What is Caterpillar?
apps, tricks March 26th, 2008
Caterpillar is an unique package of little tools for your iPhone that can be installed separately from each other. Each module provides its own set of features aimed to make your use of iPhone more productive and fun. Customization, business tools, quick contacts search, system font replacement and many more — constantly growing as we add new tools and functionality.
What’s inside?
Smart Dialer
Favorites list inside of Phone application sure is convenient, but it’s not as best as it can be… with Smart Dialer calling your contact has never been easier — simply start typing the name on the numeric keypad and watch Dialer suggest a list of contacts in a snap! Smart Dialer will help you forget the frustration. Yes, we mean the letters index on your contacts list.
Just hold down # button to toggle between Smart Dialer and normal view — right inside of your Phone application! No need to mess with additional applications that take time to load and clutter up your desktop space — Smart Dialer is always there
Smart Dialer in Action
Again, this is all about customization. FaceLift will allow you to apply any theme made for the SummerBoard, and adds its own enhancements allowing the designers to customize how the icon labels and calendar icon will look. And it will also bring 5-icon Dock with reflections, as well as icon name faceplates, and more… In the future, watch this module grow and become the ultimate tool of expressing yourself on your iPhone. And yes, all future updates will be free for you as long as you keep the subscription current. Voilá!
SummerBoard theme format is used with author’s permission. SummerBoard Copyright ©2007-2008, Nullriver Software
Settings
µCalendar
Ever wanted to quickly find out what day of the week is a certain date within the month from today? Or, even more, quickly check a list of pending events for today without having to unlock the phone and launching Calendar?
µCalendar makes it possible — and it does just that — a quick access to your current agenda. No adding of new events, no previews for five years ahead — why make simple complicated?
Calendar
Events View
Settings
Reminder
Missing important calls or SMSes is bad. Especially when you have missed them while being away from the phone for a while and discovering that at the end of the day when you actually look at the screen. Reminder will make a sound or vibrate every few minutes if you have missed messages or calls.
Settings
System Font
iPhone is about style. And style is about matching your own taste. For that, we have released a freeware DejaVu font that replaces the system font. With System Font, you’ll be able to pick exactly which font you’d like to use as your system font (and it also conveniently includes the free DejaVu font for you to use).
DejaVu Font
MarkerFelt Font
Privacy
Grinding your teeth every time you’re in a middle of showing your latest photo album to friends and an SMS arrives, blocking half of the screen? Or ever had your closest one raise an eyebrow when an unexpected SMS arrives?
Well, Privacy is for you! With just one click of a button… er, finger, you’ll be able to turn these alerts off, or hide the message text on that pop-up window, or even stop any notifications whatsoever on new SMS arrival. We respect your privacy.
Settings
Uninstall
With the technology licensed from our friends at Nullriver Software, you’re now able to delete applications installed through Installer.app just like your bookmarks: hold your finger over any icon, wait until it begins to jiggle, and then push the black (x) icon to completely uninstall the application from your device! Uninstalling have never been easier before!
Uninstallable Apps
Licensing
Caterpillar is distributed on a subscription basis. It’s you who decides for how long you’d like to keep using it — starting at affordable 6 months subscription, and rounding up to an unlimited use one which is just a little bit more expensive than a yearly one! One subscription is valid for one device. What’s even better, when we release new “segments” of Caterpillar that make your iPhone even more fun and productive, they are totally free to you! Subscribe Now.
Support and Compatibility
Caterpillar requires a jailbroken iPhone with Installer.app, firmware version 1.1.1 or newer and at least 3 Mb available on the system partition of the device (if you don’t know how much you’ve got left, don’t worry, the Caterpillar installer will warn you if there’s not enough space). We have not tested Caterpillar under firmware 1.0.2 or older, so we cannot guarantee its operation under this version of the firmware. If you are having troubles, you can always contact our help line support@ripdev.com (unfortunately we will not provide support on how to jailbreak your phone or aid in any other matters not directly related to Caterpillar).
How To Install
Add our Installer.app source http://repository.ripdev.com/ and install Caterpillar from the category RiP Dev. Then launch Caterpillar application that you have just installed, enter your activation code and hit Apply to install all the components. Or, uncheck some of the components you do not want to be installed first. Most of the settings for Caterpillar are accessible from the Settings > RiP Dev — check it out!
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