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Location-specific home screens coming to the iPhone?

According to a patent filing back in February, Apple may be working on a new location-specific home screen for the iPhone. In the patent, Apple outlines how a user could set a persistent default location in the weather app, and set location-based arrangements of app icons on the home screen. The patent drawings show icons for local contacts, local weather, local time and local maps.

Instead of having to manually enter your location, you'd have a "here" button within the weather app (and possibly others?) that would use your current location to configure everything for you. The patent also suggests that apps could get location-specific icons, featuring landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge or the New York City skyline. These features obviously aren't of much interest for those who don't travel, but for all you bicoastal, iPhone-toting gadabouts, this is good news.

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Make Your Motorola Q Look Like A Mac

Motorla Q Mac Home ScreenIf you are a Mac user and want your Motorola Q to look like a Mac powered device instead of the Windows Mobile that it is, check out the home screens designed by Ray at KoolDezine.com. He has several Mac ones to choose from. In addition to the Mac one he has a fairly large selection of general ones to choose from. I downloaded several of them.

The best part is that they are free, but he does ask for donations if you like them and use them, which I am going to do since I am using one his cool looking Yankees one, which is in his fairly extensive "Sports" section. And most of them also use only standard plugins so you do not need any additional software for them. They are a cinch to install, just unzip them and copy the XML and JPG file to the 'Application Data/Home' directory through ActiveSync. Once the files are copied just go into "Settings" and the "Home Screen" option. You also need the "Color Scheme" and "Background Image" to be set to "Default" so the settings in the XML file are used.

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