Sunday, November 21, 2010

The Tweaks your App Switcher Has Been Begging For

There are many tweaks for the iPhone's App Switcher such as remove recent. However, 2 tweaks can prove to be especially useful; app switcher brightness, and app switcher rotator. The latter has proved to be something that iOS 4 should have had from the beginning.

App Switcher Rotator
This is a particularly useful tweak when you are in landscape mode. When you are in landscape mode the icons rotate to be easily readable in landscape orientation. The great thing is, it rotates the icons only and the icon drawer changing very little. Also it provides a bit an animation when the order of items in the drawer changes. After which the icons slide back into their new places.

App Switcher Brightness
This is a useful app similar to App Switcher Volume. Beneath the play, pause, next, and previous buttons it displays a slider that controls your screens brightness. This is a nice way to do so in an integrated way as opposed to  SB Settings that requires: activation, entering a sub-menu, and then changing the brightness. It is important to not that this will conflict with App Switcher Volume. Right now, App Switcher Volume seems obsolete unless you have broken volume buttons.

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