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The Nullriver iPhone Installer application is an ingenious piece of coding. It basically allows you to modify your iPhone and add different applications natively on the iPhone’s filesystem – forget those web-apps.
But, what do we do about the limited iPhone homescreen real estate? Well, if you’re keen on Installer.app, then you’ll be happy to know that a new application will allow you to scroll your homescreen to show all of your natively installed iPhone application icons – SummerBoard.
SummerBoard is basically a hack/overlay on top of the iPhone’s SpringBoard (get it?) launcher/homescreen system. You can find it through Installer.app and will install in seconds (it’s only a handful of kilobytes big). Some have reported problems with the installation, but we found the beta to work flawlessly – on the first try and without incident. It can be used in conjunction with the newly updated Dock 2.0 application to give you incredible flexibility in terms of application access and icon aesthetics.
Oh, and it enables a background image on your homescreen (the same image that you use as your wallpaper).
Check out this video demo and then get to that Installer.app and give Dock 2.0 a go. You’ll be impressed, we promise.
About The Author
Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
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