jbarr

One of my biggest complaints about the NX series, unfortunatly, is its clamshell design. I personally prefer keeping it in "tablet" mode, but doing so poses one significant limitation: No access to the four standard hard buttons. So, what to do? Try McPhling! This little app lets you pop up a small list of launchable "favorite" apps from within any application.

Problem is that none of the hard buttons are exposed in Tablet mode, and if you are like me, you keep the Virtual Graffiti area hidden. I just hate pulling out the stylus to launch an app, so how do you activate McPhling without having to make unnecessary taps? Assign it to the "Capture" button on the side of the NX!

1. Launch McPhling and tap the "Avtivation" button.
2. Uncheck the "Swipe" box and check the "Button/keyboard" box
3. Tap on the dropdown next to "Apps:" and select "Custom..."
4. When prompted, press the Capture button on the side of the NX
5. Tap on the dropdown next to "Back:" and select "Disabled"
6. Tap on "OK and then select your favorites.

So now, when you press the capture button, it launches McPhling and you can choose whatever app you have defined. Use the Jog Dial to scroll through the list, and press the Jog Dial to launch the selected app. Pressing the Capture button again will dismiss the popup list. To preserve (or actually extend) functionality, be sure to assign the "Clie Camera", "Movie Rec", and "Voice Rec" apps.

The only down side to assigning the Capture button is that you lose the ability to press the Capture button to actually take the picture/start the recording, so you have to press the on-screen capture/record button to do that. But to me, that's a small price to pay to have fingertip access to my favorite apps!

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cbulock

Great tip! I hardly ever use the Voice Recorder, so this makes much better use of that button.

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-Cameron

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Kleejam

I use the back button as well. The button had little use prior to McPhling.

LSAlford

I use my To Do button. I never use it anyway because I have Agendus, and my Datebook button brings up a split screen (datebook/todo).

PLUS: since I have Okey installed, I can launch McPhling right from my status bar - sweet!

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philipv

Anyone have the problem where if you have it set to swipe then it will activate even when the VG are is collapsed?

cbulock

Yea, I got annoyed by that, so I just have it set to the voice recording button.

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jbarr

That's why I don't use the "Swipe" setting. I keep it unchecked and just have McPhling assigned to the Capture button. With that setup, I have never had any "false" activation issues.

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KCoram

I find that daMemoPad v24.0 crashes every time I fire it off with McPhling if I activate McPhling with the Capture button, but that it works fine if I activate McPhling via a pen swipe. Since I use that DA often, I just go with the pen swipe. I haven't had any false activations.

crh3f

I've got mine set to use "page up." I use PageDownHack, and have R4 set to page up...which I never use for that function, so I just set it to McPhling!

thenightfly42

Fixed in the newest version of McPhling.

rldunn

I just use the Custom button and have it set to activate when I press the MS icon on the status bar. I didn't care for the MS popup anyways, so now it's like an OS5 version of NRButtons.

BluePrt

Jim I use McPhling and NR Buttons on my Nr in tablet mode I have it set to swipe on the grafitta area and then customized I use it on the find on the silk bar at the bottom...but I needed to do a reset to activate the custom set up on McPhling.

cynical

Just to let folks know, the latest version (5.11) works fine with the TG50. I had some problems with 5.0 because it wouldn't map properly to the Voice Recorder button which seems to have been addressed in 5.11.

Works great.