It’s Hella Cold Up In Here: Icy
Posted by koruptor | Posted in Apple, Blogosphere, News, Nokia, app store, at&t wireless, iPhone | Posted on 12-05-2009
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The Ripdev team recently released Icy, an alternative to popular package manager Cydia. After playing around with it, and updating it to 1.1, I’m finally ready to write a few things about it. Here you go:
Pros:
- Fast. Icy loads up really fast and installs packages really fast…see the video below.
- Simple UI. A “Recent Packages” link was just added.
- Borrows sources from Cydia.
- Cool install animation.
- Landscape mode! Perfect for late night app-surfing in bed.
- Free
Cons:
- Not all repositories from Cydia sync with Icy.
- Missing packages during installation, which is related to the issue above. When I tried to install a Dr. House theme it claimed Winterboard was missing.
- No queue feature. I really like queues…and the Q.
Icy isn’t quite there yet, but I’m very excited about it. I’m looking forward to future updates.
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