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Monday, February 17, 2014

Presidents' Day

Presidents’ Day is an American holiday celebrated on the third Monday in February. Originally established in 1885 in recognition of President George Washington, it is still officially called “Washington’s Birthday” by the federal government. Traditionally celebrated on February 22—Washington’s actual day of birth—the holiday became popularly known as Presidents’ Day after it was moved as part of 1971’s Uniform Monday Holiday Act, an attempt to create more three-day weekends for the nation’s workers. While several states still have individual holidays honoring the birthdays of Washington, Abraham Lincoln and other figures, Presidents’ Day is now popularly viewed as a day to celebrate all U.S. presidents past and present.Civil War to Great Depression Presidents 
Presidents’ Day: Origin as Washington’s Birthday

The story of Presidents’ Day date begins in 1800. Following President George Washington’s death in 1799, his February 22 birthday became a perennial day of remembrance. At the time, Washington was venerated as the most important figure in American history, and events like the 1832 centennial of his birth and the start of construction of the Washington Monument in 1848 were cause for national celebration.

Did you know?

President's Day never falls on the actual birthday of any American president. Four chief executives—George Washington, William Henry Harrison, Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan_were born in February, but their birthdays all come either too early or late to coincide with Presidents’ Day, which is always celebrated on the third Monday of the month.
While Washington’s Birthday was an unofficial observance for most of the 1800s, it was not until the late 1870s that it became a federal holiday. Senator Steven Wallace Dorsey of Arkansas was the first to propose the measure, and in 1879 President Rutherford B. Hayes signed it into law. The holiday initially only applied to the District of Columbia, but in 1885 it was expanded to the whole country. At the time, Washington’s Birthday joined four other nationally recognized federal bank holidays—Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, Independence Day and Thanksgiving—and was the first to celebrate the life of an individual American. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, signed into law in 1983, would be the second.
The shift from Washington’s Birthday to Presidents’ Day began in the late 1960s when Congress proposed a measure known as the Uniform Monday Holiday Act. Championed by Senator Robert McClory of Illinois, this law sought to shift the celebration of several federal holidays from specific dates to a series of predetermined Mondays. The proposed change was seen by many as a novel way to create more three-day weekends for the nation’s workers, and it was believed that ensuring holidays always fell on the same weekday would reduce employee absenteeism. While some argued that shifting holidays from their original dates would cheapen their meaning, the bill also had widespread support from both the private sector and labor unions and was seen as a surefire way to bolster retail sales.
The Uniform Monday Holiday Act also included a provision to combine the celebration of Washington’s Birthday with Abraham Lincoln’s, which fell on the proximate date of February 12. Lincoln’s Birthday had long been a state holiday in places like Illinois, and many supported joining the two days as a way of giving equal recognition to two of America’s most famous statesmen.
McClory was among the measure’s major proponents, and he even floated the idea of renaming the holiday “President’s Day.” This proved to be a point of contention for lawmakers from George Washington’s home state of Virginia, and the proposal was eventually dropped. Nevertheless, the main piece of the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed in 1968 and officially took effect in 1971 following an executive order from President Richard Nixon. Washington’s Birthday was then shifted from the fixed date of February 22 to the third Monday of February. Columbus Day, Memorial Day and Veterans Day were also moved from their traditionally designated dates. (As a result of widespread criticism, in 1980 Veterans’ Day was returned to its original November 11 date.)
While Nixon’s order plainly called the newly placed holiday Washington’s Birthday, it was not long before the shift to Presidents’ Day began. The move away from February 22 led many to believe that the new date was intended to honor both Washington and Abraham Lincoln, as it now fell between their two birthdays. Marketers soon jumped at the opportunity to play up the three-day weekend with sales, and “Presidents’ Day” bargains were advertised at stores around the country.
By the mid-1980s Washington’s Birthday was known to many Americans as Presidents’ Day. This shift had solidified in the early 2000s, by which time as many as half the 50 states had changed the holiday’s name to Presidents’ Day on their calendars. Some states have even chosen to customize the holiday by adding new figures to the celebration. Arkansas, for instance, celebrates Washington as well as civil rights activist Daisy Gatson Bates. Alabama, meanwhile, uses Presidents’ Day to commemorate Washington and Thomas Jefferson (who was born in April).
Washington and Lincoln still remain the two most recognized leaders, but Presidents’ Day is now popularly seen as a day to recognize the lives and achievements of all of America’s chief executives. Some lawmakers have objected to this view, arguing that grouping George Washington and Abraham Lincoln together with less successful presidents minimizes their legacies. Congressional measures to restore Washington and Lincoln’s individual birthdays were proposed during the early 2000s, but all failed to gain much attention. For its part, the federal government has held fast to the original incarnation of the holiday as a celebration of the country’s first president. The third Monday in February is still listed on official calendars as Washington’s Birthday.
Like Independence Day, Presidents’ Day is traditionally viewed as a time of patriotic celebration and remembrance. In its original incarnation as Washington’s Birthday, the holiday gained special meaning during the difficulties of the Great Depression, when portraits of George Washington often graced the front pages of newspapers and magazines every February 22. In 1932 the date was used to reinstate the Purple Heart, a military decoration originally created by George Washington to honor soldiers killed or wounded while serving in the armed forces. Patriotic groups and the Boy Scouts of America also held celebrations on the day, and in 1938 some 5,000 people attended mass at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City in honor of Washington.
In its modern form, Presidents’ Day is used by many patriotic and historical groups as a date for staging celebrations, reenactments and other events. A number of states also require that their public schools spend the days leading up to Presidents’ Day teaching students about the accomplishments of the presidents, often with a focus on the lives of Washington and Lincoln.

