Aenonfire iPhone Webclip Icon
Aenonfire icon for your iPhoneThe Mission
Eagerly last Friday after work I went down to the soho Apple store and picked up a spankin' new 16gb iPhone. I had been trying to hold out until the 3g was available, but that didn't seem to be happening anytime soon, (although who knows with Apple just check any kind of rumor site) so once they updated the memory to 16gb I figured I'd take the plunge.
Which reminds me a funny side note I have to mention- I called Verizon to make sure that I wasn't going to get nailed with some mysterious fee or charge by switching to AT & T (even though my contract has been up for a good 5 months now). So I called and got a phone rep, I asked him about my account and he said everything was fine, but asked why I was switching carriers. I told him I just got an iPhone and want to get it activated
. His response was so hilarious I just have to use the special blockquote style for this one:
Oh, You are going to hate your iPhone...
Verizon Phone Rep Dood
I couldn't keep from laughing when he said that. But wait there's more. After hanging up with him, I went to start registering the phone and came to a screen where I was to put my account information from Verizon and one field asked for my password. I wasn't sure if I needed that or, for that matter what password it would be. So, I fired up the Treo and called Verizon again. Me: Hi, I am switching carriers and want to find out if there is a special password that I'm supposed to use, a registration process is asking me for one
. The Verizon lady said No, you don't need one, and can I ask why you are leaving?
Me: I got an iPhone
.
Good luck with that...
Verizon Phone Rep Lady
Dang! A little jadedness from the Verizon camp about iPhones eh?
Clippin'
Last nite I decided that I needed to make an webclip icon for Aenonfire. It's not rocket science, just create the image you want to use, size it accordingly- on this there is much discussion on what size yields the best results, the short answer is not to follow apple's recommendations and to use something larger. I set the Aenonfire size to 129x129 px. Save your image as a .png file, name it apple-touch-icon.png
and upload it to your sites public directory. Then when you visit your site just add a bookmark in safari and choose Add to Home Screen
. Safari will recognize your file just as it would a favicon.
That's all she wrote.
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The Author
Clint Fisher
Bonafide Avocadophile and Music Geek Extraordinaire.
Clint is the original Mayor of Pinches Tacos, and aspires to be Eva Mendes' poolboy. He spends his days immersed in CSS and music, his nights in the Sons of Anarchy and Justified but is willing to put that all aside if Eva should call.
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3 Comments
I picked up an iPhone a few weeks ago after being a Treo user for years. I had roughly the same experience leaving Sprint. Without a doubt, this is one amazing phone with unlimited potential for the web. Hopefully they will get that SDK out this month so we can start seeing the real applications come onboard (I’ve been holding off on the jailbreak stuff pending this SDK release). We’ll see ;-) Enjoy that phone!
Dude, that’s hilarious. Bitter much, Verizon? :)
You made the right move! Like you, I was holding out for something GB substantial. But, when Apple slashed the price, and had refurbs on hand, I went for it and never looked back. Night and day, between the iPhone and RAZR. Then again, I hated the RAZR from day one with it’s twitchy functionality, buried menus and Windows XtraPong-like GUI. It was unbearable.
Plus, I’ve been with Cingular/AT&T;for the last 6 years. Before then, I had Verizon, but they stiffed me when I moved. Their national plan wasn’t so national. If it wasn’t for 1 sweet girl at Verizon, things could have turned out very wrong, metaphorically, like their Voyager.
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