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The iPhone Set 01: Bodies of Major Interest

The iPhone Set 01: Bodies of Major Interest

If I am going to keep making these things… I’d be a fool to not include a set for the Apple iPhone. Coincidentally, when you purchase your iPhone and do not yet have a phone service, the phone displays a full-disc image of the Earth pretty much displayed exactly as these do when uploaded to your iPhone. So in the spirit of continuity, you can now opt instead to have Mercury, Venus, Earth, The Moon (Luna), Mars, Jupiter, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Saturn, Enceladus, Titan, Iapetus, Hyperion, Uranus, Miranda, Neptune or Triton grace your screen instead of the default Earth.

The easiest way to install wallpapers to your iPhone is to make a special set in iPhoto and simply drag all the files to that folder. Then in iTunes have your iPhone sync that folder to your photos collection. After that it is as simple as opening the “Photos” area of your iPhone. Go to your new folder of images and open whichever image you want. Then tap on the image just once and assign it as a wallpaper using the “Use as Wallpaper” button in the lower left corner of the screen.

If you have a PC I have no idea in hell how the hell you get images into your iPhone. I would buy a Mac… you have an iPhone and use iTunes… you are half-way there.

For a version of these with no graphics see this link.

This entry was posted on Friday, November 2nd, 2007 at 6:31 pm and is filed under Callisto, Earth, Enceladus, Europa, Ganymede, Hyperion, Iapetus, Io, Jupiter, Luna (Moon), Mars, Mercury, Miranda, Neptune, Saturn, Titan, Triton, Uranus, Venus, Wallpaper, iPhone. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “The iPhone Set 01: Bodies of Major Interest”

  1. alan Says:
    December 7th, 2007 at 2:22 am

    Hey,

    For those that liked these images but didn’t like the extra visual stuff, I photoshopped them out and put up a zip here:
    http://alan.norbauer.com/files/iPhone-Planets.zip

    It includes all of the ones above other than Saturn, because that would have taken too much time.

    I hope you don’t mind, Regan. If you do, just delete this comment and I won’t post the link up for download elsewhere.

    Thanks!,
    alan

  2. thomas Says:
    December 7th, 2007 at 9:30 pm

    you know, i get asked the same thing about the wallpapers sometimes… but i do this site as a graphic designer as well. so, i think it is a legitimate desire by some people to get the stuff unadulterated, but i don’t want to also make 3 different versions for 3 monitor sizes, 1 version for iphones, and then another set of each for plain no graphic versions. it would just be too much.

    so no problem if you want to host that. i’ll check them out and link to it in the actual post as well.

  3. thomas Says:
    December 7th, 2007 at 9:36 pm

    oh, and i am not Regan… Ian Regan compiled the Saturn image and wanderingspace extended the rings. wanderingspace is not Regan.

  4. alan Says:
    March 30th, 2008 at 2:45 pm

    Sorry, I had to move the file I was hosting (the version without the graphics) to here: http://altano.s3.amazonaws.com/iPhone-Planets.zip

    Sorry for the inconvenience

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