I have just released my first phone skin collection for YumSkins! I created the collection based on images used for this website. I really like the look and feel of our website as of late, and it has inspired every aspect of my work since. I thought it would be a fitting way to celebrate the current design, and where my thoughts are creatively.

The skins are part of YumSkins which is currently in beta testing. If you don’t have a YumSkins printer, you can still visit our collection and download our designs as wallpapers! Click on the image or the link below to get my skins!

Download my YumSkins here: here.

These high definition wallpapers for your iPhone are from the archives of Helium Design Co. I spent a lot of time hand crafting each image, and I hope somebody gets some good use out of them! I think space is the new blue for some reason.

There is something so cool about whats outside of this planet. What are other species like on other planets? I can only imagin the beauty that is just waiting to be seen an experienced. None of this is possible and only hypothetical in terms of what glaxies, or anything in far away universes actually looks like.

The way scientist are able to hypothosis what each unknown element is in the universe is by taking photos of the gasses around stars and galaxies. A computer is able to generate colors, depth, etc. by determining the gasses and how light reflects off of them. Sounds pretty complicated really.

Space is a big part of pop culture right now as well as thinking about the future and how amazing it is going to be. People want to know the unknown. Especially from my generation where we think that dark colors mixed with bright designs is essential when your trying to be cool. Space is natural, and contains all of the unspoken requirements to be considered a big part of American pop culture. It has been for a very long time. Its bright, its heavy, its all around you…

Even before man was able to set foot on the moon. Comic books from the old, less technology driven ages would create these far off guesses of what things looked like outside of this universe and other planets.

I believe outer space will forever be apart of the mainstream culture in America, and everywhere else for that matter. Even our ancestors thought that space was amazing. They would write about it and guess what lied beyond the stars, creating stories, and ridiculous beliefs of space people coming back to get us.

Well enjoy what I have given you, and share it with your friends. I spent so much time creating these from straight up scratch, so enjoy. These are super cool and beautiful for the iPhone 4S and all previous versions of the iPhone. Plus they freaking look beautiful!

More From heliumdesignco

• » Print off our new phone skins collection for iPhone! o

heliumdesignco Recommends

• HOWITZER  (webdesignbysteve)
• RENEGADE SUITE  (webdesignbysteve)

Ask heliumdesignco To Recommend Your Posts

Santigold has just released her new music video for the her new song “Big Mouth”! The video is beautifully hand-drawn in a simplistic style. I really love this whole video, and the song is amazing. I’ve been waiting since 2008 for new Santigold material. Enjoy “Big Mouth” below!

More From heliumdesignco

• Santigold “Go” T-Shirt
• Find Helium on the New Google+
• Welcome to the New Website!

heliumdesignco Recommends

• New Sharing Tool: MarkUp  (webdesignbysteve)
• New Coding Developments for Web Designers  (webdesignbysteve)

Ask heliumdesignco To Recommend Your Posts

As of yesterday, pod2g released an official redsn0w jailbreak that is sure to unlock any iPhone that is not the iPhone 4S or iPad 2. At first redsn0w 10b1 wasn’t working very well. I thought I would have to restore my phone because I thought that I had bricked it. Fortunatly, I just re-tethered using 9b8, and all was well in the world of Roberts iPhone 4. Then I did a google search today for a fix. I knew that my iPhone was running on software 5.0.1, but the jailbreak used the 5.0 firmware file. This caused a lot of problems including an error while uploading the ramdisk during the jailbreak that also said something about the firmware. This led my google search. I found out that redsn0w released an update just a few hours ago that fixes a lot of the issues people have been having with the 10b1 jailbreak. You can download redsn0w 10b2 here.

Everything worked fine. I made sure to slide the power off and then did the reset into DFU mode. I proceeded with the jailbreak and unchecked Cydia based on the tutorial guidelines. It worked perfectly, until I noticed that some of my Cydia apps were broken and the apps where not showing up in my settings. It took some time, but basically you need to update Cydia. You can download the file here.

