I discovered Customize2 the other day and have been messing with it. It lets you build more complex themes than merely using SummerBoard alone, though it does interact with SummerBoard. SSH and DropCopy are your friends for this sort of stuff.

I’ve spent a lot time tweaking a theme of my own. It’s called zerotheme. I did it all on the iTouch itself via a terminal app I’ve installed. I’ve tried using the Customize Web App to build and share it, but after 4 failed attempts (zerolight - zerolightV4) it’s clear that the web-app is currently horribly broken. Any new theme you create ends up as empty folders when shared and downloaded by others - as 28 people told me! Still it works perfectly when built on my iTouch.

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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.

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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.