This is getting crazy.

A 100% rewrite, tons faster, cleaner, and with some rich highlighting tweaks that I feel puts Searchy far ahead of other iPhone browsers.

But that’s all my opinion – what’s yours?

using jQuery plugin “scrollTo” locks a UIWebview position from chadedge on Vimeo.

I’m working with the jQuery plugin “scrollTo” and I’ve come across a problem:

When I fire the $.scrollTo('.a_class_item',{duration:'800',axis:'y'}); the Web page I’m viewing on the iPhone does scroll correctly (very nice!).

However, once that first position has been scrolled to, control of the Web page is toast – meaning, if I try and touch-drag anywhere else, when I release my finger the Web page “snaps” back to the first scrolled postion.

I cannot duplicate this in any browser (in a desktop browser, the behavior is as expected, again, very nice interaction).

If I default back to a window.scrollTo(x,y);, then the Web page retains control and the UI responds correctly – it seems that the scrollTo plugin is “locking” the page position.

Any ideas on how to “release” that lock so I can scroll, resize, (even scroll to a different area on the page)?

I have a document that I’m traversing that has a “B” (bold) element, containing both text and an image “IMG.”

When I search the document, I’m not coming up with the text within the B as a match, and I’m wondering if it’s because the element.nodeType isn’t responding to type “3″ (which should be a text node) properly (as the text node also contains an image).

Any ideas on how I can traverse to find the text within that “B” as a matching string, excluding the img in my result?

(Note: I’m doing this as an update to searchy in order to make it more robust for both the iPhone and iPad).

While I don’t mind watching the film on DVD, I do like to watch movies while using my iPhone, and therefore the movies need to be seriously compressed.

I usually use VisualHub (now defunct, unfortunately), but sometimes dip into Compressor for the final encoding.

Today, I started to use Evom and I’m quite happy with the results.
While Evom did take much longer to re-compress my 1.6GB file (about 2 hours, compared to about 60-70 minutes with VisualHub), the resulting file size is a shocking 250MB less than what VisualHub gave me.

Here are the two compressed files, side-by-side. Can you tell which is VisualHub’s reduction and which is Evom’s?

Final note: if you CAN tell which is more compressed, do you really think it matters on the iPhone screen? I don’t.

Square has been on my radar for a few months – mostly for tinkering project ideas. Here’s some things I’ve been thinking:

1. Human ATM (swipe card, give cash) for places like Dick’s in Seattle
2. Buy tickets even easier from scalpers (ha!)
3. Sell your merchandise easier at live events (hello, OSNAP.net!)
4. Be the coolest lemonade stand on the block

Doing so has really made my brain hurt as I’m not too familiar with Obj-C or CocoaTouch.

It’s been a fun ride, and learning in the method I usually do I’ve purchased books to help me along.

Thankfully I’m a member of both Barnes and Noble and Borders, so the discounts on these books was substantial. That and I bought a couple over the holidays at a really steep discount from Amazon and SitePoint.

Game on!

I’ve made some interface improvements and have nearly eliminated the JavaScript necessary to run this project.
Now, the JS is only used as a RegExp task, instead of having to use it for the modal dialogs as well.

Next steps: hook up the history (Core Data) and the E-mail function.

searchy: a one-day iPhone app from chadedge on Vimeo.

Yeah, there’s LOT’s that should be done to an app like this (#1 being “hire a professional”), but this was a one-day project, completed in an afternoon, folks!

Sure, the Times already has a Web mobile site, but using it on an iPhone can be a pain (the layout has improved over the last few months, but not enough for a newshound like me). The new iPhone app improves the mobile site by allowing visitors to e-mail articles, browse deeper, and see a much cleaner formatted layout.

I talked to the developer today and he says there are updates coming down the pipe (better user settings, a possibility for more media like photos, etc).

In the meantime, it’s worth the price of a download (free).

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