Wandle SoftwareSearching has always been a big feature of Yummy and has been revamped and improved for version two.
For starters, the screen looks different:
Note how that here we have searched for bookmarks that have both the “iphone” and “development” tag. A similar trick applies when you search by title and notes fields: it searches for all words but not necessarily in any given order. For example searching for “hello world” would find both “Hello there, world” and “World says Hello.”
Brand new in Yummy 2.0 is the ability to browse through your bookmarks by tag. You could already search for them but a number of users indicated that a screen like this would be very useful:
From here you can drill down to get a list of bookmarks.
One neat touch here (if I do say so myself) is that pressing “Add” button pre-populates the tags field with the current tag, so in this case the “Add bookmark” screen would have “iphone” in the tag field.
Users of Yummy version 1.0 will find this screen the most familiar as it was the default. Nevertheless you will find some changes here.
Rather than have a section heading for every date, the granularity changes as you head back in time. You get a heading for every day of the last week, one for the whole of the week before that, and then fewer and fewer headings as you head even further back in time. You can get to every one of your bookmarks this way but it’s probably easier to search if it’s an old one.
These other methods of finding your old bookmarks will be covered in the next couple of days.
There’s not a lot to say about the menu screen in the new version of Yummy.
From here you can select how you want to find your bookmarks. Using the toolbar at the bottom you can also force a refresh (useful mainly if you’ve disabled the automatic refresh on startup option) or add a new bookmark. We’ll cover all the various options in the next week or two.
Voting for the Great Indie Bake Off started last night over on 148Apps.com. There are some great prizes so it’s well worth heading over there to cast your vote!
In Yummy 1.0, one thing that caught a number of users out the first time they started Yummy was where to enter their Delicious.com username and password. The Apple convention of keeping settings in the Settings application seems not to have filtered into many iPhone and iPod touch users’ consciousness.
Version 2 makes this whole experience much easier. New users (and everyone upgrading) will see the following screen the first time they run it:
Once you enter your username and password, Yummy will check that they’re valid (so you need network connectivity when you do it) and immediately start to download all your bookmarks. This may take a while if you have a lot of bookmarks, and using WiFi rather than the cell network is not a bad idea. It’s best to wait until they’re all downloaded before exiting but nothing will break if you don’t. You can use Yummy while it’s downloading, so don’t feel that you have a sit and wait, staring at the status bar.
Talking of the “status bar,” the home screen and status bar will be the subject of the next post. Stay tuned.
I’ll be going over some of the key features of Yummy in more detail over the coming weeks, but here’s a quick overview in pictures.
Splash screen:
Main menu:
Very similar to Yummy version 1.0, the view by date screen:
And the new view by tag:
Here’s what a bookmark looks like:
Which is kind of similar to what adding a new bookmark looks like:
And here’s a web preview:
Finally here’s a quick look at the settings screen:
I am very excited to announce that the new version of Yummy, still the only Delicious.com client for iPhone and iPod touch that allows you to edit bookmarks, is now available in the App Store. It can be purchased for $1.99, £1.19, €1.59 or your local equivalent. All existing users get this version for free. Please check in iTunes or in the App Store application on your handset for updates.
Yummy has always had the following great features:
Version two now adds the following:
Over the new few weeks I will be going over these changes in more detail. Oh, and there might be some other news. Stay tuned…
A couple of days ago I submitted the latest version of Yummy to Apple for inclusion in the iTunes App Store. While the phrase “media blitz” might be overstating the case, you can expect to see a lot of new content here discussing the new features and enhancements that you’ll be able to see in a week or so when it’s actually available.
Until then, here’s a short video that shows some of the key features.
It all goes by pretty quickly but you should get a good idea of what’s to come, though I’m sure you’ll find some other neat stuff in the end product. I’m looking forward to getting it out there and available for download!
As a quick aside, this is the first time that I’ve really had the chance to play around with iMovie 08. I’ve heard lots of bad things about it but, actually, for something like this it was ideal. Very slick and easy and quick. I used Copernicus to capture the video and Garageband to compose the music.
I first heard about Twitter shortly after it hit the web but I resisted for a long time. I couldn’t quite see the point. I have a website. Several actually. I’m on AIM and Yahoo Messenger (occasionally) and MSN (even more occasionally). I have email. Lots of it. What would Twitter add to the mix?
Brief aside for the uninitiated: what is Twitter? Think of it as public text messaging on the web. You post 140 character “tweets” that, in theory, answer the question, “What are you doing?” They are, by default, available for anyone to see. You can hide your updates but it kind of defeats the object of the exercise.
In the middle of last year I relented, but it’s only been in the last couple of months that I’ve really started to “get” it and use it more. If you’d like to make an informal comment about Yummy or want to “follow” me, please do so. I’m twitter.com/sdarlington. I don’t only talk about Yummy and Delicious.com but you hopefully should find something interesting there.