Throw this on your UITableViewDelegate (probably your UITableViewController) to achieve the "keyboard dismisses when I tap away" effect.

gistfile1.m

//Throw this on your UITableViewDelegate (probably your UITableViewController) to achieve the "keyboard dismisses when I tap away" effect.
//Your users will thank you. A lot.

- (void) scrollViewWillBeginDragging:(UIScrollView *)scrollView {
	[self.view endEditing:YES];
}

//The endEditing: method on UIView comes to us from a category that UITextField adds to UIKit that makes the view or any subview that is the first responder resign (optionally force), that's what the "YES" bit is.