Sourced from <http://www.history.com/topics/holidays/presidents-day>

 

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

List of Cydia Jailbreak Tweaks Compatible With iOS 7 And New A7 Devices

List of Cydia Jailbreak Tweaks Compatible With iOS 7 And New A7 Devices





iOS 7 List of Cydia Jailbreak Tweaks Compatible With iOS 7 And New A7 Devices
Make sure to check out – The Best Cydia Jailbreak Apps and Tweaks for iOS 7

Now that you’ve finally jailbroken your iOS 7 device, you’re probably looking for great tweaks, themes, and apps. However with the jailbreak coming as a surprise to the world, not many developers were ready for it, so many tweaks are not yet compatible with iOS 7 and the new A7 chip devices such as the iPhone 5S and iPad Mini Retina.
However, developers are working hard to change this situation and more and more tweaks are receiving updates. We believe it’s only a matter of weeks when the majority of the Cydia will support iOS 7 and the new 64-bit devices, but until then, you have to be extremely careful when downloading and installing packages.
To make sure you don’t send your iPhone into a reboot or respring loop, check out this handy list of the most interesting jailbreak tweaks updated or released specifically for iOS 7. They sport sleek interfaces and take advantage of system features to offer the best functionality. The list notes which of them are fully or partially compatible with devices equipped with Apple A7 CPU and which do not work on them at all.
  • TabLess – incompatible with A7 devices
  • Simplock – fully compatible with A7 devices
  • HiddenSettings7 - fully compatible with A7 devices
  • FlipControlCenter - partially compatible with A7 devices
  • FlipLaunch – fully compatible with A7 devices
  • BetrFoldr - incompatible with A7 devices
  • iFile 2.0 for iOS 7 - fully compatible with A7 devices
  • iOS 6 Theme – incompatible with A7 devices
  • RecordMyScreen – partially compatible with A7 devices
  • Open In App For Photos – fully compatible with A7 devices
  • Infinidock – fully compatible with A7 devices
  • Infiniboard – fully compatible with A7 devices
  • Infinifolder – fully compatible with A7 devices
  • Swipey – fully compatible with A7 devices
  • f.lux – fully compatible with A7 devices
  • Icon Renamer – fully compatible with A7 devices
  • Barrel – fully compatible with A7 devices
  • Zeppelin – fully compatible with A7 devices

