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what's up guys at CJ lips true from packing.com and today we're looking at version 1.7 of cookies home tab mod for HTC sense 2.5 we've covered this awesome mod before but now that it's matured quite a bit and has even more amazing features I think it's time we gave you another video update so here's a touch pro2 with version 1.7 of the mod applied and right off the bat you can see that there are some new items on the home screen we still have the links at the bottom and right above that we have our expandable appts a new feature here is the notification bar for missed calls SMS and emails tapping on the icons will take you to their respective areas this allows me to move my email and SMS tabs further down the slider so that I can access some of these other options much more quickly we can also retract the slider out of view but that will come later in this video and as you can see I now have an analog clock with the weather on the side rather than the traditional flip clock were used to seeing this is where the customization comes in if we go to menu edit home layout we can now tap and hold on items to get a nice little pop-up with options to either remove that item or to change its appearance so as you can see there is an at all analog clock a dual clock the familiar manila clock a more basic manila clock a compact clock and the one I was using before I'm going to go with this smaller looking clock and resizing is not an issue because another new customization feature is the ability to move and reorganize items so I can actually drag all these items around I think I'll put the clock weather and appointments near the top I'll put the Quick Links in the middle and notifications can go down to the bottom since I have some extra space here I'll tap and hold and actually display two rows of icons now so that looks good if we click this right softkey we can actually get a list of the different options as well so I'm going to go to done and now we have our Quick Links and our appointments another new feature actually brings home screen items to the lock screen so if we tap this lock icon in the corner you can see that the task bar now sports the notification bar and we have some HTC Sense items at the bottom we have a left-to-right unlock slider let's go ahead and unlocks luck and show you how to edit the layout of the lock screen so we go to menu edit lock screen layout and now we can move stuff around and change their appearance by tapping and holding so I'm going to go with an analog clock using cookies Home tab editor we can change the unlock slider to the windows mobile 6.5 style or even to a vertical slider style like on the HD Mini to do this we'll need to access cookies Home tab editor which also has some nice new options so I'll press the back key to finalize these changes and let's go to menu and we'll go to cookies Home tab editor as you can see the editor has been changed a bit it looks much nicer now and has many more options so let's go ahead and jump into the first category which is quick link settings as you can see we have different grid layouts we have three by three quick links 4 by 4 5 by 4 and 5 by 5 we can also change the number of panels or pages before by default in the last version it was only three pages but now you can actually increase this to up to six let's go to five and i'll leave the default starting page i'll change that to three and we can also choose to hide empty quicklinks hide icon frames hi text and text background and the page indicator so those are more preference options so let's go back and we'll go to lock screen settings here we can show lock button enable the custom lock screen which I have done enable default lock screen lock on standby unlock on call lock after call unlock when plugging into power lock on unplugging enable dim lipton backlight animation on power enable vibration when locked or unlocked you can set the suspend timeout and at the bottom here's where we can change the lock slider style so right now it's set to manila you can also change this to the windows mobile 6.5 default style slider and the last option is to give it the HD mini style so I'm going to do that and we'll go back go to applications and here you can basically assign different actions to all the buttons on the home screen so if you want to launch G alarm for the alarm button or maybe thumb Cal for the calendar you can assign that he let's go back and finally miscellaneous settings so here we can set the animation style for when we slide up and down on the Quick Links we can have no animation simple animation and optimized animation which I've selected because it works well on devices like the touch pro 2 if you have an hd2 you may want to select original animation we can choose to hide or show the call history button I have it set to auto so only when I get a missed call a new feature is this voicemail button so we can choose to hide or show that it's set to auto so it will only show up when I actually get a voicemail hide or show appointments you can pick the action for when you press on an appointment if it takes you to the calendar tab or opens up the editor you can check the days to look ahead for appointments and here we can select to retrack the slider we can also select if we want to show the seconds hand on the analog clock and set the maximum appointment count to show at any given time and if you really wanted to you can change the operator text so that about does it for this editor I'll go ahead and press apply changes and we'll come back and show you what the changes look like alright so now we're on the lock screen after applying the changes with the editor and as you can see we now have an HD mini style unlock slider right here we can just slide downwards to unlock it's very smooth and here we have a retractable slider for all your tabs so if you wanted to make your screen look a bit cleaner less cluttered you can just enable this option to collapse the taps another option we set was to increase the quicklinks panels from three to five so now instead of three we have what seems like an endless amount of icon grids I don't think you'll have any trouble with finding slots for all your programs remember we can also select to hide all these empty slots here so that it doesn't look as messy so this was a look at cookies Home tab mod version 1.7 i'll post more information on pocketnow.com be sure to follow us on twitter at twitter.com slash out sweets that's it for now thanks for watching