Jim Gresham

Editor at iDownloadBlog.com since 2012, Jim Gresham curates the finest wallpapers and customizations for Apple devices, enhancing user experience through visual creativity. With a keen eye for design and a passion for personalization, Jim helps readers transform their screens into stunning displays. He spent his younger years tinkering with computers, reading about technology, and watching Star Wars, while being teased by his peers at school for nerdy tendencies. Since 2008, he has worked on improving his Apple arsenal and spends his free time researching the latest gadget trends, trying to find the next awesome iDevice accessory for review. A native of the Commonwealth of Virginia, he enjoys the stiff crease on a well-ironed dress shirt and dons a bow tie on a regular basis.

Game of Thrones wallpapers for iPhone and iPad

Jim Gresham ∙ Updated April 17, 2018

If you are a regular reader, on Sunday you look forward to new wallpapers. Customizing your device is made simple by downloading a fresh set of digital paint. With your input, we are hearing you really like an occasional theme week. To please the readers, this week is one of those weeks.

Last Wallpapers of the Week post featured a Breaking Bad wallpaper set, which was well received. Today, assorted Game of Thrones wallpapers grace the section with cunning avarice. The sombre collection captures the series' emotional depth and unpredictable plot turns...

Breaking Bad wallpapers for iPhone and iPad

Jim Gresham ∙ Updated April 16, 2018

Back in action this Sunday, we have been watching the comment section throughout the past weeks. The Wallpaper of the Week section is rife with comments, sometimes useful, mostly controversial, but they are monitored for good ideas.

Last week, we spotted a comment about doing film-themed sections, on occasion. Taking our reader's comment to heart, this week a small pack of Breaking Bad wallpapers is posted. Although the series came to a close, it continues to make waves and is quickly developing a "classic" designation. To show your Breaking Bad enthusiasm, download some digital goodies...

Keyfault eliminates frustrating iOS keyboard behavior

Jim Gresham ∙ Updated April 16, 2018

Instead of simply describing this tweak, I'll start by telling you a personal story. Like Sebastien's incessancy over ShareLock, I too had a tweak burning a hole in my brain at JailbreakCon. However, unlike Sebastien, I was able to convince my new favorite jailbreak dev, Filippo Bigarella, to code mine at the dinner table that fateful Friday night. Now, perhaps Filippo felt some form of quid pro quo harassment, considering I let him bunk with me at the hotel across from the convention center, but that is of no consequence.

Ever since I have used the emoji keyboard, I have been frustrated with the way default keyboards are selected when tapping a typable field. This behavior is also the same on language keyboards, but since I am an average American, I only know two languages, English and emoji.

Fixing this long annoyance of mine, Keyfault returns the active keyboard to the default language keyboard as determined in settings...

Bluelounge Jimi solves an iMac USB problem you might have encountered

Jim Gresham ∙ Updated April 16, 2018

Loads of Apple accessories debuted at CES 2014, but one of my favorites was the Jimi by Bluelounge. Simply, "putting your iMac USB port within reach, Jimi is a j-shaped, USB port extension for your iMac to bring your USB port forward, allowing easy access." It is fairly straight forward and, after a pause, genius.

It is rare to so strategically pinpoint little nuances to everyday uses of Apple devices. Bluelounge specializes in these minute details, solving issues we gradually came to accept over time. I resorted to spinning my iMac around each time I wanted to access the USB ports. With an additional monitor on each side of my iMac, adding anything to the port required me to carefully pull my iMac forward and gently turn it to one side. Sometimes, I resorted to reach over the monitor, blindly cramming my cables into the aluminum back. My reckless behavior is no more, thanks to the Jimi...

Wallpapers of the week: action shots

Jim Gresham ∙ April 20, 2014

Last week, we posted Apple logo wallpapers to celebrate our visit to Apple HQ and the chance to eat at Caffè Macs, thanks to a Mystery Man that let us inside. Sebastien, Jeff, and I were in town for JailbreakCon and if you have not listened, we recorded the longest episode of Let's Talk Jailbreak. Make sure to check out the episode for interviews with @pod2g, @rpetrich, and @surenix.

On the wallpaper front, this week is another blended offering. The only connection between the two images is 'action.' However, they were two great images I stumbled upon this week...

