TAX DAY WALLPAPER FOR YOUR DROID 2

What's more dreaded than that visit from your mother-in-law, or having to go to the Department of Motor Vehicles? Well, it's April 15th of course! That day where you have to hand over your hard earned money to the government so that they can fund studies on the mating rituals of the black speckled toe jam snails. So here is some wallpaper to protest with.

The biggest thief....

An explanation that is just barely easier to understand than the tax code

Finally, the Truth

What most of us have to resort to

Yep, that's what it feels like

BASEBALL WALLPAPER FOR DROID 2

It's that time of year again....You can go outside without your parka, flowers are starting to bloom, and major league baseball has begun! Here's a collection of baseball themed wallpaper for your Droid 2. Batter Up!

Last Years World Series Champions

A Classic

Another Classic

Baseball In Other Countries

Nice Scenery!

Oh Balls!

My Favorite Team

SPRING TIME WALLPAPER FOR DROID 2

Spring has officially started, so hopefully everyone is enjoying the warmer weather, blooming flowers, chirping birds, etc. If not, here are some wallpapers - that along with a good imagination (or good drugs) will help your surroundings feel a little more like Spring.

Magic Spring by Pavelericsson

Pink Flower Tree at WallpaperCenter

Vail Flowers at Droid-Wallpapers

Spring Colors at Zedge

Colorful Tulips at Zedge

NCAA MARCH MADNESS FINAL FOUR WALLPAPER

The men's NCAA basketball tournament definitely earned it's nickname of March Madness this year! The news media is reporting that only two people out of 5.9 million entries in the ESPN.com's bracket tournament picked all of the Final Four teams correctly. According to the ESPN.com bracket organizers, just 29.7 percent of the 5.9 million entries had at least one Final Four team correct, just 2.1 percent had two correct, and just 1,093 had three of the Final Four correct. So now's the time to quickly and discreetly change the wallpaper on your phone to one of the four remaining teams - Butler, Kentucky, UConn, or VCU, and pretend like you had a clue when picking your bracket.

WALLPAPER WEDNESDAY - ST. PATRICK'S DAY

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Vader enjoys a Guinness

Clover

Line 'em up bartender

Irish Flag

THE BASICS - WALLPAPER FOR DROID 2 (PART 3)

BEST PLACES TO GET WALLPAPER FOR DROID 2

Wallpaper is everywhere. You can select the wallpaper for your computer, phone, blu-ray player, car display, etc. It's an extension of you, your style, your desires, your likes. It can show that you're a die-hard Phillies fan or let you escape to that Caribbean island where you want to retire. Besides, it's just plain fun! I've done some digging and have come up with the best places to get wallpaper for your Droid 2 - cause you surely don't want to be caught with the default wallpaper that came with the phone.

WALLPAPER APPS

Wallpaper apps are probably the easiest way to get wallpaper for your phone. Just go to the Android Market or AppBrain (my favorite place to get apps) and download one of the many wallpaper apps available. You can find apps that have all types of wallpaper available, separated by category, or you can find wallpaper related to just one theme, such as your favorite sports team. This is also one of the better ways to find live wallpapers.

Some of the best wallpaper apps are:

• Backgrounds 10,000 Wallpapers by Stylem Media
• Zedge Ringtones & Wallpapers by Zedge
• HD Wallpapers by srsdev

WALLPAPER FROM WEBSITES

Google the term "wallpaper" and you end up with over 262,000,000 results. Narrow it down a little by googling "wallpaper Droid 2" and that number drops to 4,960,000. Now throw in the word "gallery" and you still end up with an unsurmountable 323,000 results. Since I'm such a nice person with nothing better to do, I'm going to save you some time and share with you some of the best online sources for wallpaper I have found.

• DroidForums offers a small but nice collection that is categorized and already sized for the Droid 2.
• Mobile9 has over 2000 wallpapers. I like this site because it has a keyword search.
• Droid Wallpapers is sorted by categories and has ratings, but is hard to navigate.
• Deviantart has one of the most extensive wallpaper galleries.  However, most likely you will have to resize the background because most of the wallpaper here is for computers.
• Google Images has images pulled from across the internet. Just enter a term, select "exactly" from the list in the left column under "size", and input 960 for the width and 854 for the height.
  

Be sure to check out Wallpaper Wednesdays coming - you guessed it - next Wednesday. I'll post the cool Droid 2 wallpaper I've found for that week.

THE BASICS - WALLPAPER FOR DROID 2 (PART 2)

HOW TO CHANGE WALLPAPER ON THE DROID 2

So now you know the technical details about wallpaper which was covered in the Part 1 post. Today's post covers how to get rid of that default Droid wallpaper that Verizon gave you and add something with a little more pizzazz. 
There are a couple of different ways to change the wallpaper:

FROM ANY OF THE HOME SCREENS

1. Touch and hold any empty area of the screen where there aren't any widgets or icons.
2. When the "Add to Home Screen" menu appears, tap the "Wallpaper" option.
3. A "Select wallpaper from" menu appears. Your options will be "Live wallpapers", "Media gallery", "Wallpaper gallery", and "Wallpapers". Tap one of these options.

       a.) Live Wallpapers Option - This gives you access to all of your Live 
            Wallpapers.
            1.) Scroll through the list of Live Wallpapers available.
            2.) Tap the one you want and a new screen will open to let you 
                 preview your selection.
            3.) Tap "Set wallpaper" if you want to use it or tap the Back key to 
                 return to the list of available Live Wallpapers.


       b.) Media Gallery Option - This gives you access to all of photos you
            have taken and the images you have downloaded.
            1.) Folders with all of the pictures you have on your phone will be
                 shown.
            2.) Tap the folder with the picture you want to use. The folder will
                 open and display all the pictures in that folder.
            3.) Tap the picture you want to use.
            4.) A new screen will open that will let you preview the picture 
                 along with a cropping box that lets you select the portion 
                 of the picture you want to use.
            5.) Touch and drag any of the cropping boxes sides or to adjust
                 the portion of the picture to used.
            6.) Tap "Save" to set the picture as your wallpaper or tap "Discard"
                 to return to the list of pictures in the folder.


        c.) Wallpaper Gallery Option - This gives you access to the
            wallpapers that came with your launcher app.
            1.) Small depictions of the available wallpapers will appear at the
                 bottom of the screen with a larger preview version at the
                 top of the screen. As you scroll through the list, the preview
                 screen automatically updates itself.
            2.) Scroll through the list of Wallpapers available.
            3.) Tap "Set wallpaper" if you want to use it.

       d.) Wallpaper Option - This gives you access to default wallpapers 

            that came with your phone.

            1.) Small depictions of the available wallpapers will appear at the 

                 bottom of the screen with a larger preview version at the

                 top of the screen. As you scroll through the list, the preview

                 screen automatically updates itself.

            2.) Scroll through the list of Wallpapers available. 

            3.) Tap "Set wallpaper" if you want to use it.                 

FROM THE SETTINGS MENU

1. Tap the Menu button.
2. Tap the "Settings" option.
3. Tap the "Display" option.
4. Tap the "Wallpaper setting" option.
5. Continue from Step 3 of the "FROM ANY OF THE HOME SCREENS" section above.

AFTER TAKING A PHOTO

1. While the photo is still on the screen, tap the Menu button.
2. Tap the "More" option.
3. Tap the "Set as" option
4. Tap the "Wallpaper" option.

NEXT TIME:  BEST PLACES TO GET WALLPAPER FOR YOUR DROID 2