Here are a few simple little mods for Christmas time. They change your slide from the unlock arrow to a candy cane, stocking, bulb, or star and changes the words “Slide to Unlock” to “Merry Christmas”. The star & blub ones also have backgrounds. You can use a program like iFile or SSH in and change the text to make “Merry Christmas” say anything else if you’d like.
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Christmas Theme by Chode4eve – WinterBoard Theme
Ok, now I know this is going to be too early for some of you but it is past Thanksgiving and I did make myself hold off until after Thanksgiving before starting the Christmas theme reviews. So here we go… the first one! Christmas Theme by Chode4eve is a WinterBoard theme that contains around 25 icons (just the basic apps), a lock screen background, a Messages Background, a Phone keypad background, some system string mods, badges and some UI sounds. I’m not going to lie… Christmas themes can tend to be a little cheesy but this one has well designed icons and the backgrounds are good quality. I’m not a huge fan of the UI sounds but, I just go into iFile and rename the UISounds folder to something like UISounds(nope) and then I no longer have the theme’s built-in sounds. Other than that… a decent Christmas theme… it just makes me all cheery! You can get Christmas Theme by Chode4eve via the BigBoss source. Check out the screenshots below.
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Christmas Mods – Themes, Mods and Wallpapers
Available In: Cydia | Price: Free |
It has been snowing here for the last few days so, I thought it was probably time to break out the Christmas mods! Hopefully they will put you in the Christmas spirit! Below are a few of the better Christmas themes as well as some Christmas mods and links to some Christmas wallpaper packs. Let me know in the comments if there are any Christmas themes that you really like that are not listed below.
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Christmas Walls 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 – Wallpaper Packs
Available In: Cydia | Price: Free |
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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Christmas Walls – Wallpaper Pack
Here is a pack of Christmas wallpapers that was released today in Cydia. This pack is a pretty random set of Christmas wallpapers with no specific style. Some are good… some are lame. The screenshots are below.
I know, some of you are thinking it’s a little early for Christmas stuff but for those of you who are already in the Christmas spirit… check them out.
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 BigBoss source.
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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all of our readers! I hope you’re having a great day! We’d love to hear what you got for Christmas today, especially if it’s an iPhone, iPod Touch, accessories or iTunes Gift Cards. Of course let us know if it’s not iPhone related too. I got an upgrade on our video editing software so look for better videos from us in the future.
New Poll – How often do you use the YouTube application on your iPhone or iPod Touch?
Time for a new poll. The last poll was – Have you asked for or plan on buying an iPhone and/or iPod Touch (or accessories) for Christmas? Below are the results based on when we added the poll a week ago.
Have you asked for or plan on buying an iPhone and/or iPod Touch (or accessories) for Christmas? (Choose all that apply!)
I plan on buying at least one iPhone for Christmas (24%, 75 Votes)
I plan on buying at least one iPod Touch for Christmas (12%, 38 Votes)
I have asked for an iPhone for Christmas (15%, 46 Votes)
I have asked for an iPod Touch for Christmas (9%, 28 Votes)
I plan on buying iPhone and/or iPod Touch Accessories for Christmas (44%, 137 Votes)
I have asked for iPhone and/or iPod Touch Accessories for Christmas (34%, 105 Votes)
Total Voters: 311
We do not plan on buying any more iPhone’s for Christmas (at least I don’t think we do) though, Doug’s grandma and grandpa each just got one and Doug is trying to talk my dad into getting one too…which I think he might be pretty close to doing! Doug did get a Mophie Juice Pack for Christmas…which he loves!! You can check out our video review of it HERE. I apologize for not having an option in the last poll that said you were not buying nor asking for anything iPhone or iPod Touch related for Christmas! I will remember that for next time! :)
You can still vote on this Poll in our Poll Archive page. You can also vote/view all the past polls on the Poll Archive page as well. Below is the new poll.
New Poll – Have you asked for or plan on buying an iPhone and/or iPod Touch (or accessories) for Christmas?
Time for a new poll. The last poll was – How many times have you restored your current iPhone or iPod Touch? Below are the results based on when we added the poll just under a week ago.
* Between 1-3 times (30%, 539 Votes)
* Between 4-6 times (24%, 435 Votes)
* Between 7-10 times (12%, 207 Votes)
* I stopped counting!! (26%, 467 Votes)
* I have never restored my iPhone or iPod Touch (8%, 146 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,794
I will say that I was among those of you who have stopped counting! And, it is probably for the same reason too…installed and tested too many applications!! I think it is crazy that 146 of you have never restored your iPhone or iPod Touch…that is awesome! You can still vote on this Poll in our Poll Archive page. You can also vote/view all the past polls on the Poll Archive page as well.
For this next poll…we would love to get some feedback from you! I sure many of us would like to know exactly what accessories you have asked for and/or bought…include links!! Or even where you bought them from or if you got a good deal somewhere!
WinterBoard Themes and Mod
Available In: Cydia | Price: Free |
We are getting closer to Christmas (16 more days) and to get into the Holiday spirit, we are seeing more Christmas themes in Cydia! Today, there were a few worth mentioning. These are actually not new themes, they were available last Christmas, but they have been updated and added to Cydia for this Christmas! The three Christmas themes are; XMAS, Simple Christmas and Christmas in Green (all via iSpazio). There are a few other mods available is Cydia as well; TABLET a themes via BigBoss and Blue Stars Dot a SpringBoard dot mod via iSpazio. The only issue is that in the TABLET theme the Calculator icon is spelled incorrectly in the package therefore it doesn’t change the icon for the theme. But, if you are comfortable with SSH you can easily go into Library/Themes/TABLET.theme/Icons folder and change the Calcolator.png to say Calculator.png. All the screenshots are below. [Read more…]
WinterBoard Theme – Flashing Christmas Lights
Available In: Cydia | Price: Free |
Flashing Christmas Lights is an interesting theme. It adds a string of Christmas lights around your icons. It does not mod your icons so, you are basically supposed to use it in conjunction with another theme. The string of lights will randomly flash in different patterns. In order for the theme to look exactly right, you will want to enable the Transparent Dock via WinterBoard. The theme seems to work very nicely, I did not have any issues with glitching. Though, I would image that it might drain your battery a little faster than normal.
MyChristmas – A Christmas Collection of Games, Music & More!
Available In: App Store | Price: $0.99 |
Now that Thanksgiving is over, it’s time to bring out the Christmas apps. A lot of the features in this app are basically apps within the app. There are a few countdowns, the eBook “A Christmas Carol”, music & lyrics, games and entertainment. Most are pretty simple but built well with nice design. [Read more…]