The Five Tile Home Screen

Reader Cutting_Razr liked the idea of a Windows Phone-inspired home screen, but found it too cluttered with all those apps. So, instead, he created a one-screen setup with just a few tiles with the apps he uses regularly.

The phone runs stock Ice Cream Sandwich, and uses these apps for customization:

• For the nearly quadratic grid I used Nova Launcher Prime. You don't need the paid version if you can go without gestures and folders. Nova also enables a 6 icon dock and overlapping widgets.
• The Windows Phone-eque tiles come from Real Widget.
• The blue circles you can see behind the dock icons are battery indicators from Circle Battery Widget. I put them into the dock and sent them to the back, so you can use the icons normally.
• The clock widget is SiMi Clock Widget. Yes, the date is in German. I resized it to make the separating line go across the whole screen. Also I sent it to the back for the same reason as above. Hence, the overlapping.
• The icons are from this icon set by ~DzzR. I chose them because the fit very well with the stock icons and allowed me to do the battery thing.

Do you have an awesome, tweaked-into-oblivion home or lock screen of your own that you'd like to share? Go ahead and post it on the #homescreenshowcase forum with a description of how you made it and it may be the next featured home screen.

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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/r17P8Y0iaE8/the-five-tile-home-screen

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