Posted July 22nd, 2008 in Mac Geekery
Tags: iphone
The fact that my wife and I both have iPhones is a blessing and a curse. It’s a blessing because well… we both have iPhones. But it’s also a curse. It has become another gadget to upgrade, to pimp up and gulp- to depreciate quickly . We were both going to get the 2nd generation iPhones but after weighting in the fact that the original ones are upgradable via software, it became hard to justify the cost of a whole new phone. Sorry, 2 new phones. So we opted for the software update, which gave us in a lot of ways a new phone. The upgrade was free, but the mostly inexpensive apps add up. This got me thinking about Fairplay, Apple’s DRM technology used throughout the iTunes store for music and now applications as well. Fairplay allows you to register up to 5 computers and unlimited iPods/iPhones synced to those computers. So… it should be easy for my wife and I to share iPhone apps with each other as long as both our iTunes are authorized to use them. All we need to do is authorize both accounts in both computers and re-download the apps. This could work in Windows, but why would I right?
Here’s a step by step tutorial on how to do it.
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Posted July 22nd, 2008 in Wordpress
Tags: iphone, Wordpress
I am writing this post from the new Wordpress application on my iPhone.
Posted January 17th, 2008 in Web
Tags: iphone
With the latest software update for the iPhone and iPod touch, users can now save webclips to their springboard(desktop). These act as a shortcut to a website. Now, the iphone/touch will remember exactly the crop and zoom that you saved and will create an icon automatically but the icon is not always the most desired visual representation of the site. For example, if I want a webclip of CNN’s latest news, it will show a screenshot of the news, not a CNN icon. And if I zoom into the icon just for the logo and then save the webclip, when i click on the webclip it will take me to the zoom in of the icon and not the news. Fortunately, the iPhone/Touch can use a predetermined icon provided by the website. Here’s how to create a custom webclip icon for the the iPhone/iPod Touch.
Save your 57×57px icon as a PNG, name it “apple-touch-icon.png” and upload to the root folder of your site files(where you index file is). The iPhone/Touch will automatically look for it here. It will also automatically round the edges and make give it that gloss look so you don’t need to worry about that.
If you want to name it differently, or place the file somewhere else, you need to specify it in the html file as a header item like this:
<head>
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/pathto/mywebclipicon.jpg"/>
</head>
ps. thanks to abraham for letting me borrow his camera at work
p.s. Drew McLellan at All In The Head has posted a bookmarklet that dynamically adds the icon code to any page. This makes it possible for you to design your own icons for any website. Very clever Mr. Drew. Via Rob.
