Android launcher showdown: LauncherPro, ADW, Zeam, GO Launcher and QuickDesk

Android's greatest, platform-defining feature is customizability. The entire operating system is open-sourced, APIs are laid bare, and almost every user-facing part of the OS can be modified by apps.

There's no surprise, then, that replacement apps exist for almost every part of Android's stock functionality. In turn, to complete the circle of life, new versions of Android incorporate the functionality of replacement apps. It's the ecosystem of replacement apps, in fact, that helps drive Android's disgustingly fast iteration.

Today we're going to look at by far the most popular type of feature-replacement apps: launchers. With strong, age-old offerings from LauncherPro and ADW, and fresh upstarts Zeam, GO Launcher and QuickDesk, the field couldn't be stronger. Competition is driving developers to cram new features in on a weekly basis. The end result, of course, is that you and I get to reap the rewards.

But which launcher replacement is the best? There's only one way to find out.

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Android launcher showdown: LauncherPro, ADW, Zeam, GO Launcher and QuickDesk originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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2010: The year ruled by smartphones and social networks

The year 2010 began with a herd of manufacturers chasing Amazon's Kindle. It ends with some of the same companies in pursuit of Apple's iPad. In between those tablet-computing crazes, we've all been challenged to keep up with the expanding universes of social networking and smartphones.

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TV broadcasters resist FCC proposal to surrender more airwaves

Many broadcasters are already worried about declining viewers, and now they say the government wants to take away something more: the airwaves themselves.

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Level 3 Communications calls Comcast fees for Netflix feeds unfair

An online networking company that carries video feeds for Netflix has accused Comcast of demanding unfair fees to provide that video to home subscribers, raising questions about the cable giant's power to control consumers' access to the Internet.

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Everblue.edu Poised To Become The Kaplan Test Prep Of Sustainability

Everblue Training (Everblue.edu) ? an environmental education startup with offices in Berkeley, Calif. and Charlotte, N.C. ? this week attained accreditation from the group that verifies the quality of non-collegiate, continuing education and professional training programs throughout the United States for the U.S. Department of Education, the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education. The chief executive and co-founder of Everblue, Jon Boggiano, says the endorsement allows his business to sell its services to: government veterans' education programs helping them adjust back to civilian life; large companies that seek to train and certify their employees in a variety of environmental topics; and professionals or students who use government grants and loans to afford their continuing education...

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Tiny $150 PC Fits in a Power-Plug

Globalscale’s DreamPlug looks to have the build-quality of a $5 card-reader from your local dime-store, complete with ill-fitting plastic panels and 1980s utility-chic color-scheme. But who cares? This is a tiny PC that is smaller than the average wall-wart, and sips just 5 watts of power – the same as a USB port supplies. The DreamPlug [...]

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Craft an iPad Stand from Chopsticks [DIY]

If you're looking for a cheap and clever way to prop your iPad up this iPad stand crafted from chopsticks is cheap and a clever touch for an iPad used around the kitchen. More »


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Daily Crunch: Snow Day Edition

Audi-Designed Carbon Skis: Want So Bad Have Five Fingers Gone Too Far? Check Out This Year?s Casual Lineup Star Trek Potato Heads To Boldly Go Where No Potato Head Has Gone Before (sorry, had to) Smile-Scan: Omron Updates Its Smile-O-Meter Ferrari F150: The First Formula One Car Of The Season Inches Toward Green

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CES 2011: Tablets from Apple competitors will take center stage at electronics show

If imitation is the highest form of flattery, Apple should be blushing at the Consumer Electronics Show this week as a flood of competing iPad-inspired tablets make their debut.

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Sony Ericsson makes Xperia Play official in Super Bowl commercial, full launch coming February 13th

Sony Ericsson has finally stopped teasing, winking, and nodding knowingly and has just come clean -- the Xperia Play is most definitely real and it'll be one of the first devices announced at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We're treated to a date and time, February 13th at 6PM GMT, a pair of full frontal shots of the Gingerbread-running, gamepad-wearing smartphone, and the full version of that creepy ad we saw for it a couple of days back. Missed it on the Super Bowl? Scope it out after the break.

P.S. - Missed our coverage of Super Bowl Media Day? Catch up here!

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