Apparently some folks are reading my stuff on their iPhones, and further apparently, it’s possible for sites to offer custom icons -- like a favicon for the iPhone. So I made one, and here it is in action on the iPhone of reader Clayj, who alerted me to this important new opportunity to promote myself:

As I told Clayj, the icon is temporary. I’m gonna be overhauling the site design soon -- my idea at the moment is that it will revolve more around the stoplight theme. And I’ll change the iPhone icon at that point, of course.
(Technorati tags: iPhone)
pre-Disqus comments
posted by Count Shrimpula (Tue Aug 05 08, 1:34PM)
Cool! I don't really have any need for a dedicated FF icon on my iPhone, but now it's all tempting. Maybe I'll just add it to check it out, and then remove it later...
Hey, Clay Johnason, is that the brother you've mentioned then? Four pages of icons on that iPhone screenshot, that makes me feel a little better about my three pages, at least. Heh.
posted by bronxbee (Tue Aug 05 08, 1:50PM)
shiney!
posted by MaryAnn (Tue Aug 05 08, 3:03PM)
No, Clay is not a relation of mine, or if he is, it's so distant that neither of us are aware of a connection.
Neither of my brothers has an iPhone. :-> Nor do I.
posted by Count Shrimpula (Tue Aug 05 08, 4:20PM)
Huh, funny coincidence then!
Ah, you do have a Macbook, though. So you're up on me there. I love the hell out of my old 3rd Gen iPod, and the iPhone is absolutely superbly designed. I'm a bit of a user-interface aficionado. I love it when something is designed smartly, with a real eye to how people will use it. And on the flip-side, it enrages me when something is just thrown together with no consideration for how people will use it.
I scoffed at Apple when they said they thought the halo effect would bring iPod users over to Macs (even though I had and loved my iPod), but damned if they haven't won me over. I love my iPhone, and I've been calling it my second girlfriend (which my first girlfriend doesn't really appreciate, but oh well. She's still my first girlfriend). Macs are still expensive, though, so I might go the Hackintosh (http://lifehacker.com/software/hack-attack/build-a-hackintosh-mac-for-under-800-321913.php) route.
posted by Clayj (Tue Aug 05 08, 9:18PM)
Count, there's only one item on that fourth page of mine. :-) And I actually sent MaryAnn two screenshots: One of that page as it usually is, and then when she asked if she could post the screenshot online, another with a couple of nunyabiz icons removed.
It would be cool if MaryAnn had the time and the resources to make an iPhone-specific version of her site, like the one MSNBC has... but that would be asking a lot of her. Having the iPhone-specific icon is cool and easily done, though. If you want to make one for your web site, go here for the instructions:
http://vjarmy.com/archives/2008/01/howto_iphone_webclip_icons.php