I made this app to test my new make your own single image iphone app feature. Like all single image apps made with the new feature, this app is fully cached when you add it to your iphone’s homescreen. So that means that you can use it in the subway when you don’t have internet connection.
I’ve now made it possible for you to make your very own single image iPhone apps. Just enter in the url of the app’s image and I will take care of the html mumbo jumbo and icon. I’m not going to host the images, but I will provide a URL for your app. It is of course free, and there are lots of websites that do free image hosting.
Your apps will work offline, too, as long as your user’s know to save them to their iPhone/iPod/iPad home screen. The caching system I set up when you click “upload” does the rest.
I have a new idea for minimalist applications. How about applications which are solely comprised of just one (static) image. In some sense this is treating visualization as an application. Successful manifestations of this idea have been around for ages in the form of maps.
Wikipedia defines an application as “computer software designed to help the user to perform a singular or multiple related specific tasks.” So it seems to me obvious that a simple image explaining the conversion of fahrenheit to celsius is just as much as an application that prompts the user to type in “65 degrees fahrenheit to celsius”.
See my growing list of single image applications for the iPhone.
Here’s the command I used to generate my new custom outgoing message for my iPhone’s voicemail:
say -o outgoing-message.aiff -v Vicki ". . . Ahlec Jacobson \
did not answer. Please try emailing him, at alec jacobson at \
gee mail dot com. That's A. . L. . E. . C. . J. . A. . C. . O. . B. . \
S. . O. . N. . AT. GEE MAIL. DOT. COM. Or send a text message \
to this number. Or finally leave a message after the beep. \
Thank you. . . . . . . . . Good bye. . . ."
Here’s the result after I used lame to convert the aiff file to mp3 using this simple command:
lame outgoing-message.aiff outgoing-message.mp3
I used this professional setup to record the mp3 onto my iPhone (after some cleanup with audacity and voluming boosting in vlc):
