Zeam Launcher for Android - Lightweight, fast, stable, must have

Well, if you're tired of the dull default Android home screen, you have a wide choice of replacement launchers on Android Market. Zeam, by Michael Bentz, is one of them. What makes Zeam special? Well, it's speed and low memory footprint.




The speed of this thing is incredible, and after all launchers I have tried, this one managed to keep 5 homescreens filled with widgets and shortcuts in under 20MB or RAM. For people with low memory phones (256MB or even less) this launcher is a must have. Scrolling is smooth as butter, it is very easy to configure, and it gets updated periodically. The last update, however, dropped the scrollable widgets support, not that I ever used it, but it seems some users are missing that feature.

It also features a scrollable dock, and Sense-like homescreens preview.

Head of to the application thread at XDA developers or get it directly from the Android Market.

Notification Toggle for Android - A must have for stock ROMs

For those of you who use Android stock ROMs and have drooled over the notification bar toggles of Samsung's TouchWiz or the later LG phones, here is a piece of software developed by j4velin that comes to the rescue. Notification Toggle shows you a notification in the pull down bar, with the toggles you've selected when you run the app. You can see the status of your Wifi, Bluetooth, Mobile data, and so on, right there, in the notification bar. Once you push the notification, a popup appears that allow you to toggle those settings. You can choose from a variety of settings toggles, as well as add apps to the same popup.

It's does not exactly replace the Touchwiz toggles, but in the long run, I think it's even better. I gave it 5 stars.

Head on to the Android Market and download it.