Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Odds and ends, Freeware, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
TapTapTap creates 10,000 iPhone apps mosaic
This is awesome. TapTapTap, in order to celebrate over 10,000 apps in the App Store, has created a mosaic of (what else?) an iPhone loaded up with apps -- out of the icons of App Store apps. It's crazy. You can see the entire thing full scale over on Flickr, and World of Apple is selling a poster of the image for $50 if you want to jump right over all the trouble of printing it out yourself..
There are quite a few Apps I don't recognize in there, but I did notice the WebMD app, the Warcraft Characters app, Pyrus, NetNewsWire, and a few others I've got installed on my own iPhone. Very cool idea, and very neat way to show off just how many thousands of apps have arrived in the App Store already.
There are quite a few Apps I don't recognize in there, but I did notice the WebMD app, the Warcraft Characters app, Pyrus, NetNewsWire, and a few others I've got installed on my own iPhone. Very cool idea, and very neat way to show off just how many thousands of apps have arrived in the App Store already.
Thanks, Alex!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
John Russell said 9:52AM on 12-05-2008
Unfortunately, they had to duplicate some icons in there. You wouldn't notice unless you looked closely though.
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ack154 said 10:59AM on 12-05-2008
I noticed that too. I thought it was a mosaic of each icon once and using only the 10,000 icons available. But there are a bunch of dupes. :(
Still cool, but lost a little luster IMO.
Jinto said 10:12AM on 12-05-2008
You spam for fail.
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Ron said 10:19AM on 12-05-2008
Can anyone tell me what recommended app(s) you can use to make mosaic images like this on the Mac?
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John Jusayan said 10:37AM on 12-05-2008
One of my apps is in there (Crit by Treeness, LLC)! Twice actually:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=288089670&mt=8
It would have been cool if they had all 10000+ apps in the picture. Though, that would have probably been difficult, if not impossible.
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Yorgle said 10:50AM on 12-05-2008
The icon for my app "LlamaSlate" doesn't seem to be in there, but the icon for my "NixieClock" (the orange 3 digit on a black background) appears at least 5 times in it. heh.
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Justin said 10:51AM on 12-05-2008
Wow! Think how long it must have taken to put each icon in it's spot. Breathtaking.
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Jozsoo said 12:23PM on 12-05-2008
Anyone know which app happened be the 10,000th?
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Magnus said 12:37PM on 12-05-2008
Does it say what software they used to make the mosaic?
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Kai said 4:17AM on 12-08-2008
I think they could have used "MacOSaiX.app" for that. that would explain duplicates. there are some icons definitely missing. e.g. a wonderful webcam app I betatested for: "worldview"...
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Conor said 7:32AM on 12-06-2008
"out of the icons of App Store apps" should read "out of the icons of some of the App Store apps".
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burningspear said 10:04AM on 12-06-2008
10.000+ crap in the crAppstore you mean.
Most of these apps are nothing but spam...
I'd be interested in a crap versus app ratio for the crAppstore, the "iPhone Application Graveyard" and Cydia.
I bet Cydia will turn up with the better ratio towards app.
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