Saurik has updated WinterBoard to be compatible with iOS 5.

WinterBoard provides hooks that let graphics artists safely and simply theme almost anything in Apple’s OS, including third party software downloaded from App Store. Multiple theme packages can be installed at once using the configuration interface: simply drag themes into a priority order.

WinterBoard was designed to accept SummerBoard themes without modification but is much more powerful than its predecessor and can theme almost any graphic on the system. You can even easily modify .artwork files without having to hack their contents, all from the safety of your theme folder.
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John Gruber from Daring Fireball says the iPad 2 will not have a Retina Display despite evidence which suggests it will.

I asked around, and according to my sources, it is too good to be true: the iPad 2 does not have a retina display. I believe the iPad 2’s display will remain at 1024?×?768. Its display may be improved in other ways — brighter, better power consumption, thinner, perhaps. Maybe it uses the new manufacturing technique Apple introduced with the iPhone 4 display, which brings the LCD closer to the surface of the touchscreen glass — making it look more like pixels on glass Read More

I hate pixel doubling except for arcade games emulators. On the iPad, the 2x video scaling for iPhone apps seems lazy and looks terrible, especially the text. So bad, in fact, that it gives me headaches. But there’s a fix.

It requires to jailbreak the iPad (really easy to do using the free Spirit software). Once it’s jailbroken, you just need to install OpenSSH from Cydia, and have an FTP browsing program on your computer. With those tools in hand, you have to Read More