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How to make a home screen icon that immediately displays an image file?

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bollweevil

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I am getting tired of explaining how to spell my last name. I want a button on my iPhone's home screen, and when I tap it, the iPhone's entire screen immediately fills with an image file containing my name in high-contrast block letters.

Unsatisfactory Hack Idea 1: Make the .gif of my name, upload it to the iPhone using iTunes/iPhoto "photo albums". Pro: The image is stored locally. Con: I need to click on "Photo Roll", then browse to the proper photo. I might as well just say it out loud.

Unsatisfactory Hack Idea 2: Make the .gif of my name, upload it to my website, bookmark the URL and put the bookmark on the home screen. Pro: One tap only. Con: The image is not stored locally, so it needs to load, and it might not load without connectivity. I might as well just say it out loud.

Please help me, I'm dying here.
 
Learn to program, write an app that does this, pay Apple $99 a year and keep a testing/developer copy on your phone?
 
Easiest way I can think of is to make the image on your computer. Upload it to photobucket, flickr or some other photo hosting source. Find the image in safari on your phone and put a home screen bookmark to it.
 
iisforiphone said:
if i ever asked someone how to spell their name and they flash me a pic instead of saying it, i would spell it wrong on purpose
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What if they have a speech impediment, a very heavy foreign accent, or an extremely hard to spell last name? Don't assume.
 
Plot twist:

It's actually not my last name, my last name is a real English word spelled the normal way. However, I do not want to explain what the image is, nor do I wish to explain why I need fast access to it. Throw around wild theories if you wish, I suspect that would be entertaining.

The "last name" ruse seemed like an easy way to communicate exactly what I am looking for. Another lie I considered was "I just had a baby, I want to show the baby to everybody."

Or, I could have just told the cryptic truth from the beginning, and the entire thread would have consisted of people not understanding what I wanted and not understanding why I need to do this.

I stand by my slightly misleading original post.
 
bollweevil said:
Plot twist:

It's actually not my last name, my last name is a real English word spelled the normal way. However, I do not want to explain what the image is, nor do I wish to explain why I need fast access to it. Throw around wild theories if you wish, I suspect that would be entertaining.
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I call 'pic of penis'! ;)

i suppose you could use any drawing / photo editing app. Most of them show the pic you last opened even when there's no longer a save state.
 
Fliesen said:
I call 'pic of penis'!

i suppose you could use any drawing / photo editing app. Most of them show the pic you last opened even when there's no longer a save state.
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Ooo, that's a damn good idea!

As for the penis pic, why not just whip it out in reality? I prefer to do that, otherwise they usually think it is photoshopped. Also, the iPhone screen really isn't big enough to do it justice.
 
bollweevil said:
Ooo, that's a damn good idea!

As for the penis pic, why not just whip it out in reality? I prefer to do that, otherwise they usually think it is photoshopped. Also, the iPhone screen really isn't big enough to do it justice.
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You mean the digital zoom is not sufficient to see it clearly.
 
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