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Flickr Find: Use Webclips to create a personal Photo album
TUAW reader DoctaBu has come up with a novel way to use Webclips: creating a personal photo album. He realized he could have some fun with webclips by building an entire page of nothing but his friends' and family's pictures. He placed these all on a separate SpringBoard screen, which he can flick over to whenever he wants. Have you done something extraordinary or unique with Webclips? Let us know!
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Ryan said 3:32PM on 1-17-2008
It would be cool if you could use those webclips as a shortcut to call up the person.
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Chad MacDonald said 3:44PM on 1-17-2008
If you have your own webserver/page you could
using
tel:555-555-1234
I believe
create a link to the below page first
go to it
then add the bookmark to home page
good luck
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Person's Name
if (document.referrer == '')
{
window.location="tel:555-555-1234"
}
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trik said 3:53PM on 1-17-2008
You can do it...
Like Chad said, use the same way as creating your own webclip icons, but for the URL use the phone with the tell:// (include the slashes). When you click the icon, Safari opens and you are prompted to call the number, same as if you were to click a phone number in Safari.
like this:
if (document.referrer == '')
{
window.location="tel://555-555-1234"
}
eric said 4:16PM on 1-17-2008
I'm sure someone will easily figure out how to - but could you create the webclip with someone's picture and have the url then be a phone link to create a page of "favorites" or speed-dials using the person's image? Seems like it isn't too far removed from this new feature...
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trik said 4:23PM on 1-17-2008
I've posted an example... feel free to use the source.
You'll need a place to save the web page to...
http://www.toeknuckle.com
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trik said 4:24PM on 1-17-2008
Obviously, access the http://www.toeknuckle.com from your iphone to see it work. From your computer to grab the source of the 2 files. The index.html and then the phone # html after you click on the number.
Jon said 4:52PM on 1-17-2008
For an ipod touch this trick could also be used for e-mail could it not? what would one need to replace the tel:// with in the code to make it e-mail someone from safari?
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Trik said 5:44PM on 1-17-2008
you could use mailto:// but that will open the mail app not sure what it'll do without it
R Mitchell said 5:29PM on 1-17-2008
the unfortunate part of using this method to add phone contacts to the home page is that it has to launch safari and then you also have to press another button to confirm the call. it would be great if we could just create home page buttons for icons directly from our contacts screen and could have one touch dialing without the confirmation dialog.
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Alex said 5:32PM on 1-17-2008
Yes, exactly. Is there a shortcut/link that goes straight to addressbook phone #, (such as a mailto or tel link)?
Also, if there's not, can you guys not see either Apple creating this, or this becoming part of one of the very first 3rd Party Apps. I was talking about this, about ten minutes after home screen icons came out.
trik said 6:00PM on 1-17-2008
Yeah, I don't think it's very practical, I think going to favorites, via double click of home is much easier.
klime said 5:52PM on 1-17-2008
I have playing around a lot with webclips and home page customization... i posted some of my disoveries at http://personafile.com/iPhone-apps.html nothing too shocking or i would have mentioned it here!
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