I have launched a new area of the site called Code, where I will place any open source projects or code snippets I write complete with documentation. Although I currently only have one project – my web based quiz with mysql leader board, more will be up over the coming months.

Feel free to use or modify any of the code for your own projects and feel free to drop me an email regarding any queries about the code.

Tom

The iPhones Home Screen is a thing of beauty, it looks great and is easy to use serving its purpose very well, but what else can it do. Well with a bit of imagination, the iPhone SDK and little but of know how you can use it as a canvas, literally.

I divided up the Mona Lisa into 20 squares and created 20 blank iPhone apps, saving one part of the image as the icon for each corresponding app.

Removing the app name below each icon was achieved by editing the “Bundle display name” in the application’s info.plist, I added a simple “!” to do this.

You may optionally remove the gloss and rounded corner effect added by default by ctrl clicking the info.plist file within xcode, opening it as a source code file and adding the following.

<key>UIPrerenderedIcon</key>

Inserting this key along with a blank app icon can be used to create blank spaces on your home screen.

Please send me your creations in a pre paid envelope to the usual address.