DSL stands for Digital Subscriber Line and is a technology used to transmit high bandwidth information into a home or office using basic copper telephone lines. The speed the information is transferred relies upon the distance the home or office is located to the telephone company’s central office. The closer it is located, the faster the data will be transmitted. The further away it is located, the slower the transmission speed.
A router is a device used to connect multiple computers together to form a network. When computers are networked together, users can share files and programs stored on the computers within the network.
Most home networks use an Internet Protocol (IP) wired or wireless router. IP routers connect to either a DSL or cable modem, which in turn gives user’s access to the Internet.
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The first tutorial in this series covered using DockSwap to change your iPhone’s Dock background, specifically replacing it with one that matches the Dock on the iPod Touch.
This was fine and dandy until yesterday, when a new version of SummerBoard (an app which allows customization of the iPhone’s SpringBoard, or home screen) was released. This new version supports themes and various other settings, but most importantly it appears to prevent DockSwap from doing its job. Thankfully, we can now take advantage of SummerBoard’s new theme support to set a custom Dock background, home screen wallpaper, or both.
Tips for Editing Your own DisplayOrder.plist
The plist is in binary format - on a mac you can just double click on this file and edit in the Property List Editor or use plutil -convert xml1 DisplayOrder.plist to convert to text version you can edit anywhere (use plutil -convert binary1 DisplayOrder.plist to convert back to binary plist - see plutil man page). Once you are inside the file, It’s pretty self explanatory, but you can basically put any app in any position from 0-11 by changing the displayIdentifier variable. The rest of the icons just get shifted down. If you add more than 16 icons, the list does not scroll, however it has been reported that the SpringBoard.app has the ability to scroll more icons, perhaps just not enabled in this version.
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