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starting at just one hundred and $99 and running the latest version of Android the Nexus 7 is the hottest thing going in tablets right now and this how-to I'm gonna share some tips on making it your own first let's take a look at the home screen by default Google fills the screen with a mosaic of your most recently played media I like it personally but it might be a little disorienting for a longtime Android users if you don't like it delete it it's just a widget and a tap and hold will let you drag it into oblivion you can fill the void with your favorite apps and widgets by tapping the circle above the home button and choosing from your collection just tap hold and drag what you want onto the homescreen a tap and hold will also pull apps in and out of the launcher down here at the bottom and to get really pro drag one app onto another on the home screen to create a folder another quick customization you can make is to change the wallpaper find an empty spot on one of your home screens and just hold your finger down to see your wallpaper options here you can choose a photo from your gallery you can choose from the stock wallpapers there's also a selection of live wallpapers here which are really cool and animate in the background to keep people from snooping around on your tablet when you're not there you should make unlocking it a little more difficult you can do this under the security settings which you can quickly get to by swiping down from the top and hitting the little control panel up here a passcode is gonna be the most secure option for you but a fun one to check out is the face recognition unlock that uses the front camera so now when you wake up your tablet you just hold it up in front of you and unlocks when it recognizes your face you might be thinking can't someone fool this by just holding up a picture of me well Google thought about that and they included an option here to require an eye blink to prove that you're alive now while you're tweaking the settings here are a few things you might want to adjust or disable in order to really squeeze the most out of your battery life under settings turn off all the location services to keep GPS from sucking down power you can make a dramatic improvement to battery life by taking the screen brightness level down under the display settings also know that if you hold down the power button for a few seconds you'll find airplane mode for quickly shutting down your wireless features one last customization that I recommend is to kick up the font size maybe I'm getting old but the default size here seems too small under the display settings you'll find a font size option that can fix that so there you go hopefully I've shown you a few extra things you can play with on your Nexus 7 tablet more details be sure to check out Eric Franklin's full review prasena com I'm Donald