iPhone Web Clip Icons

The great Antonio Carusone from AisleOne has published a sweet collection of some iPhone/iPod Touch web clip icons perfect for decorating your now-customizable home screen (1.1.3 update) with nice-looking icons, rather than the miniature versions of the web page, which all tend to look pretty similar. Download the zip file, upload it to a directory, and then use these instructions to set a custom icon for sites for which you don’t have server access.

If you don’t have access to a web server to upload the icons, you can use the ones I have uploaded. Just click here to view a collection of all the icons and the links you’ll want to type in when you set the location (as described on the above link). I’ll be adding some of my own over the next few days/weeks, so check back every now and again to see what’s new.

Ultimately, I’m sure a lot of folks will end up making custom icons for their own sites - eliminating the necessity of this process - especially given how easy it is (Step 1: upload a 60x60 pixel PNG file named “apple-touch-icon.png” to the root directory for your site. Step 2: There is no step 2), but for now, this’ll go a long way toward making things more navigable on your iPhone. Besides, a bit of customizing never hurt anybody.