[TechRepublic] A bare-bones live wallpaper template for Android

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A bare-bones live wallpaper template for Android William Francis demystifies the process of creating live wallpapers for Android and shares a template you can use for your projects. Read more Resource of the day Rethink Your Storage With IBM Data storage is an interesting thing. While it's easy to add more storage with band-aid solutions, before long, you'll need to seriously rethink how you store. For some advice, turn to this white paper. Poll: Will different WP7 resolutions cause you problems? Let us know whether you think the Windows Phone 7 different resolutions coming soon will cause your apps to look bad. Read more Web-to-app interoperability: Launch your Android app from the web With rich apps and the web blending more every day, Kyle Miller is certain you'll find a use case for this technique of how to launch your Android app from the web. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   Glitch in iOS apps allows developers access to users' photo libraries It hasn't been a good month for user privacy in the app world. A glitch in Apple's iOS apps could be exploited to allow app developers access to users' entire photo libraries. Read more Chrome for Android furthers Google's goal to grow in the enterprise Ian Hardenburgh offers his take on what the Chrome browser coming to Android devices means to Google's overarching goal of furthering Google Apps adoption in the enterprise. Read more OS X Mountain Lion brings iOS features to Macs Erik Eckel highlights the new features of the upcoming OS X Mountain Lion release that will be the most significant to business users. Read more Smartphones and tablets are the new cool but here's why it can't last Smartphones and tablets have replaced cars as objects of desire that transport their owners into another world, but mobile tech's time in the limelight may be limited. Read more Is the smartphone-tablet-laptop hybrid the future of computing? Smartphones that can also run as a tablet or even a laptop are appearing on the market. Nick Heath considers their prospects. Read more Nine free iPhone apps to use in your job search Here are nine iPhone apps that can help you enormously with the full-time job of looking for a job. Read more Featured multimedia   What's new in Opera Mini Next 7 and Opera Mobile 12 Opera pulls back the curtain on two browser versions at Mobile World Congress 2012: Opera Mini Next 7, and Opera Mobile 12. See what's new in each. View on site Skype for Windows Phone beta (photos) Skype for Windows Phone is finally here! We got a look of the app in its beta form; a few months before the "gold" version comes out in April. View on site The hottest phones and tablets of Mobile World Congress 2012 With all the great devices coming out of MWC everyday, keeping track can get dizzying. Luckily, we'll continuously gather them here so you won't have to. View on site Featured Webcast Live Threat Demo: Behind the Business of Hacking When hackers get together, bad things happen. Check out this webcast to learn how you can protect yourself from gangs of cyber criminals. Today's recommended downloads Build a Business Case for Open Source Drupal (Acquia) Rethink Your Storage With IBM (IBM) GFI VIPRE Business Free Download (GFI Software) eBook "Real-World Virtualization for Your Business" (VMware) Taking a Proactive Approach to Patch Management (VMware) Connect with TechRepublic BYOD? Forget about it! Scott Lowe highlights a few reasons why organizations might want to put the kabosh on BYOD initiatives, particularly when it comes to mobile devices. TechRepublic newsletters   Get product reviews, tech news analysis, tips, and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Tablets in the Enterprise Five Apps Software Engineer Smartphones

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