A short video from NokiaSupportVideos on how to personalise your Nokia N8 homescreen including add widgets, change wallpaper and more.

Folks at mynokiablog.com just uploaded a video on how to speed up the Nokia N8 homescreen speed, Actualy if you want faster speed when you swipe the homescreen you just need to turn theme effects off. Go to settings > themes > options > theme effects > off.

HipLogic just launched *Spark, the Ultimate Active Home Screen and Mobile User Interface That Improves Content Discovery and Immediacy for Symbian and Android devices. Spark supports most Symbian S60, 3rd Edition (FP1, FP2 & MR), 5th Edition, and Symbian^3 phones

The Spark Active Home Screen delivers a Next Generation, Multitasking Social Networking and Media Content Experience in One Simplified View, it allowing users to view and engage with the following widget-style “Modules”:

* Weather Module—Geo-aware module that displays current temperatures and extended forecasts for multiple cities
* Headlines Module—Real-time streaming of breaking news, sports, finance, entertainment, etc. Users can click to read the full story or share via Twitter, Facebook or SMS
* Status Module—Makes it dead simple to update Twitter and Facebook status, individually or simultaneously, directly from the Home screen
* Stay connected with *Spark’s Twitter and Facebook Social Streams Module, delivering real-time Facebook and Twitter streams to the Home screen

You can download Spark directly from www.sparkmyphone.com

Another nice SWF Homescreen called Thumbwheel for Nokia 5800 created by waspbloke. Thumbwheel – drag to rotate, tap icons to launch apps.

Note from creator:

Credits and grats:

PNHT, andrecavallari, and others…

v1.0.1 – Tested and working on i8910HD

** UPDATE **

- A few of you seemed to be having problems with the vibrate getting stuck. This should be fixed but if you still have problems try increasing the nHoldTime interval to 2 seconds in ‘config.xml’ and see if it cures it.

- Display shows on start-up now.

- Switch off display toggle feature in ‘config.xml’.

- Switch off vibrate in ‘config.xml’.

- Minor improvement to date display.

- Battery charge animation slowed down.

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Install:

Extract ‘gadget.swf’ to ‘E:\’

Extract folder ‘ThumbWheel_HS’ to ‘E:\’

Config:

-10 editable shortcuts in ‘ThumbWheel_HS\shortcuts.xml’.

Use any JPG or PNG images you like but must be 40×40 pixels. Place icons in ‘ThumbWheel_HS’ folder. Use PNG files for transparent background. Change ‘icon’ attribute to ‘whatever.png’.

Change ‘uid’ attribute to uid of preferred apps.

-Three options in ‘ThumbWheel_HS\config.xml’.

Set vibrate off or on (0/1).

Display always on or toggle display (0/1)

Set click-hold time in seconds.

Use:

* No dialer yet – use your usual method for invoking built in dialer *

Display:

Tap and hold for 1 second on screen to show/hide display.

Top left:

Clock – tap once to toggle between time and date, tap and hold (and release) launches clock or calendar depending on whether time or date displayed.

Signal strength – just that.

Battery level – animates on charge.

Top right:

Ariel – tap for active connections, tap and hold for profiles.

Wifi – tap for WLAN wizard.

Bluetooth – tap for BTSwitch on/off, tap and hold for bluetooth settings.

Big wheel:

ThumbWheel – drag to rotate, tap icons to launch apps.

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Nice SWF Homescreen for Nokia 5800 by andrecavallari called BlueSpectrum has some features such as draggable icons at the side, clock in the homescreen can be adjusted and more.

Note from creator:

Hi!, this is my brand new Home Screen to use with Omnia HD from PNHT!!
* Credits to PNHT for making flash homescreen possible
* Credits to user system32white for name suggestion

Instructions to install it:

First of all you need to have hacked phone with OmniaHD HS installed (Samsung Widgets)

Extract all files to any folder you want them copy the gadget.swf and the BlueSpectrumHS folder to e: root of your phone, restart the phone or change the HS and them change back to Samsung Widgets…

In the BlueSpectrumHS folder there are 3 xml files and a wallpaper.jpg file, if you want the blue background on your device, since this HS is transparent and show your wallpaper on the background…

The config.xml is the configuration file of the HS

in the config.xml file when the node showclock is 1, the clock is showed, and 0 is to now show the big clock, the showbottombar when set to 1 the bottom bar will be showed and when is 0 the bottom bar is not showed (for who have the built in omnia HD bottom bar)

The language file is your language file for the HS, edit this before you put on your device, but edit only what is between the nodes, not the node… example:

<dialer>Dialer</dialer> in Brazilian Portuguese would be <dialer>Discador</dialer>

The shortcuts xml file is the shortcuts list on left and right side of the screen

To edit it you may pay attention for this settings down:

<showrcut position=”LEFT_OR_RIGHT” uid=”UID_OF_THE_APP” icon=”ICON”>NAME_OF_THE_APP</showrcut>

The position is left or right, what side of the screen it will be showed, i recommend maximum of 6 left and 6 right…

The uid is the UID of the app, you can get is using killme, jbaktaskman or opening the .sis file in Siscontents

The icon you must use the iconset.jpg wich is inside to know wich name to use there

And the name of the application is for organization pourpouse only, use any name you want, just to keep organized

***** IMPORTANT ****

Do not change the order in xml file!!

Just follow the instructions and everything will be alright…

The same button wich opens the dialer is the same that closes too, it´s better this way, you have instant access to other buttons directly…

Drag the icons to activate them (now 1/2 screen approximated)

To drag the clock hold it about 1s them drag it…

Hold the “C” button in the dialer to clear all…

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