Get the Front Page of the B'ham News emailed to your iPhone or iPad - From You to You
Yesterday I saw a post on Twitter from Wade Kwon that referenced the front page of the local paper, The Birmingham News. I clicked on the first link and was shocked to see a beautiful, full color image of todays front page on my iPad! I could pinch to zoom and read all the text and it looked really great. I immediately started searching the newspapers website to find a digital subscription so I could read the whole paper... Sadly, there is (as of this writing) no such thing. I really want the whole paper, but, enjoyed the front page on my iPad too much to walk away :) I decided to write a PHP script to email me the front page every day. Here is the Tweet that was the Genesis of this project, click on the first link. This displays great on any iDevice, but, won't display on others (I have tested Android, and Outlook) the reason is the Front Page is in PDF format and Safari has a built in viewer for PDF that will allow it to display in email. At this point I am going to switc...