Apple tribute wallpapers

Jim Gresham ∙ Updated November 23, 2014

This weekend, Sebastien and I had the pleasure of traveling to Apple HQ with popular jailbreak dev, Filippo Bigarella (@FilippoBiga). We were all in Silicon Valley for JailbreakCon 2014 and decided on Friday to drop by 1 Infinite Loop in hopes of scoring some excellent garb from The Company Store. While we all successfully spent too much money in the store, the highlight was getting inside the secretive office building.

Sebastien posted a tweet asking for an invitation from anyone employed by Apple. Shortly after, we received a response from an avid iDB reader! Of course, I cannot mention his name here, but we fondly call him the "Mystery Man." While dining at Caffè Macs (yes, we happened to see Sir Jony Ive), Mystery Man mentioned some of his favorite iDB posts are in the Wallpapers of the Week section! Honored to have met a fan, the following walls are sent out to you, Mystery Man, celebrating our recent visit to the Mothership...

Clic: the elegant case that’s barely there

Jim Gresham ∙ April 12, 2014

I have tested many, many cases in my short two year term as a hardware review editor. The one genre of case that I have seen overdone, rinsed and repeated, is the simple clip case. Almost every iPhone hardware company as one. The generic, little flimsy, thin-as-possible case that is just there to keep your phone from getting scratched up.

The trouble with these simple, small, thin cases is lack of detail and, really, passion. Companies seem to pass the thin do-nothing case as their last item at the trash can's bottom. They just produce it because it is a cheap, quick way to make a buck from people just wanting a simple solution. Native Union is here to correct those notions and is really killing it with their Clic...

Galaxy wallpapers

Jim Gresham ∙ Updated September 28, 2016

Another Sunday, another Wallpapers of the Week submission. Guys, keep the comments coming and make sure to catch me on Twitter to share the goods. This week is a featured artist who dropped me a tweet a couple weeks back and I am able to get him in the feed of wallpapers.

The section is only kept popular by the readers like you! To me, there is nothing better than a fresh wallpaper every week, if not every day. Thankfully, this week we have a three-for-one deal, with iPad included. Step past the fold for a quick download...

Just Mobile AluBolt cradles iPhone and iPad mini

Jim Gresham ∙ Updated April 16, 2018

Docks are my favorite iPhone and iPad accessory. I am not exactly sure what about them is enticing, but having my iOS devices propped elegantly at my workstation has been alluring since I first purchased an iPhone. Apple's products are not just devices for productivity. Apple's products are works of carefully crafted art.

In that nature, I would rather prop them up as a showcase. You wouldn't buy a $600 piece of art and let it lay aimlessly around your home. You would place it prominently, making sure others can tell you have great taste. You own an iPhone, right? Apply the same concept...

WWDC 2014 wallpapers for iPhone and iPad

Jim Gresham ∙ Updated June 6, 2018

Earlier today, Apple announced via a press release its annual developer conference will be held Monday, June 2 at San Francisco's Moscone West. Each conference and media event Apple holds, a cleverly designed artwork is released along with the announcement. Merely hours later, many fans and graphic artists take their own visions and create iOS wallpapers to celebrate the occasion. Inside this post, find various forms of the WWDC 2014 wallpapers, prepped and ready for your Lock or Home screen...

Mountains to the sea wallpapers

Jim Gresham ∙ Updated April 16, 2018

Another round of wallpapers awaits everyone in this installment of Wallpapers of the Week. As previously mentioned, we really appreciate everyone commenting and sharing their images in the wallpaper post comments section. Some threads have become quite the gallery of user images and expectations.

Per usual, we take all of these items into consideration when compiling the next set of wallpapers for the section. Returning weekly, will ensure you do not miss any of the great designs, photos, or abstracts...

Abstract wallpapers for iPhone

Jim Gresham ∙ Updated January 26, 2016

If it is Sunday, then it is time for Wallpapers of the Week. Last week's post of still life photographs garnered quite a bit of conversation in the comments section. We appreciate the input, advice, and images shared in the post bottom. Conversations like that are what keeps the iDB community engaged with other readers and the editors.

This week, in a turn from photography, I stumbled across a set of abstract wallpapers. The images, which are an eclectic range from stary night skies to geometric colored shapes, make for some excellent wallpapers...