Springlets are tiny apps for your iPhone’s home screen that help save you time.
Lets say you want to view wikipedia page for Applesauce. The old way would have you opening Safari, tapping the search filed, typing in “Applesauce Wikipedia” waiting for Google search results to load, tapper the proper entry and waiting for the wikipedia page to load. The Springlets way skips right over a lot of those steps - you’d tap the Wikisearch icon on your homescreen, type in the word “Applesauce” in the resulting dialogue box and you’re wisked away to the appropriate page. This saves precious time!
Other Springlets are Google’s I’m Feeling Lucky feature, Chowhound’s message boards of
There are two more springlets that you should know about. The first is speed dialer. You enter in a phone number and a name and suddenly you can have a way to dial a frequently used number without even opening the Phone app.
The other Springlet uses Google’s Mobile Proxy to load just the text of any web page. This is particularly handy with image rich sites that tae forever to load over edge. Just tap your Text Sites Springlet, enter the URL of the site you want to visit and it’ll appear nice and quickly.
Visit www.springlets.com on your iPhone for more details.
