WoW up your iPhone
by Mike Schramm 
Apr 14th 2008 at 5:30PM
Here's another user-made iPhone theme featuring the icons from World of Warcraft, made and sent to us by Nasum of Garithos, Hordeside. We covered one of these almost a year ago when the iPhone first came out, but this one is apparently made from scratch, and features the new iTunes store as well as an icon for the Installer.app (man, today is just a Mac gear day on WoW Insider, isn't it? I feel like I'm blogging for TUAW).Hopefully, when the official iPhone app store drops in June, we'll see some non-jailbreak uses of this stuff -- right now, to use either one of these themes on the phone, you have to hack into the firmware and go places Apple doesn't officially want you to go. But those WoW icons definitely work great for all kinds of things: even Blizzard officially put them to OS use in a downloadable theme for XP. There are so many WoW icons floating around that they're a natural (if not exactly legal) fit for almost any use -- here's hoping that in June, Apple's SDK will turn out at least one theming program, and we'll be able to do this stuff without hacking away at the iPhone.
Update: Nasum (whose name we spelled wrong originally, sorry about that) says the theme is now in Installer.app, if you'd like to install it yourself.
Filed under: Fan stuff, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Fan art
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Bert Apr 14th 2008 5:39PM
Anyone know where we can download this? I have checked my Appinstaller on my iphone and I don't have this one available.
Arras Apr 14th 2008 5:39PM
When I get my 3G iPhone this summer, I'll definitely be changing the icons to a wow theme :)
arcath Apr 14th 2008 7:12PM
can you get this to work with the ipod touch?
its pretty much the same machine.
Kevin Apr 14th 2008 5:42PM
Will this work on the Ipod Touch or is it just for the Iphone?
Bert Apr 14th 2008 5:44PM
Normally these themes will work on any jailbroken Iphone or Ipod touch
SweepeR Apr 14th 2008 5:52PM
I actually made one myself as well ;D
http://swpr.deviantart.com/art/iPhone-Warcraft-76316936
Added some more icons and a different selection as well.. ;)
Ametrine Apr 14th 2008 6:09PM
What's that YouTube icon from?
obo Apr 14th 2008 8:38PM
Brazier of Dancing Flames
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=34686
"It costs 350 Burning Blossoms from the (Summer) Festival Vendors."
Khaled Apr 14th 2008 6:20PM
What's the installer.app source to install this theme?
alrdye Apr 14th 2008 6:43PM
That is awesome.
scott Apr 15th 2008 8:02AM
I've had an itouch since christmas and never had a reason to jailbreak it. This is a reason. I'm on board, how do I go about doing this? Can anyone provide instructions?
Apophis Apr 15th 2008 10:25AM
www.ziphone.org
download it, start it, press unlock button ;)
Takes about 30sec or so.
scott Apr 15th 2008 10:36AM
worked like a charm! So how do I get this skin on there? I installed summerboard but don't see anything of how to snag this
Jackovas Apr 15th 2008 10:40AM
The name is Nasum :P I'll have this ready to download this afternoon. Installer community is taking forever to release it so I will be forced to do an ZIP release.
scott Apr 15th 2008 10:49AM
what do I need to have to install it? Like summerboard? something else
Jackovas Apr 15th 2008 10:55AM
You'll need summerboard. I'm working hard right now to get this included into the Installer app rep for easy download. The response to this theme has been a little bit more than I was expecting.
scott Apr 15th 2008 11:32AM
cool that'd make it a lot easier since getting into my summerboard prefs has proven to be difficult. could you email me when you get it? scott@sthig.com
thanks!
arcath Apr 15th 2008 12:44PM
I got no intention of releasing this. But I made this before you said you were going to release your.
Just thought I would show it off.
http://www.goblinking.dreamhosters.com/arcath/pics/ipod1.png
http://www.goblinking.dreamhosters.com/arcath/pics/ipod2.png
Browsing wowwiki took the longest, just trying to find the icons was a pain. :)
scott Apr 16th 2008 10:41AM
did you ever get it up and running?
Gwwwfps Apr 15th 2008 3:50PM
Ouch, the icon on the lower right corner looks like it would really hurt...