List of Cydia Jailbreak Tweaks Compatible With iOS 7 And New A7 Devices

List of Cydia Jailbreak Tweaks Compatible With iOS 7 And New A7 Devices





iOS 7 List of Cydia Jailbreak Tweaks Compatible With iOS 7 And New A7 Devices
Make sure to check out – The Best Cydia Jailbreak Apps and Tweaks for iOS 7

Now that you’ve finally jailbroken your iOS 7 device, you’re probably looking for great tweaks, themes, and apps. However with the jailbreak coming as a surprise to the world, not many developers were ready for it, so many tweaks are not yet compatible with iOS 7 and the new A7 chip devices such as the iPhone 5S and iPad Mini Retina.
However, developers are working hard to change this situation and more and more tweaks are receiving updates. We believe it’s only a matter of weeks when the majority of the Cydia will support iOS 7 and the new 64-bit devices, but until then, you have to be extremely careful when downloading and installing packages.
To make sure you don’t send your iPhone into a reboot or respring loop, check out this handy list of the most interesting jailbreak tweaks updated or released specifically for iOS 7. They sport sleek interfaces and take advantage of system features to offer the best functionality. The list notes which of them are fully or partially compatible with devices equipped with Apple A7 CPU and which do not work on them at all.
  • TabLess – incompatible with A7 devices
  • Simplock – fully compatible with A7 devices
  • HiddenSettings7 - fully compatible with A7 devices
  • FlipControlCenter - partially compatible with A7 devices
  • FlipLaunch – fully compatible with A7 devices
  • BetrFoldr - incompatible with A7 devices
  • iFile 2.0 for iOS 7 - fully compatible with A7 devices
  • iOS 6 Theme – incompatible with A7 devices
  • RecordMyScreen – partially compatible with A7 devices
  • Open In App For Photos – fully compatible with A7 devices
  • Infinidock – fully compatible with A7 devices
  • Infiniboard – fully compatible with A7 devices
  • Infinifolder – fully compatible with A7 devices
  • Swipey – fully compatible with A7 devices
  • f.lux – fully compatible with A7 devices
  • Icon Renamer – fully compatible with A7 devices
  • Barrel – fully compatible with A7 devices
  • Zeppelin – fully compatible with A7 devices

The Best Cydia Jailbreak Apps and Tweaks for iOS 7

The Best Cydia Jailbreak Apps and Tweaks for iOS 7





cydia tweaks The Best Cydia Jailbreak Apps and Tweaks for iOS 7
The jailbreak for iOS 7 and iPhone 5S, iPad Mini and iPad Air devices was dropped on everyone by surprise. Because it came out of the blue, Cydia itself and all the major Cydia tweaks were not ready for iOS 7 and A7 devices.
It’s been a few weeks since the jailbreak release and developers have caught up, updating their tweaks for everyone to download, buy and enjoy.
We’ve rounded up a list of some of the best jailbreak tweaks you should download for your device right now.
Activator
Activator may just be the most popular Cydia tweak. It allows you to customise buttons and gestures to carry out many different commands. You can do things like triple press the home button to activate your favourite app or, use a gesture to carry out an action. The most recent update now even lets you use TouchID if you have an iPhone 5S.
iFile
One of the biggest features lacking on iOS is a file browser. It’s understandable why Apple don’t include one – they don’t want clueless users to move or delete important files that may make their device unusable. iFile gives you a file manager with which you can browse all the files on your iOS device.
BioLockdown
If you have an iPhone 5S with TouchID and have apps that you don’t want people to get into, this is a must have cydia tweak. This allows you to set up apps that only allow use when it reads your fingerprint.
TetherMe
TetherMe allows you to use your device as a personal hotspot. It can be used with USB, Bluetooth or WiFi. It’s a fantastic way to use a laptop or iPad on the go without having to fork out extra on a data plan.
CCControls
iOS 7 introduced control center – a place where you have quick access to important features on your iOS device. Unfortunately it’s not very customisable. CCControls is a tweak that allows you to customise what toggles you have in Control Center.
CCHide
If you’re like me and don’t use some of the features in Control Center, this is a useful tweak. You can hide parts of the Control Center with CCHide. I never use the music player on my device, so I hide the music controls.
BytaFont 2
If you’re into customising the font on your device, BytaFont 2 is a pretty awesome tweak. You can choose from many different fonts.
Nitrous
Apple limits the potential some apps have, for example Google’s Chrome browser. With this tweak you can get the most out of the Chrome browser – you’ll find that it’s much quicker compared to Safari.
Messages Customiser
Want to change the colour of the messages in the messages app, this is the app you need.
F.lux
F.lux is a brilliant tweak for those who want to adjust the temperature of their display. In dark rooms the screen can be too harsh for some, F.lux fixes that by making your screen much warmer and easier on the eyes.

