Ok, the iPhone 2.0 firmware (actually 1.2.0) is out, and the app store is up and only works with 2.0 firmware and iTunes 7.7 but I won’t do it. Not yet anyway. I am waiting for a jailbreak solution for 2.0 or some additions to the app store before I upgrade. I have been using Zibri’s ZiPhone up to now and actually have quite a few apps that I use on a daily basis.

So, am I just too cheap to pay for apps? No, that’s not it at all. In fact, if the apps I needed were on the store I would upgrade and buy them (and possibly have some support options) and be done with it. While there are some apps that are in the store that I currently use (Shopping List, Twinkle, Book Reader) there are others that aren’t (Terminal, anyone?).

So, until I can jailbreak 2.0 or until the app store catches up with what I actually use, no dice.

Well, it seems that I am doing what I said I never would - blogging from my iPhone. It seems that somewhere along the way the wireless card in the MacBook Pro got shaken too vigorously and now, while I can connect I am averaging a throughput of somewhat less than normal. It seems to connect at no more than 360 bytes (no, not kilobytes) and spends much of its time idling at 0. So it is off to the Mac store I go…

More as I have news.

Adding a shortcut to a favorite site on an iPhone (or iPod Touch) is as easy as tapping the “+” sign at the bottom of the Safari browser on the phone and selecting “Add to Homepage” - but the icon is not so appealing. In fact, the iPhone defaults to a tiny, cropped screenshot of the site unless it finds a 57×57 pixel png file in the site root. This is similar to the concept of the favicon.ico for web browsers. The file needs to be named apple-touch-icon.png.

The iPhone (or iPod Touch) will round the corners and overlay the glass look to make it blend in to the overall look and feel of the “Springboard” (their name for the desktop on these devices.)

Mine looks like this (before the modifications which take place on the device itself):

And this is what it looks like on the iPhone: