A must have app: Kik Messenger

80 million users
love Kik

Kik is the fast, simple and personal smartphone messenger.  What's not to love?

80 million users love Kik! It's the fast, simple, and personal smartphone messenger that connects you to everyone you love to talk to.

Here's why you'll love Kik:

FAST: Kik is handsdown the fastest, most reliable smartphone messenger available. And with sent, delivered, read and typing notifications, your conversations will come to life.

SIMPLE: We believe that simplicity is the ultimate in sophistication. We've spent thousands of hours making sure Kik is the easiest, most beautiful smartphone messenger around.

PERSONAL: Your Kik username not your phone number is your Kik identity, so you can keep complete control of your privacy. No wonder Kik is the number one way people connect in other social apps like Instagram, SocialCam, and Viddy.

And now you can do even more on Kik, with new features that let you instantly find and share fun videos, sketches and pictures.

Here's what out users have to say:

"Amazing app! And so, so fast." Katie
"The best way to keep your personal information private." Phil, instagrammers.com "Really easy to use." Amber

My Beloved Launcher: Holo Launcher

Holo Launcher is a highly customizable launcher replacement based on the stock ICS 4.0.4 Launcher. But you can run it on Android 2.2+

Basic Features:

1. Full ICS Style: ICS Icons, Folders, Outlines, Drawer Tabs, etc.
2. Custom Desktop Pages/Grid: Up to 9 desktop pages and 10 x 10 grid.
3. Custom Drawer Portrait/landscape Grid
4. Scrollable Dock: Up to 7 icons per page and up to 3 pages.
5. Infinite Scrolling
6. Gestures: Swipe up/down on desktop to launch apps quickly.
7. Customizable shortcut/folder icons, support ADW icon pack.
8. Desktop Previews: Pinch to access desktop previews.
9. Backup and Restore: Backup and restore your settings and shortcuts.
10. Other Customization Options: Keep in memory, home key action, hide apps in drawer, hide labels, etc.

Plus Features:

1. Multiple configurable drawer tabs
2. Unread count notifications for call, sms and gmail
3. More desktop gestures: Pinch in/out, Two Finger Swipe and Double-tap
4. Dock icon Swipe up/down gestures
5. More transition effects
6. Widgets overlapping
7. 1x1 widgets in dock
8. Other enhancement and customization options

Holo Launcher on Play Store

Holo Launcher Plus on Play Store

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Holo Launcher HD

Holo Locker

Holo Launcher Stable APK

Holo Launcher Beta APK

Holo Launcher User Voice

Holo Launcher Translation