Lifting screenshots woo

And after that huge N-Gage post, something quick. Youse guys all know how much I’m picky about search apps. *cough cough* So I’m glad someone out there knew how to make a good search app/widget.

Q Search by Russell Beattie does everything I want, fast and simple. Tap shortcut on homescreen, get a text box, type terms, hit enter/ok, get a browser page with results. Add additional search shortcuts for more efficiency in the least number of steps. Perfect.

(now I’ll try to edit it to use desktop google instead of google.com/m/, personal preference)

Update: Opening the main index.html to edit it, easy as expected. My copy uses desktop google and has a black background to match the 5800′s theme.

Update 2: Just found about iSearch, a new widget inspired by Russell’s, while it looks slightly better, it doesn’t forget the search term after hitting enter, plus you have to backspace the ‘type here’ message before. I can probably fix those. (I like where the settings are though, just add some visual indicator :P)

PS. Why people didn’t think about making those kinds of widgets before? lol

Update 3: So I did heavily modify iSearch.

My version

Changes:

• Removed all graphics switching them for css and text (using the enter character for the green and white arrows). (Makes it load faster, by less than a second, but still, faster :P)
• Made it use the desktop version of Google Search
• Switched Bing search for Last.fm mobile.
• Reordered the services, so only stuff I don’t usually use get covered by the keyboard.
• Removed the “type here” text. (Better for virtual keyboard phone.)
• Disabled the remember last search behavior.
• Changed name to “Search2″ (I hate iNamed stuff, and just Search would mix it up with Nokia Search.
• Changed the icon too, for a random magnifying glass I found somewhere.

moubail.com mentions you can’t redistribute the file without his permission, so I won’t upload my version.

Quick and meaningless post today. A friend mentioned the WhatTheFont app for the iPhone to me the other day, asking if there was something similar for my phone.

Well, I tried to take a picture of my computer’s screen displaying whatever, resized and cropped the pic on the built in editor, and uploaded it to the desktop version of the WhatTheFont site. And guess what, it worked.

So, the bottom line is: Who needs fancy apps when your browser can actually upload files :P

Practical? No. Good way to kill time 3am? Perhaps!

Update:

On a more real world situation, it recognized Gill Sans on a DVR-R cover, yay!

I bet someone with javascript skillz could make a easy to use WRT widget for WhatTheFont, but then again, S60 doesn’t have half the hype that the iphone has…