How to Set Those iPhone Wallpapers
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Tutorial Information
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How to Set Those iPhone Wallpapers |
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www.yourforum.gr |
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iPhone Tutorials |
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| Submitted: |
3 Sep 2008 |
| Updated: |
3 Sep 2008 |
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285 |
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Description:
Since John Gruber, Greg Storey, Josh Williams and others, seem to be off in their own little iPhone worlds, ignoring pleas from us non-iPhone owning slobs to get help with a request, it has fallen to our own Talos Tsui to uncover the process by which iPhone users can set wallpaper images from the web. Talos was one of the victims of the so-called “Activation delay” problem plaguing some users, so this would have come sooner had he not had to wait 6 hours for his iPhone to be usable. |
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Tutorial Instructions
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As Gruber points out in his First Impressions post, the iPhone does not have a traditional clipboard. This means that “copying and pasting” an image found on the web into your photo collection on the iPhone is not possible. So if you can¢t copy and paste an image to use as a wallpaper, how do you do it? It seems that for Mac users, the easiest way is to surf to the image on your desktop or laptop and save the wallpaper into a new album in iPhoto. You could create an album specifically called “Wallpapers” specifically for this purpose. Next, sync it to your iPhone as you would any other photo album. After the sync is completed, any images contained in that album will be available to use as wallpaper backgrounds!
PC Users don¢t have it quite this easy, but it is still possible. Since there is no iPhoto for the PC (yet), you¢ll have to surf to the image you want to use on your normal desktop, save the image and then email it to yourself. Check your email on the iPhone and from there you can set the image as your wallpaper background. According to Apple, the way to get wallpapers to sync onto your iPhone from your PC is similar:
In iTunes do the following:
1. Click the Photos tab and select “Sync photos from:”
2. From the pop-up menu, do the following:
• Choose Photoshop Album, PS Elements, or your My Pictures folder.
• Choose Folder, then any folder on your computer that has images inside.
3. Choose “All photos,” or choose “Selected folders” or “Selected albums” and choose the folders or albums you want to sync.
I¢ll be adding these steps to the Iconfactory FAQ pages next week, but if there are iPhone users out there who can pry themselves away from the Notes application long enough to find a better solution, I¢m all ears.
[source]gedblog[/source] |
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