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Inspired by today's news about Microsoft's Windows Phone 7's latest release, "Mango," but can't let go of your beloved Android device? Now you can at least simulate the experience of using Windows Phone thanks to a new Android app, over half a year in development, which brings a Windows Phone-like launcher to Android users.

The new app called WP7 Launcher Lite began as a project featured in - where else? - the XDA Developer forums. Created by forum member TheRedDrake, the goal was to produce something that would provide "the freedom of Android and the grace and elegance of Windows Phone 7." Now a Lite (free) version of that application is available on the Android Market for you to try. And there are other plenty of other apps that bring you a similar experience, too. We've listed a few of these below.

ThemeIt, a new app store devoted to iPhone customization, has just launched today. The store is only available to iPhone jailbreakers - those who use iPhone hacking tools to remove Apple's built-in restrictions that prevent the installation of third-party applications from outside of iTunes.

ThemeIt offers jailbreakers a selection of attractive themes which can be used within Winterboard, a popular jailbreak program for complete iPhone customization. For now, there are only paid themes available in ThemeIt, but a section devoted to free themes is arriving soon.

Meanwhile, Jay Freeman's Cydia application, the default jailbreak app store, has been updated to include a revamped theme section, too. For those of you into iPhone customization, today is a very good day.

Finding a good theme for a jailbroken iPhone has always been a challenge. Themes are either posted online in designers' and developers' forums, outside the reach of the "mainstream" jailbreaking audience, or they're arranged haphazardly in Cydia, the jailbreak app store. Neither is an ideal solution for users interested in customizing their device.

Now, things are about to change. A new jailbreak app store called "Theme It" is preparing to launch, billing itself as "the Theme Store you've been waiting for." When it launches in January (tentatively), it will be available as both a standalone mobile app like Cydia as well as a mobile-friendly website.

At this week's CTIA Enterprise and Applications conference in San Francisco, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse announced a new project called "Sprint ID," aimed at mobile phone customization. The Sprint ID service lets users create separate mobile profiles for work and play, each with their own application packs, wallpapers, widgets and ringtones. Initially, Sprint ID will only be offered on new Android handsets including the Samsung Transform, LG Optimus S and Sanyo Zio, but the plan is to roll out the service to all Sprint devices in the future.

Firefox Personas, the designer skins that let web surfers dress up their browser, are now being rebranded "Personas Plus" and are being moved over to Mozilla's add-on gallery to join the other plugins. With the move, Mozilla has also announced that development work on this popular personalization program is continuing with the addition of new features that will transform Personas from static background images to dynamically updating themes that could even include ambient information.

It's great to have everything customized to suit just you, right? You like your bed a certain stiffness, your oatmeal a certain thick and your coffee a certain sweet. How about your search results? According to an article by The Register, Google is working to "'personalize' as much as 20 percent of your web searches".

While this might be good for some things, we're thinking it could also be like formulating an answer before someone even finishes asking the question.

Last week, we highlighted Microsoft Research's URank, an experimental search engine interface that allows users to rearrange their search results from Live.com. Now, Garett Rogers reports that Google is slowly releasing a very similar product called SearchWiki, which will allow users to modify their search results in Google Search. Judging from what we have seen about this feature so far, users will be able to move results up and down, hide results, and even suggest their own.