Iconify Beta v.0.8.3 releases – Access Contacts & Websites via Home Screen Icons

by Kal Chebli

2 February 2010 No Comment

Traditionally we scroll through our phonebook to select a contact to dial. Sound simple? Let’s walk through that again. Assuming your phonebook is not in the top 6 applications, it would require you to hit the menu button, scroll to the phonebook, and then select the important contact. We just got the word that Iconify has just released its public beta at v0.8.3. I never used this application before today but it is definitely quite impressive.

Iconify allows you to create and customize home screen icons for contacts in your phonebook and websites you enjoy going to frequently. Hit the jump for more features with Iconify including the OTA download link.

Features:

Create an IconifyDialLink to any Contact of your BlackBerry® AddressBook directly on your HomeScreen.
- Specify a custom image or use the contact picture
- Select a single number, specify a custom number or pick “select each time” (once the contact have multiple numbers assigned)
- Select if you would like to confirm the number dialing
As soon as you change any details (number or picture) of your contact in your BlackBerry® AddressBook Iconify will instantly refresh the link on your HomeScreen. So the IconifyLink is always up2date! (only applies, if you made no “custom” settings for an IconifyLink)
Create an IconifyMailLink to any Contact of your BlackBerry® AddressBook directly on your HomeScreen.
- Same as for Dial Links you can select between multiple eMail Addresses, SMS-Number, PIN, or specify a custom eMail address for an IconifyMailLink.
Create an IconifyWebLink to a Webpage you have currently open in your BlackBerry® Browser directly on your HomeScreen.
- Adjust the URL if needed
- Specify an custom name or use the default generated
- Iconify will try to read the favicon.ico file of the Webserver (only JPG & PNG supported – these formats are not very common yet as favorite.ico files – but that hopefully will change in the future). Once a Site offers a favicon.ico file in a supported format Iconify will use that image as custom picture for this IconifyLink.
Options to configure Iconify to your choice
- Always confirm when on Roaming [ON/OFF]
- Default Confirm for new DialLinks [ON/OFF]
- Default Confirm for new WebLinks [ON/OFF]
- Various settings to configure the custom image browser
- Force TCP/IP for favicon.ico request (WebLinks)

Iconify is currently under public beta so it is free for the time being. Feel free to download by pointing your BlackBerry Browser to emacberry.com/ota/Iconify.jad or use the link below.