I’ve avoided this little gem of an app for ages. It’s available to jailbroken iPod Touches and iPhones. I never got the pun until recently - Apple call their launcher SpringBoard, SummerBoard enhances it. Doh. Most of the themes I’d seen were pretty poor, with garish backgrounds and ugly icons. However there’s a few good ones, mostly by Louie Mantia often based on icons by David Lanham.

I decided to give it a go yesterday, and whilst I was at it, I mildly tweaked the two themes I liked best Agua (by David Lanham and Louie Mantia) and Buuf2 (by Louie Mantia). The results are below, alongside the original Apple SpringBoard theme. I kinda like it for now. Click the images to enlarge. Photoset here.

I was thinking about the guitars I’ve owned since I started playing back in 1987. There’s been a lot! I think, 21. Bear in mind that mostly, I’ve only owned one at a time, two at the most more recently, so there was a good stretch where I never owned a guitar for longer than a year! Updated.
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Ali had a great day, got lots of Pixar Cars, ate lots of cup cakes and went to Nandos for some spicy chicken. We even tried Wall-E at the Cinema but the timing was off and he got tired.

My custom ordered James Tyler Studio Elite HD is done, and is now with the UK distributor. It’ll be with me next week. It’s the first Orange Shmear Studio Elite, a special order I put in for my guitar. More details here.

I took Zee, Mum, and the boys up to Gleneagles for lunch. It was terrific. Then Zee and I went to Brian Maule’s restaurant for dinner, which was outstanding. Great day. Happy Birthday darling.