[jscottcj]

Is there a collection of icons out there anywhere that we can access... u know, common ones... ESPN, USAToday etc

[jfisher]

here's the only 3 i use:

http://www.jonathanhfisher.co.uk/icon/bbc.png - for bbc.com

http://www.jonathanhfisher.co.uk/icon/wiki.png - for Mobile Guru - Wikipedia

http://www.jonathanhfisher.co.uk/icon/facebook.png - for m.facebook.com

[jscottcj]

Originally Posted by jfisher

here's the only 3 i use:

http://www.jonathanhfisher.co.uk/icon/bbc.png - for bbc.com

http://www.jonathanhfisher.co.uk/icon/wiki.png - for Mobile Guru - Wikipedia

http://www.jonathanhfisher.co.uk/icon/facebook.png - for m.facebook.com

thanks jonathan... I've googled but many of the images are pretty large png files... guess i'll have to muck up and edit and stop being lazy

[laurentio]

great. can we have more shortcuts?
also, the ebay mobile website doesn't work:
or is there a dif. address than the one i know?
http://ebaymobile.co.uk
thank you

[akosnitzky]

How do you find these .png format. Is there a program which takes the normal url and converts it to the format for thsi program?

I unistalled the program because of the .png issue.

[John Clark]

I just use microsoft paint to change them from .jpg to .png. Size them to 32x32. I'm sure there are better ways out there as well.

[Entropy666]

Better yet there is a website that does it all for you on the fly for free. Check it out here: Media Convert - free and on line - convert and split sound, ringtones, images, docs - MP3 WMV 3GP AMR FLV SWF AMV MOV WMA AVI MPG MP4 DivX MPEG4 iPOD PSP OGG WMA AAC MP4 MPC MMF QCP KAR MIDI REALAUDIO FLAC JPG PSD DOC PDF RTF TXT ODG ODP ODS ODT SXW

We described some of their features in a news post here Media-Convert: Convert Audio, Video, and Documents For Your BlackBerry | BerryReview

[akosnitzky]

It shows the link is only good for 24 hours, once you make the conversion. What do we do with it after that point?

I am assuming I have to take the PNG Icon and place in a hosting site like Picassa, so I have a link.

[akosnitzky]

Wow!!!! I got it to work. I feel like part of the group now. Impressive...

[Entropy666]

If you need a place to host the png file you can PM it to me and i will host it for you if you really need. Maybe the author can collect a gallery of icons or we can work on something

[akosnitzky]

I put in my Google Picassa account to host.

If not yet considered, maybe we add a .PNG sections with the themes and wallpaper forums. Just a thought.

[robchow]

Is there away to change the icon by pointing to an image on the device memory or media memory?

[John Clark]

No, that's not an option in this version.

[jfisher]

Originally Posted by laurentio

great. can we have more shortcuts?

no - i've limited it to 6, each shortcut is a little application and each one needs seperate code, you can't just copy and paste multiple versions of an app.

Originally Posted by laurentio

also, the ebay mobile website doesn't work:
or is there a dif. address than the one i know?
http://ebaymobile.co.uk

try that url in a web browser - it doesn't work there either - add a www and it's fine...

Originally Posted by robchow

Is there away to change the icon by pointing to an image on the device memory or media memory?

next version - will be simple enough to do.

[Lowrider]

Is this supposed to launch my browser? thx

[jfisher]

if you read the website it says:

'Solution to have links to websites from your BlackBerry homescreen/desktop - one click launching of your 6 favourite sites without having to go through the browser bookmarks (involving several clicks and scrolls).'

if it doesn't work post a bug report or read the instructions again.

cheers,
jon

[cayzac]

Originally Posted by Lowrider

Is this supposed to launch my browser? thx

Yes, this is a "web shortcut" application. It gives you a shortcut on your Berry similar to having a shortcut on your computer desktop that opens a website.

[cayzac]

jon,
One question I have (maybe a future enhancement request)...could there be anyway to specify which browser to use for the shortcut? My problem is one of my shortcuts is on our corporate intranet and I need the BlackBerry browser to launch. The other is on the internet and I'd rather use the AT&T browser. Does that make sense?

[jfisher]

Version 2.1.2 is available at http://m.jonathanhfisher.co.uk/webshortcuts

Changes:

- You can now simply put your icons in the pictures/ directory on your sdcard or in the device store, images must be named in the form shortcut1.png and placed in the root of the pictures directory, ie: /pictures/shortcut1.png

The process the shortcut goes though is to first check the sdcard for the .png, if there's nothing there it checks the device store and if still nothing it reads the url set using the shortcut hub app and downloads it (so you can use either method)

- Should now handle being on a 4.1 device - custom application names will be ignored but icons will be set

- http:// should now be pre-populated in all url fields.

[DiRN]

Jon, I noticed that WebShortcut1 and WebShortcut2 are still version 2.1.0.