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WeatherIcon for iPad Hack

Douglas — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:01:51 +0000

I’ve always wanted the WeatherIcon hack for my iPad but it never works. I looked into it again and found that part of the problem is that the iPad doesn’t have the Weather app from Apple like the iPhone does. After looking around in some forums I found out how to get it working. Here’s the steps I took using an iPhone 4 and a 1st gen iPad.

1. Copy the Weather app from the /Application folder of your iPhone or iPod touch to your computer using SSH. For more info on SSH see this page.
2. You’ll also need to copy com.apple.weather.plist from /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences from your iPhone or iPod touch to your computer.
3. Upload the Weather app to your iPad’s /Application folder and the com.apple.weather.plist to the /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences.
4. Respring or reboot the iPad and you should see a Weather icon now. It opens for me but looks a little weird. See extra steps below for how I fixed this.
5. In the Weather app, check to see that the first city is correct for your area. If not, add it now.
6. Now install WeatherIcon from Cydia.
7. Once installed, go to your Settings app and find the WeatherIcon settings and make sure it’s enabled. I turned off the icon settings because the icon is not the same size as iPad icons so it looked weird. I may go in later and make a bigger icon to make it work. I turned on the image and temp in the status bar. This was the main thing I wanted this hack for.

Your iPad should now have the current temperature and a little image representing current conditions in the top right corner. Let me know if you have any questions or other tips regarding this hack and I’ll add them to the post.

Ok, this gets even trickier but now I’ll show you how I got the weather app to look right once opened. When you first copy it over, the weather forcast shows up in the top left and the background image shows up at the bottom. At first I just deleted the background image and just didn’t worry about it. Then I remembered I had just installed an app called RetinaiPad. It takes the images from apps that support the iPhone 4 retina display and makes the app nice and pretty when it’s full screen on the iPad. At first the Weather app wouldn’t show up under the RetinaiPad settings but I figured out it was because the Weather app was coded to be a dual device app. I found a way to change some code to make it an iPhone only app. This is ironic since the app was never made to originally work on the iPad. So, just use iFile or SSH to open the info.plist file in the Weather app folder of your iPad. Find the following:

UIDeviceFamily 1 2

Then just take out the line with the 2 in it. This is the part of the code saying the app is made for the iPad. So, make it look like this:

UIDeviceFamily 1

Now the iPad will show the app small like an iPhone only app. This will allow the app to show up in the RetinaiPad setting and you can set it to be full screen using the high res retina images. See what it looks like below. Now I just need to fix the icon and it will completely work.

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RoundCorners – Round the Corners of your iDevice’s Screen

Brooke — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:27:33 +0000

RoundCorners is a mod that rounds the corners of your iDevice’s screen. It basically creates a mask for your device that gives everything rounded edges. Because it is a mask, it rounds the corners of whatever is displayed on the screen. This includes everything; SpringBoard pages, Stock Applications, App Store Applications, Webpages… etc. The mod actually has a few settings. The settings are located in the stock Settings application. The settings include; the ability to turn the mod on/off, Premode (which allows you to round the entire page… including the statusbar… or just the page), the ability to change the radius of the rounded corned (making it more or less rounded), the ability to turn the mod off in GameMode… etc.

I did not have any problems installing, activating or deactivating the mod. It worked just as it should. I do like that it is not a WinterBoard activated mod and instead has it’s own settings… that is nice. You can get RoundCorners via the BigBoss source.

Available In: Cydia

Price: Free

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Christmas Sliders

Douglas — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 04:32:03 +0000

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.

Available In: Cydia

Price: Free

Analock HD – Customizable Lockscreen Mod

Brooke — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:33:51 +0000

Analock HD is a simple, clean lock screen mod. The lock screen displays the current time, date, day of the week, temperature and weather conditions. And, like Sublime Lock HD, what I love most about this lock screen mod is how easy it is to customize… no coding involved!! I have actually been using this lock screen for a while now and I decided it was time to pass it along! Below are the step-by-step instructions on how to install, activate and customize the Analock HD lock screen mod.

