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Add Search Bookmarklets to Your iPhone or iTouch Home Screen with Springlets
Posted by Adam Pash at 6:00 AM on February 9, 2008
iPhone/iPod touch web site Springlets adds quick search bookmarklets to your device's home screen for commonly searched sites like Wikipedia, IMDB, and a handy Google I'm Feeling Lucky search, among others. If you're using an iPhone, Springlets can also add speed-dial shortcuts to the home screen. On the iPhone, more even than on your desktop, loading entire web pages just to find a search box is a major waste of time, which makes Springlets a brilliant little idea. I've been using the WebSearch app for these kind of searches, but if you're not jailbroken or you'd prefer these links directly on your home screen, Springlets to the rescue. It's like the fine art of keyword bookmarking, only for your phone.
Tags: bookmarklets | iphone | ipod | ipod touch | top | web search
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JeffDrake
Posted 7:43 AM 9/2/08
I'm a big fan of the Wikipedia search while prefixing it with T
Search for "T Whatever You Want" and get the wikipedia result for what you want in plain text. Downloads fast over edge, which is awesome
JeffDrake
bugmenot21
Posted 10:43 AM 9/2/08
a del.icio.us bookmarklet would be nice too. or a way to tag mobile sites to your del.icio.us account with your phone.
bugmenot21
Cwicseolfor
Posted 11:43 AM 9/2/08
Is there some way to set this up to accept any 'ol site? I'd like to have a quick map bookmarklet, or google news, or some other user-defined site?
Cwicseolfor
xious
Posted 1:42 PM 9/2/08
I like the WebSearch a little better. I don't want my homescreen cluttered up that much.
And speaking of WebSearch. When you add LH to the site list, it shows up as a question mark. If you want to give it an icon, you have to put a .png file named the same as the site label (i.e. Lifehacker.png) in the /Applications/WebSearch.app/icons directory on the iPhone (must be jailbroken, of course).
Now, could you share LH's favicon with me? I've looked through source code and could only find the URL to the iPod Touch icon (for the homescreen). It's not listed under the View Page Info link in Firefox either. So, could you share the image please? :)
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xious
foxmajik
Posted 1:42 AM 11/2/08
Great now you can save time browsing to search engines on your iPhone and use that time to wait for the results to load on AT&T's painfully slow edge network.
foxmajik
JeffDrake
Posted 12:57 AM 12/2/08
@foxmajik: I think you've missed the point . . . . You DON'T wait for stuff to load using this. By using the "T" prefix and either WikiSearch or LuckySearch, I can get a result in under 20 seconds from when I pulled the iphone out of my pocket
J
JeffDrake
avocade
Posted 11:43 AM 29/2/08
@avocade:
And the "change font size" on this site is great for reading Wikipedia and other articles where the page layout is way too wide for the iPhone/iPod touch:
[www.lucidgreen.net]
avocade
avocade
Posted 11:43 AM 29/2/08
For a wonderful in-page-search bookmarklet I found this website:
[www.lifeclever.com]
Also hosts some other very neat search-related 'lets like IMDB and Wikipedia.
avocade