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Search Tilt to Find Safari Easter Egg

Douglas — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:05:59 +0000

If you search for the word “tilt” in the Safari browser for the iPhone your search results page will be tilted slightly to the right. This also works for the word “askew”. Not sure if this is something Apple did or Google. This works on any iPhone even if it’s not jailbroken. Try it! Here’s some screenshots of what it looks like:

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GridTab for Safari

Douglas — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:03:09 +0000

This simple hack displays multiple open tabs in Safari just like the iPad does. It works in both portrait and landscape but still only allows for 8 open tabs. On thing I’ve noticed that doesn’t work; when you hold your finger on a link and select “Open in New Page” it still opens in the existing page and not a new one. This hack is a little quicker than scrolling through all the open tabs in the normal view.

Available In: Cydia

Price: $0.99

FullScreen for Safari

Douglas — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:38:37 +0000

Available In: Cydia

Price: $1.49

This super sweet hack is just as the title sounds, a full screen feature for the stock Safari app. This means no address bar and no toolbar at the bottom. Don’t worry, it’s not an all or nothing option. You can use a variety of gestures to initiate full screen mode. There are also other gestures for things like back and scrolling up. This only works on iOS 4 but it works really well. It ran very smooth for us and it’s definitely a keeper! Can’t wait for it to work with the iPad (as of now it’s not compatible)

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Tab+ – Increase the Number of Tabs Allowed in Safari on iPhone, iPod touch & iPad

Brooke — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:17:37 +0000

Available In: Cydia

Price: Free

Tab+ is a nice little hack that allows you to have more than eight tabs open at a time in Safari on your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad (allows iPad to have more than nine tabs open at a time). There is not much to this one… just install the application via Cydia, respring your device, open Safari and voilà… you can have more than eight tabs at a time.

The only issue I have noticed with this hack is that if you go over the stock eight tabs, you no longer get the number of tabs on the little icon on the bottom. However, if you go back down to eight tabs, the number comes back. Other than that… this hack worked great for both Doug and I. The highest number of tabs we got up to was 14. You will have to let us know if you surpass that and how it does.

You can get Tab+ via the BigBoss source.

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iPad App Previews

Douglas — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:47:17 +0000

With the SDK available for the iPad, developers are coming up with some great designs for apps. Here are a few I’ve found so far. Let us know if you’ve seen any others!

1Password

Wired Magazine

Safari

Guide: Creating a Web App From Scratch

Douglas — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:21:06 +0000

If you’ve been looking for a complete guide to creating a web app, look no further. The guide is called Creating a Web App From Scratch by CSS-Tricks.com It even comes with the complete source code files and Photoshop documents. The 8 part guide is written by both a coder and a designer so you’ll learn how to fit your site to mobile devices and still use the rich content from a full website. Through the process they show you each step of building their demo site, Colored Lists.

If anyone has used this guide or ends up using it to create a mobile of their own, let us know what you thought in the comments. Or, if you know of other guides, share them too.

Part 1 – Planning the App: Basic Idea and Design
Part 2 – Planning the App: Database Architecture and Development Approach
Part 3 – Designing the App: Workflow Map and Photoshop Design
Part 4 – Designing the App: HTML and CSS
Part 5 – Developing the App: User Interaction
Part 6 – Developing the App: Adding AJAX Interactivity
Part 7 – Developing the App: List Interaction
Part 8 – Security & The Future

jQTouch – What You Can Really Do With Safari On The iPhone

Douglas — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:21:24 +0000

The Developers of jQTouch describe it as “A jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices.” In English, that means they have a sweet development kit to help web app developers create awesome interfaces in Safari. There isn’t an easy way to describe it all so here are a bunch of great videos demoing what can be done with jQTouch in Safari.

Learn more at jqtouch.com or find it on Google Code.

Jailbroken iPhone Beats New Droid Phone in Browser Speed Test

Douglas — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:30:57 +0000

The newest device to run the Google Android software is being released on November 6th. Engadget has been posting video reviews of the device and in this video, shows a browser speed test. The iPhone wins even after being jailbroken which can cause the iPhone to run slower than stock.

Friday Night Movie Night: widgetpad.com

Douglas — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:40:11 +0000

I found this sweet Twitter matrix video on YouTube and found out that first, it’s running in Safari and second, there are a ton more sweet web apps that are all from this site, widgetpad.com, that utilize HTML5. Check out some of the examples below and check out their site for more.

Find In Page – Safari Bookmark for Searching Webpages

Brooke — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:22:25 +0000

Available In: Cydia

Price: Free

Find In Page (FindInPage for 2.x firmware), a Safari bookmark that allows you to search a web page, has been updated to work specifically with the 3.0 firmware. This mod does not add an icon to your SpringBoard but instead adds a bookmark in Safari. To use the Find In Page bookmark, go to a web page in Safari, then select the icon on the lower menu bar that looks like a book. This will bring up a list of your bookmarks. Just tap on the Find In Page bookmark.

Once you select the Find In Page bookmark, you will get a pop-up where you can type in the word (or words) you would like to search the page for. It will then give you a pop-up displaying how many matches it found on the page. The matches will be highlighted in yellow on the page.

If you would like to remove the bookmark, you will need to remove it in Safari like you would any other bookmark (go into your bookmarks, select Edit and then delete the bookmark). Uninstalling the Find In Page application via Cydia will not delete the bookmark out of Safari…you have to do that via Safari.

Overall, this is a handy little bookmark that works well. One thing I did notice, like in the previous version, once you have searched for the a word in a page it will keep that word highlighted even if you go back out and search for a new word. Not a huge deal, just something to note. You can get Find In Page via the BigBoss source.

Note: If you would like to have this app on the 2.x firmware, be sure you install the FindInPage app instead of the Find In Page app.