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Saurik -the Cydia creator- has opened a new center in Cydia called Theme Center. This new feature will allow you to search for Retina and non-Retina themes. At this moment it contains only some popular themes, MacCiti and ModMyi staff picks.

The second feature to use my Whole Package Index, the “Cydia Theme Center”, went up an hour ago, and 15,000 people have already tried it! ;P

This is the second feature Jay Freeman adds to Cydia, the first one allows users to easily check installed packages. As noted by saurik this new feature looks pretty good and popular. [viaAppAdvice]

Theme It, a new jailbreak tweak will be available via Cydia soon. This tweak would put your themes in one place instead of Winterboard and as the official site reports, it will be available for all jailbreak users soon as a Cydia package.

What makes Theme It unique, it allows you to separate all these available themes out into their own dedicated “platform”. It will be similar to Cydia store but will feature themes only.

Check out the embedded video below and what the developers say:

A carefully designed platform (application and website) allowing focus on high-quality themes and also the artists behind the themes in a way that wasn’t possible before… it’s the Theme Store you’ve been dreaming of using.

With some of the best theme creators already on-board we can guarantee you’ll have access to amazing and exclusive content in an environment that’s sure to meet everyone’s needs. Focusing on high-quality, complete themes, the goal of Theme it isn’t to have a million themes in the gallery… but the best ones available.

The platform includes a very user-friendly website and an iPhone/iTouch application to showcase and distribute the themes with instant access to the information you really want, such as screenshots, details, compatibility and much more. You’ll also have the opportunity to learn a little more about the artists that create the themes you love and use. A section will be dedicated to these wonderful designers.

Stay tuned for the release soon! (iClarified)

Think of Monte as a "green" jailbreak. It recycles (for example) 4.1's exact JB exploit on 4.2.1 :) Waste no exploits.

More clarification? The Dev-team has added a new important feature (Monte) to Redsn0w which allows you to untethered jailbreak without the need of iOS 4.2b3 SHSH blobs, you will need iOS 4.1 SHSH blobs. Monte is not an exploit, it's a technique based on using the iOS 4.1 exploit into iOS 4.2.1, so releasing it now before the official release for iOS 4.3 won't waste any exploits.So the dev-team may release it soon.

On the other side Chronic dev-team is working hard now to release Greenpois0n RC5 to untethered iOS 4.2.1, see the full details posted here.