Widgets are an iconic feature of the Android operating system. They can be use to dress up your stock Android device home screen turning your device unique and personalized for your use. Not only are they functional, most of the widgets you can find nowadays look pretty awesome. Whether you know about this or not, chances are the widget-selection process is going to take some time. That’s why we are here to help.

Starting with clocks and calendar widgets, we are going to run by you beautiful and practical widgets that should find a home in your homescreen. In this list, we are featuring 20 minimalistic clocks and calendar widgets to start off your modding experience.

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Pretty Binary Clock Widget. This is your homescreen clock widget in binary format. Good luck figuring this one out. [Free]

Lines Clock. A Custom clock for your lockscreen that runs through UCCW, customize each of the elements as you see fit. [Free]

BobClockD3. We’re not kidding when we say minimalistic. This clock widget gives you a clean sylish look at the hours and minutes of the day. [Free]

ClockQ – Digital Clock Widget. This clock widget gives you a large list of options to enable and edit, options like the stroke mode, to display shadows, widget opacity, colors, which app to open upon tap, and plenty more. [Free]

DashClock Widget. This one is a dashclock widget (i.e. for lockscreen) which has an extension feature (download the extras you need) that allows more information to be displayed in the widget. [Free]

D-Clock Widget. A minimalistic clock widget that comes with a simple reflection underneath it. [Free]

Advanced Clock Widget. A nice replacement for your home screen clock widget with great customization options and easy to use interface. [Free]

TypoClock. Show time and date in block format, plus the option to use built-in fonts or system fonts for its widget. [$1.27]

Minimal Date & Time. This one comes with a clock widget and a weather widget separately. You need the UCCW app to use this one but the good news is, you can then customize the widget to its very core. [Free]

Simple Calendar Widget. Minimal and clean, yet rich with features such as calendar options, tasks, skin. appearance and backup. Just the way it should be. [Free]

Minimalistic Text. A fan of minimalism? This widget will allow you to create your world of minimalism through the widget. Perfect for those with a tinkering soul. [Free]

My Alarm Clock. Here’s one you won’t mind replacing your bedside clock with.

Jelly Bean Clock Widget. Comes with a square or circle widget and 7 available colors; geen, yellow, pink, red, blue, black and white. [Free]

Onca Clock Widget. Here’s a brief walkthrough: the number (i.e. 12) indicates the hour, while the shaded portion of the ring serves as the minute (i.e. 50 minutes) and the blue dot marks the seconds.

MIUI Analog Clock Widget. You want a little taste of MIUI ROMs widget? Try this one. [Free]

Neon Clock Widget. A clock widget that displays the date, the day and battery levels with 7 different color themes to choose from. [Free]

Awesome Clock Widget. Here you will get a collection of 7 elegant and stylish clock designs as your home screen widget. [$0.99]

Pure Calendar Widget. A thorough calendar widget with customizations that you actually need, such as scrollable widget, show tasks from third-party apps, multiple skins, complex agenda and (of course) it syncs perfectly with Google calendar. [$1.91]

MIUI Evolution Reload Clock. A simple MIUI style clock app , with 8 colourful and beautiful skin-ready calendar widgets. [Free]

mClock. A similar app to UCCW, full with customization options from the go, and for more, you can load themes by other users through XML templates. [Free]

Recently Instagram has a new feature which allow user to share a 15-second video instead of only pictures. It’s like a mini-version of Youtube (and is an apparent stab at Vine). Rivalry aside, if you have the habit of downloading videos online, know that you can also download videos from Instagram. Here’s how.

There are essentially 2 ways to download Instagram videos. First is to download it using a web browser and save the video on your computer. Another way is to just Like an Instagram video and it will be saved into your favourite cloud storage service, with some minor setup required.

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Method #1: Via Torch Browser

To download Instagram videos, first download and install Torch browser on your computer.

After installing, paste the URL of the Instagram video you want to keep and load the page. On the Instagram video page play the video, so that Torch browser can grab the download link.

On the top bar, there is a Video button. Before you play the video the button is greyed out but after playing the video the button becomes clickable.

Click on the Video button to download the Instagram video.

The downloaded Instagram video will be saved in .MP4 format which can be played on almost any player and device.

Method #2: Via IFTTT

If you are an existing user of IFTTT you can click here and start to use the recipe. If you are not sure what IFTTT can do for you, then check out 35 Awesome IFTTT Recipes To Archive Your Social Media Data to get an idea.

IFTTT: Creating A Trigger

To download Instagram videos straight to your Cloud storage, first browse over to IFTTT and create an account.

Then, click on Create on the top bar and click on this. It will ask you to choose a trigger channel. Since we want to save a video from Instagram, we will choose Instagram as the trigger.

You will need to activate your Instagram once. IFTTT will remember this for subsequent triggers.

Now, you need to choose what action that perform to your Instagram account, basically what what will trigger the IFTTT service. Since we want to save Instagram videos to cloud storages, choose You like a video as the trigger.

Then, click on Create Trigger.

IFTTT: Creating An Action Channel

The next step is to choose your action channel. For this guide, we are going to use Dropbox as an example of a Cloud storage service to backup our videos.

Activate Dropbox like how we did Instagram, earlier. Then, choose what Dropbox should perform upon the trigger from Instagram.

Since we want to save Instagram videos that we ‘liked’, choose ‘Add file from URL‘ action.

Then click on ‘Create Action‘ and ‘Create Recipe‘. With that you are done.

Now any video that you liked on Instagram will be saved in your Dropbox. However, the service will only check for triggers from Instagram every 15 minutes, so videos aren’t instantly saved.

The saved videos are in .MP4 format in Dropbox so you can retrieve them from there and watch them whenever you like.