To update you will need to install iFile through Cydia. You can get a free version of iFile by adding http://cydia.xsellize.com/. Click on the package source and look for iFile. Once installed click on this link in your Safari browser on your iPhone and click “open in”. Select iFile. This will open iFile and launch another set of options. Click install. Reboot your iPhone. The update should be complete. Now launch Cydia.

Click on changes and you should see a black bar on the top that says a bunch of stuff. You may get a few errors. Cydia is still working on fixing some of the repos that are not showing up. I have a lot of custom repo’s so this is why some people are experiencing further technical difficulties in regards to errors when downloading packages. Eventually, if you keep trying as I did, you will get through the congested servers and see a couple of updates. The big one you should be looking for is Mobile Substrate. The update should be numbered in red under changes and you should update all. Reboot your phone after the update is complete.

There you have it. A bit of a rocky jailbreak in my opinion, but it’s better than being tethered!

More From heliumdesignco

• Santigold “Go” T-Shirt
• Packager for the Iphone
• Pandora- Is it the Greatest?

heliumdesignco Recommends

• The Part of Web Design That I Specialize In.  (webdesignbysteve)
• Getting Your Visitors To Come Back To Your Website  (webdesignbysteve)

Ask heliumdesignco To Recommend Your Posts

Every year we go out to the malls and other retail outlets to find our gifts. We think, it has to be cheaper than going any other day. I mean, December is the month of sales. We did go out to find these deals, but there really wasn’t much to save in regards to time.

You can find all sorts of deals if you look hard enough. But then you have to wait in line until the end of time and deal with rude people in overcrowded places.

The next thing you know the cashier is rude to you, and they mishandle your gift. As soon as I got home, one of my glass pieces was completely destroyed! I can’t believe the hassle Xmas has officially turned into. It took us all day just to buy four gifts for three individuals. I’m glad I didn’t buy anymore than that. I would be in line right now!

My recommendation to anyone who still has gifts to get is to get them today. There are plenty of online sales going on, and tons of places are either offering free shipping or discounted prices. Ebay.com is a great place to get gifts for people that you don’t really want to spend a lot of time or money on. There are some risk with ebay.com, for example you might not get the gift in time so you should make sure the shipper is guaranteeing pre-Xmas day shipping. This can greatly reduce the variety of gifts you may be able to find for your loved ones, but that’s not to say its harder than going out and looking for any scraps that may still be lying around Target, or the Mall.

Amazon.com is still a great place to go Xmas shopping because the items listed are all guaranteed to be delivered pre-Xmas day. There is a huge variety to select from. You can even check out the quality of the item, for example if the item has a box it comes in, if it’s been used, or if its slightly damaged. Sometimes the perfect gift can be slightly dented, for example a Gibson Guitar.

My point is to not go shopping in the doomed malls and outlet stores this week. The discovery and the prices are not worth it at all! You can find something more special online for your loved ones, and relax while doing it.

More From heliumdesignco

• Santigold “Go” T-Shirt
• Packager for the Iphone
• poster design

heliumdesignco Recommends

• Errors in the Website Can Affect Your SEO  (webdesignbysteve)
• Getting Your Visitors To Come Back To Your Website  (webdesignbysteve)

Ask heliumdesignco To Recommend Your Posts

I found it on perezhilton.com! Its live see it live now gaga marry the night official music video released right now!!!!!

I understand Lady Gaga is way to famous, and her ideas are so crazy they seem pretentious at times. But I must say, Lady Gaga continues to impress me every time. I am a long time fan of Lady Gaga. Joshua and I both use to stalk her on the internet and watch her grow. I remember when Gaga was in all of the gay pride shows down in Cali. She was on the Hills, a show that I can’t stand to watch, and I remember that blowing me away. Paparazzi was a music video that I will never forget, and her catchy pop interludes were always on point. We love Gaga so much. Joshua and I saw Gaga in Chicago right before she blew up. The House of Blues was so small that another show was added right after that. It was the most amazing experience.

So as you can tell, I am a Gaga SUPER-FAN. I can write books on the subject, but I don’t really have all day because MARRY THE NIGHT IS ABOUT TO BE ON!!!! I can’t wait. I am going to have it streaming live right here on the site thanks to Perezhilton.com You know you want to watch the marry the night official music video!!

