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How To Add Transparent Icons To iOS Home Screen Without Jailbreak

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Earlier, we discussed how it was possible to use custom icons for any app on iOS without jailbreaking. Well, in the words of Steve Jobs, there’s one more thing: adding blank, nearly transparent app icons to your iOS device home screen without jailbreaking. In case you're wondering why would anyone want to do this, there are design enthusiasts out there who want to be able to customize the way their devices look, and since iOS doesn't offer much customization options for the Springboard, one way to tweak things your way would be to use a custom wallpaper designed with to work with transparent icons on top of it to add the visual effect you want. Check out how you can go about pulling off this apparent wizardry after the jump. Read More

How To Change iOS App Icons Without Jailbreak [Guide]

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Apple's mobile operating system isn't exactly known or praised for offering users a lot of control. In fact it is notorious for being a walled garden, with Apple pretty much enforcing upon users what it thinks is right, and not giving them many options to tweak it to make it suit their individual needs best. Without jailbreak, iOS offers significantly limited customization when compared to Android; you can’t replace the keyboard, switch to a different launcher, customize app icons… or can you? Yes, we've come across a method that allows you to change the appearance of your app icons without fondling saurik’s beard! Check it out after the jump. Read More

Backup App Data, Rename Icons & Clear Badges From iPhone Home Screen

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Most of the times, we try to cover Cydia tweaks that offer a completely novel feature, but almost everything the new Icon Tool tweak is designed to perform can be done via other tweaks. There are plenty of ways of removing icon badges from iOS apps, backing up app data using various tools and clearing an app’s cache. With Icon Tool though, you get all these options in one tweak, and the best part is that you don’t have to navigate through complicated menus to perform these tasks either, as Icon Tool adds an easily accessible context menu of sorts to all icons present on your iPhone’s SpringBoard. Read More

Completely Personalize iOS App Icon Badges With Badge Customizer

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Before seeing Badge Customizer, a lot of people must have considered Boover as the ultimate tweak for making icon badges appear just they way they want. The new tweak, however, completely kills the competition, thanks to its great features and the kind of customization that can be done with complete ease. Thanks to Badge Customizer, owners of jailbroken iDevices can alter badge colors, change badge position on app icons, and even apply a tint of their choice to them. Tinkering with the size of icon badges is something that we haven't previously seen in any tweak of this kind, but Badge Customizer even offers this feature, letting you properly show off your newly revamped badges. Read More

Customize App Rows & Columns On iOS Home Screen, Dock & Folders With CustomGrid 2

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The need for Cydia tweaks to be updated for iOS 6 has provided many developers with a chance to improve upon their former releases, and users are getting to enjoy revamped versions of some really popular tweaks. People have been waiting for CustomGrid to become compatible with iOS 6 for quite a while now, and the tweak’s updated version has finally been released with some great new features. CustomGrid 2 lets you give a makeover to your iPhone’s SpringBoard, Dock, App Switcher tray and folders. For those of you who haven’t used the tweak before, CustomGrid offers amazingly detailed options to change the number of app icons that can be placed in different areas of iOS. You can also change other aspects of this display grid, and arrange your apps in precisely the way you want. Read More

Design & Apply Custom Folder Icons With Iconmancer For Windows

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Creating custom icons is not a new concept, and you can find a wide-array of icon creating apps for almost every computing platform out there. Though if you’re looking for something built specifically to create folder icons only, Iconmancer might be just what you're looking for. It is a feature-rich app for Windows that enables you to craft your own folder icons from scratch, embedded with images of your choice. It’s more than just an icon composer, actually; it also allows to share your creativity among other Icomancer users by uploading the icons to Icomancer marketplace. In addition, you can download a truckload of icons already uploaded by other users and apply them on the fly. More details after the jump! Read More

Quickly Arrange Desktop Icons To Any Edge & Lock Positions For All Resolutions

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Icon management is very important in order to keep your desktop clean and have quick access to your important shortcuts and files. The native desktop context menu of Windows provides you with some settings to change the size of icons, enable auto arrange and align to grid, and toggle the display of icons and gadgets. Even though these options are good enough for basic arrangement, they are nothing to write home about. Stardock's Fences is a well-known tool that allows you to manage your desktop icons by locking them inside separate zones. Another application known as Desktop Modify lets you rearrange desktop icons in over 77 different shapes, while DesktopSaver remembers the location of icons in separate profiles, automatically returning them to their original location if they are accidentally moved. Today, we bring to your another desktop management software called Fluid Icon Organizer that allows you to quickly arrange icons on all four sides of your desktop, sort them according to name, age and usage, and lock them into place. Read More

