February 2012
20 posts
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Joost van der Ree's Home Screen
I’m Joost van der Ree from the UI blog NotALotOfWords.com. This is my home screen.
I sacrificed a lot of apps for the home screen because their icons were too ugly. I hate the Evernote icon but I use it too much to not put it here. I love the Things icon.
The background is from the Nasa photostream on Flickr. I change it every week. Most of the time it’s a photo from National...
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Danny Soto's Home Screen
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Chris Herbert's Home Screen
Hey guys, I’m Chris Herbert, Editor over at MacStories. My home screen, like others, contains my most-used and precious apps.
Besides the stock Apple ones, I use Instacast to listen to great podcasts from 5by5, 70 Decibels and The Verge. I use AppShopper for iOS (and .com) everyday to do the @MacStoriesDeals posts and am currently testing TouchArcade which works with AppShopper. You...
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"Mlapida's" Home Screen
So this is my home screen.
I’ve been trying to really narrow down the app’s I use and the one’s I don’t. I’ve went from having the entire thing filled with folders to the more zen approach. The Squarespace app is great, if you have a Squarespace site. Have to have Fever, the best feed reader around. Reeder will be in that spot as soon as it adds support.
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Robert Agcaoili's Home Screen
Hi my name is Robert Agcaoili, and I write for gridwriter.com and this is my homescreen.
Aside from Phone, Messages, and Safari, I have moved all the default apps away either because I don’t need them, I have replaced it with another app, or I access it another way (ie Weather from the Notification Center)
Instacast is my best friend during my commutes home. I honestly listen to...
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Caroline Morrow's Home Screen
As you can tell, I’m a heavy Evernote user. I have my home screen arranged for maximum accessibility plus color coordination. The only app on probation is Dialvetica because the most recent update set the text so small.
I haven’t tried Launch Center yet but the recent reviews have gotten me interested!
Permalink to Caroline’s website.
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Yagan Kiely's Home Screen
My aim is to rid myself of dependence on Apple’s own apps on my homescreen. Thanks to Sparrow (beta), all but Clock.app is left (which I doubt I’ll ever be able to replace, at least on iOS 5).
I also don’t like the use of folders, but there’s little I can do, the apps in the folders are just used to frequently (and I want the space bellow for swiping, and to show the...
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Nick Heer's Home Screen
Hi, I’m Nick. I write nickheer.com. I’m not one of those famous bloggers, but I opine regularly. This is my home screen.
I’ve kept it fairly similar throughout the years. The function of each app is quite similar to those of four years ago, in a similar layout. The apps themselves have changed, though.
I’ve been bouncing amongst Twitter clients, and I’m using...
A Few Swipe the Linen Updates →
Here are some news tidbits about the site.
Quick Internet Poll
By number of notes, would anyone be interested in a Tumblr site that features people’s lock screens?
I thought it would be interesting, but I’m not sure if you guys feel the same way.
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Justin Williams' Home Screen
Dialvetica: I don’t make that many calls, so I am not really sure why this app has such prominent spot on my home screen. It’s a nice app though.
Camera+: I recently started snapping photos with Camera+ rather than the built-in Camera app solely because of the lightbox feature. It’s nice to be able to snap a few variations of a photo and then pick between them in the app...
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Patrick Mason's Home Screen
My name is Patrick Mason, and I am the self-proclaimed creator/curator/head-troll of the “Inspired” by Apple tumblelog and one of the co-creators of Trollem Ipsum.
iOS “power users” will self-combust when they see this. I can’t quite remember when I decided to organise my home screen into folders, but it’s been this way for a while and I don’t know any better.
The rationale is that, by...
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John Vieira's Home Screen
Tumblr on my phone is a dangerous game, I find myself posting lots of things (jcv.me) and then deleting them shortly after. Twitter so I can tell dumb jokes to my heart’s content (@thelegendofjohn). And Instagram so I can say ‘rule of thirds’ and pretend I’m a good photographer (@jcv).
You wouldn’t think that, writing for a design firm I’d need access to my...
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Erik Binggeser's Home Screen
Erik Binggeser’s Home Screen. Verizon iPhone 4.
Jailbreak tweaks to remove labels, shadows, dock and dock reflection, certain elements in the top bar, the spotlight and page dots, and to shrink icons.
Across the top I have folders for photography, web, time and alarms, and games. Apps I’ve been regularly using are Hatchi (a little creature to take care of whenever I’ve got...
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Brett Kelly's Home Screen
I’d say my home screen is fairly “average”. The usual suspects are all present: a Twitter client (I love Tweetbot), Mail, Instacast, Reeder, etc. The dock is where I live and die, though. I use the Camera pretty much constantly since I have two small kids and a penchant for making dumb, photo-related Internet jokes. Evernote is where my life lives (naturally) and if I...
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Wuffers' Home Screen
My iPod touch’s home screen. It is jailbroken, which I love for the customization.
