Instructions to use SpeedDial Webclip Generator
SpeedDial Webclip Generator is a really nice way to have customized speed dial Web-clips on your iPhone’s home screen. With its really nice interface, you can easily generate a speed dial Web-clip for your favorite contacts. And you can customize the Web-clip icon to any of your favorite online image or your contact person’s name. For all this you don’t have to sync your iPhone with iTunes.
Following are the instructions how you can easily add a speed dial web-clips to your iPhone.
1. Goto http://soft-use.com/speeddial . You will see the interface as shown in below image.
2. Enter your contact person’s information. Contact name in ‘Name’ field and contact phone no in ‘Phone no’ field. If you know a URL of some online image that you want to use as an icon, enter that URL into the ‘Enter icon url’ field. If no URL is given, you still can create a nice icon as shown below.
3. After you enter the informations, ‘Tap’ on the ‘Templates’ button, and it will show some templates of different colors that you can choose for the icon. Select any one of the template to use as web-clip icon color.
4. Then simply tap on 
button to generate the web-clip link. When a link is generated, you will see 
link between the ‘Icon URL’ field and ‘Generate’ button. Tap on it to see the generated web page.
5. There will be a popup window asking to you if you want to call that person.
At now click on ‘cancel’ button and you will see a webpage showing you your contact’s name.
6. After that, Tap on 
‘+’ sign button on the navigation panel on the bottom of your iPhone. And then click on ‘Add To Home Screen’, and follow the instructions on it.
7. And you will have a nice small web-clip icon on your home screen with your contact’s name on the icon. If you had entered the icon url, the icon will be the image you selected.
Use SpeedDial Icon Bookmarklet to add imges to your SpeedDial Web-clips
Using SpeedDial Icon Bookmarklet, you can easily add your favorite online images to your contact’s speed dial web-clip. Follow the instructions given below.
1. First add the ‘SpeedDial Icon Bookmarklet’ to your iPhone’s bookmarks. Goto http://soft-use.com/speeddial/ and scroll down a little till you see the ‘Get SpeedDial Generator Icon Bookmarklet’ as shown in below image.
2. Click on that link, it will show you a web-page with instructions on how to add this bookmarklet.
3. After you add the bookmarklet, goto some webpage containing the image you want to use as icon for your contact’s speed dial.
4. Then go to ‘Bookmarks’ and tap onto the ‘SpeedDial Icon Bookmarklet’. It will modify your page and will only show the imges of that page.
5. When you ‘tap’ on your favorite image, it will take you to the ‘SpeedDial Webclip Generator’ page and it will automatically have your image’s URL in the ‘Icon URL’ field.
6. Now enter the contact’s name and phone number and follow the instructions given above from step ‘4′.
7. At the end you will have a speed dial web-clip for your contact with the icon of your choice.
January 31st, 2008 at 9:53 pm
I pick the icon and everything, but it still produces a black Template instead. What am I doing wrong?
January 31st, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Well, for me .png and .gif image formats are working. Please can you give me the url of your image? Did u enter the image url by yourself or using the bookmarklet?
February 1st, 2008 at 6:25 am
this would be fabulous if it worked!
this is the url i’m trying to use, the link is to 57×57 png.
http://homepage.mac.com/sthorpe/house.png
also in the uk we need to be able to start telephone numbers with a zero.
as i say fab i could get it going. great idea. simon
February 1st, 2008 at 7:55 am
Hi
Problem with phone number from Sweden, they always starting with 0 (040-334455) when enter the number to your mobile, when I have generate the phone number the 0 is gone!!
I tried this, +4640-334455, but it dos not help, I got 4640-334455, the + was gone.
Ideas??
February 1st, 2008 at 8:55 am
Same issue for me black icon and need the zero or at least the +44
Otherwise great tool
February 1st, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Hi All, thanks for comments. And also thanks for finding the bug.
I have solved the problem with the numbers that are starting with ‘0′, but I am still working with numbers starting with ‘+’ sign.
Simon:For me also your image is not working, instead of very small icon, try a little big image size, like 128×128, and check if it works after that.
February 1st, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Thanks to my roommate, Vikram, to find the solution, Now phone no starting with ‘+’ signs also works. Chekout..
February 1st, 2008 at 9:23 pm
This is genius, it worked for me like a charm. Got all of my favorite people’s pictures from my Picasa web album and they all now have beautiful icons on the home screen. Thanks a million.
February 1st, 2008 at 10:30 pm
hey. How do I erase one of my contacts from the home screen?