Apply Custom Icon Packs On Windows With One Click Using 7Conifier

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If you’re not convinced with the way your Windows 7 or Windows 8 taskbar and other system icons look, it’s time to step ahead and take a DIY approach to work on the cosmetics a little. Head over to Deviantart and you will find hundreds if not thousands of icon packages ready to be applied to rejuvenate your desktop and give it a fresher look. You can always try applications like Stardock’s Icon Packager, which replaces most of the system icon files with your desired ICO files. Then again, Icon Packager is a paid app. Freeware aficionados can rather lay their hands on 7Conifier instead. Even though, it’s not as feature-rich as the likes of Icon Packager, it handsomely suffice the job per se. The tool can replace Taskbar, Start Menu, Desktop and other system icons with custom icon packs. It comes with six icon packs out of the box, but should you need adding your own collection, you can do that too. Read More

Apply Filters & Effects To iOS Icons With Aicon

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There are a lot of themes available in the Cydia store that can be used to completely revamp the looks of your jailbroken iPhone or iPad. These themes, however, have one disadvantage: they change every aspect of your iOS device, and do not let users tinker with individual areas of the platform (not easily, at least). So, if you want to have complete control over your iDevice (and that’s exactly what jailbreak is for), then Aicon is a new cosmetic option you are sure to appreciate. This fresh Cydia app allows users to change the appearance of their Springboard icons in numerous ways. You don’t have to go through a lot of complicated steps to re-theme your icons, as the app has plenty of filters of its own. You can apply a new filter to all the icons with a single tap, and there is also the option to apply a combination of multiple filters simultaneously. Read More

AlwaysArrange: Reorder iOS Icons Without Entering Jiggle Mode [Cydia]

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iOS users must know that to rearrange the icons on their iPhone or iPad’s Springboard, they have to first enter jiggle mode by long-pressing any of the icons. This jiggle mode is active when all the Springboard and dock icons start vibrating, and the red uninstall cross appears over all third-party apps. The combination of the delete button and rearrangement of icons can prove to be a bit dangerous for some users, as you might end up removing an app when you were simply trying to move it. Won’t it be nice if it was somehow possible to move Springboard icons without having to enter jiggle mode? Well, as always, the Cydia store has the perfect solution to this problem. Meet AlwaysArrange, a new Cydia tweak that allows its users to reorganize their Springboard without having to enter wiggle mode. This means that the icons are always ready to be moved to any place you want. This does not mean that you will lose all control over your iPhone's Springboard, it is just that the tweak gives its users the option to select a custom time period that will be considered a long-press. Read More

SBUtility: All-in-one Cydia Tweak For Customizing iOS Home Screen, Icons, Folders & Lock Screen

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In the past, we have covered a lot of Cydia tweaks (and apps) that allow users to make a number of cosmetic changes to their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. When it comes to tweaks, most of them focus on altering one or two aspects of iOS at a time. You will be hard-pressed to find a Cydia tweak that can be used for the customization of various iOS aspects, unless you are talking about something like WinterBoard. That’s what makes SBUtility stand out among the rest of the Cydia crowd. This tweak allows its users to change almost everything regarding the looks of their iOS device, all in one place. The tweak offers options to customize app icons, folders, Springboard, dock and lockscreen. We are not talking about one option for each of these categories, either; SBUtility offers detailed customization possibilities for all these areas of iOS. Head past the break to know more about this awesome tweak. Read More

Transparency: Make App Icons Invisible & Remove Badges/ Labels [Cydia]

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Not every iOS app or Cydia tweak has to be there for productivity and usefulness, as if that were the case, the whole genre of Games won’t have existed. There are things other than games, however, which do not let you perform some really unique task on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, but still is pretty cool. We are, of course, talking about cosmetic tweaks and apps. If you have a jailbroken iDevice, then the level of customization you gain access to is amazing. It is possible for jailbroken users to customize just about any part of iOS, and that is exactly what Transparency is all about. The newly released Cydia tweak lets users change the appearance of the Springboard of their iPhone in ways which previously required a lot of different tweaks, or were too complicated for ordinary users to accomplish. Using Transparency you can render the app icons invisible, remove badges from them and customize even something as small as the shadows and reflections behind the icons. Read More

AccessMenuBarApps: Hide Menu Bar Items When Pressed For Space [Mac]

