Archive for January, 2008

iPhone/iPod Touch WebClip Icons

January 16th, 2008

The new webclips allow users to add ‘one-click’ access to web based applications on their iPhone and iPod Touch.

Web developers can provide an icon specifically for the main screen of the iphone, by adding a file to their server or a link within the head of their document.

The icon sizing is a little tricky to get the hang of. While the Apple website recommends 57×57 for an icon size, I’ve found that a larger image will create a sharper icon.

There is also areas of the image which will get trimmed to make the webclip icon, so add some padding.
iPhone WebClip Design

Place apple-touch-icon.png in the root of your web server, or add <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/path/to/myicon.jpg" /> to the head of your document.

Now when users add a webclip for http://www.unl.edu/ they’ll see the new icon.

Apple WebClip Icons

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Upgrading Ancient PEAR Versions

January 11th, 2008

If your PEAR installer is acting funky, returning 404’s, remote packages not found etc you may have an ancient version in need of upgrading. As announced almost a year ago, XML RPC would be disabled on Jan 1st, 2008.

Here’s a typical error:

# pear list-upgrades
HTTP error, got response: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Didn't receive 200 OK from remote server. (HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found)

Read this message on the PEAR website for how to fix it.

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