iPhone Home Screen Custom Icon

It’s so easy it’s trivial. All you need to do is save a 45×45 pixel png file as “apple-touch-icon.png” in your web root.

Thanks to ADT.

Wordpress for iPhone

Just added the iWPhone Plugin for Wordpress, that creates a really nice looking version of this blog if you are using an iPhone, like I am prone to do.

Totally easy to install and looks painless so far, took all of 2 minutes and didn’t require me to touch my current theme… beautiful.

Apple Product Evolution from 1976 to 2008

As seen on CG.

I have owned eight of these and currently use three.

(As an aside, why does DailyMotion provide embed code that doesn’t work and needs to be hacked?!?)

Tech Logo Evolution

A great post from Neatorama on the evolution of some tech companies logos, with an interesting history of them. As you can see by the image, Apple is included, as is Google, IBM, and others.

Rumor has it that the bite on the Apple logo was a nod to Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science who committed suicide by eating a cyanide-laced apple. Janoff, however, said in an interview that though he was mindful of the “byte/bite” pun (Apple’s slogan back then: “Byte into an Apple”), he designed the logo as such to “prevent the apple from looking like a cherry tomato.” (Source)

In 1998, supposedly at the insistence of Jobs, who had just returned to the company, Apple replaced the rainbow logo (”the most expensive bloody logo ever designed” said Apple President Mike Scott) with a modern-looking, monochrome logo.

Thanks to TechCrunch.

Hit Me On My iPhone

Looks like I should check out Myspace more often. But Pete has a pretty good iPhone song up, can’t argue with that!

Leo Destruction

An interesting post on A List of Mac Freeware that Leopard has Mauled to Death.

And from my personal experience

• Adium: Huge fan of this IM client but Meebo killed this for me ages ago.
• Center Stage: I love Front Row since I use my mini for my media center, and the Leo improvements are nice, even if I am a bit annoyed that music won’t keep playing when you switch to the OS.
• Firefox 2.0: Firefox (Mac and PC) is a memory sinkhole but it still has the features I require, while Safari does not. Google Browser Sync being one.

Thanks FSJ.

Maelstrom

So I was checking out iToner from Ambrosia Software that lets you drag and drop ringtones without hacking your iPhone, and this looks very interesting. And what else that got my interest was Maelstrom is now open-source and has been ported to pretty much all platforms. This was pretty much the first game I played, and spent many an hour in the computer labs playing this game (while working!). There other game, Apeiron has also been ported to OSX. Pretty much those two and Bolo (since ported to Windows as Winbolo) consumed most of the hours that could of been studying.

iPhone Meebo

I’ll have to agree with TechCrunch when they say the most useful app has just hit the iPhone, Meebo. I have been using Meebo on my PC for ages and love the centralized IMs without client software. On the iPhone it looks fantastic, works in both horizontal and vertical, brings your conversations to the top of your buddy list, and doesn’t require a special URL, just atomically detects and displays.

Well done Meebo!

iPhone TCO

I’m sure some will find this surprising, especially the haters out there (you know who I am talking about). I’m not surprised since my AT&T bill actually dropped when I switched plans.

So a long time palm user took offensive at some questionable data quoting by PalmInfoCenter and did his own Total Cost of Ownership of the iPhone versus a free Treo 680.

Phone Model	Phone Cost	Monthly Cost 450 minutes and unlimited data	SDHC card	24 Month TCO
Treo 680 with 4GB SDHC card	$0	$80 x 24 = $1,920	$60	$1,980
4GB iPhone	$500	$60 X 24 = $1,440	$0	$1,940
Treo 680 with 8GB SDHC card	$0	$80 x 24 = $1,920	$80	$2,000
8GB iPhone	$600	$60 X 24 = $1,440	$0	$2,040

And the money-shot of the article was:

So the difference between a free Treo 680 and a $500/$600 iPhone over the course of 24 months is a grand total of $40… or $1.67/month or less than $0.40/week.

From CrunchGear.

Hide-a-Pod

Do you need to say more than the tagline: “The ultimate iPod Anti-Theft Device . . . Hide it in a Zune*!”

Hide-a-Pod!

But I think I would still feel dirty carrying that around.

Thanks to Engadget for this.