WebClips Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

AppFlow for the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Feb 21st, 2008)

Some enterprising iPhone developer named Erica Sadun (we hear she blogs for a fly-by-night Mac site) has been tinkering around with CoverFlow on the iPhone for a book she's writing, and while the result of my doing the same tinkering would be nothing but a broken iPhone, she instead pulls off the ...

Widget Watch: Woot!

by Mike Schramm (Jan 31st, 2008)

This Lifehacker comment thread made me go researching on what I might use for Webclips, but save for the front page of my favorite blog (TUAW, duh), I couldn't think of anything I'd really want to keep on my Dashboard 24/7. I did like the idea of putting Woot.com (and Shirt.woot, which I've been ...

TUAW Responds: Creating Web Clips with User Names and Passwords

by Erica Sadun (Jan 31st, 2008)

TUAW reader Rudi writes that he needs web clips on his iPhone that "prefix my web path with a username and password, great for things like web based corporate email." In response to Rudi and to anyone else who needs special-purpose URLs, including ones that make telephone calls (using the tel:// ...

Flickr Find: Use Webclips to create a personal Photo album

by Erica Sadun (Jan 17th, 2008)

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 ...

Create custom iPhone and iPod Touch webclip icons

by Dave Caolo (Jan 15th, 2008)

Dan Dickinson has posted a super-simple way to ensure that those who visit your site with an iPod Touch or iPhone will get a nice-looking webclip icon. When I say simple, I mean it: Create a 57x57 PNG. Name it "apple-touch-icon.png" Throw it in the root folder of your website. (Not the root ...

24 Hours of Leopard: Web Clips

by Mike Schramm (Oct 26th, 2007)

Feature: Web Clips, little roll-your-own widgets for Dashboard that will tell you anything the Web can. How it works: Making a Dashboard widget isn't really that hard now, but it's about to get a lot easier. There'll be a little button in Safari that you can press to take a "clip" of a web page and ...