I've found some interesting icons that you can add you your iPhone. These icons are specifically for iPhone users in Canada. There is a Canadian maps icon and some Canadian weather icons. These look fantastic on your iPhone. The maps icon is cool. It features the Trans Canada Highway #1 instead of the Interstate Icon that is on normally. There is a variety of different weather icons available. They aren't specifically Canadian icons but they can easily be tied to Canada. Some of the ones available are rain, snow, etc. I chose to use the one with rain since it seems to rain a lot here. The icons are available for download from modmyifone.com - http://www.modmyifone.com/forums/downloads.php. Click on the icons only category to find these specific icons. You have to be a member of modmyifone to download them. They also have good forums there for more iPhone discussion.
Here are the Canadian icons I have:I also found another cool looking icon on that site. It is a replacement youtube icon. The standard youtube icon on the iPhone isn't that great. I downloaded these two. I tried both of them but I am using the black one because I think it loks better.
Here's how to add them to your iPhone:
1. You need BSD subsystem and OpenSSH installed on your iPhone from installer
2. I used cyberduck to SSH into my iPhone because I'm using a mac. If you are using a pc and want to know how to SHH, go here.
3. In cyberduck, open the connection, select SSH from the drop down menu, enter your iPhone IP address, user name - root, password - alpine.
4. Hit the up arrow button until you see the applications directory. Find whatever application you want to change the specific icon. The stock icons for each application are named - icon.png. Back up these icons before you change them.
5. Rename each new icon to icon.png and copy them over to each application folder.
6. If you want to change the weather icon, download weather icon fix from installer. The icon wont change unless you install this.
7. Restart you iPhone and the new icons will appear.
This is how my homescreen looks now:
If you know of any other good Canadian type icons, let me know. There may be an easier way to do this but I haven't found it yet. Will post about it when I do find it.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Canadian icons for your iPhone
Posted by ruffdeezy at 12:57 AM
Labels: Apps, Hacking, iPhone Canada, Tips
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