Webos: Tips and tricks

One of the things customers love about webOS is how easy it is to use. Sometimes even easier than they realize:
“How do I set up speed dials for my favorite contacts?” Open the contact, pull down the menu and select “Set Speed Dial.” Tap the phone number you’d like to assign to a letter or number. Scroll through the resulting list and tap on an available entry (used letters and numbers will appear darker).

“I do a universal search and find Location Services, but why don’t I see it when I go into the launcher and scroll down?” The launcher actually has three “pages” -- not just the one you see when you tap the launcher icon in the Quick Launch bar. To get to the other pages, simply bring up the launcher and swipe your finger left to get to the next page. At the bottom right (and left, depending on which page you’re on), there’s a little “tick” mark that tells you how many pages in that direction you can swipe.
 
“How can I put other icons at the bottom of the screen where the Phone, Contacts, etc. are?” The four default icons on the Quick Launch bar (Phone, Contacts, Email, and Calendar) can be easily changed. Bring up the launcher and then press and hold the icon on the launch bar that you want to remove until you see a highlight around it, and then drag it onto the launcher page where you’d like it to be. Then, press and hold the icon you want to appear on the Quick Launch bar and drag it to the location where you’d like it to be.

“Wave bar… what’s that?” You can run the applications on your Quick Launch quickly and easily from any screen. Just swipe up from the gesture area into the screen, holding your finger on the screen until you see the wave bar. Then slide your finger one way or the other to highlight the application you want to launch.

“Is there an easier way to pull down menus than tapping directly on the button?” The menu (in any application!) can also be activated by swiping down over it. Simple!