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Mr Hunt, with help from Mr Blanc, has been busy minting an icon for your iPhone:

Most people have Mint in a subdirectory like /mint. This is a problem if you want to set an iPhone favicon for your root domain but change the favicon in subdirectories. This is because the iPhone looks in the root directory for the icon. That is, unless you tell it different.

I watched the idea bounce back-and-forth over twitter and then realised how a) twitter allows for such free form conversations and b) how the iPhone has become such an integral, every-day part of peoples lives.


"Apple has made no commitment to support 3rd party applications, so Dear Internet: stop bitching about it." — Amen on that, Mr Hunt.


"Apple said today that a firmware update to the iPhone due to be released later this week "will likely result" in SIM-unlocked iPhones turning into very expensive bricks." — the cat has caught the mouse this week, no word yet on mouse striking back.


"The point of any company should be to make customers want to give it money, NOT to get money from customers. It’s a subtle distinction that is the difference between good and evil."


"There’s no reason we can’t have both a great surfing experience on an iPhone as well as one on assistive technologies. I’m just asking for more balance." — whilst it has revolutionised development and the way web apps are built, it shouldn’t be at the expense of standards or accessibility - a little balance isn’t a crazy thing to ask for.


"Great work from Brad Choate and Walt Dickinson at Six Apart. I’m upgrading to MT 4 just for this." — although a little iphone fixated, Gruber does have a point - managing content on the go is a massively cool thing.


"I got, like, billions of emails from iPhone customers who are pissed off. After reading every one of these emails - well, most of them, anyway - I’ve got some things to say." — a light-hearted response to Job’s recent open-letter.


"We want to do the right thing for our valued iPhone customers. We apologize for disappointing some of you, and we are doing our best to live up to your high expectations of Apple." — an open letter from Mr Jobs, with a rare offer in the current market.


"Love your shiny new iphone, but sick of tangling up that darn cord on your earbuds? Grab an old credit card and a pair of scissors. Boom! You are about to solve one of life’s least important problems." — via dave slusher, clutter free cord storage.


"I was bored tonight and was also bored with the default wallpapers that come loaded with the iPhone so I sat down and created these 16 wallpapers." — another stylish set of iPhone backgrounds - features typography.

Braunless

braun calculator - apple merchandise circa 86-87Is this calculator, an Apple branded BrAun (model ET33/ ET88, circa 1986/87) the ultimate cause of all the supposed design theft claims surrounding the iPhone calculator app?

Take a closer look — the iphone calc is at most, a stylised representation of the BrAun.

This finely designed Braun calculator has an eight-digit display and four-key memory storage. Battery operated, it comes with a protective travel case. #

Yes, it’s obviously thievery. Fancy stealing gaining design queues from one’s own officially licensed merchandise.

Do people just post fact-less bull-shit for effect now? There was a time when even the worst offenders bothered to do a modicum of research.

Must be a quiet day in Redmond.