February 1st, 2008 at 11:16 pm
David: You can delete the contact like a normal webclip, keep your finger on one icon till they start shaking, and then click ‘x’ button on top of it to remove it.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Jim: Thanks a lot.. And wait for one or two day, i m working on something more exciting..
February 2nd, 2008 at 3:01 am
Thanks very much for getting back. I’ll try later and let you know. Cheers.
February 2nd, 2008 at 3:23 am
Working really well now
and your next challenge is to have a larger image showing on the main screen while the alert comes up 
Keep up the great work.
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:23 pm
here I am with another request. Could you make theme font that comes up on the screen Aerial or better still a mac style font rather than Times?
Would look much more iPhone looking then.
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:57 pm
http://homepage.mac.com/sthorpe/house.jpg
trying now 400×400 .jpg - still no good. i tried a 128×128 .png and the didn’t work either. maybe it’s the homepage.mac.com address causing the trouble?
ah well, never mind. maybe i’ll try again in a couple of days. thanks for your help before though.
simon
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Simon: well, as u said may be its homepage.mac.com problem.. try to put the same image in flickr or picasa like that. Because images from flickr and picasa works great for others..
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:09 pm
ok… tried picasa still no go.
i’m filling in the form
Home
+441795xxxxxx (x’s for nos. of your choice!)
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/verdibaritus/Webclips/photo#5162859860286146978 (i tried with and without the http://)
i dunno it nearly has me beat.
nite
February 4th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Simon: This link is working great for me…
Are u using the ‘Get Speeddial Icon Bookmarklet’ provided on the webapp page? or you are directly entering the icon URL?
Please use the bookmarklet to select the icon, its a lot better than entering it manually.
February 5th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
I’m trying to use the image below or any of the other images from my photobucket account and it won’t detect any of them….their in jpg format and around 128×128 size.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y152/rafalobo/avatarsouth3b.jpg
I tried using the icon generator also but safari closes when I get to step #4 above. this sucks.
February 5th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Lobo: Thanks for finding the bug, the main problem is that if you try the bookmarklet directly to the image url, like ending with .jpg or .gif, safari is not able to work it with DOM model so it crashes. If you put the image on some html webpage and then try the bookmarklet, it will work. Sorry for the inconvenience caused. Please let me know if it still doesn’t work.
February 6th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I placed the image on a basic html page (http://vivamexclan.com/images/index.html) and surfed to that page with safari. I use the bookmarklet to show the images and it doesn’t crash anymore. I select a picture and it places the image url into the “Speeddial Webclip Generator” (same as if I input the image url manually) but when I click “Generate –> Tap for Shortcut” the image doesn’t show up at all. Even if I try to go ahead and add it to my homescreen as a speeddial webclip, the image still doesn’t show up.
Also, I don’t see any difference between placing the image on an html page and using the actual image url on the Speeddial Webclip Generator….when you go to a html page with images, the bookmarklet takes the image url of the image you’ve selected and places it into the Speeddial Webclip Generator. So how is this any different than if we just input the image url ourselves? It doesn’t work either way!
A much simpler way to creat a speeddial webclip is to use:
http://XXXXXXXXXX.TEL.QLNK.NET
or
http://XXXXXXXXXX.TEL.QLNK.NET/?picurl=http://www.website.com/imagename.gif (or jpg or png)
X = phone number
But even this method doesnt work all the time either.
I have yet to find a method that works.
February 6th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
btw…I’m using 1.1.3 WITHOUT JAILBREAK which is what I’m assuming most other users above are using since the webclip feature is only available as of 1.1.3 and there’s no 1.1.3 jailbreak yet (at least without having to downgrade first).
thanks
February 7th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Lobo: When you hit ‘Add to Homescreen’, wait for a while till iPhone fetches the icon from server, as Erx has commented, it takes some time depending upon your connection speed to get the icon.
February 7th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
AH! That worked…with your hack and the “tel.qlnk.net” hack as well =)
guess i was in too much of a hurry!
Thanks
February 7th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
I don’t have a ‘ + ‘ button on the navigation panel on the bottom of my Iphone???
It’s a 1.1.1
March 27th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Might be worth adding to your instructions for the bookmarklet that the image you wish to target may be ON a web page, but must not actually BE the web page. i.e.,
http://someserver/photo.jpg -> doesn’t work
http://someserver/viewer.html -> does work
if viewer.html contains at least:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
I am trying to enter a phone number of *8 or #121. Is this something I’ll be able to do in the future? Thank you.
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