a name that gives you no clue into ...

Creating Android apps is easy enough for developers. For the rest of us, not so much. Making your own app requires a quick hand in Java, XML, and a properly set up IDE for development and testing. Well, technically you could work without the IDE, but nobody does that. They’d have to be crazy. But we digress. The real point is making your own Android apps takes work. Ultimate Custom Clock Widget (UCCW) aims to solve that ...

Gmail is super popular, there is no doubt about it. Everyone from governments to businesses to the everyday Joe is using Gmail for their emailing needs. Even as popular as Gmail is, there is a certain lack of customizing options. Sure you can turn on the Labs features and change the theme or the layout, but these are all pre-designed and not really unique to you… Until now. Google recently added Custom Themes as an option for Gmail. Having the ...

The Metro Start screen is a big part of what makes Windows 8 so cool. The Metro Start Menu will be used quite a bit by most people. That being said, people like to customize their screens and the Metro Start Menu screen is no different. This handy tool will let you make your Menu screen look the way you want it to. We wrote about how to customize your Charms Bar in Windows 8. If you tried that application out, this one is pretty similar ...

Making Android open-source is probably the smartest thing Google has ever done with their platform. Putting control in the hands of thousands of dedicated developers has left us with some fairly spectacular results. If you know what you’re doing, there’s a way to customize just about every part of Android. Even the boot animation can be changed if you know how. If you’re tired of that boring start-up that came with stock, fret not because it can be changed. This isn’t the most complex ...

One of the unquestioned advantages of Android over iOS is the constant option of widgets. Sure, jailbreakers might have one or two options, but when it comes down to who has more widgets of better quality, Android wins. There’s just no competing with the huge selection of customizable free and paid widgets available in the Market. These days, it’s considered a little weird if an app doesn’t ...

People do not always like change. Okay, most despise it. If this sounds like you, there is a good chance there will be parts of Windows 8 that you may not like when you try it out. If the Start menu is one of those things, here is a quick fix. The quick breakdown of what you will get by installing ...

The automatic aero feature in Windows 8 is perhaps the only additional feature for themes when we compare it to what's available on Windows 7. While this is not a major addition, it sure is quite a useful feature. The automatic aero setting changes the aero color as per your current wallpaper. The aero color is calculated as the average of all the colors present on your wallpaper. Now, ...

Do you often get bored with the same desktop wallpaper? Do you change it on a regular basis? Do you like changing your Twitter background as well? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you'll love Kuvva. Kuvva is a free Mac app that turns your computer desktop (and Twitter page) into a "daily source of inspiration". Kuvva features wallpapers from some of the world's best artists and illustrators. It then automatically changes those desktop wallpapers/Twitter backgrounds everyday. Kuvva makes it so that everyday ...

So, you have a Facebook account, right? I thought so. Well if you are looking to get rid of the parts of the page you don’t use and enhance the parts you do use, Social Fixer is right up your alley. There always seems to be an uproar over any changes made to Facebook profiles. Using an extension for your browser can help eliminate the features you have no interest in.   What can Social ...