The apps on my home screen that I use most are probably OmniFocus and Sleipinir. The others are some system apps, App Store, Settings. Then there’s Listary, Instapaper, Minimalist Timer, Everyday, and Cydia.
In my dock I have the music app, Reeder, Launch Center, and Instacast.
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Stephen Hackett's Home Screen
My choices are pretty boring. The biggest news is that Launch Center has taken a spot in the Dock, shifting Settings back a screen.
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David Barnard's Home Screen
This morning my home screen was completely different. As I tried to describe it for posting here on Swipe the Linen, I realized there were so many things I didn’t like about it. Rather than make excuses I decided to try completely rearranging it. It’ll likely change again soon, but I’m really liking how it turned out.
Though it seems odd to have 4 photo-related apps on my...
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Shawn Blanc's Home Screen
I suppose my top three favorite Home screen apps are Instagram, Tweetbot, and Simplenote. Instagram’s a blast, Tweetbot is the best Twitter client out there, and Simplenote is my most important utility app. I use all of these fine apps many times per day.
Thomas Brand's Home Screen
Hello, my name is Thomas Brand and I write a Newton themed technology blog named Egg Freckles. The limited set of twelve applications I keep on my iPhone’s home screen can be grouped into three separate categories, communication, creation, and entertainment.
Applications like Phone, Mail, Messages, and Twitterrific all allow me to communicate with the rest of the world. I use these...
January 2012
10 posts
Jory Raphael's Home Screen
Most apps are fairly self-explanatory. I love the simplicity and ease of use of Agenda. Notabli is a service I co-founded that’s still in beta (http://notabli.com) and Symbolicons is an apple-touch-icon I made for my http://symbolicons.com website. I keep my most-used apps (and those I want quick access to) on my home screen. 2 of the remaining 3 screens are dedicated to games for my...
David Smith's Home Screen
Editor’s note: David sent this in to me via email.
I run a very stock setup on my iPhone. The vast majority of the apps I use each day are the built-in Apple ones. This habit largely comes from liking how deeply integrated most of them are with the OS. That may seem a bit funny for someone who makes their living in the App Store, but generally speaking if Apple has built an app to do...
Robb Lewis' Home Screen
Hi, I’m Robb Lewis and I am a Web Technologies student at Portsmouth Uni. I also write about various technology-related subjects on my blog.
I generally spend hours rearranging my home screen every few weeks but I have managed to keep this layout for quite a while now. Tweetbot, Reeder and Instacast need no introduction and won’t be moving from my home screen for a long time. I...
Iain Broome's Home Screen
I’m Iain Broome and I’m an author, copywriter and founder of Write for Your Life.
I have but two strategies when it comes to organising my iPhone home screen. First, I choose the apps that I use the most. That seems to make sense. My other tactic is to keep the bottom right free as that’s where I put my big fat thumb when I do my swiping.
Mark H. Anbinder's Home Screen
Editor’s note: Mark sent this in to me via email.
Mostly, I find myself navigating from app to app by double-pressing
the home button and choosing from recent apps. When I haven’t used an
app recently, I swipe left and tap the first few letters of the app
name in the search box. So, my home screen has several default apps,
and a few apps I want to be able to get to FAST.
TripIt...
Vinh Pham's Home Screen
Hi, I’m Vinh Pham, and I’m a retired marketer from Southern California. Here’s my home screen.
Full disclosure: I kept a stock or relatively stock home screen since purchasing my first iPhone a little over four years ago. iOS 5.0 has made things a bit too cluttered for my taste, and the discovery of Swipe the Linen has finally motivated me to rethink my organization...
Design Update
Hey everyone,
Thanks for your interest in the site. The reception has been very positive, and I’m proud of the folks that have shared their home screens already.
Just one quick announcement to make: There will be several design changes coming up, so if you visit the site one day and everything looks really weird, don’t worry. It’ll be taken care of.
Thanks!
—Dan
Matt Hayhurst's Home Screen
Hi, I’m Matt Hayhurst, and I’m a television producer from Raleigh, NC. Here’s my current homescreen.
I honestly go back and forth between Agenda and QuickCal taking up the top left. I live by my calendar and I’m still going back and forth on which app I like best. Simplenote is a must. I’m constantly taking notes and it also syncs with Dropbox, which is a must....
Myke Hurley's Home Screen
Hey, I’m Myke Hurley, Co-founder, host and producer of the 70Decibels Podcast network and here is my current home screen.
A couple of my favourite apps are; Tweetbot, which is a twitter client and probably the best app ever made, Instacast (which is hidden in a folder in my dock), the only way to listen to Podcasts on iOS and Simplenote, my favourite notes app on iOS—my life is stored...
Nathaniel Mott's Home Screen
This is Nathaniel Mott’s (Twitter) home screen. I’ve been reading his site for a while now, and lately it’s been better than ever, featuring articles about writing and much more.
I’ll let him take it from here:
Many of the apps I love have been talked about to death, so I think I’m going to talk a bit about iBooks. It’s one of my favorite apps...