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) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flatish

Today I'm delighted to be bringing you a review of the wonderful theme Flatish by @jokerg7. This is his 5th theme and comes straight off the back of the success of 1Con. As you've probably guessed from the name Flatish is a flat styled theme, but with a twist as the base of the icons are flat yet the designs on the base are far from "flat". 

Each design is made to give you not only the 3D effect of individual icons but great details of depth and shadowing around every single icon, so to call this theme the same as a flat theme would be a totally innaccurate description of this theme. Joker has definitely shown that he's got a great versatile skill in making themes, none of his themes look the same and this is a great example of that. 

I've had great fun using this theme as it's not only colourful and a fun theme that you could use everyday and not get tired of it and you will always notice different things about this wonderfully fun theme, I think it's important that a theme should be a joy to use and to look at everyday as some themes can wear thin in its ability to totally hook you on it. And if you can pull that off like Joker has done here then your theme will be a success and I know this theme will totally grab you and not let you go, it's already getting great feedback on Twitter. 

Let's get down to what you get from this theme, as it's only just been released for now you'll get a great Iconomatic that will give a shadow underneath the icons and you'll get all settings icons themed including a range of tweaks settings icons, also a iWidget is available which is a Time Of Day widget, and it's again a really fun widget that gives you a neat picture in the style of the theme, that includes a picture of a plane flying in the clouds and at night a rocket flying by the moon, another great addition to this theme.

 As we all know developers are changing the names of icons all the time but Joker will update the theme as they are. All stock icons are themed except the pesky newsstand and clock icons, but a large number of icons are themed. 

The great thing about this theme also is that it's compatible with "All" Retina devices so all you iPad owners will now be able to rock your iPad like all the iPhone owners can, and that's also important if you want your theme to be a big success as this way Joker has been able to make this theme available to a larger number of users and Jailbreak fans like myself as I feel that iPads are sort of left behind by developers. 

This theme is available in Cydia now and you can find it in the featured theme section of Cydia, so get it now and make sure you purchase it in the correct way, check out the screenshots below. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

miWeather8 Forecast

Today I bring you a review of miWeather8 by @JunesiPhone. As we all know June is the brains behind some of the best Lockbuilders and Lockscreens available to us all within the Jailbreak community, this great versatile Lockscreen tool uses GroovyLock to run it unlike LockBuilderEvo which uses Cydget (yet a GroovyLock LockBuilderEvo was available in iOS 7). 

You won't get the same level of customisation as you did with LockBuilderEvo, but that is not a reason to ignore this great tweak as you can still customise this tweak, whether it's a range of options for weather to the Cataracs clock which is a box that has the time inside it and you can change the levels of transparency, you can change font style and colour and the usual like temp and conditions and the ability to change your wallpaper.

 Whilst GroovyLock is awaiting it's imminent update you are required to respring your device after changing wallpaper or settings. If your a fan of being able to customise your LockScreen or you are a fan of LockBuilderEvo then this is definitely a tweak for you. This tweak runs so smoothly on your iPhone and I've had great pleasure using this tweak and let's face it, if you enjoy using something like this and find its usability as great as I did then the Dev has done a great job, this is yet another example of June's competence and skill at coding great tweaks like this. 

When you've chosen your desired set up then you'll be greeted by your wallpaper and to each side of the screen you will find a tiny arrow, if you tap on the one on the right you'll have a weather forecast slide into the screen from the right, and coming in the update is a calendar also which I've had the pleasure of testing and its a great addition to miWeather Forecast, and if you press the arrow on left you'll have a circle which displays your battery and memory come in from left of screen and 3 toggles underneath 1) WiFi toggle 2) Bluetooth toggle 3) Location Toggle. 

This great LockScreen tweak is in Cydia now and is free if you purchased miWeather8. Go grab your copy now, and as always please support your Dev by purchasing in the correct way. This isn't the last tweak we will see from June I'm sure, also check out June's great website JunesiPhone.com for all your Jailbreak answers. Please check out the screenshots below. 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Swee7

Today I bring you a review of Swee7 by @iOS_writer. This theme is how themes used to be, it's got a great iOS 5/6 style to it which I love, themes that have a fun design and don't take themselves seriously. Whether it's the stock icons or AppStore icons each one is individually designed to make the user experience fun and a pleasure to look at. Throughout this theme you'll find great UI touches too, from the ControlCentre to the UI loaders and even some UI tweaks to the Cydia pages in the tabs and even the icons next to each package in Cydia is themed too. With this theme you'll get an iWidget, classicbadges and an Iconomatic by @ATT_57 which just softens the look of the icons and a gentle shadow underneath them. This theme has recently been updated to work on iOS 8 as well as iOS 7. The colourkeyboard works on iOS 7 but the tweak hasn't been updated for iOS 8, but you can get apps to change colour and style from AppStore so that doesn't matter. This theme is compatible with all devices. It's in Cydia now and is a fantastic fun and good theme that really brings back how themes used to look in the good old days lol. Please check out the screenshots below and as with any theme or tweak please purchase in the correct way. Piracy harms us all. 

 

 

Zen8

Today I'm pleased to bring you my review of the expertly designed and outstanding new theme by @JunesiPhone called Zen8. This was the first iOS 8 theme ready for when the new jailbreak landed, as you'll probably of seen on Twitter there has been a lot of hype surrounding this theme, but to be honest there is always a big interest when June drops a new theme as he's one of the best designers and developers around and he never fails to deliver top quality themes. First off you'll notice that it's different from other themes that have been released as of late due to the fact of a great colour scheme and it just flows seamlessly from page to page on your springboard and even into the settings icons. Each icon is made from scratch and a massive amount of icons have been themed, from AppStore apps to Cydia apps and of course stock icons. Gentle UI touches have been made where they can be (more will be made available to theme when Winterboard is updated) like the control centre has been tweaked and UI knobs and sliders. You get 5 iWidgets with this cracking theme ranging from clocks to full weather forecast widgets and 5 Iconomatic themes ranging from subtle shadow to a detailed border, and a large selection of wallpapers are available on iDeviceWalls.com and also inside the MMi thread. Yet again June has stepped back into the theme scene and smashed it yet again but then that's what we've come to expect from June. The best way to set this theme up is to theme badges using the free BlurryBadges tweak, remove the stock dock by installing SBHTML and then use whatever icon arranging tool that you prefer. This theme is a definite must have on any iOS 8 or 7 iPhone 5/5c/5s/6/6+. Whilst using this theme you'll see the quality design and engineering in each individual icon and UI element, don't take my word for it check out the screenshots below and you'll agree it's stunningly different variation on theme making, and different is what keeps things interesting we should always strive to push ourselves in life and seeing Devs take risks and push the boundaries of design is always a good thing for the Dev and for us as we get the fun of being able to rock our devices with great themes that Devs like June produce for us. A great lockscreen tool to use with Zen8 is miWeather8 which is available in Cydia right now. Zen8 has now been released in Cydia and can be found on the Macciti repo, as with all themes I review I would ask that you purchase this in the correct manner and support Devs to continue bringing us great themes.