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Tuesday, October 7, 2014

How to make custom Moto 360 watch faces with Facer




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How to make custom Moto 360 watch faces with Facer



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The Moto 360 comes with some attractive watch faces, and most of them can even be customized to your liking. Still, you might want something a little more personal. The official watch face API is not available yet, but that hasn’t stopped resourceful Android developers from creating custom watch faces. You can create your own custom watch face with an app called Facer.


With Facer you can create virtually any watch face you can imagine, if you’re willing to put in a little work. Your watch face can be as simple or complex as you want. Facer allows you to make digital or analog watch faces with elements such as weather, battery, date, etc. The first step is to download Facer from the Play Store. It costs $0.99, but if you love customizing things it will be the best dollar you ever spent.


How does Facer work?



Before we dive into making a watch face let’s talk about some basic functions. Facer uses layers to build a watch face. For example, one layer is the background, another layer could be text to display the time. Depending how complex your watch face is you could have anywhere from 2-20 different layers. Once you understand how to make a simple watch face, like we’ll show in this guide, you can easily go more complex.


To display the time, weather, date, or battery info, Facer uses tags. If you want your watch to read “02:30 PM Oct 07″ it’s just a matter of choosing tags from a list. Tags can also determine how a hand rotates around the watch, if you’re interesting in making an analog design. Layers and tags are the two basic principles for using Facer. Be sure to watch the video above for a quick tutorial, and check out the slide shows (from r/facer) below to go more in-depth.


Digital Watch Face


The easiest watch face you can make with Facer is digital. You really only need a background image and some text. Follow the slide show below for a step-by-step guide.



Analog Watch Face


Creating an analog watch face is a little more tricky, but still easily doable. You’ll need to create images for the background and hour, minute, and second hands. Follow the slide show for the steps.



The Easy Way


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The cool thing about Facer is you can install watch faces made by other people. Facerepo.com has tons of designs for the Moto 360 and other Android Wear devices. Browse the site on whichever device is connected to you watch, download the watch face you want, and then simply tap the “Import” icon. From here you can even edit the imported watch faces, which is a nice trick if you don’t want to design a watch from scratch.


Send Design to Watch


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The last thing you need to do is send your design to your Moto 360 or other Android Wear device. It’s as easy as 1-2-3.



  1. Long-press your current watch face and select Facer from the list

  2. On your phone, tap the watch face you want to use

  3. Tap the “Send to Wear device” button


You can store many different designs in the Facer app, but only one at a time can be display on the watch. Once you get the hand of creating simple watch faces like the ones in this guide you can start exploring more options. The only limit is your imagination. If you have made a Facer watch face we’d love to see it! Share your creations and favorites in the comments below!


P.S. You can download the Phandroid watch face right here. Enjoy!











Android Deals: Pebble price cuts, sound music savings, and more



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This week we’ve got a ton of deals on great music plus savings on some great audio accessories with which to enjoy it. Also on tap are offers for the HTC One M7, Motorola DROID Maxx, and price cuts on Pebble smartwatches. Remember: act quick, because while these deals were active at the time of posting, they won’t last forever.


Hardware & Accessories


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Pebble price drop saves you as much as $50 on your next smartwatch. Snag a Pebble or Pebble Steel for as low as $99 thanks to price cuts across the smartwatch line. The acclaimed wearable just got all the better. [Amazon, 2]


Take over half off the HTC One M7 and find out what the hype is all about. Not to be confused with the more recent HTC One M8, the 2013 flagship remains a tempting option for buyers, especially at a rock bottom price of $215 unlocked. [eBay]


Get a Motorola Droid Maxx for free. All signs point to a new Motorola device for Verizon, which means significant savings on last year’s model. The top-tier Droid Maxx is now free when signing up for a new two-year contract with Big Red. [Verizon]


Save 25% on a Soundfreaq Double Spot wireless speaker and bring big sound to any room in your house. With all the accoutrements expected of a Bluetooth speaker for mobile devices, the Double Spot features fine-tuned sound and snazzy design all for only $112 thanks to this special AndroidArea.com deal. [AndroidArea]


Knock nearly $100 off a pair of AIAIAI headphones if you prefer a more personal listening experience. These pro-quality wired headphones were designed for DJs, but they can be yours for only $159. [AndroidArea]


Apps & Games


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Music & Media


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[Find any great deals not included here? Be sure to send them our way or share in the comments below!]











Once again, AT&T customer data breached by rogue insider



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Looks like AT&T had a spoiled apple on their hands. The company has recently discovered that a rogue employee took it upon themselves to gain unauthorized access to sensitive customer data. The insider may have had deep access to information such as social security numbers and driver’s licenses, though it’s unclear how many folks were affected as the information comes from a letter sent from AT&T’s director of finance and billing operations Michael Chiarmonte to Vermont’s attorney general.


AT&T says law enforcement officials are involved and that the individual responsible for the breach has already been terminated from employment. They’re also forking over the cash for a year’s worth of credit monitoring for all those affected. It sounds like AT&T will send notices directly to any individuals who were affected so there’s no way to know if your information was part of the breach unless you simply don’t get a notice.


AT&T has not yet determined the reason for the breach, whether that be conspiracy to commit fraud or sell information off to third-party no-gooders. Or it could be just as likely that this person was just a nosy punk snooping into personal information because he thought he could get away with it. Whatever the case, though, it appears AT&T is treating it as seriously as they need to.


This isn’t the first time in recent months that AT&T’s been affected by an inside job. The company was a victim to such foulness back in April of this year. We can’t single AT&T out for the unfortunate incidents, though, as there’s no way they can protect themselves from rogue employees. Any company of AT&T’s size is bound to have a few bad apples so the most they can do is react swiftly and appropriately as soon as they realize what’s happened. Good on them that they’ve continued do that with this latest episode.


[via ThreatPost]








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