Android Ice Cream Sandwich Unofficial Launcher and Screenshots [Download]. by Cory Gunther

Android Ice Cream Sandwich Unofficial Launcher and Screenshots [Download]:

Before we get started what we have here are screenshots of Android 2.4 Ice Cream Sandwich, or at least the launcher running on a phone. This is an unofficial launcher of Android 2.4 Ice Cream Sandwich made by a few awesome developers over at XDA and we have some pictures for you and a video.

We are still looking for any details as to what all this contains but from what we are hearing and seeing this is a 3rd party launcher made from previous leaked screenshots, as well as rumors of what Android 2.4 Ice Cream Sandwich will contain. What these smart developers have done is copied the images from the leaked ICS screenshots and added some settings and options based on a few rumors and developed a pretty awesome and real looking home replacement launcher for Android based on ICS. I’ve quickly installed this to my phone and so far it looks awesome, this is only currently an alpha build and they have some work to do, but so far I love it. Screen animations while scrolling needs some improvement but other than that this is quite impressive. Hitting the multi-tasking button doesn’t bring up actual previously launched apps like Honeycomb, rather a populated list. That and the settings button doesn’t work. ICS 2.4 Launcher alpha hands-on
For more details and pictures regarding this awesome launcher head to XDA forums and join in on the discussion. — Thanks @htcclay

Ice Cream Sandwich 2.4 Launcher – Download

[via XDA Forums]

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Respect the age

This is just a random piece I did over last week. Dedicated the old peeps and the old at heart.

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Marc Johns

Marc Johns:

Marc Johns

Brilliant kid

Cool tree Houses

Tree Houses:

Tree houses are impractically romantic. There is no one book on how to make this recurring romance as practical as possible, but these two books by Peter Nelson contain the best suggestions and useful advice for building a real live-in tree house I’ve seen so far. The Treehouse Book has lots of fabulous examples in the US and a few chapters on how-to. His follow-up book, New Treehouses of the World, gathers inspirational examples from Thailand, New Zealand and other spots with tree-house culture, and has a short chapter on new tree-house technology. Main thing to remember when building a tree house is that trees move, over minutes and years. It’s closer to building a boat in the air. That why there’s plenty ideas in these books for any small house, even those not arboreal.

The Treehouse Book

Peter and Judy Nelson with David Larkin

2000, 224 pages

$20

Available from Amazon

Sample excerpts:

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Sweet Birch -- A strong tree with shiny, waterproof bark that used to be stripped off for wintergreen or birch beer. Use in a group.

70' high -- spread 50'

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New Treehouses of the World

Pete Nelson

2009, 223 pages

$25

Available from Amazon

Sample excerpts:

Trees in the northwest grow surprising quickly, so I prefer a GL (Garnier Limb) with a longer stem, the part of the GL that sticks out from the tree. While trees grow taller only at their tips, they grow in girth all long their length. As a tree puts on rings it envelops the GL, making the artificial limb even stronger. The tree will eventually push a beam out along the stem of the GL (the reason I prefer a longer stem) in much the same way the tree's roots might lift a heavy concrete sidewalk.

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A "heavy limb," also designed by Greewood, holds up a bucket-style bracket attached to a large glue-laminated beam. There are numerous styles of artificial limbs, or tree anchor bolts (TABs).

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An elegant platform takes shape around the old-growth Sitka spruce. Occasionally a tree will resist a building project, but this magnificent specimen remained calm and allowed us to proceed without protest.

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-- KK