By Sascha Segan - PC Magazine

So you just got your Motorola Droid. The Droid is a powerful, flexible, and fun-to-use smartphone, with 12,000 apps available, but you can make it yours within a few minutes. Here are five ways to make your Droid even better, quickly.

1.) Kill the croak: That "DROID" notification sound is fun for a while, but it can get creepy at night. To change your notification sound, pop up the icon tray and pick Settings, Sound and Display, Notification Sound.

2.) Sync your media: The Droid doesn't come with any way to do this, but we have a few options. The simplest is just dragging and dropping. Plug your Droid into your PC using the included USB cable. Then drag the windowshade down from the top of the Droid's screen, tap USB Connected, and then tap Mount. The Droid will appear as a hard drive for your PC, and you can drag over music files, videos and pictures.

If you want to actually sync iTunes playlists and videos, try the free third party software DoubleTwist or the simpler iTunes Agent.

3.) Spice it up: The basic Droid home screen is pretty spare. Dress it up with your own favorite wallpapers and widgets. First of all, notice that you actually have three home screens to play with - flick your finger left or right on the screen to slide over to the other two panels.

To customize your wallpaper, just hit the menu button - the one at the bottom of the Droid which looks like a bunch of horizontal lines - and pick "Wallpapers." Then you can pick from the images you dumped onto your memory card earlier.

Now add some widgets to your three home screen panels.

From the home screen, click Menu, then Add, then Widgets. Choose whichever ones you like; the Facebook one. You can download more widgets from the Android Market by searching for "Widgets."

4.) Google Voice: Sign up for Google Voice for free visual voicemail. Verizon charges $2.99/mo for visual voicemail. Bummer. So sign up for the free Google Voice instead, and download the Google Voice App to get free visual voicemail complete with text transcriptions. You'll have to request an invite and wait on line a while to get Google Voice, but it's worth it.

5.) Be a task killer: Download a task killer app. When you quit apps, Android often leaves them running in the background. That can result in a slow system if you've just launched and switched between a lot of different apps. Download the free Advanced Task Killer Free from the Android Market so you can periodically clean up your room. If things feel a little slow, pop down the phone's windowshade, click over to Task Killer and kill everything that's slowing things down with one click.