Posted by on under iphone, taang, springboard, launcher, source code, butt | 
This one's not one of mine, but an app made by Zachary "zataang" Taanges really hit the spot. Using the
Dock 3.0 source code as a reference, Zach created a beautiful text-based app launcher called
QuickGold that runs right on top of SpringBoard.
It's available now in Cydia (hosted by
Shaun "Ste" Erickson).
This thing is great, just hit the Home button while already at the home screen and start typing what you want, then tap the result that matches. So fast (even faster than Dock)!
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Tagi: iphone, taang, springboard, launcher, source code, butt
Posted by on under accelerometer, iapp, apps, butt, day project |
Though 3rd party iPhone/ iPod Touch apps that simulate instruments are plentiful, ones that incorporate the devicesâ?? accelerometer are few. Drum, as the last application designed by Sean Heber for his iApp-a-Day project, needed to be innovative, but simple. Drum is both. It is not so much a normal: â??Push-the-button, hear-the-noiseâ?? instrument simulator like a [...]
Tagi: accelerometer, iapp, apps, butt, day project
Posted by planetbeing on under command line interface, candy thanks, boot menu, menu graphics, somee, eye candy, banging my head, working model, opti, bleeding edge, iboot, userland, gimp, grub, ibot, butt |
Well, that was quick. See, I can actually get things done pretty quickly when it doesn't consisting of banging my head against machine code until it starts making sense. When I actually have the drivers, things like this are easy.
You can use the Hold button to toggle between the menu items (and the option will be highlighted). You can choose the home button to select it. The "openiboot console" option takes you to the command-line interface similar to the one I demonstrated in the last post (you do have to be plugged in via USB and using the openiboot client to talk to it). The "iPhone OS" option chainloads a copy of iBoot stored in NOR under another identifier ('ibot' becomes openiboot and 'ibox' becomes the actual iBoot). I got that set up with a slightly modified version of the QuickPwn ramdisk, but in the future an installer made from a modified version of LogoMe can be run from userland to install openiboot. It's also possible to get openiboot to install openiboot (much like the way GRUB can do it); I'll probably work on that next.
So if anyone likes living on the bleeding edge, they could do that. =P
Most of the hard part was me failing at GIMP putting together the boot menu graphics. I appealed to you blog readers for graphics before, but basically no one responded. Now that there is a working model of what I sort of want, I hope there will be more of a response.
So,
please please please redesign the boot menu for me. And possibly come up with a logo for the project we can stick on there. If you're good at this sort of thing, or know someone who is, please put them in touch. This stuff will obviously get a lot of attention in the future and we need nice eye-candy. Thanks!
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Posted by planetbeing on under e mail address, usb serial cable, slush fund, sparkfun, th project, iphe, paypal address, coue, piz, mths, media sources, mth, binge, pumpkin, late night, datis, butt, donations, bas |
A couple of people asked for a donate button of some sort. I hesitate because of the sudden complexity of things when money is involved. Here is what I think would be best:
- Donate your time and skills if you can rather than money.
- If you cannot do so, please consider sponsoring something we could directly use: Such as a USB serial cable (about $45 for parts from Sparkfun), or perhaps upgrading the Slicehost slice we're borrowing from pumpkin ($60 per month, though it would only be useful if we could get enough money for at least six months), used or broken devices for testing, etc. Or something like a pizza for one of our contributors on a late night hacking binge (we will distribute food donations on a round-robin basis =P)
- My paypal address is my gmail e-mail address (planetbeing). If you do make a donation, please specify exactly what it is for. A gigantic slush fund is something that I wish to avoid.
For the record, contrary to what was published by some media sources, the iphonelinux group is not associated with the group commonly known as the "iPhone Dev Team". I'm a member of the Dev Team, and other members sometimes lends assistance or advice, but this is an entirely separate project. The Dev Team does not accept any donations whereas this project tentatively will.
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Posted by on under category names, repositories, repository, butt, regard, fi |
Another week passes with another update to our lightweight installer application
Icy.
What's new?
- Ability to hide categories you don't need.
- Category names are now localizable.
- Icy will now auto-refresh sources if it is on Wi-Fi and didn't refresh in past hour.
- Various GUI fixes in regard to Installed/Updates section.
- Fixed a script issue causing some package not to be installed.
- Add email maintainer button for the console error log sheet to quickly report on errors.
- Fixed sources refresh so stalled repositories won't affect others.
- Added Polish localization.
- Added Chinese localizations.
- Other fixes.
Next step -- dependencies view. Enjoy!
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