As part of my ongoing foray into the iPhone jailbreaking underworld, I’m stumbling across all sorts of amazing apps, some very useful, some just plain fun. A commenter on my personal blog tonight referred me to one such jailbreak app called Lock Calendar.
As the name suggests, Lock Calendar adds an overlay to your lock screen that displays your upcoming calendar events. The dates, times, event title, and locations are clearly shown as you can see from the screen shot above. This makes seeing what you have coming up as quick as pressing the home button to turn on your iPhone’s screen.
This is a feature I used to have on my Windows Mobile phones from years past, and never knew how much I missed it until getting my original iPhone in 2007. Since I basically live in my calendar during the work week, having quick access to my upcoming events is key to my productivity.
Lock Calendar adds a settings pane within the main Settings app, and provides quite a bit of customization, including choosing which calendars to display events from, the maximum number of events, the layout of the screen, and more.
Lock Calendar uses very little memory doesn’t seem to be causing any negative effects to my iPhone. I’m very glad to have been directed to this app, and I certainly recommend it to other jailbreakers as well, if you’re not currently using another lock screen utility.
Lock Calendar can be found in the Cydia Store in the BigBoss repository.
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TAGS: calendar, iPhone jailbreak apps, lock screen, Productivity
