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Archive for August, 2010

Universal launch images with PhoneGap

I've been playing with PhoneGap a lot recently, in part to prepare Marbles2, but also to bring JS Console to the iPhone as a native app. I've always wanted to create an app that worked on all devices, but getting the launch image correct for each device can be tricky.

Dynamic favicons

Google Calendar released a new favicon which prompted a few mentions from friends on Twitter. The first, probably more important was from Cennydd: New Google Calendar icon most un-Googley. I like it. Then Danny pitched in with: I see Google Calendar has a new icon. They could use the current date rather than [...]

Doing it right: skipping the iPhone url bar

With some mobile web sites when visited on the iPhone, you may want to skip past the url bar (something I'm not sure if it's possible, or even worth doing on other mobiles). There's a simple solution to doing this, but doing it right is the real trick.