Maddie

Hello, today I'm doing a little review of Maddie by @tvdMD. Maddie is a icon based theme with a great look and vibe surrounding the design of some of the icons, with this theme you'll get a great mixture of shadowing and great little splashes of colour. 

You will get all Apple stock icons themed as well as some Cydia icons and AppStore icons. Icons like the photo app icon are very bright with lots of different colours all blending together perfectly, I've said it before and I'll say it again "it's great to have nice bright icons rich in colour" and @tvdMD has mangaged to pull this off remarkebly. 

At the moment there is no UI for the theme but the Dev is concentrating on icons for the moment and intends to add UI as and where he can. There is 2 more versions of Maddie available in Cydia, Maddie Pink & Maddie PM. Maddie Pink is definitely one for the ladies and you'll notice little things like the TweetBot icons has a little pink bow on the top corner a bit like Hello Kitty which will please the ladies, the PM version will suit all you "dark" theme lovers out there but still keeps the splashes of colour but just not as much as the normal Maddie.

All 3 Maddie themes will be updated regularly to add more icons and elements to the theme, it does come with a couple of Iconomatics to choose from. Check out the shots below to see what I'm talking about. It's available in Cydia now and you get the 3 for the price of 1. Enjoy. 

(Dock and widget not part of theme) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ceres

I'm pleased to be bringing you a review of Ceres from one of my favourite Devs @Cjmann1ng. This is Cj's first theme since Gliese, which was a massive hit in the Jailbreak community. Ceres has all the characteristics of a Cj theme, which lets face it we wouldn't want it any other way. 

Ceres is a white based theme but with lots of vibrant colours perfectly added to bring a beautifully balanced blend of  white and colour, yet it manages to keep a fun filled feel to it to make sure it doesn't come off as a majorly serious "all about design" theme and keeps true to Cjs design style which is always a well balanced level of design, fun and great user experience, which has always been something I've enjoyed about Cjs themes as it means no matter what sort of mood you are in Ceres will always cater for your needs, especially on a Monday morning (lol). I don't think I've come across a theme that has a white base yet big splashes of colour and yet be so perfectly balanced and  Cjs pulled it off spectacularly. Ceres has been a long time in the making and it's been well worth the wait if I'm perfectly honest, I think Cj even completely remade the icons at one point and he brought us a little masterpiece here.

After installing from Cydia you will find more than enough elements to give you full control of how your springboard will look, from a massive amount of ClassicBadges to a large selection of docks, my personal favourite is the new wooden dock, which as it says in title is wooden yet has a thin white line that lays horizontally at the back of the dock, yet you will find black docks, white docks and some of the old favourite wood docks. 

All settings icons are themed which just looks fantastic and adds a bit of vibrancy to the settings panel. You get a lot of icons themed with Ceres and that is what we've come to expect from Cj and he will do his best to fulfil all icons requested.

 

A new version of Ceres is also available now, the new version is named Ceres Dusk. Ceres Dusk adds a nice darkened feel and look to the icons yet doesn't lose its fun appeal to it, check out the shots below of Dusk and I think you'll agree it looks amazing and is a fantastic addition to this great all rounder.   

Ceres is available now in the Cydia store and can be found in the featured section of themes along with Cjs other themes, Gliese and T1tan. You can be assured that Ceres will be updated regularly as with all of Cjs themes. The iWidget used in the screenshots is the Gliese silly widget. As I said it's in Cydia now so go grab your copy now and check out the screenshots below. Purchase this theme in the correct way.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shiro Gold Edition.

Today I'm pleased to be back and reviewing the new theme by @yuki.o7. Shiro Gold Edition is yuki's newest venture, you may be thinking "I've heard of Shiro before" and you'd be right thinking that, but the name is where the similarities end as the Gold Edition is a complete rebuild, and what a rebuild it is. It's got a fantastic glitzy and sparkly look about the design, yet manages to keep a clean and fresh look in the icons without being over zealous in its design and having too much going on in each icon design.

 My first impressions so far have been higher than what I had first anticipated, this theme is the first theme I've had installed that has had each icon themed over the first 2 pages of my springboard, including icons to which are in folders, that's pretty impressive as far as I'm concerned, all AppStore apps and many Cydia  apps all have their own design. Great stuff so far. 

This is yuki's first theme since circly (to which you can find a review on my blog) and it's great to see he hasn't lost any of his design flair. This theme is clean, glitzy and very regal. Yuki's level of theme making continues to grow with each release, I'm made up that he decided to regenerate the Shiro name as it's always had a good rep for being of very high quality and once you install this theme and activate it in Winterboard you'll see exactly what I'm on about. 

Don't be alarmed when you look in Winterboard and only see 1 element available, as that 1 element covers the main Theme, settings icons, ClassicBadges and of course ClassicDock. The ClassicBadges are a beautiful shade of light gold with white numerals and the ClassicDock is superb as it adds a real touch of major class to the dock to compliment the theme beautifully. A lot of people have attempted to pull off a gold theme and in my opinion only 2 Devs have pulled it off and @yuki.o7 is definitely one of them. 

I've been using this theme for a few days now and it just works beautifully for day to day stuff, and really does set well against a white iPhone, it looks slick and understated on my 6+ and it's definitely one I will continue to use for a long time to come. This theme is also iPad compatible and iPad users you will find a element called "Shiro Gold Edition iPad Essentials" in Winterboard and that will give your iPad "a glitzy yet clean" look. Check out the screenshots below for more info. It's in Cydia now so go get it, and remember to purchase it in the correct manner. 

(Widget not included in theme)