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hey i'm donald bell for cnet.com and i have with me here a very cool new android phone the HTC one now when you pick this thing up one of the first features you'll notice is that HTC has set the homescreen to display their news feed widget blinkfeed you can think of it like having Flipboard baked right into your phone and it's a great way to glance at daily news and stories that might interest you but if HTC has you pegged wrong here's an easy way to adjust all the kinds of stories that you're gonna see in blinkfeed tap the home button and make sure you're at the top of the feed then pull down slightly and you'll reveal a tiny little menu bar from here you can use the drop down menu to filter down to just the specific feeds you want or tap the dots on the right and select topics and services from here you can check on or off the sites that you want to regularly pop into your news feed like CNET swipe to the left and you'll see additional categories to choose from swipe to the right all the way and you'll find different services like Facebook or Flickr or Twitter that you can also dump into your feed now once you're happy hit the back button and the feed will automatically refresh now as much as I like blink feed I'm not too thrilled that HTC has pinned it down to my home screen by default changing that setting isn't obvious so here's what to do hit the home button again to make sure you're at the top of the blink feed and then again pull down and tap that little trio of dots this time select Customize homescreen and you'll see little versions of your different panels up here at the top the little home plate icon over here on the left is what calls out the blink feed panel as the home page to change that tap and hold the panel you want to designate as your new home page and drag it up to the set as home tab up at the top now when you press the home button they'll go to your page instead but you can always swipe back over to the blink feed when you want it so that's how to customize blink feed for HTC One for more how-to like this head over to how-to cnet.com i'm donald bell thanks for watching