Spruce up sliding panels on WinMo 6.5

Although many like to use HTC'southward TouchFLO3D, using the Sliding Panels (aka Titanium on WM6.5) is sometimes preferable — in fact I often find it more efficient and revealing, which is why I'm taking a well-deserved hiatus from HTC's pattern.

Example in signal, there are lots of actually good tertiary party plug-ins that tin exist added to the sliding panels to augment their functionality. Sure TouchFLO3D may have lots of centre candy, simply as far as speed of admission, Titanium is faster.

In this postal service, I'll share with you three which really ameliorate the usefulness of the default WM6.5 home screen: Twitter (Titanium Artesea), Favorite People (AppStar Titanium) and Weather (Showaco TitaniumWeather*).

First things first: to install any of these, y'all must initially disable the Titanium/Windows Default plugn via Settings --> Today --> Items. Run the .cab installation then re-enable Titanium.

Twitter (Titanium Artesea)

Even though I use Twikini 90 percent of the time, sometimes I just similar having my Twitter feed auto-update and available on my Today screen, and Titanium Artesea does the job nicely.

It features auto-update at user specified intervals, scheduling (i.e. merely between these hours should updates occur), pulls down avatars and when y'all tap the screen goes to a special, more advanced Twitter folio, or you can tell it to open your favorite Twitter app e.g. Twikini, PockeTwit, TouchTwit. What'south really neat is if the tweet has a URL in it and even if you have a third-party app selected, it will automatically open up your default browser to that URL isntead.Smart.

Sliding left and correct goes through the various tweets and yous can even specify how many tweets it should bring downwardly per update.

Only downside? It all goes through the author's server, including your unencrypted password. The author is very upfront with this fact, so if y'all find it discerning, then this is non for y'all. Me? For my personal feed, I don't mind.

Favorite People (AppStar Titanium)

Want quick admission to your favorite peeps? Bank check out this plugin by AppStar.

The plugin allows you to add together your favorite contacts, with their picture to the sliding panel. Clicking on the contact can phone call them, email, transport SMS or open the contact.

You lot also have a secondary selection for the Correct softkey. Highly configurable, smart and piece of cake to utilise this one is a winner. You can even re-proper name the plugin to annihilation you desire in instance you don't like Fave People and assign a .wav for aural alerts.

Cool.

Weather (Showaco TitaniumWeather*)

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This fills in that gap that we had expected Microsoft to make full: quick admission to electric current conditions and forecast on your Today screen. Sure HTC is kicking butt with their Sense UI/My Location feature and total screen weather animations, however, it does actually lack details and a specific forecast.

Showaco, no stranger to the community for his many contributions, has been developing this weather condition plugin for quite some fourth dimension. In turn, it'southward very well rounded with constantly new additions.

Running off a Mortscript, you simple add in your zip code for the location setting. Yous tin then specify what hours updates should occur between, how often and what information to pull downwardly.

Recent additions including the tie in with GPS Radar, which is very prissy--simply slide the panel over and click it to launch the program. Additionally, the programme supplies detailed current conditions conditions, forecast and even has configurable icons (I adopt BeyondInvisible myself).

*Note: The original file posted for TitaniumWeather by Showaco has some bugs, delight download this revised version here.

So there you go, three very useful and easy to install plugins that bring a whole new level of functionality and simplicity to WM6.5's default plugin (Titanium). There are certainly more of these out in that location and we'll be covering those equally they catch out attention.

Oh and if you want to re-organize your Panels, of grade use Showaco'due south CHome Editor v1.half-dozen.

Are y'all using 1 that yous think totally rocks? Exit a comment or drop a tweet @malatesta77!

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