Pandora App Updated, Runs in Background [finally]

Available In: App Store       Price: Free  

Pandora Pandora updated their iPhone app to finally support running in the background. It’s using Apple’s new APIs to keep the audio streaming in the background but close down the rest of the app to save battery life. It worked well on my iPhone 3GS and the new iPod controls in the dock now support Pandora when it’s open.

Backgrounding this app only works on iOS 4 which means it doesn’t background on the iPad. Below is what it looks like.
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Backgrounder Update – New Settings, New Features and Fixes

Available In: Cydia       Price: Free  

Backgrounder Backgrounder, a hack that allows applications to run in the background, has been updated to version svn.r432 (and svn.r436). The new version actually makes a decent amount of changes to the hack (full change log below).

The overall settings of the app have changed… including more description about each setting… which is nice.

In the Global option of the settings, you will find quite a few more features including the ability to choose the type of Backgrounding Method (Off, Native and Backgrounder), choose the Backgrounding State (Enable at Launch or Stay Enabled – previously Backgrounding Persists), the ability to turn on a Status Bar Icon and the options to Fallback to Native and Minimize on Toggle.
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Endless Walls – Wallpaper Application

Available In: Cydia       Price: Free  

##ICON_NAME## Endless Walls is a pretty cool wallpaper application. When you first open the application, it does require you to create an account (or log in if you already have an account) though the process is quick and easy.

Once signed in, the app will automatically begin displaying wallpapers. You can pause the automatic slide-show of wallpapers by tapping the pause button on the lower menu bar. If you do find a wallpaper you would like to save, you can quickly save it to your Camera Roll using the save button all the way to the right on the lower menu bar. [Read more…]

Christmas Walls 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 – Wallpaper Packs

Available In: Cydia       Price: Free  

##ICON_NAME## In the last two days, MacCiti has released 6 Christmas Wallpaper Packs. Instead of doing them each individually I thought I would put them all in one post so that you can compare. Most of the packs contain ten wallpapers all of which are totally random (and vary in quality) but will definitely put you in the Christmas spirit!

Remember, when you install this wallpaper pack, the wallpapers are added to your stock Settings application under Wallpapers. You can get Christmas Walls via the MacCiti source.
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BossPaper Update – New “Under WinterBoard” Option (Updated)

Available In: Cydia       Price: Free  

BossPaper BossPaper, an application that allows you to control your wallpaper, was updated to version 1.1. The update adds a new Under WinterBoard option. This option allows you to put your background underneath a WinterBoard background. [Read more…]

iComplete 3 – WinterBoard Theme

Available In: Cydia       Price: Free  

iComplete 3.0 icomplete32 Many of you may already be familiar with the iComplete theme however, it has been revamped and released as iComplete 3. The name says it all… iComplete is an extrememly complete theme that contains a mod for just about everything. We are talking everything here; icons, wallpaper, loading screen, lockscreen background, lockscreen battery, sliders, Notes app, Weather app, Calculator app, dialer, dock, status bar, SMS bubbles, loading image, page dots, Safari… you name, it’s modded. Below are a few screenshots of the theme. You can get iComplete 3 via the modmyi source. [Read more…]

TaskList – Simple List of All Running Processes

Available In: Cydia       Price: Free  

TaskList TaskList is an application that when open, gives you a list of everything that is running on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Nothing fancy, just a textual list of processes that is running. It includes all the kernel and user processes running in the background. You can get TaskList via the BigBoss source.

