Customizing the individual home-screen "panes" on your Android smartphone is one of the easiest ways to make it your own, as well as reduce the time it takes to access your most frequently used applications. And you can move any application to any home-screen pane.

To move an app from either your "app page," where all your Android software is stored, or from one pane to another, simply press and hold the application for a second or two, until a colored shadow appears beneath it. If you're moving an app from your app page to a home screen page, you'll immediately be returned to the last home screen page you were on before jumping to the app page.

Moving apps around an individual pane, or between panes, is as simple as dragging your finger to the left or right, up or down, after holding the icon for a second to select it. And you can ditch unwanted apps from your home screen panes by holding their respective icons until they're selected, and then dropping them into the trash can, or other similar icon, that appears on-screen.

One of the coolest things about the Android OS is the ability to use a variety of "widgets," or icons that sit on your home screen and display information so you don't ever have to open the actual applications or services that they're associated with. Widgets can save time and show information you might have otherwise missed.