OK, I have been away for a while, having some much needed vacation in our beautiful sister island of Tobago, it really was crafted by the hand of god and has some of the most beautiful beaches and fortunately for me, some of the best waves for surfing on our little blue planet.

Upon my return there were a number of apps I wanted to play with and the first on my list was the new Customize.app that is in 2.0 Alpha, and you need to be in some sort of secret underground club to get a license/Invite to try it out.

Well being one of those people (not really) I managed to snag one of those Licenses/Invites for Customize (and you can too), and man it was worth it. I must first openly admit that I was not a big fan of customize when it first came out. Not that it didn’t do exactly what it should and advertised to do, but just that it was buggy and didn’t have the full featured theme control that SummerBorad offered (even though it was as buggy and limited, but hey this is about Customize)

Once you are lucky enough to get a license/Invite and the link to the deveopers website, you simply register your iPhone Serial number (and yes you must use the number of the phone you wish to use it on) and create a username and password then you’ll get the source to add to installer and and be able to install it. (I am not going to share the source openly here as it will flood the servers with people downloading the app without licenses and making it slow for those of us with licenses etc - but more on how to get a license below)..

The real meat of the app is the ability to create a profile on the developers website and create/upload your entire theme, and also browse other users and developers themes. This is by far the best way to ‘Customize’ your iPhone yet. Download packs include sounds wallpapers, icon sets, ring packs, battery graphics, status bar symbols, dial pad and even weather background images. This is really a fantastic program now.

You will need SummerBoard to enable the backgrounds/wallpapers to display, and choose Customize as the theme in SummerBoard as well, but once you have done that you can start tricking out your iPhone.

Within a few minutes I was able to upload my own theme iStroke to the Customize Theme Database and apply it to my iPhone, and others immediately started downloading and rating my theme too, sweet. Rating is another great feature that easily gives you an idea of the popularity, but thankfully there is the good old preview button to have a quick look.

Downloading more themes and sounds etc is easy and fun, and i really must admit that i have spent an hour or so playing around. I have three Activation Licenses to give away to three lucky people, so post a comment and I’ll send them to you

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