I found it on perezhilton.com! Its live see it live now gaga marry the night official music video released right now!!!!!

Thanks to Perez for this video!!

Thanks to http://www.perezhilton.com/

More From heliumdesignco

• Santigold “Go” T-Shirt
• Le Tigre “Who Took the Bomp?”
• Pandora- Is it the Greatest?

heliumdesignco Recommends

• The Part of Web Design That I Specialize In.  (webdesignbysteve)
• Errors in the Website Can Affect Your SEO  (webdesignbysteve)

Ask heliumdesignco To Recommend Your Posts

Helium Design Co has finally designed and developed our first application for the iTunes app store. It was such an amazing process, and we hope you try it.

You can purchase it here if you want to see what we created! It was a ton of hard work on everyone’s parts.

Your ULTIMATE GUIDE for getting girls’ numbers and knowing exactly what text messages to send them, or maybe just a nifty tool to help you.

Make a girl always respond to your text.

Start sending sexy, flirtatious texts.

Know how to ask a girl out.

Never again lose track of what girls you’re texting.

You’ve already read my Twenty Sexy Texts PDF now it’s time to step it up a gear with an inexpensive app specially designed to help you date more effectively.

My Sexy Text PlayBook is now available from the itunes app store and is the DEFINITIVE PRO GUIDE on how to always know what to text a girl.

Written by leading female dating coach, and text game expert, Hayley Quinn.

Pre-loaded with 125 original text messages that you won’t find anywhere else.

Fully customisable text messages that can be made unique to you.

Over 125 text tips to help you decide what is the right message to send.

Text filters help you to select exactly the right text message to send.

 Five amazing categories of texts that you’ll use again and again.

Keep track of all the girls you meet in the black book feature.

No monthly upgrade fee- free updates will be available.

Automatic click through to your text message: no need for cut and paste.

Fully functional on all iphones and ipads.

Ever wondered what the first message you should send a girl should be?

How you can keep track of all your numbers and dates?

How you can to ask a girl on a date and always get her to say yes?

How to use texts to flirt with girls until they can’t wait to see you?

How to contact a girl after not hearing from her for ages?

Hayley Quinn is a leading expert in Text Game, and she wants to help you to create original text messages, that always get the results you want, with the women you want.

Hayley Quinn has helped thousands of men globally get the women they want and has been a featured dating expert for Cosmopolitan, FHM and Askmen.

You won’t find these text messages anywhere else, and with the help of text categories, filters and customisation features you can write text messages that are unique to you and the women you’re dating.

Track what women you’re dating using the black book feature, then send a message that is perfect for the individual girl that you want to hook.

Always have an amazing first text to send, text flirt, use texts to ask a girl on a date, contact girls that you haven’t spoken to in ages, and devise your own messages.

Now Available At The App Store

More From heliumdesignco

• Packager for the Iphone
• Find Helium on the New Google+
• Mobile TV Elite: Best Mobile Steaming Live TV App & Program for 2011

heliumdesignco Recommends

• Getting Your Visitors To Come Back To Your Website  (webdesignbysteve)
• 3 Ways To Make Money Blogging  (webdesignbysteve)

Ask heliumdesignco To Recommend Your Posts

If you have the iPhone 4S you have her. She is one of the greatest inventions added to another one of Earths most greatest inventions.

Siri is the personal assistant UI that everybody wants. I read somewhere online that Steve Jobs said a few days before he died that he has finally done it. He created a perfect creation. Siri.

The problem is I have an iPhone 4. I have literally been watching like a hawk on the subject. I spend all my free time googling so don’t try any of these strings:

“Siri unlock jailbreak iphone 4.”
“Siri Cydia repo”
“iphone 4s installed on iphone 4″

I search and search. I even set the time on google to be the last 24 hours. I have become crazy about Siri and I need it on my device to find peace again. This morning I actually installed siriN1ght b2 on my phone and it almost destroyed it. I actually had to update to 5.0.1 and jailbreak that to get it running again. It was stuck on the load screen and then it would just reboot over and over. It was no use.

