iPhone 4S Jailbreak to Come With Cover Flow Feature?
For iPhone users with jailbroken iPhones or iPads, application developer Adam Bell has created an interesting tweak called Cover Flow.
This Cover Flow feature is similar to the one included on most iPods that allows the user to swipe through album covers horizontally in order to find the artist they’d like to play, except this cover flow does it with apps.
In other words an iPhone or iPad owner’s apps would appear on the device in a horizontal row allowing the user to swipe through them and find what they would like to use. This picture describes this feature more accurately.
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Unfortunately this effect is only for jailbroken devices.
“The jailbreak-only adjustment brings the Cover Flow effect to the iOS home screen’s application dock,” wrote 9to5Mac.
The site recommends using it together with Chpwn’s Infinidock tweak that is an alteration to iOS that allows users to store an infinite amount of apps in the dock. This new tweak created by Bell costs $0.99 in the Cydia store and is compatible with the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
For those unfamiliar with jailbreaking, it is the process of removing the limitations imposed by Apple on devices running the iOS operating system through the use of custom kernels. These devices include the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and 2nd generation Apple TV. It gives the users root access to the operating system, allowing them to download additional apps, extensions and themes that are not available through the Apple store.
Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, jailbreaking Apple devices is a legal practice in the U.S., but Apple has stated that it can violate warrantees.
And although most of the iPhone line has been jailbroken, the iPhone 4S is yet to have been, but it is sure to come in the near future making Bell's cover flow feature useable on the device
