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Customize your iPhone

I’ve been enam­ored with my iPhone since stand­ing in line for it back on June 29th. It’s the only thing I’ve ever waited in line for (not even con­cert tick­ets or an Xbox360) and so far I’ve been thrilled with it—it’s the sin­gle coolest item I’ve ever owned.

Of course, that doesn’t mean I didn’t dive into hack­ing and cus­tomiz­ing it the minute var­i­ous 3rd-party options became avail­able, and now with Null­river Software’s excel­lent AppTapp/Installer.app (cur­rently an unsup­ported beta for OS X and XP/Vista), there’s no rea­son why any­one shouldn’t start play­ing (well, other than the pos­si­bil­ity of some­how ruin­ing your iPhone and maybe void­ing the war­ranty in the process—standard dis­claimers apply from this point on; you have been warned).

Tuto­ri­als in this series

If you already have the required soft­ware installed (see below), you can jump directly to each arti­cle as it becomes avail­able (this list may expand as more options become available):

What you’ll need

To play along at home, you’ll need a few things before we begin:

Each tuto­r­ial will also list any other soft­ware needed to com­plete the steps, but you’ll need the items above no mat­ter what.

Do you like to “do it yourself”?

I’m not really describ­ing any­thing ground­break­ing in these how-to’s, so if you want to just dive in and learn every­thing there is to know, the iPhoneAt­las list of native appli­ca­tions is a great place to start.

Add your suggestions

As always, if you have any tips, tricks or links that will add to the expe­ri­ence, post a com­ment on the appro­pri­ate tuto­r­ial (or this entry if it’s more gen­eral info).

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Monday, September 10th, 2007.

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6 comments on “Customize your iPhone”

  1. Posted by Jeff on Tuesday, September 11th, 2007.

    Wel­come back to blogging :)

    I’mm’a keep this book marked for when I get my iphone. How­ever, as I’m mov­ing to swe­den, I think I’ll wait till that rumored 3G/16gb ver­sion comes out :D

  2. Posted by Aaron Alexander on Thursday, September 13th, 2007.

    I’ve been look­ing every­where for a sim­ple way to install MobileTwit­ter­rific with no luck. What did you use to install it?

  3. Posted by Dan Rubin on Friday, September 14th, 2007.

    @Aaron: It was avail­able through Installer.app for a short while, but appears to have been removed. The ver­sion I’m run­ning can barely be called an alpha, and a new ver­sion will be avail­able shortly (accord­ing to Twitterrific’s devel­oper, Craig Hock­en­berry), so you won’t have to wait much longer.

  4. Posted by Jay Runquist on Friday, September 14th, 2007.

    Where do you find the iPhone icons to cre­ate the reflec­tions? I switched the four icons in my “dock” and want the right icon reflec­tions down there. Thanks! Great posts!!

  5. Posted by Dan Rubin on Friday, September 14th, 2007.

    @Jay: The eas­i­est way is to install “Dock” (a 3rd party appli­ca­tion launcher for the iPhone) from Installer.app. Once installed, a small sun­burst appears in the very bottom-right cor­ner of the iPhone’s screen. Touch that sun­burst and drag towards the cen­ter of the screen to acti­vate the list of appli­ca­tions, and all the way at the top-right of the list you’ll see “Screenshot”.

    When you take a screen­shot, the image is placed in your camera’s default album, and can then be emailed or imported into iPhoto on your next sync. Take a screen­shot of your home screen, and then you can select, iso­late, flip and change the trans­parency on your cus­tom icons.

  6. Posted by kappu on Wednesday, November 14th, 2007.

    hi i have ver1.0.2 i phone and want to install sum­mer­board in sim­ple way .any­one give me help..thank,s