Friday, June 27, 2008

New Laptop!

Here are the details about my new laptop!

XPS M1530, Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 (2.0GHz/800Mhz FSB 2M L2 Cache)

Tuxedo Black
4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz (2 Dimms)
High Resolution, glossy widescreen 15.4 inch LCD(1440x900) w/ 2MP Camera
256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT
320GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition SP1
Slot Load DVD+/-RW (DVD/CD read/write)
Dell Wireless 1395 802.11g Mini Card
Finger Print Reader XPS M1530
Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Internal (2.0+Enhanced Data Rate)
PLUS!
A 250GB eGo USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive
AND!
Free Wireless Sennheiser RS 100 Headphones
WOOT!!!!!!

Sunday, June 22, 2008

How to change the WebClip icons on your iPhone

The fact that some of my favorite mobile sites (*cough* Plurk *cough) have yet to implement a webapp icon for use on the iPhone was really starting to upset me. A mini-screenshot just wasn't cutting it for me anymore. So, I decided to figure out how to change it.

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BTW: this tutorial assumes that you have a jailbroken iPhone and know how to use WinSCP or something similar.

1. Connect to your iPhone via WinSCP

2. Navigate to /private/var/mobile/Library/WebClips/

3. Find the WebClip icon that you want to change. They don't make this very easy. The only way to do it is to open each folder and open the icon.png file.

4. Create the icon that you want to use and name it icon.png. You can do this however you would like, just make sure it's 57X57 pixels. For my Plurk icon, I just resized their current favicon. Those with Photoshop skills could come up with something way better, I'm sure.

5. Overwrite your icon.png with the one on the iPhone.

6. Restart your Springboard. If you have Customize installed, you can do it from in there. Otherwise, I think you'll just have to restart your phone.

And that should be it! Have fun!