Jan
18

Adding a WebClip Bookmark Icon for iPhone and iPod

By admin // Dev, iPhone, UI/UX // No Comments

While MacWorld is held here in San Francisco, I am commuting to Sunnyvale… At least I am trying to catch up with all these exiting news from Apple.

One iPhone dev-related announcement caught my attention is a WebClip. -The WebClip is a web bookmark icon that is displayed on start screen on iPhone (and iPod), and looks just like an application launch button. (To make it work, you need to upgrade the firmware to 1.1.3.)

To create a custom icon is as easy as adding a favicon.ico for desktop website.

First, create a 57×57 png image. (Don’t worry about round-corners and shine.)

Then do either:

1) Place a PNG image named apple-touch-icon.png at the root directory of your web server.

or

2) Add <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/customIcon.png"/> within the <head> element of the page.

Once added to the springboard screen, round-corners and glassy overlay will be added to your icon nicely

Jan
10

Sweet! Y!Go Web Made News in Japan too

By admin // Dev, iPhone, Nokia, WAP, Yahoo! // No Comments

Y!Go Web Screenshot

自分がコアメンバーの一員として制作したプロダクトが日本のニュースでも紹介されているなんてちょっと嬉しいかも。

Anyway, it’s pretty sweet that I can show what I’ve been working my ass off for, to my friends and family in Japan. I wish we could launch this in Japan, as well as Europe and Asia that we’re planning to launch soon. But since Y! Japan is operated separately from us, I dunno if they will…

Well anyway, I’ve tried oneSearch in Japanese (see the screenshot), although we are not supporting Japan. Well, the temperature is shown in fahrenheit in weather section, because well of course, this is a US product. -will I18N’d later… Pretty neat, right? Seriously Y! Japan should consider, since Apple will start selling iPhone there sooner or later. I guess.

I found more news by searching just now:

Jan
9

Yahoo! Mobile Beta finally launched so we can sleep.

By admin // Event, iPhone, Nokia, WAP, Yahoo! // No Comments

We finally launched Yahoo! Mobile Web beta (http://beta.m.yahoo.com) for limited high-end devices including iPhone, Nokia N-Series, also Windows Mobile incl. Moto Q, Palm Treo this morning.

Next project – launching for more devices, and int’l support for 3GSM. Nearly all engineers gave up Vegas… so can we go to Barcelona next month instead? Pretty please por favor?