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Yummy 2.1.0

You can think of this as the “tidy up” release after the major update to 2.0. Nevertheless there are some nice new features:

  • Suggest tags when adding or editing bookmarks
  • Save searches
  • Send bookmarks to Twittelator
  • Tags now display as you type them but are organised in a case-insensitive manner
  • Performance enhancements

More in the coming days, but the “Suggest Tags” feature looks like this:

Simply press the “bookmarks” button (the only active button in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen) and the tags field will be populated with Delicious’ suggestions in a couple of seconds. You can edit them once populated.

And the saved search starts here:

Press the little blue “Bookmarks” button to the right of the search bar and you get here:

By default every search is saved here, so it’s as well to trim down your search term occasionally. The edit button works just as it does in other iPhone applications and the “Delete all” button does exactly what you’d guess.

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Memory Warning

By now many of you (assuming you own Yummy!) will have seen the above warning message. Why are you getting it and what does it really mean? That’s what this post hopes to answer.

The first thing to note is that the error message is being completely honest. The iPhone has told Yummy that it is running out of memory and that if nothing changes it will be shutdown without warning.

Does that not mean that Yummy is being incredibly wasteful? How could it possibly be using 8Gb of memory just to display a webpage? The answer to that is, it’s not that memory that is being depleted. In order to run programs the iPhone has around 128Mb of memory, less than 30Mb of which is available to third-party applications like Yummy. The number on the box, the 8Gb, 16Gb and 32Gb sizes, are a different “pot” that cannot be used for the same purpose.

So, the first thing that Yummy does when it starts running out of memory is to “forget” about as much stuff as possible that it doesn’t currently need. This means that the number of bookmarks in your Delicious account has little bearing on how much memory is used.

Jettisoning this temporary data is typically enough to allow the webpage to load. However if you’re loading a particularly large or complicated page it might not be and, unfortunately, Yummy often does not get a second warning before being forced out.

This is one of those rare cases where I’ve had to let some of the underlying technical details show through. It’s not ideal but I thought it better that you know what’s going on rather than just allow it to exit without warning.

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Just submitted…

I am in the process of uploading a new version of Yummy to Apple. It should be available for download to your iPhone or iPod touch some time in the next week or so.

Although mainly a bug fix release, I have added a few new features:

  • Suggest tags
  • Saved search
  • Post links to Twitter using Twittelator

The bug fixes are pretty significant:

  • Blank tags appearing, which when selected cause Yummy to crash
  • A crash on sync, caused, believe it or not, by manually selecting 12-hour time in the Settings application

For the latter I am indebted to Peter from Byteclub who went far above and beyond would could have been expected to help me get to the bottom of it. A temporary work-around until 2.1 is available for download is to switch to a 24-hour clock.

(Not that this is an excuse for Yummy crashing, but it turned out to be a bug in the iPhone OS. If you want to see the details check out this question.)

People with over 1500 tags should also be happier with the performance in this version.