Eye In The Sky

So I’m trying some different things these days since I bought an extended battery and it seems to be working well.

First up is Eye In The Sky Weather. I usually hesitate to add something like a new weather app because of the poor battery….and that goes for just about everything else, really.

Anyhow, it’s a clean app with cool widgets and features of other weather apps all in one package.

I’ll let you know how I like it after a few days usage.

The Little Things

Been rockin’ the Froyo on the Droid for the last couple of weeks and I must say…I’m a little underwhelmed. I was giddy when I first received the update but, as time has worn on, so has the luster, and the newness.

Sure, I like the five home screens and two persistent apps, but, the overall responsiveness is laggy and I really have to be careful about what’s running in the background as it seems battery life isn’t as better as promised.

As you can see from this screen capture, I’m still running Beautiful Widgets and the Beautiful Live Weather wallpaper. I’m also in a rut with my shortcuts and other widgets. I’m finding it rather difficult to really keep track of what I’m using everyday.

***Million Dollar Idea***

Maybe someone cold come up with an app to track which apps you use every day and build a report on the duration and  what other services, like data for instance, that app used. You could call it TrackDroid!!!!

Another pain is video playback over 3G. When using direct playback from podcast sites like Cnet, the video will play for a few minutes and then start to stop intermittently. Very annoying. I’ve found I have to actually stop the video and start a couple minutes later, I assume, to let the video buffer. The bummer is that the Mediafly TWiT app doesn’t need to buffer, unless it’s already built in…which makes sense.

One last tidbit about Froyo on the original Droid (TOD??). I’ve found that to move from home screen to home screen I really have to press hard. Or, in a flash of serendipity, you can press on either side of the dock to change screens, you know, where those little button-looking things are. Very nice touch!

I tell you all of this because I’ve been going back and forth with my launchers. Here is how I currently have LauncherPro set up.

You’ll notice now notification bar at the top and also a more customized dock at the bottom, with only four persistent apps, not including the center app drawer button, and custom icons for those four persistent apps.

I’m torn between the two. both work better in different areas and neither has a huge downfall from something that doesn’t work of from something that doesn’t have an easy work around.

Case in point…moving from home screen to home screen. With the original Launcher, as stated above, I have to really dig into the screen to get it to move or press on one of the little buttons to the right or left of the dock. With LauncherPro, all it takes is a quick flick of the finger and you’re at the next screen. Simple as pie.

My dilemma is a case in point for customization options for anything in life. When given the choice, there will always be doubts and possibly regret, in the choices we make. At least with Android, it’s fairly easy to toggle between things like the home launcher.

And when you get right down to it, isn’t it that availability of choice that lured us the Android in the first place? That, and the better network!

Thanks for stopping by!!