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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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