January 17, 2008

Cone it forward.

Our iphone is jailbroken. That means we have read/write access to the brains of the phone and can install crazy awesome programs onto it, and have a customized dock image.

It also means our phone is languishing away in the now outdated iphone 1.1.2 firmware. When legit users everywhere are enjoying the fresh new features. We could totally upgrade if we wanted and have a perfectly working 1.1.3 phone, but upgrading nullifies our jailbreak. We're waiting a few days before upgrading in case the tireless programmers at the iphone Dev Team crack the new firmware. It's difficult to be patient.

So we can't exploit the new webclip icon feature for the springboard. You can now create a webpage bookmark and the phone plops a cool icon right on your homepage. Apple has mobileSafari set up to look for a specific icon file when iphone users make a webclip of your website.

Our internet buddy, brody from the free cone blog, turned us onto this easy explanation of how to set one up. Since we don't have the new firmware we couldn't test our icon. The free conian was kind enough to show us how it looks.

Interestingly, brody is taking improv classes at the theatre I used to improvise at, Dad's Garage.

Posted by clunkyrobot at 9:50 PM | clunky.apple.nerd | Comments (4)
Comments

Thanks for making that available. It looks great on my phone. I've had two people ask me about the icon.

Posted by: brody at January 18, 2008 11:01 AM

brody, dude. clunky hacked your phone. that's not so much an icon as it is an open window into your entire ilife. you just "yes and"-ed clunky's evil plot to take over the world.

Posted by: ablebody at January 18, 2008 2:01 PM

It is as The Master commands. All hail Clunky.

Posted by: brody at January 18, 2008 4:26 PM

Oh boy! Thanks for putting this up - Clunky. I was at an Apple store this weekend playing with the web clip thing - and was trying to figure out how to make more than just a crummy screen grab of my site.

And - by my site - I mean the blog since there is still no Flash support - oh why - oh why - must you leave me in the cold mister iphone??

Posted by: N.Bumpercar at January 23, 2008 6:11 PM
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