I even went through the trouble of trying to do the thing myself. I am going through the phone and messing with the files to configure it. I don’t get far, I think its because the files are missing important strings. Where those are, I have no idea. I guess what I am wanting is the ability to use my phone so effortlessly. Especially with the new Cydia hack that gives you the ability to just say “Siri” and Siri will launch without the need of a home button. Its crazy and I want it. I don’t know why I have to geek out about it, but I don’t want to go out and buy the new iPhone 4S. Its really not that much different from the iPhone 4, and I really am holding out for the iPhone 5 expected out in June 2012. It was suppose to come out when the iPhone 4S was released and it never happened. It was a very sad day especially since Steve Jobs had just died.

Currently, jail breaking teams around the world are hacking the thing right now. They will make the process easier for the less knowledgeable. I have seen many posts within the last hour with video proof showing a 3GS using Siri and connecting with Apple servers. They know what they are doing, its just a matter of time before its on my iPhone 4.

There are other apps that can do what Siri can, but they really don’t even come close in the flawless design and expected friendliness that Siri can provide as an assistant. I find opportunities throughout my day that I know I could do easier with Siri. I can’t wait.

Just be patient. Don’t do what I did and try to hurry the process. When Siri is loose, you’ll know.

More From heliumdesignco

• Packager for the Iphone
• Pandora- Is it the Greatest?
• poster design

heliumdesignco Recommends

• Getting Your Visitors To Come Back To Your Website  (webdesignbysteve)
• Why Webmasters Should Comment On Blogs  (webdesignbysteve)

Ask heliumdesignco To Recommend Your Posts

Ever since I moved to Seattle there has been a wall located half a block away from my store. I loved this wall because it wasn’t filled with the random riff-raft that one could come to expect on a graffitied wall. What was on the wall was beautiful. Each time something was placed on the wall it was amazing just the same if not better.

Check out these photos I took and posted to my tumblr from the last three months. If you haven’t seen my tumblr you should! I love to post street art and other beautiful things. http://squirlylittleman.tumblr.com/

     
Now the wall is being stripped down completely. Today they paint the wall. There have been construction workers working inside the abandoned building. I knew this would happen eventually. This is the terrible thing about street art. Most pieces will be destroyed in their entirety. It’s important to document the art that fills the streets of the city you reside.

The even sadder part is what happened the day before that was even more bothersome. A tagger went and destroyed everything himself. He had a walkey-talky and you could hear cops chattering through the device. He just stopped his bike all of a sudden and opened his back pack up and started going to town on the wall. I guess he thought that he should be the one to mess it all up and not some construction worker.

I was thinking of doing some street art myself. I always sketch these wild and crazy things and ideas. I’m sure if I had a spray can in my hand I would be able to make some pretty amazing pieces. I just don’t know if I feel comfortable taking a risk like that for an art piece that is just going to be destroyed. People do go to jail and get major fines over street art. Is it really worth the time, money, and possibly freedom?

More From heliumdesignco

• Santigold “Go” T-Shirt
• Pandora- Is it the Greatest?
• poster design

heliumdesignco Recommends

• The Part of Web Design That I Specialize In.  (webdesignbysteve)
• Getting Your Visitors To Come Back To Your Website  (webdesignbysteve)

Ask heliumdesignco To Recommend Your Posts

Uprinting.com is offering a giveaway to our US readers! Uprinting.com offers online printing, and brochure printing. They are offering a set of brochures to one of our lucky readers! You will be able to customize and help design the brochure based on your needs!

To enter: comment below and tell us what you would put in the brochures! Would you make something for your business or school? Advertise a bake sale or inform people about a cause? Let us know, and one of our readers will be randomly selected for the prize!

We will be announcing the winner on October 25, 2011 on our Twitter. We will be sure to update this post with the winner as well.

This blog post is sponsored by UPrinting.com, an online printing company. Please visit UPrinting.com for more details.

More From heliumdesignco

• Le Tigre “Who Took the Bomp?”
• Monster Wallpaper
• Why Go Mobile? Web Series

heliumdesignco Recommends

• Why Webmasters Should Comment On Blogs  (webdesignbysteve)
• SEO Whitepapers from SeoDesignSolutions.com  (webdesignbysteve)

Ask heliumdesignco To Recommend Your Posts