Uncomplicating the complicated, making life easier
One of the most under utilized parts of an Android phone is the notification bar. While it is useful for alerting you of emails, calendar appointments and SMS messages. The Android navigation bar can do so much more.
Previously on Make Tech Easier, we showed you how to put a reminder note in your Android notification bar. If you are looking for more uses for your Android notification bar, Bartender lite will let you create application shortcuts in your notification bar.
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There is no doubts about the usefulness of a mouse. It allows you to move around the screen faster and click on links that are located at the far corner of the screen. However, if you are used to the keyboard, there are times when you just hate to move your hand from the keyboard to the mouse. It is both troublesome and tiring. Won’t it be great if you can navigate the Web just by using your keyboard?
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Android users will know that you can easily place an application shortcut or a widget on the home screen by simply pressing anywhere (and hold for 1 second) on the screen. But what if you want to place a shortcut to a feature within an app, like the “Adding new task” section in Astrid, a specific bookmark for your Dolphin browser, or just the “Manage Application” page where you can view and uninstall your apps?
By default, other than the applications and widgets, Android does not come with a way for you to insert shortcuts to anything to the home screen. However, with a little help from the market, we can get this to work easily.
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Internet Explorer 9 beta was released a few days ago and one of the feature includes the pinning of any site to the taskbar. With a simple dragging and dropping of the tab to the taskbar, any site can be pinned to the taskbar and the users can quickly click on the icon to launch the site. In addition, IE 9 also allows webmaster to add jumplist items to the taskbar icon. This tutorial shows you how you can add jumplist items to your site.
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I use a lot of different computers. Many of those computers are on different operating systems, or desktop environments. Just when I find myself growing accustomed to a particular way of doing things, I find myself on a different system with a different way of doing things. Key combinations are some of the most common distinctions between platforms, so I try to set each system up to recognize the key combos I need. Normally, that’s not a big problem. You just go into the keyboard settings for that environment and set it the way you like, right? Well not always.
