Turn your iPhone into a web application portal
With the recent 1.1.3 iPhone update we can finally arrange our application icons the way we like without hacking! This is fine and dandy, but you can only move those dancing icons around so much before it gets old.
What I’m really excited about is the ability to add website bookmarks to my home screen. It really makes them feel more like integrated applications when they’re in-line with all of the others (especially when they use the apple-touch-icon.)
The apple-touch-icon is essentially a larger favicon (57×57) that gets assigned when we add a site to our home screen. For those sites that don’t have one we can use this nifty favelet to assign our own icons.
I put together a list of great sites that use the touch icon:
Pownce
http://pownce.com
Yelp Mobile
http://mobile.yelp.com
Twitter
http://twitter.com
GetSatisfaction
http://getsatisfaction.com
Google Mobile
http://google.com/m
TechCrunch
http://techcrunch.com
Meebo
http://meebo.com
flickr
http://flickr.com
Next Muni
http://nextmuni.com
I’m sure the list goes on. Please feel free to add more in the comments
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