I stood in line ~7 hours on iPhone 3G day for my shiny new 16 GB iPhone 3G, but forgot all about the pictures of the unboxing. It’s a shame, because I’m sure I was part of a very small group of people who were allowed to leave the store without activating/opening the iPhone.
The unboxing gallery on MobileMe.
After weeks of pixel-by-pixel tweaking in Photoshop, perfecting CSS in Smultron, and refreshing browsers (Safari, IE, and Firefox), I’m pleased to announce the launch of the new Wallsaver 2.0 website at www.wallsaverapp.com.
This new website is a much needed update to the text-and-random-image based version currently hosted on the NWW Network website (which will have its own update soon). There’s plenty of AJAXy goodness and rounded corners for everyone. Everything was custom designed from the ground up, and is (mostly) standards compliant and looks great in pretty much any browser.
There are some issues with the way Internet Explorer 6.0 and lower handles transparent PNGs and CSS padding, so in order to preserve the viewing experience the entire site is disabled to users browsing via IE. The images below show the warning message and just how bad IE6 is with standards compliance.
I had initially given up and pushed the project off to my “Stuff to do when really bored” folder (yes I have one) after not being able to find a header/footer image that went with the Wallsaver theme. I considered having them be screen shots of screen savers, but as you can see above, the background was already a rotating screen shot.
Last night, while browsing the Apple Design Awards winners’ websites, I found a better solution. Instead of having the background rotate screen saver images, the header could do it. This way the page would load faster, and scale properly. The image-as-background method resulted in a 200 kb - 300 kb PNG image being loaded, not to mention users with wide-screen high resolution monitors would see black space and an abruptly ended image.
Now I can wrote posts directly from my iPhone.
Too bad there’s no copy and paste for those long and annoying URLs and images I like to post.
Since the iTunes 7.7 update was released tonight and since I had nothing else to do, I went around and searched for an application from the iTunes App Store.
Below are screen shots of the applications I’ve already downloaded/purchased (I couldn’t resist buying Super Monkey Ball!) and the general landing page on iTunes.
Now, a list of several iTunes links to the various App Store categories, shamelessly grabbed from MacRumors.
iTunes Links
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