AG on home screen

If you updated your iPhone/iPod Touch, you can now save bookmarks onto your home screens (yeah, now you can have more than one). I created an icon for our website. So, if you create an AG home screen bookmark, you will automatically get a Hawk icon. =)

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Comment by Zalister
2008-01-16 12:43:43

I finally have a reason to buy an iPhone.

 
Comment by Richard
2008-01-16 12:47:43

That’s fine for you iPhone folks but us poor cousins with the iTouch have to stump up real money for this stuff. Boo to Steve, I say. Free the iTouch!

 
Comment by pyrocrickett
2008-01-16 12:50:06

8-O You, sir, are *awesome*!! Every website needs to follow your example, or at least the major ones like Wikipedia & such. I love having a lil’ Hawk on my iPhone!

 
Comment by Ted
2008-01-16 13:04:32

Ok, that is sweet enough to get you on the first page. Can you have more than one of these so people could choose, or have it randomize them?

Comment by Somebody Else
2008-01-16 13:36:48

Personalized bookmark icon - could have other characters…that’d be awesome!

I love the idea ^_^
Is it possible?

 
 
Comment by jimmy walker
2008-01-16 13:33:28

very nice! you simply must tell me how you did that. is there something you put in the page head?

 
Comment by Benoit
2008-01-16 14:06:42

I am also trying to achieve this. Please share your secret recipe ! :-) I really like your AG icon : it looks stunning on my iPod Touch Home Screen.

Thanks !

 
Comment by jkconner
Comment by jimmy walker
2008-01-16 15:57:09

awesome! thank you.

 
 
Comment by Rudy
2008-01-16 15:56:21

That’s really awesome, I didn’t realize that the clips could have personalized icons. Now, how long can I hold out before the jailbrake is available……..

 
Comment by Finley
2008-01-16 16:30:57

Sorry Hawk, Having your face on the main screen of my touch still doesnt quite make the twenty dollar extortion worth it.

Comment by Hawk
2008-01-16 16:39:26

I never said it was worth it.

Comment by Finley
2008-01-19 05:41:55

any way to make it happen on a jailbroken 1.1.1 touch?

 
 
Comment by TheCamster
2008-01-16 17:14:07

That’s why a petition was started. Check it out.

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/freeappi/petition.html

 
 
Comment by Fuzzball
2008-01-16 18:47:54

Isn’t this new feature freely available with the iPhone only and is a $20 upgrade for existing iPod Touch owners? Or was that for the apps that originally shipped with the iPhone and not the Touch?

Comment by Mr. Knight
2008-01-17 00:00:04

Free for iPhone, $20 for iPod Touch. Apparently, iPhone is considered a “subscription” product so the update for it is free while you have to pay for it for the Touch. But really, don’t think 20 bucks is a lot to ask for it. But I have iPhone so I don’t pay anyway =p

 
 
Comment by Visroth Kayden
2008-01-16 20:31:57

Just to say, im probably one of the few UK iPhone owners and Hawk is now taking pride of place on my main screen next to my iTunes icon.

 
Comment by Mr. Knight
2008-01-17 00:01:55

Cool icon Hawk, added it to my iPhone. Should make an Eve one for AG Lite =D

 
Comment by Edwin
2008-01-17 04:18:06

Is it bad that I instantly recognized it as Hawk from the strip where he’s “carrying” the wardrobe? Or am I wrong?

 
Comment by Danny
2008-01-17 05:37:35

@ Visroth Kayden
Fear not brother!
I am in the UK as well owning an iPhone and loving every minute of it, admittedly i have yet to update it, but being a total (insert random naughty word here) for fasionable webcomics such as Applegeeks, PA, CtrlAltDel, im sure ill be making a homescreen dedicated to all of these wonderful comics,,, later on tonight!! ;-)

Props to Hawk!

 
Comment by sdf_iain
2008-01-17 08:18:28

Wait… as a comment on the MacBook Air. What is this, a proof of concept that’s for sale? Solid state technology is still not ready for prime time (this makes a mac more expensive than a windozer again). And why are the Apple TV, Airport Express, and the MacBook Air the only Apple products without giga-bit ethernet?

