Feb 7, 2009 by Umesh
Enhancing iPhone Dock and Theming
Look at some of the following screen shot:
Did you notice somehting? This screenshot has 5 docked icons not default Apple’s 4. That indeed is useful. Now look at the following:
A completely different looking iPhone springboard.
Now look at the following:
I completely different looking iPhone keyboard:
And no these are not photoshopped images of iPhone. These are actual screenshots. Apple ofcourse will never want you to change look and feel of their applications. The are control freaks when it comes to their applications and control every apsect of it. But some of us want to put our individual stamp on the device we paid for and own. We want our devices to stand out from the crowd. It is not about being better than Apple’s UI designers. It is about having control over the device we love and paid for.
Thanks to Saurik here comes the Winterboard which makes this possible.Winterboard is a complete theming engine for iPhone and iPod touch which lets you control every aspect of the user interface of your iphone including dock, sounds, keyboard, icons, transparancy, etc. 10s of themes are freely available for you to choose from.
If you have Jailbroken your iPhone as suggested in the previous post, installing Winterboard become a trivial exercise. As always backup iPhone using iTune. Launch Cydia and search for WinterBoard and install it.
Cydia also provide a host of various themes for Winterboard. Choose the themes you will like to try out and install them. Launch the Winterboard application and configure what you want. To use the 5 icons springboard, as usual press and hold one of the icons and than move desired items to the dock and you will now have 5 icons on the springboard.
Happy Theming.