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I wasn’t very impressed with Sapphire’s bootskin so I decided to change it, here’s how you can do the same.

First of all, the boot skin is the graphic that shows up as the phone is turning on.  The default droid bootskin looks like this:

Here is how to change your bootskin (root required):

1. Download a skin you like, most are zipped and ready to install.
2. Install [ Android Terminal Emulator ] from the market.
3. Copy the bootskin you downloaded onto the root of your SDCard and name it “bootanimation.zip”.
4. Open terminal emulator and run the following commands.  (Ignore the $ and # signs).
   $su
   #cp /sdcard/bootanimation.zip /data/local/
   #reboot
5. Your phone should now reboot with the new bootskin.

These are the steps I used to change my boot skin, if they don’t work for you, you may want to try some of the other steps listed [ Here ].

There is also a free version of a paid app that you can use, although you can’t import new skins unless you pay.  The app still requires root:  [ Boot Animation Changer LITE ]  I will most likely post a review of this app in the near future.

I have not found a good source for bootskins yet, [ This Site ] has a handful, but only a few good ones.
If you know of a good place to find skins, leave a comment!

Here are a few good skins from the link above:

Midnight, default skin recolor:

Aperture Science skin:

Modern Warfare 2:

Two screenshot apps up for review:  drocap2 and screenshot.
Both of these apps do require root access, so if you’re not rooted they will not work.

First up:  screenshot

This app works well enough, although you need to make sure to check “invert red and blue colors” or the screencap’s colors will be all screwy.

You can take the screenshot based on a timer or by shaking the phone, they both work well enough although the shake option tends to take 2 pictures rather then one.

You can save files as BMP, PNG or JPG images.

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Next: drocap2

This screen cap is about the same as screencap, but it feels much more polished.
The interface loads as an overlay overtop of other apps (presumably what you would be taking a picture of) which is nice.
You can pick any time from 1 to 60 seconds using the slider which is more precise then screenshot’s drop-box.
You can set the capture mode under options to one of ether Timer, Shake, or Notification.  Notification puts a button in your status bar that you press to take a picture.
There is also the option to enable a timer-tick sound for screenshots using drocap2.
You can save files as JPG or PNG.

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Overall drocap2 is the winner with a better looking, better designed interface and a few more features.

Stats:
[ drocap2 ]:  free – requires root – 266.5 KB

[ screenshot ]:  free – requires root – 81.9 KB