Boing Boing iPhone/iPod Touch Web Clips Icons

I whipped up some easy icons for all three Boing Boing sites just in case anyone wants to save a page to the menu screen of their iPhone or iPod Touch with a spiffy custom button. (You have to be on the latest firmware to do this. And own an iPhone or iPod Touch. And have the desire to visit us on a regular basis.) In my infinite wisdom, I took Kevin Worthington's advice and made them twice as large as Apple advises, the better to be scaled down for "crispness"—except I think I made them 157 pixels square instead of 158, which I believe means they're not going to be any more crisp than anything else. But still, they look okay!

• [Not a Doktor]

  Can someone now make a bOINGbOING Nokia theme?

  plz?

• [Bek]

  Aww. BoingBoing looks so cute next to Digg, Google, meebo & Compendium. They’re like a little web app family now.

• [David]

  How about making BoingBoing recognize I’m using an iPhone and then presenting BoingBoing in a more iPhone-friendly fashion?

  Granted, I’m only using a WordPress theme on my blog, but this stuff is out there.

• [Dustin Driver]

  Looks great on my iPhone, thanks Joel!

• [Shawn Wolfe]

  I was adding boingboing to my iPhone home screen last night and grumbling that you guys didn’t already have custom art for me.

  Thanks for only making me suffer in icon-deprivation for one day.

  Less than one day!

• [travelina]

  Awww, they’re so cute! All I need now is an iPhone.

• [Johne Cook]

  Where do you find them – load them?

• [Johne Cook]

  Oh, nm. You’d think a Tech Writer would RTFM:

  Just open the web app on your iPhone, tap the plus sign, and then tap “Add to Home screen.” iPhone will make a Web Clip and add it to your Home screen automatically for easy, one-tap access.

  It’s so automagic. I expected it to be harder, somehow.

• [Trixie]

  Cooool!!! Thanks for passing along Kevin’s advice! I can’t wait to play!

• [daede]

  It’s so automagic. I expected it to be harder, somehow.

  You new to Apple stuff or somethin? ;P

• [Jelf]

  Thanks for this Joel – my menu screen looks mighty fine now!

  Didn’t bother with the BBtv one though, since I can’t actually watch any of the flash eps on my iPhone… (although they do work fine if you download them from iTunes)

• [z10splayer]

  If you want to add customized iPhone icons to your homescreen check out this webapp:

  iPhone Icons at http://www.icons4iphone.com

• [adamswine]

  Am from India and was wondering when Iphone was hitting the shelves…. I want one