Gadgetory

hey guys it's brandon minimun from pocket calm and this is a tour of G scroll version 2.0 from mobile SRC software now if you remember the first version of this software brought a lot of extended functionality to the capacitive touch area on the bottom of the HTC touch pro and touch diamond before the only other way that you could use this area was when you are viewing the picture you could run your finger around the outside of the d-pad and zoom in a little bit but now with G scroll you can actually use this area for a lot more than that including launching programs launching moving around like a d-pad and other things that that we're going to go through now so version 2 point 0 adds a lot of extended functionality from version 1 point 0 and so the first piece of functionality has been there since the beginning it's the ability to swipe your finger along the left of the d-pad and actually move the cursor around on the screen so you can see I'm swiping the left I go to the left I go down and it'll go down to the right and this also works in Opera or Internet Explorer so it's a really easy way to scroll down a page with a very high level of precision versus using the d-pad by like pressing it downwards and it's kind of nochi that way and it's not very quick and easy now something else that has been added is the ability to launch a ton of different programs with a ton of different key combinations so watch this if I tap on the center of the d-pad gently two times i will open Teeter if i do it once i get the list of commands if i do it twice it will launch Teeter and there it is now let me go back to that screen you saw something else underneath of their internet explorer three taps and it will open Internet Explorer oops I must have done two taps only do it again one two three and here we go Internet Explorer and like I said you can scroll down with the the capacitive zoom area now you can program all of these key combinations to open any program on your device so you could have you know two taps on this button to open messaging or a tap here and a tap here to open you know word mobile or something like that there's a program that i want to show you in here called the apps which are in its super it reminds me of the the carousel on spb mobile shell three so I do the home button two times to get to that and watch what happens so now I can flick between my open programs or i can use actually the capacitive area to flip between my programs and what you're seeing now is little screenshots of although the programs that are running right now and it kind of acts as a task manager so i can close internet explorer by tapping on this and then i can go to the next one and i say oh I want to get to program so I tap on programs and it expands to fill the screen really really cool functionality that helps you really visualize the applications that you have open and allows you to switch between them and of course you can get there pretty easily by doing a double tap on the home button or however you have it set up and let me show you exactly how you set that up so I'm going to go into the settings for G scroll which has been improved before it was kind of archaic and difficult to know exactly what each function does ok so the first thing that you will notice about this screen is that on the right of all of these commands there's a Help button and before there were some commands here and you were wondering what is precision mode well if you tap on help for precision mode it will give you a description so this is much improved and what the precision mode that you do is stipulate the functionality of the the touch sensitivity of the up and down d-pad action when you're moving through icons are moving through a web page so that's a good addition see what else we have here we have an able opera scroll mode so that will work in upper mobile and here's that screen that lets you specify all of the key combinations that open certain programs so let me demonstrate how you add a new one so I'm going to go to add launch and let's say I want to have a program open if I press the home button followed by the center d pad area so tap tap and I want it to open let's say calculator so I click accept and I accept again and now if I tap home and then Center it will open calculator just like that so the combinations are pretty much endless in in terms of the ability to customize this the launcher variety of programs really well done on the part of the the developer although something that kind of bugs me is that the programs get cut off here I would like to be able to see exactly the whole path of the the launch action that I've specified here going over to the right we've app switcher and that's the thing that you saw earlier that lets you flip through all the open applications that you have and you can specify if there's a feat in and out or if there's an animation when you're done finding the app application that you want and / process tab lets you specify certain behaviors / process so if you want one particular program not to use the g scroll function you could turn that off and just add it to the list here so that's pretty much it for G scroll there are a lot of ways to customize this application which is one of the best parts about it it's going to cost seven dollars which is really really reasonable considering that a lot of windows mobile software is twenty or thirty dollars for people that have G scroll one point o the upgrade will be a five or four dollars when this is released and by the time you watch this video g scroll will have already been released the only thing that i would really like to see in the next version of g scroll as a cleaned-up interface if we go over to the main tab it's still kind of ugly looking and difficult to see and understand and especially to go to the launch tab you can't even see the program that is going to be launched by a certain key combination so maybe an elegant more elegant interface for the next version of G scroll would be great but there are a lot of improvements to this simple utility that help you take advantage of your the capacitive touch area on the HTC touch diamond and touch pro that's it for now