Shake to do something

What? That has to be the most stupid interface trick that I have ever heard of. Why the hell would I want to shake my iPhone to delete the current entry or shake it to start the recording? Jeebus. Perhaps if it was really sensitive and the shaking was totally in context with what you are using the device for, but shake to delete a database entry? That is just a stupid gimmick!

More iPhone icons

I am not quite happy with the template that I made for these icons… The corners are not quite right. But at least the first page of my applications all are about the same brightness now, and they all have the same border look. One for Twittelator* and one for gNotes:

Next!

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* The channels of the png are in the wrong order, or a different order, or something on the iPhone so you have to use fixpng or something to fix it before you can open it for editing… but that seems to modify the colours (fair enough I guess, you are changing the channels…). I thought it was just a straight negative, but I don’t think it is. Rather than fiddling too much though, I quite like the colour of the Twittelator one as it is – better than the aqua and purple one that is the default anyway.

iPhone themes…

Wow, there are a bunch of themes out there for WinterBoard etc.

I am using iGlassSol which is very nice, but there are a couple of things I didn’t like. The clock could have a better time on it, and there was no icon for WideEmail. So I made some:

The other thing that I made was a new dock with 5 icons on it… but it seems like there is a way to make it generate the glassy looking dock on the fly… but I can’t find it, only forum posts talking about it. Anyway, the dock (with WideEmail as the extra icon):

Fun.