Simi-Folders and Simi - Clock: These are some nice minimalistic widgets for your home screen. Because I have one of the original droids, I am always faced with the issue of slowdown and performance. One of the practices I use to remedy this is to not use too many widgets on the home screens. If I do, they tend to be very simple ones that do not require a whole lot of the phone's resources. I have found that these 2 widgets by Simi are very friendly to my phone.
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| The widgets in the natural habitat. |
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| Selecting a folder to edit |
Simi-Folder: is a widget that allows you to create nice custom folders on your home screens. What's the difference between this and just creating normal folders? The folders (once set up) are saved in the application, which means if you delete a simi-folder from the home screen, you don't need to rebuild it like you would a normal folder. You just re-add it the widget. There are also a lot of style settings that allow you to customize the look-n-feel of each folder. Once you get one folder to look the way you like, you can apply that style to additional folders. I've made several "template" folders that I don't place on my home-screens for just that purpose so I can quickly change the styles to match the home screen wallpaper.
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| Editing a folder |
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| Pressing "Faves" shows this. |
Simi-Clock: Just like Simi-Folders, this widget has a ton of visual customizations and also acts as an additional way of launching any application you like. For example, I love the default weather and news app that android has so I use the "on-tap" function of simi-clock to launch it. Simi-Clock has 3 tappable regions that you can assign any shortcut to.
Both of these widgets are free and are available on the android market right now.
Note: there are "donate" versions of each one of these for $2.14 if you are feeling generous.
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