It doesn't take much to make me happy
When I first got a Windows Phone 7 right after they came out I did what every new phone owner does and set out to customize it. There weren't all that many apps available, but one that had been ported over from either Android or iOS was simply called "Backgrounds" by Stylem Media. It was (still is) an ad-sponsored app that presented possible backgrounds for your phone. Most are pretty but mundane, some are funny, some are spectacular. As I was leafing through the collection and trying a few out, this one caught my eye:
I never got past that. It was so perfect. I made it my lock screen wallpaper and there it stayed for over two years.
In setting up my new Android phone I of course installed Backgrounds in the hope of finding it again. I still haven't found it there (although they do still have some very nice backgrounds and it's fun scrolling through them), but a quick Bing image search found the penguin with the banjo out in the wild. It is now in its place of honor on my phone's lock screen, and while all might not be right with the world, that little portion of it certainly is.
The only minor drawback is that I have a message that scrolls across my lock screen, telling anyone who happens to pick up the phone if I've left it behind in a lavatory or something similar: "If you find me please call my owner's wife at (206) xxx-xxxx". The message is white text against the off-wite background of the picture and a bit hard to read, but not so much that it becomes useless. I'm going to see if I can change the color of the text, but it's not a huge issue.
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I never got past that. It was so perfect. I made it my lock screen wallpaper and there it stayed for over two years.
In setting up my new Android phone I of course installed Backgrounds in the hope of finding it again. I still haven't found it there (although they do still have some very nice backgrounds and it's fun scrolling through them), but a quick Bing image search found the penguin with the banjo out in the wild. It is now in its place of honor on my phone's lock screen, and while all might not be right with the world, that little portion of it certainly is.
The only minor drawback is that I have a message that scrolls across my lock screen, telling anyone who happens to pick up the phone if I've left it behind in a lavatory or something similar: "If you find me please call my owner's wife at (206) xxx-xxxx". The message is white text against the off-wite background of the picture and a bit hard to read, but not so much that it becomes useless. I'm going to see if I can change the color of the text, but it's not a huge issue.
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