The Urban Sherpa - a blog by Christopher DeWan

(sophomoric sophist...)

The Urban Sherpa keeps a collection of stories and curios filed under Mythic Proportions.

The Urban Sherpa on Your iPhone rating=2

File under: Under the Hood

The Urban Sherpa on your iPhoneFinally!

I promised this a while back, but it's taken me longer than I expected to deliver it.1 Here's a little tool so you can read recent entries of The Urban Sherpa on your iPhone. Never again will you have to be without your friendly neighborhood Sherpa: now you can read the blog at the gym, on the toilet, at the theatre, while driving, while making love to your spouse, etc.—in short, anywhere you bring your iPhone.2

To try it out, just point your iPhone to http://theurbansherpa.com/isherpa/. (This link probably won't behave so well in a regular desktop web browser.)

If you like what you see, and you want to add it more permanently to your iPhone, follow the instructions below:

To Install The Urban Sherpa on your iPhone

  1. Navigate your iPhone to http://theurbansherpa.com/isherpa.
  2. To add a Sherpa icon to your iPhone home screen, click the "+" at the bottom of the screen, then select "Add to Home Screen".
  3. Give it whatever label you like. I named it "Sherpa" so all the letters fit.

1. In fact, quibblers and programmers in the audience will be quick to point out that what I've offered is not a "native iPhone app," but rather a "web application" designed specifically for the iPhone. That's why it's a bit of a pain to "install," and why you won't find it available for download at the iTunes App Store.

2. Which is, of course, everywhere.