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Stafftool As an (Almost) Native iPhone App

Published on January 17, 2008 in Stafftool, iPhone and tips & tricks. 0 Comments

Stafftool iPhone iconJust a quick little post to let you know that the latest iPhone and iPod Touch update lets you save websites directly to your home springboard screen with its own icon. So, Stafftool now has its own custom icon when you save it. To try it do the following:

  1. Make sure your iPhone or iPod Touch is updated to version 1.1.3
  2. Go to your Stafftool (http://yoursubdomain.stafftool.com) in Mobile Safari
  3. When you’re on your dashboard screen, click the + icon on the bottom bar
  4. Click the “Add to Home Screen” button
  5. On the resulting dialog, shorten the name to just “Stafftool” and wait until the image of the dashboard on the icon turns to the Stafftool icon
  6. Click the “Add” button

You will now have a button that will take you directly to your Stafftool right from the home screen!

Your Church In Your Pocket

Published on December 20, 2007 in Stafftool and iPhone. 3 Comments

introOne of the things I’m most proud of with Stafftool is the iPhone version. I’ve even had a beta tester say he may end up using it more than the normal web interface. As an iPhone user, I’m always really happy to find a version of a tool that I already use that works really well on it, so I naturally wanted to provide one myself with Stafftool. A few of my favorite web apps are the iPhone versions of NewsGator, Twitter, and Facebook. I use the NewsGator and Twitter sites all the time, and even though I’m not a huge Facebook user, like the tester said I probably use the mobile version of it more than the normal site.

I always knew I wanted to do a mobile version of Stafftool and the iPhone was a perfect first step - nice big screen, standards compliant browser with great CSS and Javascript support, and good integration with other services such as the phone and Google Maps. In this post I’m going to go over the features and benefits of the iPhone version, and in a future post I’ll go over how I did it.

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