Tip (s) of the day: It’s all about multi-tasking

Wikipedia defines multi-tasking as: the apparent simultaneous performance of two or more tasks by a computer's central processing unit. In this case the “computer” could be any one of the Nseries devices, but as we all know earlier devices were plagued by insufficient and inefficient use of  RAM. They could perform many tasks, but in the end were limited by the available RAM. Luckily, the latest devices like the N95 8GB, N82 and even the N81 have been blessed with tons of RAM. So why not put it to good use?

1)The S60 browser on older devices used  to close by itself when RAM would run out once you loaded one of those RAM hungry pages or when you opened any other application like the Music Player. With the added RAM the latest Nseries phones can tackle the S60 browser in combination with various other open apps and even various browser tabs. But by default there isn’t any setting to allow you to manually open more browser windows.  So Mark from the Nokia blog has come up with a handy tip to trick the the browser into doing this. He suggests that on the newer devices with the updated Multimedia Menu, you could go to the Internet tile and open another browser tabs.  You could repeat this as many time,s adding as many tabs as you like. Pressing #5 in the S60 would bring a list of open pages.

Vaibhav Sharma from the Symbian Blog also has a neat trick to achieve similar results by using the Feed option. He suggests that by subscribing to a feed in the S60 browser and than by opening any post from that feed and selecting the “Full Article” option, this will open the post in a new window. You could then stop the page from loading and proceed to going to any site you want. Again pressing #5 would bring a list of open pages.

2) Many new Nseries users don’t that the Menu key also acts as a “Task Switcher” to switch between open apps. See that button that looks like two snakes? Pressing it toggles between the stand-by screen and applications menu. But by doing a long-press you could open a “Task bar” that shows the list of open apps. You could use Up and Down on the D-pad to browse through these apps or pressing the C-key to close the app you want

3) Once you’ve mastered multi-tasking, why close your apps? If you really want quick access to your application you could leave them running in the background and switch between them using the Menu key. This is especially handy for your email or even the slow Gallery application.

Comments

[mike]

dude great article. these phones are awesome for multitasking. and that chick is super hot.