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Posted by: fiskadoro

Is Google the only site that has a cool proper-looking icon when you add their bookmark to your iPhone home page?

Every other site I've tried simply uses a mini-thumbnail of the page itself (even Apple.com) which is a little disappointing.

Perhaps eventually we'll be able to customize the icons too. Nice feature nonetheless!

Posted by: BethanyBoo

Yeah, I'm pretty disappointed by my facebook and bloglines icons. There must be something google is doing to set the icon to be the logo. I'm not sure what it is but I bet the special iPhone-optimized sites will follow suit.

Posted by: lcnyct

If you want the logo of the web page, or any item on the web page your linking to, simply zoom in to the logo prior to setting the link, your screen view is the thumbnail.

Posted by: CyniKal.Mindset

some people didnt watch the video

Posted by: JFLo714

i think its only a matter of time until someone makes a page that links to others with these cooler icons that we can hav for the bookmarks.....i try zoomin in the best i can on some sites but it still doesnt cut it sometimes....but as stated facebook and others will follow soon with their own icons themselves

Posted by: nsxer007

this is how you would do it for your own site....

just in case you were wondering...

http://vjarmy.com/archives/2008/01/...bclip_icons.php

Posted by: shooters

Weatherbug has it's own icon as of this morning
iphone.weatherbug.com

Sportstap has it's own icon
sportstap.mobi

Posted by: JFLo714

Quote:

Originally Posted by shooters

Weatherbug has it's own icon as of this morning
iphone.weatherbug.com

Sportstap has it's own icon
sportstap.mobi

good find thanks

Posted by: Bigphun73

the imdb (internet movie database) has an icon aswell

Posted by: Bigphun73

I am really suprised that apple, and AT&T don't have a set icon...you would think they would have one. Guess not.

Posted by: BethanyBoo

Quote:

Originally Posted by nsxer007

this is how you would do it for your own site....

just in case you were wondering...

http://vjarmy.com/archives/2008/01/...bclip_icons.php

Good find! Thanks.

I realize that you can zoom in, but on iPhone optimized sites you normally can't zoom in so your icon is just a screenshot of the page.

Posted by: whotony

can you edit the icon name?

Posted by: whotony

can you edit the icon name without deleting it and putting it on again.

Posted by: fiskadoro

i watched the video

zooming in on an image on a web page is a neat trick to make the icon look bigger and better on your iphone's home page, but what's annoying is every time you open that link in the future, it starts zoomed in on that logo/image every time, instead of just on the regular page.

Posted by: Murkurial

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bigphun73

the imdb (internet movie database) has an icon aswell

Where is it at?

Posted by: dhendriksen

I saw on TUAW a tutorial telling website what to do so they have a cool icon. It says if the website admin just makes an icon 57x57 square and gives it the proper name that the iPhone will round the corners, gloss it up, and use it as the icon for that webpage automatically. Websites should be all over this.

Posted by: deanfx

Quote:

Originally Posted by nsxer007

this is how you would do it for your own site....

just in case you were wondering...

http://vjarmy.com/archives/2008/01/...bclip_icons.php

thanks for that link, it worked perfectly!

Posted by: ToddziLLa

Quote:

Originally Posted by nsxer007

this is how you would do it for your own site....

just in case you were wondering...

http://vjarmy.com/archives/2008/01/...bclip_icons.php

Took all of 5 minutes on my website...thanks!

Posted by: mudshark

Fox News Mobile for iPhone has its own icon FWIW.

mud

Posted by: mikelliott

FoxNews Mobile must have read that tutorial. They didn't have their own yesterday afternoon.

Posted by: fiskadoro

cool: BeeJive's JiveTalk (my personal IM of choice) has it's own cool little icon now too (iphone.beejive.com/)

Posted by: 24trepid

Keep posting the sites as they jump on board...........

Posted by: wellduh11

No ESPN yet...

Posted by: 24trepid

iRovr.com has one.........

Posted by: 24trepid

meebo.com has one .........

Posted by: 24trepid

iphoneatom.com
sportstap.mobi
iphone.weatherbug.com
www.flickr.com
iphonemiles.com
www.seeqpod.com
iphone.foodnetwork.com
iphone.pocketmovies.net
m.twitter.com
cybernetnews.com/igas/
www.everythingicafe.com
www.cbsnews.com/iphone

Any others, please post.
Enjoy.....