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Go Desk Introduces Scrolling Panorama Wallpaper And Animations On The SpringBoard [Cydia Tweak]

November 21, 2012 by Mike 6 Comments

One of the big features in iOS 6 is the introduction of a panorama shooting mode in the default Camera app. Unfortunately for those of us who like using our photos as wallpapers, there isn’t a good way to turn a panorama into a wallpaper on the standard firmware without cutting the picture down. Luckily there’s a recently released Cydia utility called Go Desk that can create scrolling desktop backgrounds from high resolution pictures.

Go Desk Cydia Tweak

Go Desk panning through a random panorama snagged from Flickr.

The Tweak: Go Desk’s Cydia page says it supports high resolution wallpapers (at resolutions of 1290 by 960 and above?), so naturally I put this to the test by grabbing the highest resolution panorama I could find on Flickr. Unfortunately when I tried to load the monstrous 62 megapixel image, my iPhone 4 crashed. When I picked a more modest panorama, the app behaved as expected. My lesson? Don’t be a jerk.

When you select a picture (from the Camera roll) using Go Desk, the app displays a two rectangle overlay that you can stretch to adjust. The fixed rectangle on the left will be your first screen while the adjustable rectangle on the right will be the maximum distance Go Desktop will scroll to–the wider the frame the more dramatic the animation. You can adjust the rectangle by dragging on its corners, and pinch to zoom the background image.

Go Desk Cydia Tweak

Caveats:

  • Go Desk doesn’t support the iPad; currently you’ll just get the panorama effect in a corner of the screen.
  • I also found that it caused minor lag on my iPhone 4. Newer devices should run the software more smoothly.
  • Needlessly large panoramas will cause crashes.

Synergy: Go Desk is an ideal companion to any panorama photography app.

Where to find: Go Desk itself is a free wallpaper Cydia tweak and is available in the BigBoss repository. The wallpaper can be set from the Go Desk app on the SpringBoard. In addition to panoramas Go Desk also supports animations. The first supported Animation in Cydia is called Go Desk Moonlight Pond, which is available for on Cydia for $2.99; the animation features frogs, fish, and lily pads.

Go Desk Cydia Tweak

What do you think of Go Desk? Do you have panoramas you’d like to use as wallpapers, or do you prefer ordinary textures and stills? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.

Comments

  1. Thanh says

    November 26, 2012 at 4:14 am

    My ip4 ios6.0.1 crashes. It constanly restarts in safe mode, any solutions?

  2. mmx@aol.com says

    February 8, 2013 at 4:23 pm

    Same here, on (iphone5 iso6.0.1) it crashes and restarts in safe mode.

  3. Gan says

    February 8, 2013 at 7:22 pm

    Still the same on 6.1 evasi0n jb iPhone 5, keeps restarting in save mode

  4. user says

    February 9, 2013 at 6:10 am

    yep, doesnt work on iOS6, seems that some folders differ from iOS5. substrate safe mode prevents that the tweak is writing to folders that dont exist. worked very well on iOS5, but needs an update :)

  5. Vitamin says

    June 22, 2013 at 8:58 pm

    Ip5 doesn’t want to shake da booty… O:(

  6. Ios 6 user says

    November 7, 2013 at 3:18 am

    Any solution for those using ios 6?

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