Cui – On My Way

I’ve been using whiteasmilk theme on this blog for a long time. I myself do love those kinda simple but classical themes,you know, text-centered, very few colors, eye-friendly fonts etc, just like whiteasmilk.

However, in order to make this blog a little bit ‘holiday’ with the coming long National Day Holidays, I decide to get a new theme for celebration.

That’s why you see Redtopia, my final choice after hours of googling and testing.

The big/small roses are for the country’s 60 birthday. The main red-only color seems just in time for my celebration purpose. So that’s it.

Hope you enjoy it as i do.

Title says all.

Source from the iCosta official blog(Chinese) here, which says the update fixed the bug of the iCosta’s easy crash when not-enough system memory left.

I myself did see a few crashes by icosta before, esp. in the SMS.app when I wanna reply and ready to type in the input box. That kinda crash really drove me crazy.

Hopefully it wouldn’t happen any more.

Update(Sep.17,2009): title modified based on the author says 1.2.8 also works on the latest 3.1 too.

Update(Sep.22,2009): the install source is http://iphone.freecoder.org/apt, fyi.

Update(Sep.28,2009): iCosta 1.2.8 works well on the latest iPhone firmware 3.1.

Just happened to get this new theme from the admin page by the part of plugins->most popular. After a little bit playground I think it deserves a new post to recommend to my readers.

Official website is here. And the latest version is 1.9.2.2(Thanks to WP for its very charming feature of installing/upgrading the plugin in the admin page directly. Very nice.)

Below is what this site looks like in the iPhone’s safari browser.

I don have other mobile devices like gPhone or Blackberry, so don know how it performs in that devices. It does look quite nice at least in the iphone.

Besides, it loads fast and the user experience of the whole ajax-powered interface does make me very satisfied. Not mention its very nice feature of allowing the reader to switch between the regular lookings and wptouch version. Really cool, isn’t it?

I should say, with wptouch, time to say goodbye to my long-used iwphone plugin.

I’ve been waiting for it for a long time, really. I love it so.The reason? I’ve talked it before, not mention so many new features has been added in this release.

To quote a few, brand new UI design(i think it cooler), full screen browsing, support direct installation from .deb,.pxl,.ipa, support music(.3gp,.mp3) and movie(.mov,.mp4)) download and playback, last session restore…

I myself still haven’t enough time to digg deeper into it yet. To get more, you better try it out by yourself. Just give it some patience ‘coz it’s still in beta and buggy, from from as stable and user-friendly as Safari.

However, it IS worth of a try.

Cydia/Icy source is: http://wap.ucweb.com/iphone/cydia.

Compatible Firmwares: 2.0 | 2.0.1 | 2.0.2 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.2.1 | 3.0 | 3.0.1

Here’s the new home and a downloaded mp3 ready to play.

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Update(Sep.28,2009): UCWEB 6.7 beta rocks on iPhone firmware 3.1!

It’s my first time to see this: sad iphone. Just wonder why choose the  letter of ‘F’ and ’3′ to mean sad.

Anyway, you’ll see this when SpringBoard crashes which leads to the phone entering safe mode. Below is the message box as it happens.

BTW, i’m on 3.0 right now.