The 3x3 Home Screen

Reader Alex M put together this truly minimal home screen with a simple 3x3 grid of icons?and almost nothing else.

Sometimes, minimal home screens can go overboard, but Alex's is a good balance between simplicity and access to your most used apps. Here's what you need to put it together:

• Launcher: Apex Launcher, with a 7x5 grid, large horizontal margins, and no dock. Swiping up shows the app drawer, swiping down brings up the recent apps list.
• Widgets: Mimalistic Text, showing the time and date at the top, next calendar appointment on the bottom right, weather and battery life on the bottom right. Tapping these brings up Astrid, Calendar or The Weather Channel, respectively.
• Icon Pack: Mono Go Launcher EX theme.
• The "world" icon in the middle is actually a folder containing frequently-used "secondary" apps.
• The wallpaper was originally from here, and had been kicking about in a my "wallpapers" folder for a while. I chose to use it, but only show one corner to get the gradient effect. I should probably just crop it or make my own, but I like it for now.

Do you have an awesome, tweaked-into-oblivion home or lock screen of your own that you'd like to share? Go ahead and post it on the #homescreenshowcase forum with a description of how you made it and it may be the next featured home screen.

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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/ZNHyNJhYrAE/the-3x3-home-screen

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