Best Cydia Tweaks for IOS7

Springtomize 3 Is The Ultimate Jailbreak Cydia Tweak for iOS 7 Springtomize Springtomize 3 Is The Ultimate Jailbreak Cydia Tweak for iOS 7
Springtomize has been a hit ever since it was released for on Cydia for previous versions of iOS. It was one of the best apps that helped users tweak parts of iOS.
Springtomize has recently been updated to now work on iOS 7 and it’s still the ultimate cydia tweak for jailbroken devices.
The tweak allows you to control animations, the app slider, control center, dock, folders, icons, lockscreen pages and the status bar. Under each category you can tweak a number of things.
Springtomize is available now on Cydia.

Aura Cydia Jailbreak Theme for iOS 7
Aura Aura Cydia Jailbreak Theme for iOS 7
Aura is another fantastic jailbreak theme available for iOS devices. It’s another icon theme that has a nice blend between flat and skeuomorphism.
The icons use very subtle but eye catching gradients with the glyphs featuring very soft shadows.
Unlike most icons sets that have a slightly rounded corners, Aura features very rounded corners. There are no straight edges as the whole icon is curved.
This is definitely one of the best icon themes available for iOS right now. It’s available on Cydia now.
Aura Close Up Aura Cydia Jailbreak Theme for iOS 7
For those wondering, to get the black notification bubbles you have to download the Boover tweak.

Mojo Cydia Jailbreak Theme for iOS





Mojo for iOS 7 Mojo Cydia Jailbreak Theme for iOS 7
I only like to cover the most tasteful themes for iOS and Mojo is a brand new addition to the Cydia theme collection.
Designed by Kubilay Sapayer, from the Netherlands, he has put together a stunning new theme for jailbreakers to make use of.
The theme isn’t exactly flat but it isn’t entirely skeuomorphic either. It uses flat colours and minor shadows but has a very nice glossy effect too. They actually look like sweets, they’re almost edible!
In terms of actual glyphs on the icons, they’re very minimal and to the point. No fancy stuff here, just easy to read icons with very bold colours.
Kubilay has been nice enough to give the theme away for free, so you should be able to find it on Cydia right now.
It might not compete in terms of how many icons there are compared to other themes, but what can you expect from something that’s free.
Mojo for iOS 7 Close Up Mojo Cydia Jailbreak Theme for iOS 7

Jaku Cydia Jailbreak Theme for iOS 7





Jaku Jaku Cydia Jailbreak Theme for iOS 7
If you don’t like the flat and ugly icons that come with iOS 7, which have clearly been made with Microsoft Word, you’ll love the detail that goes into Jaku.
Jaku is a cydia/jailbreak theme available to all those who jailbreak their device. The theme has been my personal favourite for a few years now and it still is today.
The developer has updated the theme to now work with the new A7 devices such as the iPhone 5S and iPad Mini/Air.
The amount of detail and intricacy that goes into each icon is phenomenal, it really makes use of that retina screen. You’ll end up spending time looking closely to see the little things – like how the hands on the clock app move in real time, and how the notes app has evidence of paper tears at the top. It’s far from the flat trend that is taking over everything right now. I personally think Apple have done an awful job of it in iOS 7.
Jaku brings back the detail and skeuomorphism we love in our icons back to our homescreens. It is currently available on the Cydia app for $2.99 – a bargain when you think about the weeks of time that has gone into making the icon set.