If there’s something great about jailbreak, that’s the possibility to completely theme and modify the original iPhone user interface. Thanks to that amazing tool called Winterboard, you can download and install custom themes on your phone, which will change everything from icons and statusbar color to the dialpad and settings page. Be sure to check out my roundup about 12 best Winterboard themes if you missed it. Anyway, today I’d like to talk about a nice tweak I’ve just purchased from the Cydia Store: it’s called Iconoclasm, and it lets you arrange your icons on the Springboard in a whole different way.
Create Custom Springboard Layouts with Iconoclasm
Record Your Life with Momento, a Diary Writing App for iPhone.
Someone once said “Life gives us brief moments with another…but sometimes in those brief moment we get memories that last a life time…”. And this is absolutely true: you don’t remember your entire life, you just remember some moments of what you’ve gone through, that’s how human mind works. Now, this is the main reason why people sometimes choose to write songs and books or paint something, right? They want that particular moment to be remembered forever. But if you think about it, wouldn’t it be simpler to just write down every important moment of every single day?
Meet Momento, a diary and journal application for iPhone.
Apple Orders 10-Inch Tablet Displays Amid iSlate Talk
“A subsidiary of Foxconn, Innolux, will supply Apple with the majority of 10-inch glass displays and Wintek, which provides most iPhone display panels, will handle the remainder, according to Taiwan’s DigiTimes. The publication said Apple could announce its tablet in January with major shipments by March, 2010. One report has suggested Apple has told Foxconn it needs 300,000 tablets per month. If true, the report would dovetail with recent speculation Apple booked San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Jan. 26 for a product announcement.
Even before the tablet is unveiled the product hit a delay, prompting the wait until the first quarter of 2010. Apple has been searching for a way to strengthen the tablet’s glass panel, according to DigiTimes. Reportedly, another Foxconn subsidiary, G-Tech Optoelectronics, will provide the answer.
In another hint suppliers are ramping up for an Apple tablet, Cheng Uei Precision received orders for flat-panel “connectors.” However, the company suggests the components won’t ship until the third quarter of 2010, appearing to dispute a January announcement.”
Seems like this time is real. They should have told me that Christmas would come with a 30 days delay, anyway.
Attention Management Through Concentrate. Reviewed.
The world of desktop applications have seem to be saturated with apps that promote better organization of all the things you need to get done (Things, Daylight, OmniFocus). But how many have you seen that can successfully keep you focused on these items cluttering your queue? Concentrate has taken a good stab at this with its flexible and simple form to keep you on track.
Get Exclusive Access to Thoughts Beta and Get the Preorder Bundle for Free
I’ve already talked about Thoughts app and the preorder bundle which will let you download 3 Mac apps for free if you preorder Thoughts now. I’ve just received an interesting mail from the developer, who told me you guys can get the chance to access the private beta and download the bundle for free if you apply as a translator for Thoughts.
Here are the conditions:
The following languages are needed:
Spanish (Español)
Swedish
Bokmal (norwegian)
Chinese (traditional prefered)
Dutch
Portuguese
Danish
Czech
Hungarian
Slovak
Greek
Finish
Ukranian
Catalan
Estonian
Arabic
Turkish
And:
Translating would be about 1 to 2 hours;
No development skills needed ( just editing files with Textedit)
Native speakers prefered
Deadline would be about the 5th January.
If you’re interested, just drop an email to dietmar[at]greenandslimy.com.
Read It Later Restyled Finally Available
After the release of Read It Later’s major update for iPhone (read my review if you missed it), the web interface went under a huge restyling too. Now the RiL platform shares the same interface between the web reading list, the iPhone app and the famous Firefox addon.
But what about the Mac? Is there an official Read It Later client for our desktops? The answer is no. But, there’s this Josh Nichols guy, who put together a userscript called “Read It Later Restyled” that brings the awesomeness of the newest update to a Fluid app near you. Just create a SSB with Fluid, download the userscript and place it into yourname/Library/Application Support/Fluid/Read It Later/Userscripts.
The result is gorgeous, and you can also download some custom icons from Josh Nichols’ website. Can’t wait to see what Instapaper Restyled creator will come up with.
Interview with Gi-Lo, Developer of iPhone Tweaks from Cydia.
As a part of the MacStories Apps Tree event, I had the chance to interview Gi-Lo, a developer of iPhone tweaks available in Cydia. He’s the creator of SnowCover, FiveIRows and many other stuff. Be sure to follow @EyeDevs on Twitter to stay update about what Gi-Lo and his upcoming team have in store for 2010.
This is 15th of many interviews and guest posts I’ll publish on MacStories during this week.
Enjoy!
jitouch 2 Released
Socialite: A Cocktail Made With Social Networks
More than a year ago, a small company called The Cosmic Machine put their first app, EventBox, in public beta. EventBox was a great app in many ways: it was a nice Twitter client and had a slew of other great services. As time passed, the developer, who was amazingly responsive, added new features, like photo upload, identi.ca, OneRiot, and Digg (which had been removed earlier). There was, however, one major problem: EventBox could only let you use one Twitter account.
The developer began to target this issue and decided that since it was such a large rewrite, he would fix some other limitations with the app as well. He rewrote the majority of the app and decided to release this second beta as MultiBox for the time being. MultiBox lacked some of the basic features such as the Unread and Flagged folders, but brought amazing stability and user interface improvements as well as multiple Twitter accounts and a bunch of other new additions.
Multibox was impressive; so much so it apparently attracted the attention of the famous Realmac Software, developers of LittleSnapper and RapidWeaver. Realmac decided to buy out EventBox and give it a new name: Socialite. The following is a review of this new app, albeit with a slight bit of longing for the old EventBox.