Jul 22 2010

iOS 4 features: Search the Web, Wikipedia

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While iOS 3 (iPhone 3.0) introduced Spotlight search for on-device information like contacts, songs, and apps, iOS 4 examples Spotlight to search the Web and Wikipedia as well.

From the main home screen, just swipe to move left to Spotlight, or click the home button to toggle to it, and start typing your search. You may [...]

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Apr 9 2010

iPhone 4.0: Spotlight searches Google and Wikipedia

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Spotlight in iPhone 4.0 takes a %&@ good on-device search that could find your apps, contacts, and other personal data, and makes it a ^%^(&$ fantastic on-device and web-resource search that can also send text strings out to the internet — spelled Google and Wikipedia and bring you back the results.

First, yes, Google is still [...]

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Mar 16 2010

Articles Wikipedia Reader for iPhone

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Articles [$2.99 - iTunes link] is a thoughtful, elegant new Wikipedia reader and discovery tool from Sophiestication Software.

Rather than just displaying the Wikipedia.com page, Articles takes the data behind the page and reformats it in a very clean, easy-to-read format with a chapter index control to briskly skim your way through to the section(s) you [...]

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Mar 5 2010

iPad SDK Settings: Tethering, Voice Mail, MMS, Wikipedia Search

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9to5Mac is yet again delving deep into the iPhone 3.2 SDK for iPad and this time they’ve turned up settings for internet tethering, voice mail, and MMS settings, as well as a search option for Wikipedia.

Again, whether or not this is legacy code from the iPad’s iPhone heritage, or potential future features we have [...]

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