Using a Web Clip as a Home Screen Separator
Posted 10/16/2008 at 3:04am
| by Roberto Baldwin
If you're obsessive, like some of the Mac|Life staff, you've arranged your apps and Web clips on your iPhone for optimal touch goodness. Even with the ability to create 9 different home screens, we still hear folks lamenting the inability to place a blank space between apps on their home screens.
Well, with the right Web clip you can create the "spacer" that'll finally separate your games from your social apps.

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1. In mobile Safari, navigate to a site with a lot of black space. I chose http://googleblack.tripod.com. Zoom in on the site until you only see black.

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2. Press + and choose "Add to Home Screen"

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3. Replace the sites descriptive text with a period. Click add.

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4. Place your new spacer wherever you want.
You can make multiple spacers using the same site and procedure. You can have a row of them separating your apps like in the image above. Of course, your spacers will be aquafied by the iPhone, but it's a small price to pay for organization.