{"id":16,"date":"2014-01-14T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yiannis.co.uk\/techtalk\/?p=16"},"modified":"2014-01-14T09:00:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T09:00:50","slug":"everything-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/techtalk\/everything-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have an Android phone, stop what you are doing (no, actually carry on reading my wonderful blog), go to Google Play and download <a href=\"http:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=me.everything.launcher&amp;hl=en_GB\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Everything Home<\/em><\/a>. I have always been skeptical of revolutionary ways to do things differently than we are used to, but in this case&#8230; I have to agree with everybody else.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=me.everything.launcher&amp;hl=en_GB\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Everything Home<\/em><\/a> is an app launcher or home-screen app that automatically groups apps into folders on the home-screen. You still have control of what appears where, you can add your own apps and\/or widgets etc. The killer feature though is the fact that you can search anything.<\/p>\n<p>You touch on &#8220;Find&#8230;&#8221; and when the keyboard appears you can type your keyword. It can be the name of a contact, or an app, or a web search keyword, or an address, or a keyword from an SMS you received, or anything really. It will show you on the screen anything related and the background will change to an image if who\/what you are searching for. You can even talk to it, like to the good old Siri. <em>Really does Siri still exist?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, I did a factory reset (after a full backup), a firmware upgrade, a data &amp; app restore. I got rid of apps that I was not using and installed a security\/antivirus app (<a href=\"http:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.qihoo.security&amp;hl=en_GB\" target=\"_blank\">Qihoo 360<\/a>), too.\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=me.everything.launcher&amp;hl=en_GB\" target=\"_blank\">Everything Home<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>made me enjoy my mobile phone, again.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arve\">\n<div class=\"arve-error\"><p><small><abbr title=\"Advanced Responsive Video Embedder\">ARVE<\/abbr> error: need id and provider<\/small><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/yiannis.uk\/subsidyrisk.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"cSTyLdqh YE mUsT Wh V \"><!-- cSTyLdqh YE mUsT Wh V  --><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have an Android phone, stop what you are doing (no, actually carry on reading my wonderful blog), go to Google Play and download Everything Home. I have always been skeptical of revolutionary ways to do things differently than we are used to, but in this case&#8230; I have to agree with everybody else&#8230;. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/techtalk\/everything-home\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8,9,15],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","tag-android","tag-app-launcher","tag-everything-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/techtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/techtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/techtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/techtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/techtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/techtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/techtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/techtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/techtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}