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Put TUAW on your iPhone or iPod touch home page
If you want to run lots of Apps on your 1.1.1 iPhone or iPod touch but don't want to install SummerBoard, you can download this SpringBoard patcher that provides you with multi-page support.
Copy off Springboard, patch it, put it back onto your device and reboot. It's what I'm running on my iPhone and touch right now and it works beautifully.
Of course, once you have all that space available to work with, what are you going to do with it? I put together a TUAW webpage launcher using the OpenURL kit I posted about a few weeks ago. Now I just tap to launch TUAW.
If you'd like to download your own TUAW launcher, you can grab a copy from the Samples folder in my OpenURL kit. You'll also find instructions there for creating your own website launchers.
Over at website "Jon's Thoughts on Everything", you can find a web-based equivalent of OpenURL. I actually found it harder to use. For me, it involved more work than just adding an icon and editing two lines of text but you might enjoy using it.
![TUAW [Cafepress]](http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tuaw.com/media/tuaw-cafepress-promo.png)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
imacmatt09 said 5:04PM on 10-17-2007
Who made that icon?
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JMG said 5:11PM on 10-17-2007
I agree. The icon should be a picture of me.
Erica, if you have a chance, I used iUnlock (as opposed to anySIM) to unlock my 1.0.2 iPhone. I did not try to update to 1.1.1, but would I theoretically be able to update to 1.1.1 using the new anySIM once the "re-virginizer" is complete? Do you think it will matter that I used iUnlock as opposed to anySIM?
Thanks in advance. You rock.
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John Tylko III said 5:23PM on 10-17-2007
Here is a better icon:
http://differentdistrict.com/jtylko/icon.png
How about an iPhone version of TUAW, Erica? iLounge has a great app for it, and I'm sure they'd love to help you guys with it. (Webapp, not an actual coded app)
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Antonio Moro said 5:26PM on 10-17-2007
TUAW, seriously, worst-logo-ever! chenge it fast! it sucks hard :(
done by some tuaw's children maybe? ;)
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Charles said 5:47PM on 10-17-2007
You should make a iphone friendly version of the site.
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Ramesh said 5:48PM on 10-17-2007
Erica, I would like to know your thoughts on Apple's announcement that they will release an SDK in Feb '08. You could probably write a small piece with your thoughts and possibly the dev-team's reaction as well?
Thanks!
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billp said 5:50PM on 10-17-2007
Okay seriously for a second. Considering all the insanity that has swirled around broken phones and the mortality rate of hacked firmware after updates and warranties and everything else, and considering Apple has announced real third party apps and an SDK, should you really still be pursuing this doomed approach?
Surely someone must be wondering if all this initial work will be in vain after the SDK comes out? Will your work just have to be redone?
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noob said 5:56PM on 10-17-2007
Is there a way to tell noobs like myself how to do this easily? And by easy I mean, all I know how to do is install apps that are updated on my touch. I don't know anything about computers.......sadly...
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Gruff said 6:43PM on 10-17-2007
No offense meant, I've been a reader and commenter on TUAW for a number of years and I think Erica is über-hacker supreme, but this is exactly the WRONG idea for an iPhone application. If this was an RSS-like app that showed TUAW article summaries, provided archive searching, and had a nice iPhone interface, then I could *possibly* see it's worth. But this? This is nothing more than an advertisement.
I think "apps" like this are possibly one reason that Apple chose not to release an "real" development SDK — along with them likely thinking that the OS was a bit too new and real-world testing was still needed, and the time for Webapps had finally come. Bloatware is an issue with an installable app, but not so much with a Webapp.
Imagine installing an app on your iPhone and along with it you get several "helper apps" that are nothing more than webpage launchers for sites that have paid money to be included. This happens for other PDA/Smartphones, but not often, so why do I think this would happen often for the iPhone? Money. The iPhone is (still) the hot product, development of any kind is not cheap, and there are many sites that would easily pay to by on the iPhone home screen where all you have to do is touch the icon.
I'm sorry, but I won't be installing your app — I see enough advertising every day and I don't need it on my iPhone home screen.
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Sam Weiss said 7:22PM on 10-17-2007
@gruff:
I think she's really trying to just give you the idea of creating a link for a favorite website. When I had 1.0.2, I used one to help me log into my company's wireless. It was invaluable.
I haven't jailbreaked my 1.1.1 install (just upgraded last night), but I could see making a whole screen of websites, seeing that you no longer have to scroll down this endless list to get to your app icons.
@billp
I quite miss some of the features I had with my modded 1.0.2 phone. I will gladly jailbreak my phone again to make it non boring and more useable. Yes I think most of us totally understand that Apple might shut us down with the next update. "Oh Well" (though I think the tiff exploit on a phone is particulaly nasty... I hope they patch it, and our phones are still hackable).
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What I'd really like to see is something that will disable safari from opening everything "in a new tab". I'm constantly having to go through that list and close websites!
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Michael Mastrole said 7:23PM on 10-17-2007
Why even bother doing this. In my bookmarks is the link for the same site. Thank God apple is opening up the SDK for this product if this is what "innovation" has come to.
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oshawapilot said 10:35PM on 10-17-2007
Am I the only one here that finds TUAW to be incredibly slow on the iPhone to begin with?
I love this place...but surfing it on my iPhone is a lesson in pain - it takes forever to load courtesy of seemingly hung or slow affiliate image loads, and it seems to be bloated to the point that if I even try to comment it slows my iPhone down to the point where it only registers a keypress every 2 seconds.
I thought perhaps it was just me...or that my phone needed to be rebooted...but I've consistently repeated the same experience over and over again.
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tkenny said 3:44PM on 10-18-2007
I created an icon for the iPhone version of facebook. Nothing fancy, only took me a few mins. If anyone wants it, download it from the link below.
http://tkenny.co.uk/files/facebook_app.zip
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