Dynamic over Dots
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Dynamic Badges are the best notification badges
Once upon a time, unread notifications were ugly numbers on our app icons. Today, we’ve got choices for our notification badges, and the best ones live on Nova Launcher.
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Halloween ain’t just for horror
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Get cute this Halloween with an adorable jack-o-lantern theme
Halloween is a holiday devoted to dressing up in awesome costumes, playing tricks on our friends and soliciting sweet treats from total strangers. Get your phone dressed up for the event.
Mo' movies, mo' problems
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Common Movies Anywhere problems and how to fix them
Movies Anywhere is a new and growing service, and it isn't anywhere near perfect yet. Here are the issues and bugs with Movies Anywhere and how to deal with them.
Tic’ing all the boxes
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TicHome Mini is everything I wanted in a Google Home: portability
The Google Home line has tripled this fall from one device to three, but the most exciting Home this fall isn’t made by Google.
Sit down in a Lawnchair
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Lawnchair comes to Google Play with Pixel-y goodness
Lawnchair, a Pixel-esque Launcher with some handy customization, has finally made the jump from xda to Google Play, making it accessible to far more users.
It’s a two-horse race right now
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The best launchers for theming your Android phone
There’s a lot of launchers out there. They all have their uses (hopefully), and one of the most varied and complex uses for a launcher is theming. These are the launchers that taking theming and launchers as a whole to new levels.
Come together my movies
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How to set up and get started with Movies Anywhere
Movies Anywhere is the bigger, better, multi-studio version of Disney Movies Anywhere, and it’s an absolute breeze to set up. Get your movies out of Amazon and iTunes and watch them, well, anywhere!
50 million Novas
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Nova Launcher joins the 50 million downloads club on Google Play
Nova Launcher, one of Android’s most popular and customizable launchers, has a new accomplishment under its storied belt: over 50 million downloads on Google Play.
Get low
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Here's what's new in the Google Pixel 2 launcher
The Pixel 2 is coming, and a new home screen comes with it. From search bars to widgets to wallpapers, here's what's new with the Pixel 2 launcher.
Take your music to the Max
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Everything you need to know about Google Home Max
One of Google Home's bigger features is the way it plays and controls music, and that's about to get supersized and super-smart with Google Home Max. Here's what we know about Google's answer to the HomePod.
Licking off Oreo’s creamy white filling
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How to get rid of Oreo’s creamy, white Adaptive icon filling
From all the changes that come with Android Oreo, the most immediate and perhaps the most noticeable change users see isn’t the new emoji or multi-window: it’s all that horrible white on their app icons.
Substratum and Andromeda and Oreo, oh my!
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I'm in love with rootless system theming
System themes have required one of two things: a phone with a theme engine or root access. With Android Oreo, we finally have enough groundwork laid that system theming is possible, even without root!
ROARRRR!!!!!
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Your home screen is worthy of a dragon wallpaper
Dragons are strong, powerful, majestic, terrifying, and sometimes, they’re even cute. No matter what kind of dragon inspires you, there’s a wallpaper for that.
All the pixels
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The state of 4K across Google Play and YouTube
You’ve got a shiny 4K TV and a shiny 4K streaming device, and now you need some content to showcase all that lovely ultra high definition awesomeness. Here’s what Google’s offering up.
We don't need no stinkin' badges
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How to disable icon notification badges on the Galaxy Note 8
Love 'em or hate 'em, it's annoying that you can't simply toggle a setting to remove app icon notification badges on the Galaxy Note 8. Here's how you can change them with an app.
Secure your nest
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Nest expands its lineup with a connected doorbell and a whole-home solution
Nest is looking to secure your home with its new lineup of connected home products, from an in-home alarm system to a video doorbell to improved security cameras.
Home is where the power is
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Take Google Home anywhere with a battery base
Google Home is a wonderful little speaker with Google Assistant, but it's tied to an outlet, so you can't carry it around your home while you work. A third-party base from Ninety7 looks to free us from the power cord.
Geometry rules
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Put your phone in order this Wallpaper Wednesday
Geometric wallpapers can help add order to a disordered home screen, and to a disordered mind. Keep your home screen as clean as a temple, and use these wallpapers to help find some inner calm and peace.
Always on, always awesome
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Customizing the Note 8's Always On Display: a guide
The screen on the Samsung Note 8 may look off, but it's not really off. Thanks to Samsung's Always On Display, you can see the time, your notification, and other information pulsing dimly on your screen when you want. Here's how it works.
QuietComfort Assistant
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Bose QC35 II headphones will have Google Assistant built-in
Bose's QuietComfort 35 headphones are some of the most highly-recommended active noise-canceling headphones on the market, and its successor is going to have a handy new feature: Google Assistant integration.