Side Note: Like always, the instructions might look long but that is only because I explain every little step.

Instructions:
1. Install Analock HD from Cydia (it is in the BigBoss source).

2. Go into WinterBoard and activate AnalockHD.

3. Turn off any other lock screen mods… such as LockInfo.

4. Open Safari.

5. Type the following URL into Safari – file:///Library/Themes/AnalockHD.theme/config.html. This needs to be typed exactly. Or, if you are on your iOS device, just click on the link.

6. Set the URL as a bookmark. This is done by tapping the + icon at the bottom of Safari and selecting the “Add Bookmark” option.

7. In Safari, go to weather.yahoo.com and search for the weather you would like displayed on the lock screen. Example) St. Paul, MN

8. Once the specific weather page has loaded in Yahoo Weather, go into the URL and copy the number at the end of the URL. Example) http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/minnesota/st.-paul-2487129/… you would copy the bold numbers in the example.

9. In Safari, open the bookmark for the theme settings that you created in step 6.

10. Choose your settings. This lock screen has a decent amount of settings including; the ability to choose a, clock type, color, temp unit, update times, clock text… etc.

11. Paste the number you copied from Yahoo Weather into the “Yahoo! Code” field.

12. Once you are finished customizing the lock screen, select “Save” at the bottom.

13. Your changes are now saved.

14. Respring your device.

15. The changes will now display on your lock screen!

Simple and easy! There are a few things I like about this mod and one feature I would love to see. What I like about it is that it is simple, clean and easy to customize. I also like that you can change the clock text to anything you would like it to say! Lastly, I like that you can choose whatever background you would like behind the mod. The one feature I would still like to see is that when you select the color in the settings, it would change the slider to that color as well. Right now, the slider stays red. I can’t help it… I have an addiction to uniformity! Overall, another sweet mod by Andy9l.

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Friday Night Movie Night: Graviboard [Video]

Brooke — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 02:24:39 +0000

Tonight’s Friday Night Move Night is Graviboard, a mod that “brings gravity to the homescreen.” Once it is installed and activated, your icons are “affected by gravity”. Check out the video demo below. I personally have not installed this app. I just can’t bring myself to pay $2.99 for fun app. However, I am curious to know if you can tap on an icon to open an app while this mod is activated. I’m guessing you probably can not. If you have purchased this app… let me know in the comments what you think of it. You can get Graviboard via the BigBoss source.

App Description:
Requires iOS4+

Turn on the gravity!

Graviboard is a tweak that brings gravity to the homescreen, and is guarenteed to amaze both you and your friends. When activated, all the icons on your homescreen will fall down (or up!) and the chaos will begin!

Use your finger to drag and fling icons!

Tilt your device and the icons follow!

Change the force of gravity – even to negative gravity.

No new icons are added to your homescreen. You can configure options from your Settings app.

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Available In: Cydia

Price: $2.99

Pull To Refresh For Mail – A “Must-Have” Hack

Brooke — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 02:44:56 +0000

Pull To Refresh For Mail is a super simple, totally ingenious hack. Like seriously… why doesn’t my iPhone already do this! As the title suggests, this hack adds the ability to “pull to refresh” in the stock Mail application. To use the hack you just pull your inbox list down past the search bar and your mail will automatically refresh. The app is activated automatically when you install it in Cydia. There is no icon or settings for this hack. To deactivate the hack, you would need to uninstall is in Cydia (or use SBSettings Mobile Substrate Addon feature)… but seriously why would you need to deactivate it! I had no issues when I tested the app and it has officially been added to my “must-have” list. The best part is that it’s free! You can get Pull To Refresh For Mail via the BigBoss source.

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Available In: Cydia

Price: Free

LockInfo Update – Fixes Crashing Problem

Brooke — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:50:14 +0000

LockInfo has received a quick update to version 2.3.9.0. The update will hopefully fix the issue that some people were having with their device locking up when using version 2.3.8.24 of LockInfo on iOS 4.2.1. I can’t test the fix since I’m not on 4.2.1 but, if you give it a shot, let us know in the comments if the update worked for you. I also want to thank David Ashman (the developer of LockInfo) for once again quickly updating his app… good job David!

