About PBF Search

  1. 1.Contact Searching

What were Apple thinking? No way to search contacts using the keyboard? Well “Search” fixes this glaring omission by allowing you to search your contacts based on their names, company, position, department, or any notes you have on them. Then you can simply tap on their phone number to dial it, tap on their email to send them an email. You can even use contact search to dial any phone number. Just type it in the search field, and tap “Dial” in the top right. It will then dial the number you have entered in the search field.

  1. 2.Calendar Event Searching

Another oversight, how can one be expected to remember the date of a particular appointment? We’ll now with search you don’t have to, you can search calendar events based on the event summary, description, location etc.

  1. 3.Dial-A-Date

Ever wanted to find out what events you had on a particular day in several months time, but got RSI from tapping through the months to find the one you want in the calendar? With “Search”, you can now dial up a date, and then jump straight to it in Calendar.

What’s Planned


  1. •Complete contact information, physical addresses, contact pictures etc.

  2. •Localisation for international users.

  3. •Maybe more generalised search (Spotlight Style)


FAQ:


How do I install Search?

Firstly at the moment you must have a jailbroken iPhone (just until Apple get that SDK out). There are plenty of tutorials around on how to jailbreak. Then simple use the “Installer” application to install Search, which you’ll find under the “Utilities” category.


Search Change Log


1.06b (23/12/07)

  1. •Added physical addresses to contact info screen

  2. •Added SMS option to contacts info. You can now send text messages to found contacts

  3. •Fixed all foreign keyboard display problems


1.05b (3/12/07)

  1. •Fixed email character removal bug

  2. •Modified search algorithm to better handle hyphenated and multi-word last names

  3. •Fixed foreign keyboard display problems


1.04b (19/11/07)

  1. •Added calendar event searching (does not include certain recurring events)

  2. •Added dial button to contact search page. Now you can type a number directly into the search field, and hit dial to make the call.


1.03b (8/11/07)

  1. •Non standard company records no longer display (null)

  2. •Fixed bug when dialling contacts with custom ring-tones

  3. •Fixed bug when opening certain URL formats

  4. •Added Palm style search method

  5. •Added position to contact info screen

  6. •Added department to contact info screen

  7. •Added organisation to contact info screen

  8. •Added notes to contact info screen


1.02b (31/10/07)

  1. •New license key system implemented for easier management

  2. •Added default startup screen preference

  3. •Improved search algorithm to match in fewer keystrokes

  4. •Added contact notes to search criteria (however contact notes are not displayed yet)

  5. •Added Job Title to search criteria

  6. •Added Department to search criteria

  7. •Added email address to contact info screen

  8. •Added home pages to contact info screen


1.01b (27/10/07)

  1. •Fixed Unicode display and search problems.

Polar Bear Farm’s Search application add some of the most requested features to the iPhone. It enables searching of your contacts on your iPhone, calendar event searching, as well as dialling up a date, and jumping straight to it in the calendar application. “Search” puts all your information at your finger tips, and eliminates endless scrolling through pages of information to find what you’re looking for.