SummerBoard Gadgets & Stuff |
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.
August 26th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
I see that there’s an iPhone iTouch 2.0 compatible app called Winterboard which is basically an overhauled/re-written version of Summerboard. Of course you need to use the latest version of pwnage to essentially jailbreak your 2.0 hardware. No problem though as it’ll still happily work with the Apple Appstore and the Cydia2 Installer. However… there’s still no reliable replacement for MobileScrobbler on 2.0 hardware. And 1.1.4 is still more stable than the latest 2.0.x firmware. I’ll keep waiting.