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If you’re someone who has transitioned from a Windows PC to a Mac, one of the many things you will appreciate is having a bar at the top and a dock at the bottom to house all your icons. When it comes to apps’ icons, both the menu bar and dock are precious real estate. While the menu bar is an easy access point for apps, you have to share it with app menus, and if you’re on a small screen, not all your icons will be visible. AccessMenuBarApps is a free Mac app that acts as a hider for app menus, letting you quickly hide and unhide menus either by a keyboard shortcut or a simple mouse gesture. Think of it as hiding unnecessary menus which you don’t need with a simple flick (or two) of the mouse. Read More

Remove Gmail’s New Icon-Based Toolbar & Bring Back Text Buttons [Tip]

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Google made a number of changes to Gmail, which included a modification to the toolbar above conversations, where the text was replaced with icons. While some people liked this change, others felt that the text allowed them to easily distinguish between the different buttons, and it was easier to identify each button’s functionality. Lots of people will be quite happy to know that Google has included a tiny feature in Gmail's settings, which allows you to switch back to the toolbar with text instead of icons. Users can either select the icon-based toolbar or switch back to text. So, all those who want to go back to the old style, simply change the options from the Settings and enjoy browsing Gmail. Read More

Screen DIY: Get Free Themes & Icon Skins For Non-Jailbroken iPhone

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Usually you can differentiate between a jailbroken and non-jailbroken iOS device by merely looking at its Springboard. The amount of theming capabilities on offer via the Cydia store is pretty impressive, and the major portion of updates in the jailbreak store consists of themes and other cosmetic stuff for your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. So, to quell the jealousy of all such iOS users who don’t have access to the Cydia store, there are many apps which can act as an alternative to applying custom themes to your iDevice. One such app is Screen DIY, which brings a lot of themes, icon skins and icon shelves to your non-jailbroken iDevice. Read More

IconRotator Adds Landscape Mode To iPhone & iPod touch Home Screen Icons [Cydia]

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If you've used or own both an iPad and an iPhone (or iPod touch), you might have, at times, felt the lack of landscape mode within the home screen of the latter. When you rotate an iPad, the icons adjust themselves to match the physical orientation of the screen, but as the iPhone has a smaller screen, Apple didn’t deem it necessary to add a landscape mode to its Springboard. One developer in the Cydia store, however, disagrees. Ryan Petrich has just released a new tweak by the name of IconRotator, which rotates the icons and folders on the Springboard of your iPhone or iPod touch according to the device's orientation. Read More

MenuBar ReArranger: Define An Order For Menu Bar Icons On Mac [Paid]

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Do you favor apps that will add icons to the menu bar as opposed to the Dock? If yes, then no doubt you save plenty of precious space on the Dock and trade it out for a little clutter on the menu bar. For many users this isn’t a bad trade off, but what can be a little annoying, to downright counter productive, is the order these app icons appear in. Every time you start your system, all apps that you've set to start at login rearrange themselves on the menu bar. It is makes it utterly pointless to remember which icon was where, and means you will need to take a good squint-eyed look at the menu bar each time you want to launch an app. MenuBar ReArranger is a very useful Mac app available for $4.99 in the Mac App Store that can solve this problem forever. The app does what you would expect to be native behavior in Mac (but isn’t), and lets you re-order the icons on the menu bar to suit your needs. Read More

Backdrop: Take Screenshots With Clean Desktop & Run Pixel Test [Mac]

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We recently covered Screenshot Helper, a Mac app that assists you in taking screenshots. Backdrop is a similar app that lets you choose any one color as the desktop background or any image. The image/color is superimposed on your desktop such that it hides all the icons. Additionally, the app also allows you to run a pixel test on your screen to identify dead/stuck pixels. For a user defined interval, the app fills the entire screen with red, green, blue, white and black colors are off. You can choose to keep the icons on your desktop and use the app to put a cleaner wallpaper on the desktop. The app can hide icons across multiple monitors by applying the background color or image you’ve chosen over all displays. Read More

3 Apps To Change Mac Desktop, Save Icon Layout & Add Second Menu Bar

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If you need a feature-rich image editor, or a really great app to edit and mash up videos, you wouldn’t normally go scourging for small apps, and you’d very likely be paying for what you need. For the bigger things you want to do on your Mac, there is a whole store full of them, but for smaller desktop managing needs, here are three apps that you might find useful. Secondbar lets you add a second menu bar to your Mac display, and you can extend it as a separate bar to a second monitor. The  bar can be dragged to any part of the screen, mirroring the original system menu bar in behavior. Desktop Icon Manager is a simple app that will memorize where you’ve positioned your icons, and will restore them to that point for you. Change Desktop is an app that lets you select several folders on your system, and display all images in them as wallpaper. The app expertly handles smaller photographs by complimenting the extra space with a color that brings the images out. More on these three after the break. Read More