Okay, so maybe this isn’t the best choice for businessfolk sporting their new Droid Pros, but if you remember Doom as fondly as we do, you’re probably going to want to check this out. A dev over on xda-developers has posted information on his new Doom-themed live wallpaper — it doesn’t actually draw from the game itself, but he’s taken the bad guys (the important part) and reused them on a flat, stationary playing field of his own design. Basically, your hero strolls around battling baddies as they spawn; when he finally succumbs to his countless festering wounds, he respawns in a different room ad nauseam. It’s available in beta form for free in the Market right now — question is, are you tough enough to load it?

Doom-themed live wallpaper for Android turns your phone into a playground of carnage originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Android comes with a pretty great set of live wallpapers built in — and some manufacturers add their own, too — but if you’re ready for a change of pace, the UI nerds (we mean that in the best way possible) over at TAT have just dropped three of ‘em for free. Called Artemia, Blue Range, and Retro Pixels, the trio run the gamut from dreamy aquascape to eBoy-esque 3D environment to 8-bit gaming, and they’re all interactive in one way or another — poking and shaking both seem to have interesting effects. They’re in the Market now, so you may as well grab if you’ve got a compatible phone. Follow the break for TAT’s movie trailer teaser video.

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TAT releases trio of awesome live wallpapers for Android originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you’re an iPhone user, the only privacy notice you’ll see from an app regards your current location — as much a warning about the associated battery hit from the GPS pinging as anything. If you’re an Android user, however, things are different, with a tap-through dialog showing you exactly what each app will access on your phone. But, do you read them? You should, with Lookout running a sort of survey across 300,000 apps on those two platforms, finding that many access personal information even though they seemingly don’t need to. One particularly scary instance, an app called Jackeey Wallpaper on Android, aggregates your browsing history, voicemail password, text messages, and even your SIM ID and beams it all to a server in China. That this app has been downloaded millions of times is a little disconcerting, but it’s not just Android users that have to fear, as even more iPhone than Android apps take a look through your contact infos. What to do? Well, be careful what you download to start, on Android read those privacy warnings… and we’re sure Lookout wouldn’t mind if you took this opportunity to download its security app.

Lookout’s App Genome Project warns about sketchy apps you may have already downloaded originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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LG Fathom VS750 review originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 24 May 2010 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In a break from tradition, the availability of an official SDK for Android 2.1 trailed availability of a phone running it — the Nexus One, of course — by nearly a week, undoubtedly leaving countless developers sleepless. Despite the Nexus’ fistful of new goodies like active wallpaper and a far flashier 3D-enabled Gallery app, Google’s simply referring onlookers to the 2.0 documentation to learn about user-facing changes: “Android 2.1 does not add significant user features, see the Android 2.0 Platform Highlights document for the latest user features.” From a development perspective, the latest SDK includes hooks for creating your own active wallpapers, so get moving, guys — a whole bunch of HTC and Moto devices are going to be able to use ‘em soon enough.

Android 2.1 SDK now available, Nexus One says ‘geez, finally’ originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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I was trying out the download Wallpaper to see if I would like it on my PS3 system so I tryed one of the wallpapers of Ratchet and Clank Future: TOD but I didn’t really like it so I went and deleted it so even if it is off the system when I got into my theme settings and go to wallpapers it keeps appearing on the screen even after I deleted it so my question is will it go after after awhile if it’s not being used or is it there until I get a newer wallpaper downloaded?.

Link: http://kotaku.com/5441145/this-is-it-the-michael-jackson-ps3-bundle

This is, ahem, it. Sony Computer Entertainment Japan is releasing a new bundle with the Michael Jackson documentary This Is It.

Don’t be that surprised — Sony Pictures is releasing This Is It on Blu-ray and DVD.

Priced at ¥33,500 (US$366), the bundle includes a 120GB Hard Disk Drive “Charcoal Black” PS3, a Blu-ray copy of This Is It, a wireless DUALSHOCK 3, a power cord, one AV cable and one USB cable.

The PS3 bundle will be released in Japan on January 27, the same day the disk version of This Is It documentary goes on sale in The Land of the Rising Sun. The Blu-ray version of the film includes special vignettes of Thriller and Smooth Criminal as well as a special PS3 wallpaper.

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