Aenonfire icon for your iPhone

The Mission

Eagerly last Friday after work I went down to the soho Apple store and picked up a spankin' new 16gb iPhone. I had been trying to hold out until the 3g was available, but that didn't seem to be happening anytime soon, (although who knows with Apple just check any kind of rumor site) so once they updated the memory to 16gb I figured I'd take the plunge.

Which reminds me a funny side note I have to mention- I called Verizon to make sure that I wasn't going to get nailed with some mysterious fee or charge by switching to AT&T (even though my contract has been up for a good 5 months now). So I called and got a phone rep, I asked him about my account and he said everything was fine, but asked why I was switching carriers. I told him "I just got an iPhone and want to get it activated". His response was so hilarious I just have to use the special blockquote style for this one:

I couldn't keep from laughing when he said that. But wait there's more. After hanging up with him, I went to start registering the phone and came to a screen where I was to put my account information from Verizon and one field asked for my password. I wasn't sure if I needed that or, for that matter what password it would be. So, I fired up the Treo and called Verizon again. Me:"Hi, I am switching carriers and want to find out if there is a special password that I'm supposed to use, a registration process is asking me for one". The Verizon lady said "No, you don't need one, and can I ask why you are leaving"? Me:"I got an iPhone". Enter special blockquote:

Dang! A little jadedness from the Verizon camp about iPhones eh?

Clippin'

Last nite I decided that I needed to make an webclip icon for Aenonfire. It's not rocket science, just create the image you want to use, size it accordingly- on this there is much discussion on what size yields the best results, the short answer is not to follow apple's recommendations and to use something larger. I set the Aenonfire size to 129x129 px. Save your image as a .png file, name it "apple-touch-icon.png" and upload it to your sites public directory. Then when you visit your site just add a bookmark in safari and choose "Add to Home Screen". Safari will recognize your file just as it would a favicon.

That's all she wrote.

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