Roundup: Staff Picks - Adam Marks

In this penultimate edition of the Staff Picks for our Tips of the Day, your esteemed Tips author Adam Marks gets his shot to pick his favorites. After writing up over 130 tips, this was actually quite a harder task that I anticipated it would be. I tried to focus on those tips that answer the questions I hear a lot in the forums (e.g. Is it possible to save a picture from a website?), were tips that I use very often, or were tips that I learned while writing up these tips. My first pass consisted of 20 tips, which was way too much. I was able to narrow it down quite a bit, but still "cheated" quite a bit by including some honorable mentions. So, keep reading after the break to review my "Staff Picks."

 

• Roundup: Universal Search
  • All you ever needed to know about Universal Search, and the first stop for any new (or existing) webOS user so they learn how to best use their phones. And once they know how to look up a contact with Universal Search, take a look at why you should banish your phone icon from the quick launch bar
• Save a picture from a website
  • One of the most asked questions on the forums, and it's so easy to do by just pressing the Option key (Orange/Silver) and tapping on the picture in the browser
• Press-and-hold Phone Numbers or Email Address
  • If you see a phone number or email address in an email or SMS elsewhere in webOS, you can press-and-hold on them to bring up a pop-up menu to call, text, email, or add to contacts. This also provides a nice shortcut to quickly identify a contact by a phone number.
• Move the cursor in a text field / Highlight text
  • Another commonly asked question is how to move your cursor in a text field without a D-Pad for arrow keys, and how to select that text to copy/paste it elsewhere. These tips answer those questions
• Tab between fields using the keyboard
  • Another missing feature that a D-Pad provides was the ability to tab between text different fields. While this feature still does not exist for the browser, using the Shift () and Enter () keys will allow you to tab between fields in many stock and 3rd party apps
• Roundup: Facebook App
  • The webOS Facebook app is really quite full-featured and can hold its own against the Facebook apps from any platform. This Tip Roundup shows you all about setting up and using the ap

 
Honorable Mentions

• Backing up your application data/settings with Save/Restore (Homebrew)
• Customize the look of your device (Homebrew)
• Making your web bookmarks / launcher icons look nice
• Sending an address to your GPS TeleNav software
• Call a contact from within an SMS/IM  conversation
• Delete an application or launcher icon

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