ActiveDock: new dock for iPhone-style OS X

ActiveDock - this exciting new development for jailbroken iPhone, which is preparing to be released in Cydia. Thanks to Jeff of iDB, we have the opportunity to get acquainted with this tweak today.

Many people know about Doc - toolbar, which is a key part of the graphical user interface of the operating system Mac OS X. It allows you to run programs on the implementation and switch between running tasks. Also, as in the mobile platform iOS, Doc plays the launcher (on Utilities applications) and contains icons most frequently used programs.

Two programmers Filippo Bigarella Surenix and decided to move some of the features of the OS X Dock for iPhone, realizing its development as a jailbreak-tweaks. The task was to make the bottom panel in iOS more alive and functional. So there ActiveDock.

The first thing that ActiveDock for iOS, - adds display of running applications from OS X. Any program in the dock, which is in the active mode, illuminated small icon at the bottom of the panel. The second feature of the new dock - behavior icons admission notices. Whenever an application is notified, the icon starts bouncing in the dock, indicating that the user has unread messages. Even if the iPhone has been blocked after the application icon, the screen will remind the owner to answer the missing "text message" or tweet.

The developers ActiveDock extensive experience in the creation of tweaks: Surenix is ​​the author of such well-known jailbreak-ons like Springtomize 2, Evasi0n and Ayecon, and Filippo Bigarella released LivelyIcons, CleverPin and PasswordPilot. Therefore, as an elaboration of the new tweaks and there is no doubt.

ActiveDock appear in Cydia soon. Download the novelty will be $ 1.99.

Endliss Smartcase: Case for iPhone 5, which would not approve of Steve Jobs

Owners of smartphones iPhone 5, which often switch devices to silent mode, but want to keep up with what's happening in the world around them, can purchase the original case called Endliss. This case not only protects your phone from outside influences, but also a built-in LED display on the rear of the chassis.

In the case study surface Endliss, connects to the phone via a wireless network Bluetooth, built-block colored LEDs (8 x 16), which visually shows what happens with a mobile phone by means of special symbols and patterns. For example, if you receive a message from Facebook on the cover lights up letter «F», and if it's on the iPhone email - icon writing. And if nothing is happening around, you can use the LED as a clock.

Endliss has its own battery capacity of 1500 mAh, which helps to extend the iPhone. The device will be available in different colors and sold for U.S. $79.95

Rather, Steve Jobs would not approve of this accessory. It is said that the inventor of the iPhone has always been against the LEDs on the smartphone Apple because he believed that as a device with a strict and stylish design is transformed into a Christmas tree.
 

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