gaurav’s rants

Hi.. As you must’ve guessed by now.. I’m rather busy these days.. Got my minor exams starting next week and some other work related to my B.Tech project and other stuff.. A lot of work is piled up and will take some time to finish off..

Just a quick update for those of you who upgraded to the newly released 2.1 FW.. All the themes and customizations released here work just fine on 2.1.. So you can start using these.. I’ve also upgraded to 2.1 and my iPhone is definitely going a lot snappier than earlier.. I did cut down on the number of apps I have installed so that also helps..

I’d suggest upgrading to 2.1 asap as it provides better stability and some very good features have been added to the iPod application especially the creation of Genius playlists.. Other improvements will only become obvious over time, though I really hope Contacts and SMS take less time to start that it did on 2.0.1..

The NeoTech keyboards are now available on Cydia through the BigBoss repository..
this includes Neo Keys, Neo Keys Dark and Neo Keys Dark [WhiteSpace].
BigBoss repo is in community sources so you don’t need to make any changes to Cydia, just let it refresh once.
I thought this will make the themes available to a larger user base and at the same time allow me to provide updates and bugfixes in a more simple and efficient manner.
If you have the keyboards installed you should install again from Cydia.
If you’re using Neo Keys, the one with the default colors, you *must* install from Cydia as a major bug has been fixed. Thanks to Allen from Planet-iPhones for pointing it out.

NOTE: these themes only affect the keyboard on your iPhone.. to have system-wide customization.. you can download the various custom fonts that I’ve posted here..

here’s the Matrix Code font for lock screen clock..

Download: Matrix Code Custom Clock Font iPhone 2.0.x (811)
[refer to readme.txt for installation steps]

get the full Matrix Code font here
http://www.dafont.com/font.php?file=matrix_code_nfi

here’s the highly requested Myriad system font for iPhone..
i couldn’t find Myriad but i found Myriad Pro.. i hope you like it..

Download: Myriad Pro Custom Font for iPhone 2.0.x (1202)
[refer to readme.txt for installation steps]

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here’s the Calibri Font for MobileNotes as requested by toffenut over at MacThemes forums..
nice for anyone who wants a clean, plain font for MobileNotes..

Download: Calibri Font for MobileNotes iPhone 2.0.x (869)
[refer to readme.txt for installation steps]

Download: Calibri Font for MobileNotes iPhone 2.0.x (869)
[refer to readme.txt for installation steps]

continuing the posts about fonts.. here’s how you can add extra fonts to your iPhone for use with WinterBoard and maybe other applications as well..

Advantages of adding extra fonts:

• Set your SpringBoard icon labels to the font of your choice [through WinterBoard]
• Get extended font support for viewing websites in Safari
• Get extended font support in applications, either as a user or a developer

For this tutorial I will add the Calibri font family to my iPhone, the following fonts of this family should be available on your computer by default

• Calibri
• Calibri Italic
• Calibri Bold
• Calibri Bold Italic

[i'm doing this on a Windows Vista system, if you're not using Vista some steps for obtaining the fonts may be different]
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i finally took the time to write the much awaited tutorial describing the process of porting fonts for iPhone.. this is important as iPhone users have many requests for fonts of their choice and as much as i’d like to, i simply don’t have the time to fulfill all these demands..
to cut a long story short..
“Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime.”
haha..

Terms for this tutorial:
default font is the unmodified font that is present on your iPhone
custom font is the font that you are going to port for your iPhone
ported font is the result of the process that will be placed on your iPhone
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here’s the Calibri LockClock font to be used along with the Calibri system font..

Download: Calibri Custom Clock Font for iPhone 2.0.x (553)

no screenshot of the lock screen yet..

get the Calibri system font here
Calibri Custom Font for iPhone 2.0.x

i’m not a big fan of comic fonts.. don’t really remember the last time i used a comic font, if i ever did.. but many people requested comic fonts for their iPhones.. so here are two..

Kasper Custom Font for iPhone 2.0.x

Download: Kasper Custom Font for iPhone 2.0.x (428)
[refer to readme.txt for installation steps]

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many people are avid fans of the Calibri font.. Plizzo requested this font over at MacThemes forums. so i ported this for iPhone.. Calibri looks beautiful at large sizes but imho it’s rather ordinary at small sizes.. but it’s a really good, clean looking font.. here it is for anyone who wants it…

Download: Calibri Custom Font for iPhone 2.0.x (963)
[refer to readme.txt for installation steps]

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