Thursday
Jul092009
Quick Tip: Go to a website via Universal Search
PreThinking
From the launcher or card view, type out the url you wish to go to, and hit the enter key (sometime you have to hit it twice). That will open up the browser app with the website you just typed out.
Reader Comments (4)
Another useful idea that may evolve into a future feature: Voice Command within the launcher
- Palm wants the UI to be "invisible", so therefore we just simply open the launcher, then simply press and hold on the gesture area to speak a command like, "CallJohn" or "Find John" to bring up "John" in contacts. Or "Search ..." to speak in a possible Google, Wiki, Google Maps, or Twitter search, then just tap your choice. So with this, anything that can be typed into the launcher can be spoken, by holding down on the gesture area! Using two system compenents together like the "Launcher" and the "gesture area" could open up a lot of new features that only hardware buttons could do in the past.
@Daniel
You're a genius! Having the gesture area opens up a whole world of features!
Thanks for this obvious "tip". I'm pretty sure everyone knows this already. Waste of a post.
I keep forgetting that I can just start typing. I am opening up the browser each time and starting that way. Eventually, I'll remember to do this. :)