Trapped in Time

I took  Forbin on an enjoyable two hour walk through Lincoln Park this evening.  I think it may have been the last night of the year in the 70’s (but perhaps not?).  Regardless, it felt great out!

Also, check out the new lock screen on my iPhone.  It’s hard to get my wallpaper when capturing the lock screen as it fades to the home screen, but with this nifty theme, a jailbroken iPhone can function much like Intelliscreen, by collaborating with the SystemNotifier application.

What you need:

- Jailbroke iPhone
- Winterboard Theme Manager (download in Cydia)
- SystemNotifier (download in Cydia)
- OpenSSH (download in Cydia)

Simply download the theme and unzip it, and using an FTP/SFTP client, connect to your iPhone’s IP address over your wifi network (user:root, pass:alpine).  Browse to the root directory, and click through to Library/Themes, drag and drop.  Then using the Winterboard theme manager, select the home screen menu.  Select what notifications you want via SystemNotifier, and you now have a much more functional lock screen available with one click.  It also doesn’t eat up battery life like Intelliscreen because it’s not an application running at all times.  Note that to utilize the weather function, you must add your city, state to the javascript file found in the theme package.  It’s really easy to do, no coding knowledge needed.

If you have an iPhone/iPod touch (1st generation) and are looking to get started, the iPhone Development Team has a very helpful tumblr in place to give you the tools to jailbreak and/or unlock your iPhone.  I had done it with my old first generation iPhone, but decided to add some more functionality and style to my 3G today.  All told it took about a half hour to jailbreak, add applications, and customize some themes.  It’s nice to have last.fm scrobbling straight from the iPhone, along with a plethora of other applications.