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Android app of the week: HTC Sense Home
Yesterday, HTC updated HTC BlinkFeed for phones running HTC Sense 6 or HTC Sense 7 and in the process renamed the app to HTC Sense Home. Along with the name change, HTC brought Sense 6 users some awesome new software features we’ve been in awe over when the HTC One M9 was unveiled like HTC Themes…
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How to: Add a custom topic to BlinkFeed in 3 easy steps
Front and center on any new HTC phone is the fresh looking BlinkFeed news reader with built-in or add-on read-it-later functionality and lots of options to add sources of news. HTC BlinkFeed can be a useful portal for delivering the latest news to your home screen or it can be an eyesore if left unconfigured. For those that use BlinkFeed…
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How to: Change the appearance theme on the HTC One M8
Changing the appearance of our phones is something that everyone has done at one point or another. Even if only to change the wallpaper. There are all sorts of things a user can do to set a phone apart from the others and to get a unique interactive experience. Aside from changing wallpapers, ringtones for…
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A closer look: Wrap-up review of the HTC One M8
The all new HTC One M8 is upon us and instead of throwing together a lengthy article a few words short of being called an e-Book we decided to take a little more time focusing on specific areas of the user experience so we could produce a series of articles for a quality reading experience.…
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BlinkFeed and HTC Gallery updates hit Google Play
HTC is already taking advantage of the fact that BlinkFeed and its Galley apps are on Google Play by releasing updates to both of them. The BlinkFeed app includes bug fixes, scrolling optimizations and changes to social content while the HTC Gallery app now gives users the ability to use the apply Foergrounder effects anywhere…
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A closer look: HTC Sense on the HTC One M8
Today we are going to explore HTC’s latest version of HTC Sense. The user interface that stood out among the pack in the early days when Android was more of a framework behind a manufacturer-based user interface. HTC Sense has come a long way, but that recognizable clock widget is still present in HTC Sense…
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How To: Add HTCSource to HTC BlinkFeed on the HTC One (M7)
HTC first introduced the feature to add custom feeds into HTC BlinkFeed with the HTC One (M7) of 2013 when HTC Sense jumped from version 5 to version 5.5. We know the HTC One (M8) is all the rage these days, but we haven’t covered the topic yet so we thought now would be as…