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Found Footage: iPhone alphabet made from 540 apps




Urikane, an iPhone user with a LOT of time on his hands, has put together a (nearly) full alphabet using 540 apps. Each screen contains one letter -- except for the W, which as our commenters point out, was skipped. It would be especially hard to do on a 4x4 matrix, unless one could find app icons with the right contours to simulate the angled sections.

Outside of this being really clever, you have to admire the resolve of Urikane to actually get this done. It must have taken forever.

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Tomm0

If you can do M, you can do W. Did he run out of screens? Can you only have 25?

March 19 2010 at 4:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
T

"W" would be easy. He did an "M" just 180 it.

March 19 2010 at 2:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
DualShock

Re the 'W', friend of mine made the following suggestion:

"he should've went back to E and turned his phone sideways"

March 19 2010 at 1:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Josh Wardell

I wish apple allowed us to have that many pages on our homescreen.

March 19 2010 at 1:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David

I don't agree with the 540 apps, There were a lot of duplicates and no dots at the bottom. The person has a lot of apps to be sure. But they just ordered some of the apps they had to form letters and then took a screen shot. They then just scrolled through the images.

-David

March 19 2010 at 1:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
TIm

There really is no other way to do it as he also uses the dock or is there a jailbreak app for that allows having page-specific docks?

But yeah .. not sure about the dark one .. they appear messed with.

T.

March 19 2010 at 12:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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TIm

yeah great .. get a descent commenting function already!

that was meant to comment on iron9iant's answer.

T.

March 19 2010 at 12:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mike Coogan

Interesting but flawed like the others have pointed out. Only 25 letters and therefore it's only 500 apps.

Weird that they claimed 540 apps. Was there 2 screens that were cut out?

March 19 2010 at 12:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
iron9iant

They're just photos. The status bar and the dock slide. That's not the normal function.

March 19 2010 at 12:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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FeedMeAStrayCat

My thought exactly. So he probably didnt download and install all the apps. And maybe thats the way he got the dark color on the non-letter-apps to. (Google earth in B looks more dark then on my phone) ... Thats how I would have done it anyway. :D

March 19 2010 at 12:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jon

Agreed. Also, I saw apps duplicate on several pages. D & F have the same snowflake app.

No argument, this took alot of time.

March 19 2010 at 1:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
matteocuellar

Check the Apple website: Apple Board member Jerome B. (Jerry) York died yesterday! My condolences!

March 19 2010 at 11:48 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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matteocuellar

Oh, story has been featured already...

March 19 2010 at 11:49 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bdo

I should have thought of this - and then made sure all my apps figured prominently in as many letters as possible.

March 19 2010 at 11:31 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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