Every couple of years, Apple gets a new design fetish in their UIs: brushed aluminum, for example, or that god awful faux leather look Cupertino’s rocking for iCal and Address Book.
Less objectionable than most of Apple’s UI fetishes is the gray linen background we’ve been seeing creep through iOS and Lion over the last year or so, but if you’re sick of drab gray, here’s a colorful way to replace your iOS Notification Center’s gray linen background with a colorful, blurred version of your springboard.
Naturally, you’ll need to be jailbroken. Once you are, just go to Cydia, access the BigBoss repo and download BlurriedNCBackground.
Once springboard restarts, voila! Your Notification Center will be transparent, with a selection of options available for how blurry you want the background to be.
Sadly, there is one downside: Notification Center will run a little bit slower if you apply the blur effect. You can speed things up by telling BlurriedNCBackground to only degauss things up after the Notifications have loaded, but that can be a little jarring.
Me, I’ll probably end up sticking with gray linen, but if you like more color in your handset, you might give this one a try.
[via Redmond Pie]
