Skip to Content

Free TUAW iPhone app -- try it now!
AOL Tech

web-clips posts

Filed under: Macworld, iPod Family, How-tos, Internet Tools, iPhone

Create custom iPhone and iPod Touch webclip icons

by Dave Caolo (RSS feed) on 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 of your server, the root of your web documents.)
That's it. Note that your icon will receive the glossy treatment as well as those rounded corners, so keep that in mind.

[Via Daring Fireball]

Tags: iphone, ipod, web-clips, webclips

Filed under: Macworld, Internet Tools, Software Update, Apple

iPhone January update, coming soon to an iTunes near you

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Jan 15th, 2008


I don't know about you all, but considering I'm not in the market for a pricey, tiny notebook, and I don't need yet another thing hooked up to my TV, the best news I heard at the Keynote today was about this iPhone "January update" (does that mean there'll be one every month?) coming soon to your iTunes. Included in the free update to iPhone users:
  • An updated Maps that will actually find your location automatically by triangulating cell towers (we saw this a while ago), and give you the option to add a pin to the map
  • Web Clips, cutouts of web pages that you can attach to an icon sitting right there on the homescreen.
  • A customizable homescreen and dock (just hold an icon to get them wiggling, and then move them around as you please), and up to nine homescreen pages total
  • The update will also add chapter navigation for iPhone video, and subtitle/audio options as well.
  • And though the readers in our IRC channel weren't very impressed with this one, the iPhone will now feature multiple SMS sending.
Very awesome update for the iPhone, completely free and available on download in iTunes right now (!), and definitely an update that will set the stage for all the third party applications we're supposed to see next month. Bring on the SDK!

Tags: google-maps, homescreen, iphone, keynote, macworld08, maps, steve, update, web-clips, wiggly

Filed under: Cool tools, Tips and tricks, Internet Tools, Apple, Leopard

24 Hours of Leopard: Web Clips

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on 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 turn it into a widget on the Dashboard that updates as that page does. Found your local weather forecast somewhere, or a webcam that watches the outside of your house? Clip that section of the page into a web clip, and you've got a simple, custom-made widget so easy Grandma can make one. Here's what it looked like in an old build, and it's probably going to be even easier in Leopard.

Who will use it: If it's as easy as Apple says it is (and all indications say yes), everybody. Anything on the web can be clipped into a widget, so if you can access constantly updated content (say, the top story of TUAW?) then you could use it as a web clip.

You can check out all our 24 Hours of Leopard posts here.

Tags: dashboard, easy, grandma, safari, user, web, web-clips, webclips, widgets

Tip of the Day

F11 moves all your windows off the screen so you can quickly glance at your desktop. F10 shows you every open window in an application. F9 shows every open window for every application that isn't hidden or in the dock.

Learn More

Follow us on Twitter!

TUAW flickr Pool

www.flickr.com
 TUAW [Cafepress]

Featured Galleries

DNC Macs
Macworld 2008 Keynote
Macworld 2008 Build-up
Google Earth for iPhone
Podcaster
Storyist 2.0
AT&T Navigator Road Test
Bento for iPhone 1.0
Scrabble for iPhone
Tom Bihn Checkpoint Flyer Briefcase
Apple Vanity Plates
Apple booth Macworld 07
WorldVoice Radio
Quickoffice for iPhone 1.1.1
Daylite 3.9 Review
DiscPainter
Mariner Calc for iPhone
2009CupertinoBus
Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D
MLB.com At Bat 2009
Macworld Expo 2007 show floor

 

Most Commented On (7 days)

Recent Comments

More Apple Analysis

More from AOL Money and Finance

AOL Radio TUAW on Stitcher