Better Webclip Icons for 1.1.3 iPhones and iPod touches
Soon after Steve Jobs announced the new 1.1.3, Emil Hedaya realized that a simple meta-refreseh redirect would allow him to create custom icons for any webclip. All you need is a website of your own. You link to your custom pages and have them redirect you to the sites in question.
To demonstrate this he's put together a set of iPhone shortcuts to his favorite sites (including Meebo, Fandango, Flickr and more). If you navigate to his page and webclip off those links, you'll create some great looking icons on your SpringBoard Home page instead of the dull defaults.
Update: Redirected the links to http://redmedia.com/i/ at Emil's request to avoid overloading his server.Share
Source: http://redmedia.com/i/
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Soon after Steve Jobs announced the new 1.1.3, Emil Hedaya realized that a simple meta-refreseh redirect would allow him to create custom...
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any TUAW webclip??
January 21 2008 at 10:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThere is an even better Site:
http://webclipme.com/
There are not all Icons, but you can create some and they will be published.
I created a website that works somewhat like the website in the article, except that you can make your own. So upload your own images and specify your own URLs. Let me know what you think.
http://networkadvanced.com/webclips/
Thanks,
Matt
I can't get the latest files off google because of the page limit, but you can get the ones I had up as of the time this article was posted at http://redmedia.com/i
January 18 2008 at 1:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replylooks like google banned my page because of pageviews. if i can get back in i'll move it to somewhere without a pageview limit.
January 18 2008 at 1:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI can host the page for you if you like, send me an email:
feedprocess@gmail.com
Emil,
These work awesome thanks for all the work!
Can someone set up a site where people can upload their icons?
January 18 2008 at 12:10 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThis shouldn't be that hard, if I knew how to program I would. All you need is a form that takes an image upload, name, and destination URL, and write this to an HTML file that uses the source code on any of the redirect pages I have put up. If you spruced it up by letting people vote on which ones look good, etc. it could be a really useful site.
January 18 2008 at 8:26 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyGreat idea about voting. It could be like a gallery for very small art.
January 18 2008 at 8:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHey Peter - thanks for your code. I know nothing about programming but your instructions were clear and it worked great. Much appreciated.
January 18 2008 at 12:08 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhy hasn't TUAW made one?
January 17 2008 at 2:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyNo, I think there's something to the 157x157 icons; its just that they get shrunk. Which at that point makes me wonder why they need to be bigger just to be shrunk right back.
January 17 2008 at 9:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySomeone commented on my blog that 158x158 is the size apple uses for their native apps, so i'll refresh the ones that look chunky with higher res versions tonight as well.
January 17 2008 at 1:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyUm, that's not possible, the iphone screen is 320 pixels wide, four icons across means the max possible would be 80px, I took a screenshot of my iphone when it was hacked in 1.1.2 and the icons are almost exactly 57x57.
January 17 2008 at 8:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI've changed some to 158 square instead of 57, and they definitely look better, FYI.
January 18 2008 at 8:24 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHot Apps on TUAW
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