iPhone: Visual speed dial is a nice idea, but when you have to
launch a separate app to make a phone call it's a little
annoying. Here are two ways to add visual speed dial to your
home screen.  How to Create a Visual Speed Dial Folder on Your
iPhone  There's an app called Custom Dial 6 ($1) that lets you
add six custom speed dial icons to your iPhone home screen.
There's also a free version that lets you add just one. This is
kind of limiting, plus there are some bugs—both things they
intend to fix in a free update—so I figured there must be a way
anyone can just do this themselves with a little light coding.
That happens to be the case.  While the video up top will walk
you through the process, here are the basic steps:    1.
Download these files to start you off. You'll find two
documents: html_prep.html and autodial.php.   2. The HTML Prep
document is basically just a very, very simple HTML page with a
photo and a link. You'll want to make a PHP page with this HTML
code in it. You can just copy and paste