Stars in spandex: 25 exercise icons
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We salute Simmons, Somers & 23 more celebs who helped us get fit.
04Jun
iOS 5 concept: Dynamic Icons by Jan-Michael Cart
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Last week we posted a host of iOS concept videos designed by Jan-Michael Cart. Yesterday, he released another. This one details a Dynamic Icons concept which would see notifications displayed on the appropriate app’s icon in the form of relevant information, much like Windows Phone’s live tiles. Take a…
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03Jun
Dollar Bills Defaced With Pop-Culture Icons
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This is a giant (30 picture) gallery of U.S. currency that have had pop-icon facelifts courtesy of artist James Charles (who has two first names). They’re all incredibly well done and are selling at the Shooting Gallery art gallery in San Francisco for $600-$1,000. But they were already valuable! Granted you could say James is just defacing money, but I’d argue he’s actually refacing it. Zing? No? God I could just die!
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29Nov
Jailbreaking tip: Convert app icons for Retina Display
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Let’s face it — it stinks to turn your phone on and see gunk on your homescreen. And while most app developers have seen to it that their app icons have been updated for the iPhone 4’s Retina Display, there are still a few that have lagged behind.
If it bugs you to see all the imperfections of an old icon next to a shiny new one, and you have a jailbroken device, then check out iRetiner. It updates all the icons for App Store apps, so they look much sleeker on the Retina Display. As a command-based jailbreak tweak, it requires MobileTerminal and Erica Utilities installed from Cydia.
1. Once everything has been installed, you can open the MobileTerminal application.
2. Type “SU” and press enter. Now type the default password “alpine” (or if you changed your password, type in your new one). Now you are logged in as the root user, which means you can make some real changes to your phone now. If you’re following these instructions, you’ll be okay. If you’re doing anything else, just make sure you know what you’re doing.
3. Now type in “iretiner” and press enter. You should get some options to choose from.
4. Type “1” and then type “y.” Now iRetiner will start working on updating those app icons.
5. Once it’s done, it will ask if you want to respring (this is sort of like a restart for your iPhone without actually turning it off). Type “y” and your phone will reset, and you will then find that all your app icons have been updated and look very very pretty now.
Anytime you install a new application that does not support the iPhone 4’s Retina Display, you can start up MobileTerminal and do the same thing again.
I just tried this out, and needless to say, it is nothing short of amazing. If you give it a shot, let us know what you think in the comments.
Via: iPhoneDownloadBlog
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05Oct
Glowing App Icon lights up your springboard icons
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Ever wanted to add a little character to the application icons on your iPhone or iPod touch but have always been a little weary of the jailbreak scene? Well now you are in for a nice little treat. Now there is an application that can give those app icons a nice glow effect on you springboard.
Glowing App Icons is a free application on the App Store which will set your applications aglow. How does it do it without jailbreaking the device? Pretty simple actually, and at the risk of ruining the magic for you I’ll explain. This application gives you the ability to change the color of the glowing borders by sliding through a color bar. Then once you find the right color you have been looking for you can save it as a wallpaper with one of the many background pictures that comes with the application or with any of your favorite picture you have taken yourself with your devices camera.
One of the drawbacks that I have noticed is that it does require your device to be on iOS 4.1 to work. I tried downloading it for my iPhone 4 and was quickly met with an alert that I would need to update to 4.1 to be able to download the application. And seeing as I am still currently using 4.0.1 for unlock reasons that just wasn’t an option. And if you are still using that ancient iPhone 2G then this application is also out of the picture unfortunately.
Another drawback is not one that most will find annoying but in my case kinda makes it a dealbreaker. I recently installed the jailbreak application iconoclasm which allows you to change the layout of the applications on the springboard. So I would find it hard to make these two pictures together look good at all.
But like I said that’s not a big deal if you have yet to jailbreak your iPhone and install that particular jailbreak application. Plus not forgetting the fact that if you are on iOS 4.1 you most likely aren’t rocking a jailbroken device anyways.
So does this nifty application give you a reason to update to 4.1, I know it nearly had me connecting to iTunes just to update and get my hands on it. While you mull it over enjoy this nice demonstration of the application doing its thing.
Via: iPhoneDownloadBlog
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