Recently, Apple released a new version of the iBooks store, complete with a new icon and revised app graphics. I've been looking for a wallpaper based on the latest iBooks Store bookshelves for my lockscreen, but nothing I found online was quite right. So I spent a couple of hours playing around and designed one myself from scratch. The graphics were ported straight from the latest iBooks app file - I then manipulated and redesigned the layout in Photoshop CS5 to make it suitable for the iPhone 4 lockscreen. Click the image below to download the high resolution wallpaper:
I hope you like it - If you use this yourself, please leave a comment below and say thanks! Finally, please do not repost this anywhere else online or attmpt to pass it off as your own. Thanks.
Light Grey Theme (used in iBooks and iMovie):
Reproduced for educational purposes only. Images Copyright © 2010 Ryan Price and Apple Inc.
Looks great on home screen and lock screen. Also look great on previous iPhone models and on iPod Touch. Here it is to download:
(click/tap first before saving)
Original image © Apple Inc. 2010
Modification © Ryan Price 2010
Here's the high-res Retina Display wallpaper for download; click/tap to get the fulll size image and to download to your iPhone camera roll, tap and hold the enlarged image and select 'save.'
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NOTE: This is Part 1 of 2
Download both attachments from this blog (two topics - Parts 1 & 2) and extract the compressed folder into 1 newly created folder, which you should name 'iPhone4 Bundles-UI').No sound files are included in this download. Everything you need to theme an iPhone 4 with high-resolution Retina Display Icons, Wallpapers, Backgrounds, Images, Themes etc. I extracted the iPhone 4 Firmware images simply because I needed the multi-tasking/folder background/wallpaper. Here is also a link to download the full package here (however, no guarantee can be given for the validity or integrity of this download.)Google Reader, Pocket-Sized... (for iPhone & iPod Touch)
Reeder 2.0 (a free update from Reeder 1+) from developer Silvio Rizzi has hit the AppStore! The best RSS reader on the block for Google Reader is now even faster than before, with extra features like optional image caching, state saving, and increased contrast. There are also more services available (Open in Safari is back!), and holding on a link will now open up the services menu, so you don’t have to load up a page before being able to tweet the link.
Finally, the gestures have been much improved, so it’s easier than ever to swipe to star or mark as read. I also think a new gesture set was added, since I can now pull up after reading an article to switch to the next one — very slick.
Reeder 2.0 is still available for £1.79/$2.99 if you haven’t bought it yet.
Here are some screenshots of this fabulous app:
"A Serious Contender to Tweetie 2"
(Star Rating: 5 out of 5) The UI is intuitive and elegant, while adding a bucket-load of essential features, some of which seem unique to Osfoora. Tweetie has been my app of choice for a long time and I've professionally tested almost every Twitter app available on the app store. Osfoora is now my default Twitter app, and although there's still room for a few improvements/additions, if there was an award for best-newcomer, Osfoora would win! Five stars! The developer always replies to feedback/questions on Twitter, which is really special. Keep the updates coming - I love what you've done with this beautiful app so far. A few requests:
An impressive landscape photograph called "Pyramid Lake (at Night)" was featured at Apple’s January 27 event in San Francisco, when the Mac maker unveiled the highly anticipated iPad to the world. Apple hadn’t gotten around to licensing the image when the people attending Steve Jobs’ keynote gazed at it behind the 9.7-inch glass panel, yet its author is extremely pleased with the move. He is certain he and Apple will reach a fruitful agreement.
Generally, artists go ballistic when someone uses their works of art and don’t credit them properly, and for good reason too. Not Richard Misrach. He admits Apple had contacted him ahead of the January 27 event to license the photo, but the two parties never got around to signing the papers, for one reason or another. Artinfo reveals that Misrach was first contacted by Apple a while ago in regards to ten images from his different series. Misrach rejected them. Then, two weeks ago (days before the iPad announcement), Misrach was contacted again from Cupertino, this time for a licensing of Pyramid Lake (at Night), a photo he had taken at a Native American reservation in Nevada, back in 2004. According to Artinfo, the two parties talked about a five-year, exclusive deal, with Apple saying it would use the image for screen-savers and stuff like that. "I was in bed watching Inglorious Bastards when I got a call from Jeffrey FraenkeL, my dealer in San Francisco, and he said, 'Do you know what's going on live here?'" Misrach told Artinfo. "I was totally shocked. Naturally my other galleries started calling and my family was all atwitter, because it's a whole different world." However, no papers have yet been signed."The funny thing is that I don't even have a contract with them yet, so they must have decided on it at the eleventh hour," Misrach revealed. "I'm sure they'll send me one quickly now. But I'm very happy, I'm sure it's fine, and the terms are good." Misrach also explained that, "[Pyramid Lake (at Night) is] a long night exposure where the moon is lighting up the mountains in the distance. I shot it on an 8x10 camera, so the quality is really beautiful and you can see star trails going through the sky."
Misrach, who is represented byPace/MacGill in New York, Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco and other galleries, says Apple had reviewed several of his photos. Then two weeks before the launch of the much-hyped new tablet, Apple specified they wanted to use "Pyramid Lake (at Night)." Apple said only that it wanted to use the 2004 image"Pyramid Lake (at Night)," as a screen saver and for other features -- no mention of the iPad, which was still under wraps.
'What's funny is that for years I actually used the photo as my own screensaver," Misrach says. "So I guess they know what they're doing."
(Note: Richard Misrach's "On the Beach" was chosen one of the last decade's most influential photo books of the decade. Check out yesterday's PDN Photo of the Day. )
