Mobilesafari Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Mobile Safari search via toolbar points to clearer results

by Dan Fellini (Dec 17th, 2008)

Google quietly fixed a problem yesterday that bugged at least a few iPhone users -- the results page it returned when searching through the toolbar in Mobile Safari. In a pre-Tuesday world, Google would return its standard, not-iPhone-formatted results page. Why? I honestly don't know, but ...

Apple also releases iPhone OS for iPod touch 2.2

by Robert Palmer (Nov 21st, 2008)

Apple also released a firmware update for iPod touch, bringing it in line with most version 2.2 updates for iPhone released a little while ago. It doesn't appear, however, that iPod touch users get the enhancements to the Maps app that iPhone users do. (Thanks, Guillermo!) The update contains ...

In Pictures: Street View, Safari for iPhone 2.2

by Robert Palmer (Oct 29th, 2008)

Following up on our report yesterday, a new tipster sent us screenshots of the Maps and Safari applications, highlighting changes on the way in iPhone firmware 2.2. Apple looks like they're maximizing the income they make from offering a Google search option by cramming a search box in next to the ...

Flash on its way for the iPhone (again)?

by Robert Palmer (Oct 1st, 2008)

Stop me if you've heard this one before: Adobe has confirmed that it's developing a version of Flash for the iPhone, and it's "a certainty" that it will be included in MobileSafari, according to Paul Boutin of Valleywag. Color me skeptical. Paul Betlem (this story is replete with Pauls, it appears) ...

British ad watchdogs nix iPhone "whole internet" claim

by Michael Rose (Aug 27th, 2008)

What is the "whole internet," anyway? Is it a place you can go, or is it really just an idea? Can you put it in your pants? Apparently not, if the UK's Advertising Standards Authority's point of view is to be taken as gospel. Complaints to the oversight agency by British consumers who were ...

CSS trick mimics sideways-flicking behavior in MobileSafari

by Robert Palmer (Aug 13th, 2008)

Ajaxian has posted a ridiculously simple way to enable web apps to mimic the iPhone's side-to-side flicking behavior using custom CSS supported by MobileSafari. If you're creating a web app specifically for iPhone and iPod touch users, you can get a similar feel to a native application with ...

Freeway 5.2 available with new MobileSafari support

by Robert Palmer (Aug 5th, 2008)

Softpress Systems has released Freeway 5.2, which includes new tools for building web pages for iPhone and iPod touch. Freeway is WYSIWYG website creation software that features a traditional, page-layout approach and omits the need to write any code (unless, you know, you really want to handcraft ...

Keep your iPhone from losing its cookies

by Brett Terpstra (Jun 25th, 2008)

I've been getting more and more frustrated with the fact that every time I load up Google Reader on my iPhone, I have to log in again. I tried it with and without my 1Password bookmarklet, checked my javascript and cookie settings, all to no avail. And it's not just Reader, everywhere I turn, I'm ...

iPhone on the Road: a substitute for paper boarding passes

by Erica Sadun (Apr 22nd, 2008)

Some things sound really cool -- until you actually have to step up and do them in real time. TUAW reader Gerald Buckley's story about traveling with his iPhone strikes me as belonging to this class. When he approached the American Airlines counter to use his iPhone as a boarding pass, the coolness ...

iPhone 101: Clearing cookies from Mobile Safari

by Erica Sadun (Apr 10th, 2008)

This morning, I Farked my way over to this story about British Tea Cakes. The tea cakes, which appear to be nothing more than British mallomars, have been re-categorized from biscuits to cake. Far be it from me to dispute the accumulated wisdom of the EU high courts, but from this American vantage ...

iPhone-optimized versions of LinkedIn, TalkShoe now up

by Michael Rose (Feb 25th, 2008)

We don't post about every website that comes up with an iPhone/iPod touch-optimized version -- if we did, we wouldn't have time for eating or sleeping -- but every now and then a couple of sites newly built for Mobile Safari rise above the pack. Today's launches for everyone's favorite "internet in ...

Tabulate adds Safari "tabs" to iPhone and iPod touch

by Erica Sadun (Dec 6th, 2007)

Now here's a clever trick. Inventive Labs Gadgets has designed a Safari bookmarklet that adds "tabs" to your iPhone browsing experience. Just drag their bookmarklet into your Safari bookmarks bar, then sync your iPhone or iPod touch. (Make sure you've selected Info > Web browser > Sync Safari ...

Rumor: Apple to launch WebApp consolidation portal

by Erica Sadun (Oct 10th, 2007)

Today the UK Register reports that Apple is preparing a WebApp catalog. WebApps are apparently already showing up in the recent downloads feed although the page they supposedly link to has not yet gone live. I downloaded the latest feeds page and did not personally find any reference to ...

Hahlo updates to version 2

by Mike Schramm (Sep 24th, 2007)

iPhone (although I guess we should really say MobileSafari, since the iPod touch can do it too) Twitter client Hahlo got a nice little update over the weekend. Quite a few things have changed, so I'll just point you to Dean's blog to see all the new features. Basically, as he says, everything that ...

What's not on the iPod touch

by Mike Schramm (Sep 18th, 2007)

Bill Palmer sent along this list he put together of all the iPhone features you won't find on the iPod touch. When a lot of people, including myself, first saw the iPod touch, we called it the "iPhone without the phone," because it seemed to pretty much have everything the iPhone had without ...