IntelliScreen - Events, Notifications, Weather, News and Sports Feeds on your Slide to Unlock Screen

Posted by:Aaron Besson
May 13th, 2008

Sound the horn, we have found a great app. I love apps that show/display info on the sleep screen aka the Slide to Unlock screen. It makes getting info at a glance quick and easy.

IntelliScreen brings all your essential RSS Feeds, Weather, Email and missed/recent smsext messages all onto the first screen we all see when we take our iPhone out of our pocket.

IntelliScreen App - http://www.Intelliborn.com - Your “Slide to Unlock” screen on Steriods!

Updates - The more I fiddle with this app, the cooler it is, sliding your finger across an article in your news/sports feed will launch the story in Safari - Awesome. You can’t seem to add your own RSS feeds yet, but I am sure this will be added in a future release. Weather is courtesy WeatherUnderground.com, I was even aple to get my local weather here in Trinidad & Tobago.

Please note this is a BETA release - Some users have experienced Conflicts with other Apps causing reboots - Install at your own risk during this BETA Release, I would strongly suggest backing up the com.apple.SpringBoard.plist located in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.SpringBoard.plist and install OpenSSH and make sure you can FTP into your iPhone incase you need to replace it to your original file. - You’ve been warned

To install IntelliScreen:

In Installer.app, choose the Sources tab
Choose “Edit” and then add http://intelliborn.com/repo.
Goto Install tab, and choose the Intelliborn category, and Install IntelliScreen

Features

View Calendar, Email, Text Messages, News, Sports, and Weather from your iPhone “Slide To Unlock” screen
Smooth scrolling across each item to quickly glimpse at your data
Auto-Checks Email when you view the unlock screen - no need to “Refresh” from Mail.app or wait 15 minutes
Go directly to the application of your choice with a “Swipe”
Precise International Weather (by zip) provided by Weather Underground.com
News Feeds include Yahoo!, CNN, Fox News, and Reuters (more coming soon!)
ESPN Sports Feeds include MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, NCAA Men’s Football and NCAA Women’s Basketball
Customizing your IntelliScreen is easy! Choose which content you want to view and where
Mail and Text Messages can be shown only if new items are available

Now that is out of the way here are a few more screen shots incase you want to wait till this app is more stable. I am testing this on my iPod Touch (that I jsut restored to make sure it doesn’t conflict with anything else). More pics