Comment by Danny
2008-01-17 09:43:27

@sdf_iain
Tv receiver with an Ethernet port,,, (not even going to bother answering that)
Airport Express, isnt that a wireless adaptor for the phone line to make the internets all ‘wireless’ like?
and on a Mac Air,,, who cares its just damn fine, and the extra size of a port would make it fat,, and we certianly dont want that.
Thar be nothing wrong with solid state just means ya can drop it a little more and it wonk break,, not that you would ever drop your mac, I personally would jump under it to cusion the fall onto glass, spikes lions and acid all mixed together.. as long as the Mac survives ;-)

Comment by sdf_iain
2008-01-18 10:16:10

Apple TV isn’t a TV receiver its a means to share your iTunes library with your TV. Which means you would want to transfer large files (Movies and TV shows) at maximum speed… i.e. Gigabit Ethernet. You also might want to maintain the same high standards across the entire product line.

The Airport Express is a very simple wireless base station/extender. It makes sense to be able to link it to your network backbone at the highest possible speed (i.e. Gigabit Ethernet) and to not lose bandwidth if you had to connect through the ethernet port (100BASE-T is slower than 802.11g or n). And finally every computer Apple sells has a Gigabit Ethernet port except the MacBook Air. Given the form factor does not allow an onboard ethernet port and the port is provided via dongle, why is it only 100BASE-T and not 1000BASE-T (which would have to connect via a proprietary connector or a FireWire port instead of USB).

 
 
 
Comment by Robert V. Aldrich
2008-01-17 10:01:29

Because there’s nowhere to comment on today’s comic…

I want my boobs back?
Dude…I…that…dude…dude.

 
Comment by Franjo Žilić
2008-01-17 10:05:31

Ok. This is nice. But i pissed of a bit after keynote. I just bought my new iPod Touch, and I can’t update it’s software - to be more specific - I can’t buy january software update from Croatia because there is no iTunes store in Croatia. Has anyone some idea how to get this new apps, is it possible to get it form someone who already bought those apps for touch?

Just to say that I’m rather new to Mac world, I got my MBP just 3 months ago, and I’m impressed with it. But this made me a bit angry.

p.s. No. I don’t want to jailbrake my touch. It’s good the way it is, or with those new apps.

Comment by Danny
2008-01-17 12:35:38

?????? iTunes is software. and works if your connected to the net, think it is an online update thing that you pay for like a song only more expensive! then again I dont own a touch so i dont know! but i figured it was online so there is no reason for you not to be able to update!
if you mean Apple Store then get onto the Steves! there down with it, and they’ll hook Croatia so fast it’ll make ya head spin

Comment by Franjo Žilić
2008-01-18 02:25:30

there is a problem… i can’t buy it… to buy it you must register to itunes store, and you can’t from croatia!

Comment by Danny
2008-01-18 04:21:16

Tech support is the answer! ring an apple helpline and im sure they can help

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Comment by Danny
2008-01-17 12:43:03

Additionally, no you cant use someone else’s stuff from their iPod Touch. I would imagine on a basic level that its encoded onto the Touch’s serial number as soon as you buy it…. meaning 1 per person kinda thing!

 
 
Comment by JOE
2008-01-17 18:24:48

cool! now shelling out $20 for the update for my Touch….this is a hard question for a guy who’s really cheap

 
Comment by Bungy
2008-01-17 21:23:23

“you’re mocking me aren’t you … ?”

we’re STILL waiting for the iPhone to be released officially here in Oz

… soon my pretty … soon …

 
Comment by Jeff Bender
2008-01-18 00:44:44

I have two little Hawk’s on my iPhone! One for AG, and one for AG Lite. I love the way all the icons start to wiggle lol. Seriously, I read alot of webcomics, and so far, of all the comics I read, only this comic and PvP have created icons for the iPhone. Other sites should follow the example.

 
Comment by Danny
2008-01-18 00:55:59

Actually they have,,, posting this on iPhone BTW the only icon I’ve had to make is CAD!! This is by far the best update for both platforms I have ever seen,,,,,,,, I’m not bias xD

 
Comment by Ramune
2008-01-18 06:01:11

My God! That’s freakin’ brilliant! While I don’t have a iPhone/Touch, I’m so doing this! XD

 
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