Here are some small but useful additions to the UIColor class in UIKit.

This is what it does:

• Adds a method to get a color from a Hex string (with either this #FFFFFF or this FFFFFF format).
• Adds a method to get a color from an Hex string with custom alpha value.
• Adds a method to get a color from a selector string.

Here’s the download:

File: UIColor Additions (1.95KB) added: 19/03/2010

Turns out, you can edit the “Slide to Unlock” and “Slide to Answer” strings easily, but I didn’t find a way to get rid of the “Slide to view” that shows when a push notification arrives.

So I made this small Mobile Substrate extension that just doesn’t create that label.

It’s really small and doesn’t allocate any extra objects. It even avoids the OS to allocate one.

To install, just download the dylib and put it in /Library/MobileSubstrate/DynamicLibraries/ and set permissions to 755.

The source code is also available, it was made with Skylar’s template. And you’ll need the Springboard and mobile substrate headers to compile it.

Downloads:

File: NoSlideText.dylib (15.17KB) added: 15/03/2010

File: NoSlideText Source (18.33KB) added: 15/03/2010

This is what the update includes:

• Greatly improved theming system: Themes are now stored in a different folder and you can preview and apply them on the app itself. For more about themes, go here.
• Bug report mail form inside the app.
• Some extra settings.
• Bugfixes

What was left out:

• Podcasts, Audiobooks and Genres were left out until the next version. The reason: adding them with the current system would be painful, and so the menu system  is going through a rewrite to be a lot more flexible and faster.

Enjoy!

If you don’t know what iClassic is, you can look here.

Now, a little something you should know: to avoid any legal action against us, we had to make some changes on how iClassic looks. However, we made sure it was easily themeable (the images you need to theme are 5), so users can submit their themes to Cydia to customize the look of the app (There might be a couple, already).

Eventually, the support for themes will be a lot better, and I’ll add a guide on how to make them.

So, head to Cydia with your Pay Pal account and get it, it’s only 2 bucks!

Some cool stats:

• Since we made it public, the iClassic page of this website has gotten 2600+ visits.
• The average visits to this blog was multiplied by 20.
• My twitter follower count went from 33 to 102.
• The app has been featured in more than 15+ different sites (it’s not easy to count because not all of them are linking to us)
• Our thread in iPodTouchFans.com has more than 16 000 visits and over 200 replies.

EDIT: The app is available on Cydia now. (Yay!)

Compared to the hype iClassic has generated, this app probably doesn’t mean a lot, but it’s my very first public app, so I do care for it .

Anyway, I updated it a little bit, adding an “interface”.

About a week ago, I bought a car stand for my iPhone, and an iTrip that does charge it, and I started using it a lot, but using the iPod.app, then I realized that it would be cool if I could keep the interface (big artwork, mostly) but use swipes instead of buttons, and I also realized it’d be REALLY easy.

So I opened Interface Builder and I started to “drag n’ drop” (I’m still not a fan of IB). Made the connections (almost too easy), and done, it now has some basic track info.

I also added a volume bar, and a button to select the music you want to hear.

Here’s a screenshot:

All you have to do is to put the 57×57 icon above the mask icon (exact coordinates are 29.5, 28.5), create a clipping mask, and choose if you want the shine to show or not, and done.

Download

File: Icon Effects (11.88KB) added: 26/10/2009

Here’s the changelog:

• Added Settings:
• Volume sensitivity settings. Depending on this value, the volume will go up faster/slower when you slide your finger up and down.
• Turn on/off volume and next/prev gestures. If you don’t use some of them, just disable them.
• Invert left/right. Hope it’s clear enough.

Here’s what I plan to add:

• Invert up/down
• Song info.
• Next/Prev sensitivity.
• and everything else I’ve said I wanted to add.

Download:

File: Swipe Controls 1.2 Deb (35.69KB) added: 01/09/2009

File: Swipe Controls 1.2 IPA (18.24KB) added: 01/09/2009

Check THIS if you don’t know what Swipe Controls is!

Since the release of 3.0 I’ve missed Skylar’s Pocket Touch, and with the new Media Player frameworks, I realized it would be easy to make my own version of it.

I don’t plan on making this app really big, don’t expect a shocking UI or anything (my concept of the app is that it should go into the pocket right after it is launched), if you want more, you should get Skylar’s Pocket Touch when it makes it to the AppStore.

What I do plan is to add options to enable/disable different gestures, show current song name and artist, dim the backlight (maybe), and other things.

Also, if anybody can make a nice icon, it would be greatly appreciated, and you would be credited.

And finally, thanks a lot to iPTFf’s Bamhm182 for compiling it for me in ARM binary form.

Anyway, here’s the download:

File: Swipe Controls 1.0 IPA (13.61KB) added: 24/08/2009

File: Swipe Controls 1.0 Deb (12.69KB) added: 26/08/2009

Please use the Contact Me form at the top for suggestions, complains, feedback,  jokes, and anything clever you can think of.

Usage:

• Swipe left – Prev. song
• Swipe right – Next song
• Swipe up – Volume up
• Swipe down – volume down
• Double tap – Play/Pause

Install Instructions:

Deb:

Put it in your iDevice, and execute the next command on the same folder where it is. Please note that you need to use sudo or su to get root access before executing the command:

IPA:

You can install it with iTunes with a simple double click on it, as long as you have a jailbroken iDevice and a patched Mobile Installation file (google that if you don’t have it).

Please note that you also need at least 3.0 Firmware, regardless of the install method you chose.

Lockdown Toggle [Currently not working on OS 3.0, though it shouldn't break anything]

This will enable and disable the lock on the apps. When on, if you tap on a locked app, it will ask for a password. When off, when you tap on a locked app, it will open right away.

I’m working on an update that asks for the lockdown password when you try to disable it.

File: Lockdown Toggle 1.1 (3.99KB) added: 15/06/2009

Time View Toggle

This will simply show a window with the current time and date. I made it because I didn’t want to have the time in my StatusBar, but I still wanted to be able to see the date and time.

File: Time and Date Widget (6.66KB) added: 16/06/2009

How to install.

To install, just make two folders.

/var/mobile/Library/SBSettings/Toggle/HERE
/var/mobile/Library/SBSettings/Themes/YourTheme/HERE

Put Toggle.dylib in the first folder with the name you want your toggle to have.

Make two images, one for on and off, called on.png and off.png, out of the glyphs in the zip files and the template of your theme, and put those two files in the second folder.

Set permissions to 755 to everything and respring.

Source Code for this will be in the next post!

For any bugs/problems, use the Contact Me form at the top of the page.