Hack Attack: Mod TouchFLO 3D with ManillaEditor

Posted by Nishanth Samala on September 9th, 2008

Looks like Hack Attack is the new name for Hack Trick. Thanks for suggestions from everyone who answered. Today’s Attack will be a big one: modding the TouchFLO 3D interface!

Once again, the good folks over at XDA-Devs have made a great modding app. Thanks to susilange and DMAN-666 @ XDA, we can now edit TouchFLO 3D very easily. With version 0.2 of ManillaEditor, you can export each individual image and edit or replace images. It looks somewhat tedious to me, but all you graphics gurus out there are already turning ideas in your head. The program provides a very nice clean interface, but it looks like it is geared towards more of intermediate to advanced users.

For everyone else who are like me and could not ever do this kind of editing, XDA is a great source for some themes. You can find themes ranging from the O2 and T-Mobile official themes to custom themes ranging from os themes such as the iPhone or Vista theme to movie themes like Hellboy.

Let the creativity out! I hope to see some great themes appearing on our own AllTouchSite forums from all of you graphic gurus!


Hack Trick: Spruce Up the Calculator App

Posted by Nishanth Samala on August 22nd, 2008

Looks like my new feature for AllTouchSite is going to be called Hack Trick (lame name I know, couldn’t come up with anything better). The Hack Trick feature will do exactly what the name says, provide you with useful hacks and tricks for your HTC Touch device.

Today, the Hack Trick has to do with the calculator HTC did a good job of hiding Windows Moible up as much as it could with the nice and elegant TouchFlo 3D interface. Unfortunately, there are those little things that HTC blatantly forgot to change or skin. The most obvious is the Calculator app, which looks like it’s been left back in the times of Windows CE 1 or 2. Fortunately for all of us, rodol1 @ XDA-Developers has created a nice TouchFlo 3D type of calculator skin, as you can see above. This little mod makes the app a lot more finger friendly and aesthetic at the same time.

A little side note to our readers, can you come up with something better than Hack Trick? It’s starting to bug me.