Eagerly awaiting KATG Iphone App
In the meanwhile I was playing around and now I have the Keith and The Girl Twitter feed on my lock screen.
Every time my iphone locks, it grabs the latest twitter updates, if it can't connect to the internet at that moment then it's left blank and you have your regular lock screen.

Requirements [with tutorials]:

• Hacked/Modded iPhone - [link]
• Winterboard - an app you install through Cydia - [link]
• Server Lock Screen - a theme extension? you install through Cydia and activate with Winterboard - [above link will explain this too]
• SSH - [link]

How To:

1. Make sure Server Lock Screen is activated in Winterboard. When your iPhone is locked you should see some text below the time that says it was loaded from a remote server.
2. Start SSH on your phone and connect to it with an ftp client, the ftp client in the tutorial is called Fugu, but any will do that has SFTP. Once connected you'll see your iphone's directory structure.
3. Open /Library/Themes/Server Lock Example.theme in an html editor. Some text editors will parse the html.. if you can't see the html code then you opened it wrong or with the wrong program... notepad/textmate should be fine.
4. You should see a line that looks like this: src="http://cydia.saurik.com/lock/"
5. change it to this: src="http://fightskillz.com/lock.php"
6. Save the changes to your phone.

edit: here's a copy of the php file I have up at http://fightskillz.com/lock.php, it requires php5.

it's zipped, click here to download.

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