Description

Kite festivals are a popular form ofentertainment throughout the world. They include large localevents, traditional festivals which have been held for 300 hundredsof years and major international festivals which bring in kiteflyers from Britain to display their unique art kites anddemonstrate the latest technical kites.

In Afghanistan, kite flying is a popular game. Some kitefighters pass their strings through a mixture of ground glasspowder and glue. The resulting strings are very abrasive and cansever the competitor's strings more easily. During the Taliban rulein Afghanistan, kite flying was banned, among various otherrecreations.

In Vietnam, kites are flown without tails. Instead small flutesare attached allowing the wind to "hum" a musical tune. There areother forms of sound-making kites. In Bali, large bows are attachedto the front of the kites to make a deep throbbing vibration, andin Malaysia row of gourds with sound-slots are used to create awhistle as the kite flies.

Weifang, Shandong, China is the kite capital of the world. Chinais the oldest place, probably with India where kites have beenflown since antiquities. It is home to the largest kite museum inthe world, the thousands of kites here have a display area of 8100m2. Weifang hosts an annual international kite festival on thelarge salt flats south of the city. There are several kite museumsin Japan, UK, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand and theUSA.

If you’re not sure what live wallpapers are, they're a type ofapplication that works on a mobile device using the Androidoperating system (like your device!). The application works as awallpaper – providing the background image for the home screen—butalso works as a conventional application since it can provideuser-interaction with the touch screen (allowing the image tochange dynamically, for example) and access other hardware andsoftware features within the device (accelerometer, GPS, networkaccess, etc.).

**Multiple backgrounds!** Switch up the background as often oras little as you like with user-configurable options.

**Power saving features!** This app uses much less power thantypical live wallpapers. It will take a bit more power to operatethan a normal wallpaper, but much, much less battery power than theaverage live wallpaper.

**Super easy to use!** Upon install the app will bring up theoptions menu and then immediately let you set the wallpaper. Nohassle and easy to use!

**Translated to 35 languages!** Do you really, really want tolearn Russian? We didn’t think so, but it’s available just in case,in any language your phone can display!

Please note that live wallpapers can’t be set automatically.We’ll bring you to the setup screen where you’ll select the livewallpaper. We’d love to do it automatically but Android doesn’tallow it. Maybe some day.

Many kites were flown in the making of this app. Select textfrom Wikipedia, which has not endorsed this app. Licensed under thecreative commons (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Text atwikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Wallpaper and wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite.