Lock Widgets officially released [homebrew]
Windows Phone Hacker has released Lock Widgets for the homebrew community, just in time with the recent release of Root Tools 0.9. Lock Widgets enables users, who have access to a rooted Windows Phone, to use small tiles on their lock screens to act as glance widgets. Information which can be displayed include Twitter feeds, RSS feeds and weather reports, to name but a few.
Feature highlights of Lock Widgets:
- Weather widget
- RSS widget
- Twitter @user widget
- Memory widget
- Puts widgets on your lockscreen. Pretty simple.
- Daily Bing wallpaper
- Custom background
You can download Lock Widgets from Windows Phone Hacker's website, note that you'll need an unlocked and rooted handset to use this software.
Source: Windows Phone Hacker
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