ScreenShots

Live Strong – WinterBoard Theme

Available In: Cydia       Price: Free  

Live Strong livestrongtheme2 Live Strong is a simple yellow and black WinterBoard theme that contains 85 icons, a dock and a wallpaper. This theme does not contain any bells and whistles… it’s just the basics but, sometimes less is more! The only thing I would have like to have seen is a matching badge. Other than that… not too bad. You can get Live Strong via the modmyi source. [Read more…]

Acevedo Collection v2 – Wallpaper Pack

Available In: Cydia       Price: Free  

Acevedo Collection v2 iphone-wallpaper009 Version 2 of the Acevedo Collection of wallpapers was released in Cydia. This wallpaper pack contains 12 wallpapers. 7 of them contain the Apple logo. Below are screenshots of all 12 wallpapers. Remember, when you install this wallpaper pack, the wallpapers are added to your stock Settings application under Wallpapers. You can get Acevedo Collection v2 via the MacCiti source. [Read more…]

iSummer Theme – WinterBoard Theme (SBSettings Theme)

Available In: Cydia       Price: Free  

iSummer isummertheme iSummer is a nice WinterBoard theme that contains slides, a dock, status bar, badges, dialer, pop-up mod, wallpaper, 64 icons…etc. It is a dark theme but, it is well designed. I did notice that the theme folder has an icons2 folder with more icons in it. So, if you are ssh savvy, you can ssh into the Library/Theme/iSummer 2.0/icons2 folder and copy out all the icons and add them to the Library/Themes/iSummer 2.0/Icons folder. This theme also has a matching SBSettings theme. You can get both the iSummer Theme and the iSummer SBS Theme via the BigBoss source. [Read more…]

vWallpaper (video wallpaper application) and SkrewCommom for Firmware 3.0

Available In: Cydia       Price: Free  

vWallpaper Some of you might remember the app vWallpaper, an application that enables video wallpapers. I honestly haven’t written about the app is quite some time however, people are wondering if it has been updated for the 3.0 firmware yet. A few days ago, the developer released a beta version of both SkrewCommon (a code app that is needed in order to run vWallpaper) and vWallpaper. It is a manually install and there are a few bugs still such as; the device will not go into sleep mode and sometimes the video wallpaper will not restart after closing an application. If you would like to give it a try, check out THIS post for the links and instructions.

Backgrounder Update

Available In: Cydia       Price: Free  

Backgrounder When I saw an update to Backgrounder, a mod that allows apps to run in the background, I was like…YES! I thought we were going to get some of the old features back but, the update just fixes a bug in which some apps were not restoring properly. I know, I was totally bummed too. I could really use the SpringBoard badge that indicates when an app is running…I have a feeling I have left a few running on accident! You can get Backgrounder via the BigBoss source. [Read more…]

Backgrounder Updated – Firmware 3.0 Compatible

Available In: Cydia       Price: Free  

#Backgrounder Backgrounder, a mod that allows applications to run in the background, has been updated to version svn.r247. This version of Backgrounder is for firmware 3.0 and above. If you are on 2.2.1 or below make sure you DO NOT upgrade. The update also only enables the basic backgrounder feature…there are no extra features at this time. The developer says it will take some time to get the features working on the 3.0 firmware.
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Guitar Collection v1 – Wallpaper Pack

Available In: Cydia       Price: Free  

Guitar Collection v1 gcv1acousticguitar Guitar Collection v1 is wallpaper pack that contains 14 guitar inspired wallpapers. It is a pretty random variety of wallpapers…it including more abstract imagines, photos, animated and artsy images of guitars. Below are screenshots of all 14 wallpapers that the pack contains. You can get Guitar Collection v1 via the MacCiti source. Also, when you install this wallpaper pack, the wallpapers are added to your stock Settings application under Wallpapers.

Note: If you would like to manually delete some of the wallpapers once you install the pack, they are located in the Library/Wallpapers folder on your iPhone or iPod Touch. [Read more…]

BMW Collection v1 – Wallpaper Pack

Available In: Cydia       Price: Free  

BMW Collection v1 bc1bmwz4 Well, that is what I get for going on a “no bias” streak and posting about a car wallpaper pack…they release another one the next day! So, in order to keep my no bias streak I now bring you BMW Collection v1! This wallpaper pack includes 13 BMW inspired wallpapers. As with the last pack (Audi Collection v1) some of the wallpaper are nice some are decent. You can get this pack via the MacCiti source. Below are screenshots of all 13 wallpapers. [Read more…]