Winterboarder is a theme repository for the Cydia installer that many people with jailbroken Iphones greatly enjoy. After the purchase of my apple Iphone I quickly came to the realisation that I cannot customise my phone without paying the apple people an arm and a leg for crappy wallpapers or ring tones. When it comes to colors for the user interface, icons for apps, batteries, lock screens, forget about it. I started googleing for how is possible to do it and came across this program QuickPwn that modifies some files in your Iphone so apps can be installed without going through App Store or Itunes. The program that I use is Cydia which I find very well made and useful. Thanks Saurik!!
Saurik, the maker of Cydia also made an app called Winterboard which enables people to manage themes and customize their Iphone the way they see fit. Well I searched and installed a lot of themes, buttons, wallpapers but the available content for winterboard is lacking. There are just a few well made complete themes is a sea of half ass content made by people that have no artistic inclination whatsoever. Since I’m a graphic designer the decision to make my own came fairly easy, but I hit a wall since I have no clue when it comes to making themes and hosting a repository to distribute them. It took about 2 months to familiarize myself with this and how to use Debian. God I hate linux so much, …you gotta be a genius just to install flash player.
I’ve decided to make my themes so that when you install one, they will be aesthetically pleasing and have the same color scheme as much as possible. This is really hard to get since most of the apps you have in the Iphone use some graphics independent from the phone user interface. If your app doesn’t look like the rest of the phone that means I didn’t add it to the theme folder because it’s almost impossible to do them all. There are thousands of apps available for Iphone and IPodTouch and if someone need one added to the theme let me know.
For the people that didn’t jailbreak their phone yet, I’ve made a “how to” section that deals with jailbreaking your phone, installing Cydia, Winterboard and using Winterboard. I hope you will free your phone from apples clutches and enjoy my themes.
If anyone wants to share a theme with the world I’ll host it for free, but keep in mind it has to be of the highest quality possible. This means a full and total change of the iphone interface, not just a wallpaper and a bunch of icons. Contact me if you got what it takes.
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