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For those who don't know, Apple has tweaked the animation settings for 7.1 to speed them up (listening to us!). If you want a stock feel with speed, try this out:
You can either follow the forum post or swap your RootSettings.plist file with mine:
Use ifile to copy RootSettings.plist to /var/mobile/Documents/com.apple.springboardsettings
Back up first!
All of my other settings are pretty much stock other than a few icon settings. (no jitter, folders inside folders etc..).
All credit goes to raffi23 from reddit.
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This is going to be an in depth tutorial on setting up activator to do what you want.
If you don't have it already, go ahead and go to cydia and install activator from Ryan Petrich's beta repo rpetri.ch/repo so we get the most features from activator.
After you have activator, go ahead and navigate to activator and click "Menus"
Once in menus, select Add New Menu
When you select add new menu, you will be prompted to add a title for your menu. Name it Favorites.
Now that you have created your menu, go ahead and select it and select Add Action.
Each action you select will be to launch an app. Each app is an action, so every time you select an app, go back and press the Add Action button until all of your favorites have been selected.
Now that your menu is complete we can back out and then select anywhere.
Decide what your action will be and scroll down til you see menus.
Select the menu you just created should be called Favorites and voila! You now have a favorites app launcher with activator!
BONUS
If you have the tweak CCToggles, this is an extended tutorial!
Open up your settings and navigate to CCToggles.
In the menu go to QuickLaunches
Scroll down until you see Add Activator.
You'll see Undefined Activator.
Set that activator to your menu, Favorites.
Now launch Control Center and you'll see the activator icon as a QuickLaunch.
Press it and notice your easy, access-anywhere favorites app launcher!
Hope you all enjoyed this tutorial, and thought it was in depth! I did my best to make sure it was very thorough.