Web designers and enthusiasts are likely already familiar with Dave Shea, the Canadian web designer behind the css Zen Garden and other standards-based web projects. If you’re not familiar with him from that angle, you may recognize his Chalkwork series of icons which has just had a set of iPhone & iPod touch icons added to it.

While most of his work comes with a well-deserved price tag, this set is available free of charge. It contains 29 well-designed icons, including the default applications and some select third-party apps. The download includes a selection of Dock and Wallpaper images as well. You’ll need a jailbroken iPhone/touch to use them and the set comes with instructions for manual and SummerBoard installations.

iPhone/iPod touch owners (and anyone else who wants to) can download the free icon set at mezzoblue.

vi a http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/28/dave-sheas-new-iphone-ipod-touch-theme/

Posted on February 29th, 2008 by admin
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Just a quick note, SummerBoard has been updated to now work on iPhone 1.1.1 firmware. There are now two types of installers in AppTapp, one for pre 1.1.1 firmware, titled “Summerboard (Old)” - version 2.11 -, and this new one just called “SummerBoard” - version 3.0a11. It can be found under the System Category (or folder if you are running the new AppTapp Installer mentioned here).

If you are running firmware 1.1.1 and try using the OLD version of SummerBoard, you will see your dock on the top of your screen instead of the bottom. The new version of SummerBoard corrects this and all seems to be working ok. I have installed a few new themes and they seem to be working (again, I’m on a Jailbroken but NOT unlocked iPhone with firmware 1.1.1). If you install the wrong version, you will know right away. If your dock is on the top, just uninstall that version of SummerBoard and put the other one in

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Themes work great (I particularly like how “Litho” looks…very different than the others out there). Note that not all themes have custom icons made, but if the author updates the theme, you will get notified of the update. I haven’t found a way yet (probably haven’t looked deep enough) to rearrange the apps on SummerBoard the way you could before but I’m sure: 1) I missed it and/or 2) an update to that is on it’s way.

Posted on October 23rd, 2007 by admin
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Guys from  Modmyiphone.com find a way to skin your iphone keypad,really cool!

Posted on September 26th, 2007 by admin
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While the iPhone’s sleek, imageless design helps to keep things simple for everyone, I can understand some people’s desire to customize their surroundings. While Apple isn’t making this easy on anyone, keeping the iPhone locked up for themselves and all, that doesn’t mean determined hackers aren’t trying to pick the locks. For anyone interested in changing their iPhone’s background from (arguably) boring black to something of their choosing, ModMyiPhone has just the how-to for you. Adventurer be warned, however: this is not for the light-hearted. This is a 15-step tutorial involving some ugly hacking with the Terminal app and digging around in your iPhone’s guts. On the upside though, if something goes wrong I imagine you can easily get your iPhone back to square one with iTunes’ Restore button, but I obviously am in no position to make any guarantees, so proceed with caution

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That said, it sure would be nice to see Apple officially open up the iPhone to this kind of customization with a future software update. It totally makes sense that they themselves are using caution with their first foray into mobile phones though, so I wouldn’t hold my breath for a feature update like this anytime soon.

From TUAW

Posted on July 23rd, 2007 by admin
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