(Homebrew) Video Preview of Lock Widgets application

Last month we announced that the team WindowsphoneHacker had started a new project to bring some sort of Live Tile/Widgets on the lock screen for Windows Phone 

The developers, through its blog ,finally decided to show to what extent has come the development of this application. Lock Widgets, the name chosen for this application, let you fill in the screenblock a sort of Live Tile able to provide information to the user, such as RSS, images, weather, etc.

Developers write that found several problems in development, but that was a way to learn new features of Silverlight, background tasks, and restrictions of Windows Phone.The application still in development is previewed through a video uploaded to YouTube, of course, the app still has some bugs and you have to make an optimization work before the official release.

More information at WindowsPhoneHacker

Homebrew: ‘Lock screen widgets’ development for Windows Phone 7

The image shown above is a snapshot of a new application they are working on. Practically the homebrew application under development will allow to insert the lock screen a sort of Live Tile able to provide information to the user, suchas RSS feeds, pictures, weather, etc.

The application name was not decided as yet, but have in mind to call it "lock widgets" or something like that. Another interesting feature that would implement this application is to change the lock screen wallpaper automatically according to the images that offers bing day after opening the app using the search button.

More info about this project at WindowsPhoneHacker

Demonstration: DFT Bluetooth File Transfer for WP7

Jaxbot at WindowsPhoneHacker has uploaded this video demonstrating the DFT hack which allows Bluetooth File Transfer on Fully Unlocked Windows Phones.

Via WindowsPhoneHacker

(Homebrew) Folders for Full Unlocked and Rooted Devices (Video)

Homebrew Folders is an application developed by Jaxbot at Windows Phone Hacker that allows you to create folders on Windows Phone devices. 


Jaxbot posted a video showing the features he is working on for this app. The Folders app will allow you to group your apps into folders and pin it to start screen


Here is video on the mentioned application:

More info at Windows Phone Hacker 

Accelerometer Disabler for Windows Phone (Homebrew)

Jaxbot from WindowsPhoneHacker has just released new homebrew application. This application is very, very simple. It finds the handle of the accelerometer, and then sends a close device command to it.


So far this homebrew app can be used only on LG and Samsung smarphones but they have to be interop unlocked since this is howebrew app.


More information about this homebrew app and download link at WindowsPhoneHacher

Folders: The Homebrew application to create folders directly from Windows Phone is upgraded to version 2.0

The guys from windowsphonehacker released a new version of their homebrew app that allows you to create folders in Windows Phone.

At a distance of exactly one week from the first version , that's available for all Windows users with unlocked phones comes the second version of this homebrew app. Through the application  you can create and manage folders directly from the device.


Requirements:


The setup requires the following:

• Developer/Chevron/etc unlocked phone. 
• This should be less of an issue once ChevronWP7 Labs is releasedWindows Phone 7.5 Mango (for the secondary tiles)

Features

• Create unlimited folders to pin to your start screen
• Completely custom groupings (not restricted by categories of any sort)
• NEW:configure directly from your phone! (on-device branch)
• Add Marketplace, homebrew, built-in applications, and websites to a folder (Desktop branch)
• Automatic Marketplace look up
• Automatic homebrew XAP parsing
• Shortcuts to WiFi, Bluetooth, Flight mode, and cellular settings
• Fully customizable with the ability to manually edit application entries
• Folders. Something other Windows Phones don't have. Gotta love homebrew, no?

More info at WindowsphoneHacker 

Themes for Windows Phone Version 2 (Homebrew)

Windows Phone Hacker has updated their tool for theme customization to version 2.

The update includes:

• Speed improvements and clean ups 
• Easier to pin tiles Bug fixes 
• Improvements when using the Background Theme, where tiles can either be added or replaced. 
• Also, adding blank tiles or third party apps is now better supported.

Download version 2 from Windows Phone Hacker

Source: Windows Phone Hacker

Folders for Windows Phone Mango update (Homebrew)

Windows Phone Hacker homebrew folders app has been updated to version 3. This folders app allows users to create live tile folders to store multiple tiles within. It's become fairly popular in the homebrew community.

The version 3 includes:

• Support for custom accents (manually enter the color, since we don't have a way to detect it)
• Optimization, bug fixes
• Easier to pin applications
• Able to use applications from other markets (e.g. fr-FR)
• Able to save the XAP to deploy manually (makes things easier)

You can download the app from WindowsPhoneHacker.

Source:Windows Phone Hacker

Themes for WP7: Available the first version of the application to customize the homescreen Tile Windows Phone

Here it is, folks! The first release of the Themes for Windows Phone application. 

This early release comes with all the goodies we've demoed, and without further ado, here's the juicy bits:

Features:

• Customize any tile (system or third party, including Marketplace)
• Use your image as a background for the tiles
• Use an accent color for overlay transparency
•  Import themesExport themes
• A bundle of joy with easy personalization ;)

Requirements:

• A developer unlocked device (no interop needed)
• Mango

More info at  WindowsPhoneHacker