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Windows 7 lovers who are also proud owners of HTC G1 – The Google Android powered phones, can now install Windows 7 theme on Android in just few easy steps.

The Windows 7 G1 Theme offers a Windows 7 background Wallpaper as well as few icons from the Windows 7 for the Android users. Before going ahead please note that this theme is only for JF 1.3 RC MOD 30 you can try it on adp or RC8 but i dont know if it will work!

How to Install Android Theme Windows 7?

Its a three step process!

1) Download Android Windows 7 Theme here

2) Rename it to Update.zip, put it on the root of your G1 memory card.

3) Reset your phone using The Green Call button + Menu + The red End . Hold the Home and End Button until u get into recovery mode then press alt+S ..

If it doesn’t auto reset then just reset it your self  and the new G1 Windows 7 Theme will be applied!

A good news for Droid lovers is that hackers have successfully rooted Motorola’s Droid , so now users can install apps or services by 3rd parties of their choice outside the set menu by the operators. This new hack works on Android 2.0 and the recently released Android 2.0.1 OTA software update. Root access means you can change the phone’s firmware to in order to have your own themes, apps and custom Roms just like you do on the jailbroken iPhone. So in other words its jailbreak for droid!

How to root Motorola Droid 2.0.1

You can follow the simple guide below to root your Droid phone without worrying about making it a brick. It works on both Android 2.0 and 2.0.1 update:

1 IT IS RECOMMENDED that you first update to the latest Android 2.0.1 OTA software update.

2: Download the file (ROM OTA) for Android 2.0.1 for Motorola Droid posted in the forum discussion here (its a zip file).

3: Now rename this downloaded .zip file to update.zip

4: Next, transfer this file to the SD Card on your phone. You should move it root folder of SD card and not in any other folder

5: Power off your DROID phone. Power it back while holding the X key.

6: When you see a “/!\” symbol, press both vol+ and camera togather

7: Now simply follow the onscreen menu to install update.zip file.

8: Reboot your Droid phone and that’s it! You should now be able to run “su” from your adb shell.

We all must thank [alldroid] for providing us this hack!

Yesterday in FAAaD we introduced you with financial mortgage calculator and today’s app is again a calculator. handyCalc is a powerful calculator that comes with automatic suggestion and solving which makes it easy to learn and use. Handycalc comes with almost all the features you can imagine on a calculator.

Its latest release is 0.41 that came to android market in November. Apart from having all the mathematical functions and calculations, handycalc comes with unit converter and currency converter as well making it the only FREE HANDY CALCULATOR for Android phone.The unit conversion comes with 600+ common conversion units and 140+ common currency conversion units. Last but not the least, this calculator has stunning ability to draw graphs for all kind mathematical functions.

For more features you can see the below video. But here are the screen shots first:

And now here is the introductory video:

Download handycalc for your phone from Android Market

Today in FAAaD (Free Android Application a Day) we bring you a free Mortgage calculator for your Android phone. This free Mortgage Calculator helps you in your daily mortgage calculations and is available at Android Market.

Features include a touch screen keypad and an amortization schedule that calculates how your payment is split towards principal. According to its developer (now i don’t know if it is right or wrong) this mortgage calculator for G1 got 5000 downloads in first week of release (Ver 1.0). If it is correct then product shows good strength.

Apart from all financial basics this app also has easy user friendly interface like portrait mode makes it easy to key in the values.

Since i don’t have any loan/mortgage, i didn’t use it and frankly am not that great at understanding all that amortization science. Anyways, here are the screenshots:

Here is the availability at Android Market

Android has released the much awaited beta version of its Android Manager Application.  The purpose of Android Manager is to manage your Android powered phone from your computer using the Android Manager Application. The current version of offers support to take a complete backup of your phone and all its applications. Not only this, the beta version also offers other features like custom splash screen flashing, device details, remote console and even the option to uninstall applications from your phone using the Android Manager application.

The current version is the beta version and the company is requesting all the users to report possible bugs and other problems. The final version will be released shortly.This version requires Windows XP/Vista/Seven, .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and ADB drivers installed to work properly.

Click here to Download the Android Manager beta

I started this FAAaD (Free Android App a Day) thinking that there is a lot of availability for Android users to look in to apps (and yeah it is increasing every day). So why not I take up this role and filter a real good FREE ANDROID APPLICATION on daily basis. We will also extend this round of posts to other areas like iphone, blackberry etc so do keep an eye on that.

Anyways, today’s free application for Android is Ringdroid=make Ring (tones) for (An)droid. So no more payment of cents or dollars on ring tones at least. Ringdroid lets you edit any MP3 on your phone or record a new sound and turn it into a ringtone, alarm, or notification. it also comes with a ‘graphical wave form editor’ which can zoom the wavelength 5 times so you can edit your sound precisely. After you’ve done with editing, you can save it (obviously) in to your phone and can assign this new file as a generic ring tone or assign it to any individual.

Last but not the least you can work on these audio formats to make your ring tone clip: MP3, AAC/MP4 (including unprotected iTunes music), WAV, 3GPP/AMR (this is the format used when you record sounds directly on the handset.

Here are the screen shots:

Here is the location for Ringdroid in Android Market and here is the direct download link for apk

Bluemedialab.com has come up with an interesting and productive app that finds hotels near you… the name suggests it all. “Hotels near me” is an Android app that finds hotels for highly competitive rates and is one of the first worldwide GPS hotel finders for Android.

You can find a hotel based on your current location, or search via keyword. You can also book for accommodation without any fee (reservation fee, i mean). This little free android application is available in 21 languages, and has 57000 hotels from 21 countries in its database. The booking and reservations is powered by Booking.com.

Below are the screenshots:

Here is the download link for this free android app. Do share your reviews here as comments.