Sometimes, it's not your productivity apps that need a tune-up... it's how you get to those apps that needs work. And Microsoft knows it. The tech firm has redesigned the Office.com front end and Office 365's web app launcher. There's now a recommend...
Why toss paper airplanes by hand, when you can have a machine take care of the hard work for you? Now you can make a semi-automatic paper airplane launcher for yourself. This thing is a cool paper airplane gun/paper airplane aircraft carrier in one.
This cool build tutorial comes from the consistently inventive and resourceful The Q. It looks super fun to use and fairly easy to make if you have some basic skills. You will need some batteries, two electric motors, two old CDs or DVDs, and a bunch of cardboard. It is a great weekend project for you and your kids.
Now you and a friend can have some serious paper airplane wars. Just don’t shoot each other’s eyes out.
[via Laughing Squid]
The Pixel and Pixel XL may look new on the outside, but just like grandma says, it's what's inside that counts. Google has tweaked the underlying software that powers the Pixels, baking its AI Assistant directly into the phones and launching them wit...
Why wait for Google's rumored Pixel / not-Nexus phones, when you could use some of their software right now? The latest release of Action Launcher has arrived, and it cribs some of the features noted in Android Police's leak of the software Google is...
While we've had early looks at Android Nougat for months, it appears Google may be saving other software tweaks for its next Nexus devices. Android Police has screenshots that it says show "in progress" evidence of the new software, with a replacemen...
Microsoft has already courted Android fans by releasing a lock screen, but it's taking the relationship one step further by introducing a full-fledged launcher. The newly official (if already expected) Arrow Launcher is a purposefully simple interf...
Google’s Nexus line has always been the poster child for pure Google Android, but a new app from Google will put that power in anyone’s pocket.
The past few iterations of Android have allowed users to bring their devices more and more in line with the standards set by Google through their Nexus line and—more recently—through the Google experience devices in the Google Play Store.
The look and feel has always been dictated by the manufacturer, though. Samsung devices use their touchwiz skin, HTC devices use HTC sense, and most manufacturers have some other distinguishing variations from stock Android.
Rumors have been swirling surrounding a “Google Experience Launcher” which would make your Android device look and feel (mostly) like a clean version of unadulterated Android. So far, this launcher has only been available on the Nexus 5, but an incoming update to the Google Search app suggests this is about to change.
Android Police has examined the new release by Google and found many of the included changes actually affect the Google Launcher, including an official branding as Google Now Launcher, which suggests they are preparing to distribute it beyond stock devices.
I tested the .APK included on their site on my HTC One and can confirm that it does deliver as promised with minimal effort. You can follow their included directions if you also wish to get it for yourself.
If you want to wait for an official update from Google, there’s no word yet on how long that will be—or even any confirmation that it will ever be available. As always, be careful before you go installing 3rd party apps on your devices, but the .APK is signed by Google and it passed a scan from Lookout Security before I installed it.
I’ve always been a big fan of the cleaner simplistic approach of the Google Nexus UI, but it may not be for everyone. If you want to try something new on your phone but don’t like the Google Now Launcher look and feel, try checking out Launcher Pro or Action Launcher from the Google Play Store.
Source: BGR, Android Police
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Though there's no official word from Google yet, it looks like the Chrome launcher has come out of developer preview mode and into full release, at least for Windows. On our own PCs, the installation placed the launcher app on the start page, taskbar and desktop for Windows 8 and in Windows 7's menu bar. From there, you can quickly access Chrome, the Chrome store, Gmail and any other apps that work with Google's ubiquitous browser / OS. We're not sure when it'll hit OS X or Linux (Chrome OS users have had it for awhile), but if your Windows workflow revolves around Mountain View's myriad products, you can enable it at the source.
[Thanks, Adam]
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Source: Chrome Webstore
Facebook Home and the First phone to ship with it on board were revealed just over a month ago, and in the time since, the Home team has been hard at work improving the platform. Today at Facebook HQ we got to check in with Cory Ondrejka, Director of Mobile Engineering and Adam Mosseri, Director of Product to see how Home has been doing since its debut, and to hear what's in store for Home moving forward.
Thus far, Home's been installed on almost a million phones, which has given Facebook some clear insight about the ways it needs to be improved. Most complaints thus far have centered on Home's failings as an app launcher -- when you install Home on any phone, it rearranges your apps because there's no folder support and no app dock. Well, Mosseri and Ondrejka feel your pain and assured us that those two features will be rolling out in the coming months, and they plan to continue to iterate to make Home a robust launcher. Facebook also has plans to roll out a new buddy list feature that'll show up as an overlay on top of Cover Feed with a simple swipe. This lets users start conversations directly from Cover Feed instead of having to open up the messenger app to start chatting. That's not all Facebook has in store, however, so join us after the break for more.