Year: 2011

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Yummy 2.6: List View

On the iPhone you are very much limited by screen space. You can’t always see the full bookmark name. There’s not really enough space to show the name, the URL, the tags and the description. And worse, for me, the last solution I had to this wasn’t popular. I thought scrolling the titles was a neat way around this limitation; I think I was about the only person who liked it.

Trying to take all of this on board, Yummy 2.6 changes the list view to look like this:

If you want to see the full title, simply press and hold. The title will be shown just above your finger or at the very bottom of the screen if it won’t fit above it. (There’s another blog post coming to explain why I did it this way.)

By default, Yummy still displays the URL below the title. If you go to the settings you can change this to the tags or notes field. You can also swipe left or right on an individual bookmark in the list to cycle through the three options.

These two features are only available on iOS 3.2 and above.

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faq news support

Logging into Delicious

While Delicious has not gained a huge number of new features over the last few years, it has acquired a wide range of ways to log in.

A couple of years ago, there was a simple username and password.

Then in late 2009, new accounts came with a Yahoo! ID. Yummy was the first, and for a long time only, iPhone client to support the new accounts.

Even more recently, Yahoo! added the option to create a new Delicious account using your Google or Facebook credentials. I didn’t see an announcement for this. Apparently I wasn’t the only one. It seems that their development team didn’t see the notice either.

That’s right. As I type this, there is no way that I can support Delicious accounts with Google and Facebook credentials. I am told that it’s “on the roadmap” but I’ve seen no indication when we might see that or what it might look like.

In summary, it is not possible for any third-party client, including Yummy, to support Google or Facebook credentials when logging into Delicious. Please do not buy a copy of Yummy if this is a requirement for you.

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news

Yummy 2.6.1

Just a few days behind its free counterpart, Yummy 2.6.1 has now been approved by Apple and is available for download in the App Store. The only visible change is to the Twitter text entry screen, where I’ve tweaked the UI a little to make it easier to cut and paste text. Otherwise it’s just fixes. I have closed all known crashing bugs introduced in the 2.6.0 release (two accounted for around 90% of all crashes).

One bug was that when you pressed the Home button when the “Welcome” screen was visible, Yummy would crash. Obviously I’ve fixed the crash, however I just wanted to point out that there’s not really much point in pressed the Home button while on that screen. Yummy does not currently download your bookmarks in the background and by exiting half way through downloading your bookmarks you are just increasing your chances of being “throttled” by Yahoo! You may have seen the “Delicious says you’re refreshing too quickly” error, or the more cryptic “Error 999.” That’s what being throttled looks like from inside Yummy.

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Yummy Browser 2.6.1

I’ve been a bit busy recently so I’ve not had the chance to do my usual run through of the best new features in the last major version of Yummy and Yummy Browser, but what I have done it fix a few bugs that unfortunately make it through into the final version.

You can download that now from the App Store if you have Yummy Browser — it was approved in just over twenty-four hours, perhaps that fastest I’ve ever seen Apple review and approve an update. The same update for Yummy is still in the review queue. I’ll write an update when that’s available.

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news

Announcing: Yummy Browser 2.6.0

Yummy Browser 2.6 continues its tradition of incorporating the best features of it’s big brother. The checklist looks like this:
  • New bookmark view, showing the full text of the title and very long lists of tags 
  • Press and hold in any of the bookmark lists to see the full bookmark title 
  • Show URL, tags or notes in bookmark view 
  • Swipe left/right in bookmark view to switch between URL, tags and notes 
  • Pinboard.in support 
  • Improve sync reliability 
Note that some of these features need iOS 3.2 or higher. Yummy will work on iOS 3.1.3 and above.

Since the features are mostly shared with the full version of Yummy, you’ll be able to see the new features discussed here over the next few days. Or you could just go to the App Store and download it — it’s available now and is free.

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Announcing: Yummy 2.6

Yummy 2.6 is an odd release in some ways, but, I think, is a good one. Most previous versions have been all about new features, whether it’s posting to Twitter or Tag Bundles or pinboard.in support. But this version differs in that, by and large, it does the same things as the previous version but does them better.

The bullet-list on iTunes looks like this:

  • New bookmark view, showing the full text of the title and very long lists of tags 
  • New bookmark edit screen, allowing easier editing of long titles and notes 
  • Tag hints 
  • Remove “scrolling titles” feature 
  • Press and hold in any of the bookmark lists to see the full bookmark title 
  • Show URL, tags or notes in bookmark view 
  • Swipe left/right in bookmark view to switch between URL, tags and notes 
  • Improve sync reliability 
  • Add bookmark from the clipboard 
  • Update to newest Facebook API (may require logging in again) 
  • Better use of the iPad’s bigger screen 
  • Copy Description from bookmark to Twitter post
  • Plenty of bug fixes and tweaks

Note that some of these features need iOS 3.2 or higher. Yummy will work on iOS 3.1.3 and above.

I’ll be discussing some of these features in more detail in the next few weeks. Or you can just go to the App Store and download it now — it’s fresh out today.

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trivia

Behind the scenes

I wrote an article over on my personal blog about some of the things that go on “behind the scenes” when developing any program but iPhone apps in particular. The example I use is a screen that was originally  written for both Yummy and www.cut. If you’d like to read more you can check it out here.