2.3.9.0 Changelog:
Fixes freezing and crashing issues on some iDevices

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Available In: Cydia

Price: Free Trial then $7.99

No Page Dots – Easily Remove Page Dots

Brooke — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:21:24 +0000

No Page Dots is a very simple mod that completely removes the page dots at the bottom of the SpringBoard page. Once you install the app, it automatically removes the page dots… it does not add it into WinterBoard, add an icon to the SpringBoard or have any settings. The page dots stay removed even if you change your theme. To get the page dots back, just uninstall the app in Cydia. I didn’t have any issue when I was testing this mod. I was able to install and uninstall it without a problem! I think there are a few mods like this in Cydia but, this is the first one I have actually reviewed and it worked great. You can get No Page Dots via the BigBoss source.

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Available In: Cydia

Price: Free

LockInfo Update – iOS 4.2.1 Compatibility, Improvements and Bug Fixes

Brooke — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 20:09:07 +0000

LockInfo, a feature-packed lock screen mod, was updated to version 2.3.8.24. It is a pretty decent update that includes compatibility with iOS 4.2.1, improvements and few bug fixes (full changelog below). I like the improvements to the Mail app. I especially like that, since you are now able to click on links in mail messages on the lock screen, it asks for your password before opening them… good security. Sometime that gets over-looked. I also noticed that the app’s price is $7.99 instead of the previous $4.99. Because I had already purchased the app… I’m not sure if the price change occurred with this update or if it had already gone up. Anyway, LockInfo was updated and will now work with 4.2.1! YAY!… since it is one of my favorite lock screen mods!

2.3.8.24 Changelog:
    • Major improvements in Mail preview and update handling
    • Links now work in mail previews
    • iOS 4.2.1 compatibility
    • Improved calendar handling
    • Fixed issue with SMS app not opening if you an SMS
    • Fixed some issues with visibility setting not sticking
    • Other bug fixes

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Available In: Cydia

Price: Free Trial then $7.99

Sublime Lock HD – Clean, Easily Customizable Lock Screen

Brooke — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 03:39:49 +0000

Sublime Lock HD is a nicely designed lock screen mod. The mod displays the current time, date, temperature, weather conditions, twitter feed and has a decent amount of themes to choose from. What I love about this lock screen is that it is SUPER easy to customize… like seriously anyone can do it… there is no coding involved. Below are step-by-step instructions on how to install, activate and customize this lock screen.

Side Note: The instructions might look long but that is only because I explain every little step.

Instructions:
1. Install Sublim Lock HD from Cydia (it is in the BigBoss source).

2. Go into WinterBoard and activate SublimeLockHD.

3. Turn off any other lock screen mods… such as LockInfo.

4. Open Safari.

5. Type the following URL into Safari – file:///Library/Themes/SublimeLockHD.theme/setup.html

6. Set the URL as a bookmark. This is done by tapping the + icon at the bottom of Safari and selecting the “Add Bookmark” option.

7. In Safari, go to weather.yahoo.com and search for the weather you would like displayed on the lock screen. Example) St. Paul, MN

9. In Safari, open the bookmark for the theme settings that you created in step 6.

10. Choose your settings. This lock screen has a decent amount of settings including; the ability to choose a theme, clock format, temp unit, update times… etc.

11. Paste the number you copied from Yahoo Weather into the “Yahoo! Code” field.

12. Once you are finished customizing the lock screen, select “Save” at the bottom.

13. Your changes are now saved and will display on your lock screen.

Note: It may take a minute for your changes to take affect on the lock screen.

The only issue I have noticed with this mod is that when the time is 10:_ _ the time doesn’t fit correctly. The developer has been pretty good about updating this app so hopefully we will see an update that fixes this issue.