Tag Archives: home screen

Eight takes on what to do with your last iPhone home screen

by on February 26th, 2010 at 8:58 am

The last home screen: what do you use it for? Depending on how many apps you have installed and how you have them organized, the last home screen can be a simple three swipes away, or a very long “are we there yet” 10 swipes away from your first one. …

Sprintboard: free minimalist iPhone mod for quickly selecting a home screen [Jailbreak App...

by on February 7th, 2010 at 4:58 pm

Here’s a free jailbreak mod you might want to check out if you’re tired of swiping through one home screen at a time. Sprintboard lets you swipe over the dotted area (right above your dock icons) to skip to any home screen you want. As developer Zmaster states, it’s a …

How does my iPhone Homescreen Stack up?

by on November 5th, 2009 at 1:21 pm

[This setup requires jailbreak] Two nights ago I decided that my method of hiding unused icons and accessing them by Spotlight was just far too clumsy. Yes, it looked clean from the outside, but uninstalling was a real pain in the apps. I’d have to load SBSettings, un-hide the icon, …

What Does Your Home Screen Say About You?

by on October 18th, 2009 at 11:28 am

Sharing Home screens seems to have become all the rage recently, whether it ‘s the type of innovative layout available to jailbreakers using the likes of Orbit or Pogoplank, as showcased on this site recently, or the likes of Appsfire, which allows people such as Robert Scoble or our very …

The Battle of the Home Screen (dramatic cleanup of my iPhone)

by on October 15th, 2009 at 4:58 pm

Having recently broken out of jail during the night of blackra1n, I was quite surprised to see how many icons lay idly upon my home screen. As I swiped past the first, second, third, and fourth page of applications, I became more and more unsettled by all the icons in …

Quick Look: Facebook 3.0 for iPhone

by on August 28th, 2009 at 9:36 am

The highly anticipated (well, for Facebook users, anyway) update to the Facebook iPhone app was released yesterday, and it’s a pretty major change. It looks like a whole different application, and the general design approach seems to be to make the whole Facebook experience more iPhone-esque. That means more icon-based …