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Full Screen Gmail Webapp with Retina Icon on Your iPhone 4

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If you're an iPhone owner and a Gmail user, you might've saved a Gmail bookmark to your home screen for convenience. But if you're like me, you want more; you want to run Gmail as a separate webapp and get rid of Mobile Safari's toolbars. I know several people have done this, but each method l found involved a time-consuming redirect and left me with an ugly non-retina Gmail icon. 

So, I whipped up a solution. Grab your iPhone 4, and in Mobile Safari, navigate to this page:

http://solomito.com/u/gmail

Once you're there, click on the link.....and you will get a BLANK PAGE. Add the blank page to your home screen. (Yes, tap the middle icon in Safari's bottom toolbar, then select "Add to Home Screen" to add the blank page to your home screen.)

Then tap the new FS Gmail icon and you're good to go.

Generate iTunes Store RSS feeds

iTunes obviously has a great deal of data about its sales; Apple is quite aware of the top sellers among its music, apps, movies and podcasts. That information is also available through RSS feeds. If you want to share that data on your website, or even if you just want it in your RSS reader, you can use the official iTunes RSS Generator to get the right feed.

You can refine the RSS feed created by Country, Media Type, Feed Type, Size and whether to allow explicit content. The Media Types available include Music, Podcasts, Audiobooks, TV Shows, Music Videos, Movies, Mac Apps and Apps. There are obviously many options under each media type, so you should check it out and see what's available. Just punch in the criteria you want to follow, hit "Generate" and then hook up that feed to an RSS reader, and you'll be kept up to date on the latest changes in the iTunes stores.