Make Custom iOS Shortcuts: No Jailbreak Required – app quick look

I just ran across this post over at iDownloadBlog that details a great App named Icon Project. The short of it is: If you’d like a way to create custom shortcuts and quickly get to settings or even make one touch phone calls Icon Project can create it for you. It is very much worth the cost of $0.99.

This for me is a very handy and welcomed App. One of the Apps I’ve been missing the most without jailbreak is SBSettings. It does not feature the convenient toggles like SBSettings but it’s a close second and keeps you from having to “drill down” to your most commonly accessed settings.

The best thing is Icon Project allows you to customize the Icon with borders, backgrounds or even your photos/designs. There wasn’t designs for some of the common settings so I quickly created my own in Photoshop and used them as seen below.

If you’d like the same look for your iOS device, purchase Icon Project then save the following images to the photo roll on the device you are customizing and apply the image by tapping on the camera icon while creating the shortcut in Icon Project. In order for the shortcut to work you have to use the correlating preference shortcut address found here by copying and pasting into the URL section under “Select Type” in Icon Project. Update: Apparently the URL shortcuts no longer work under iOS 5.1. So if you want that functionality you’ll have to stay with 5.0 or less.

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