It’s Just Poison…

• @dannorris install OID and watch that double. 5 gb for an LDAP… Lame. #
• Chipotle is the shizit! #
• @t3chdzyn word #
• I just got an email from Apple letting me know that MobileMe is now available to join… a tad late doncha think? #

Now that the new iPhone has been jailbroken, I’ve been messing around with all the images and icon, trying to customize the hell out of it. The first thing that I found out how to change was the background image for the dock (that metallic looking thing). The next thing that I learned was how to change individual application icons. (Within each app is a file ‘icon.png’, you just edit that)

Well, I came up with a new way to use the dock. I made all the app icons that are store in the dock blank PNG files (essentially no icon), and then made the background file one image with a bunch of stuff going on. All the notifications still appear where the icons were, and so do the text labels. For the text, I just made a black bar at the bottom faded out so that the text could be read.

Here’s a screen shot so you can see what I mean. My Apps at the bottom are: Phone, SMS, Safari, Mail.

I’m sure you could come up with a lot cooler ideas with this, but it should get the ball rolling =)

.: Adam

Have you been fucking around with your new iPhone and modding the hell out of it? Making your own graphics, hacking the apps, or seeing what happens when you edit a text file? Well, if you’re like me, you’re so eager to mess around that you forget to make a backup of something, and you overwrite it… with a bad file. SHIT! Now what? You could restore the iPhone from iTunes with the legit restore, or your custom IPSW file, but that takes forever, and you’ll loose a ton of your customizations. After having this happen to me twice, I decided to calm down and figure something out.

If you’ve downloaded the iPhone 2.0 SDK, it comes with a cool app called ‘iPhone Simulator’. In there are all the original files (even the encrypted PNG’s =)

The default install location is:

/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator2.0.sdk/

That’s the equivalent of root “/” on your iPhone. From there you can grab the originals and overwrite what you messed up on the phone =)

.: Adam

You know the little slider blocks with the arrows on them on the iPhone? The most common is the one you slide to unlock the phone. I’m going to show you how to make your own custom ones =).

PreReq: Jailbroken iPhone v2.0 (May work on older versions, no clue. I only have a 2.0 iPhone 3g)

PreReq: OpenSSH installed and setup (Use Cydia… has a great set of setup instructions once it’s installed)

Download This Slider PSD Template and use it to make your own sliders. There’s a couple layers in there to help you out for the sizes, tints, and such.

The one on the lock page is called: bottombarknobgray.png
The one on the lock page during Sync is: bottombarknobgreen.png
The one that’s used to turn off the phone is: bottombarknobred.png

When you save them, make sure you save them as 24-bit alpha PNG files. You can just do the Save For Web tool and select the preset.

Now you have to upload them to your phone via SSH here:
(You can get the IP from either the network setup in Settings, or what I do is open the Terminal app and run ‘ifconfig’ =)

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/TelephonyUI.framework/bottombarknobgray.png
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/TelephonyUI.framework/bottombarknobred.png
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/TelephonyUI.framework/bottombarknobgreen.png

Reboot your phone (Hold Lock and Home buttons for around 10 sec to turn off / Hold Lock button to turn on).

You’re done and have some fancy new sliders =)

.: Adam