iPhone apps typically take at least a few seconds to launch, sometimes more. Developers can include an image to be loaded immediately after the app launches, named “default.png”. You can use this as a splash screen (more or less as a title card for the app), or, you can display the empty skeleton of the app’s UI (making it look like the real UI is starting to load, when in fact it’s just a screenshot of an empty UI).
Apple’s own apps — which don’t have the same restrictions as third-party apps — have another option available, which I’ll call “dynamic default.png”. What many Apple apps do is take a screenshot of the current display when you quit, and overwrite the default.png file inside the application bundle with that screenshot. Then when next you launch that app, you immediately see the entire contents of the screen from when you previously quit — but it’s still just a screenshot, a static image. It looks like the app has launched instantly, but in fact you’ve still got to wait a few seconds for the app to restore itself to the point where it’s actually ready to use.
Dert - Dreams/Crosses (Jose Gonzales vs. The Game)
Hey Websites, listen up. It should always be Artist - Song, never Song - Artist :P
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The Stills - Everything I Build (Discovered via Starbucks Radio)
I don’t have permission to let Tumblr use this under the Terms of Service
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Good Luck Mr Gorski - Written on Paper
The story behind the band name is a good one, but has been debunked by Snopes
Another band not found on Hype Machine yet, I should just keep going :)
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iPhone Photoswap Photo Sites
Flickr Group: iphone-photoswap (safe for work version)
Flickr Group: photoswapnsfw (not safe for work version)
Share Your Photo Swap (huge collection of photoswap finds)
Photoswap Babes (1 photo at a time, random chicks)
Tumblr: Adventures in PhotoSwap (random photoswap finds)
I still struggle with the fact that 90% of what you get is crap, but the gems make it all worth it. What I really long for is a PhotoSwap-like app that uses your phone number as your acct (so there’s no signup, obscured of course) and then lets you swap photos with people in your phonebook (or set the limit to friends of friends, etc). Chirag got an iPhone yesterday so maybe we should just make it.
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