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We have come across some seriously awesome images that have been pre-made and are ready to rumble. One can save these images on their Windows Phone 7 as tiles and then organize them in such a way that tiles could appear to be grouped. A simple idea and quick edits that can make a huge difference. The default template is provided by David McCanless and Roger Peters.
This follows on from our tutorial on how to save pictures as seperate tiles on your device, along with coverage on apps in the Marketplace that perform this operation without any manual editing. If you check our tutorial you could even take this one step further with the arrangement and categorization of your home screen with changing the text, colours and whatnot.
To make things even more "OMG THIS IS L337!" for you, we have edited the images and added colors to the text which match themes loaded on the platform. Feel free to download the live tool separators and go wild.
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Not sure I'm going to use this, but I just tried the live tool on Richard's site and I have to say it's pretty neat. It makes the phone a little more organized and flashy.
the funny thing is I've thought of similar to and have been using tiles made out of webpage images to put the words in. I have media, messaging, social, other apps tiles. and black tiles separating each category. I've been thinking how I could make an app out of this, but its when mango comes in that would allow apps to add more than one pinning to the start menu...this way I could make propper themes.
that's really clever. I'll definitely try it out :D
Oh man.. this is just so clever, such a cool and intuitive way of grouping apps together. Just genius. I love seeing things like this on wpcentral.
Thanks for the kind feedback!
Very nice !For those who want more live tiles with custom text, I developed a similar tool (no so **** GUI but works fine) where you can-select the background color-select the text color-select the font size-enter the text you want.Here it is : http://www.zoubda.fr/livetilesgenerator/Enjoy :)
AWESOME. I needed SPORTS, NEWS, NET, TV/ENT so thanks for the help.
This is really nice.
Well if all the dang third party apps didn't copy the current theme color you wouldn't need text on the Start screen to separate groups of tiles. I use unique tiles as separators so I can navigate my 46 Start screen tiles quickly. Nice idea, but I really don't need 12-16 more tiles to flick through.
Wow! Very impressed with the work of Rich Edmonds, as well as the guy who replied, tagazok. Thanks to both. Where can I donate?
No need to donate ;-) Just enjoying the experience of WP7 and wpcentral will be a sufficient payment in my eyes.
Made a few with white segoe ui text on black background. Go to deviantart.com and search for "wp7".
Hi :)I updated mine : http://www.zoubda.fr/livetilesgenerator/So it's now possible to add a picture as a background instead of a simple color.And you can now share your tiles with your friends or create them on your desktop and send them to your windows phone as they have a real url.Enjoy :)
Here is my take on a windows phone live tile organizer.- Allows you to choose background and foreground colors as well as change the text.Update: Allows you to change the font size alsohttp://www.mylivetile.com/