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hey guys it's Miranda minimun from pocketnow.com and in this video we're gonna talk about swipe pad which is a must-have Android utility which makes a lot faster to multitask let's get to it now of course in Android you can multitask by tapping and holding the home button so let's say you're an opera mobile and you want to get to the multitasking menu tap in home here's your 8 most recently used programs this is great now but the tap on hold is just too long for a lot of people if you're trying to bounce in and out of applications there's a faster way thanks to an application called swipe pad what it allows you to do and let's go to an application to demonstrate this you can swipe from the left side of the screen the right side of the screen or one of the corners and quickly get this little pop-up menu which you can configure with your own set of shortcuts with twelve of them and the reason that this is faster is because you don't have to tap and hold the swiping action is just so much faster so I can go into the market that has to load I'm going to go back and most of the time works perfectly we can go into the gallery or opera mobile and it just works very well now we can also configure some of these that are empty so if I tap and hold it asks do you want to launch an application a shortcut like a direct dial or there's a task manager that you can download but it's just highly configurable it works really well and I've been using it for a couple of days and I've found that it's much easier to multitask with this than it is to tap and hold on the recent items list so again that's called swipe path there are some settings which I want to dive into really quickly so we go over here swipe pad so you can enable swipe pad this will to determine the region from which swipe pad will open up so you can do the bottom edge if we do that it'll pop up from the bottom as you can see there I think it works very well on the Left edge just a very natural thing to do kind of swipe left to right kind of like you're unlocking the screen we have some advanced controls in here sort of animations and things like that very basic settings very easy to get going again it's called swipe pad it's free in the Android Market it's a really cool way to multitask that's it for now thanks for watching