New TouchLauncher for Treo & Centro Offers Enhanced Set of Functionalities to Browse & Run Applications at the Touch of Your Finger
As I pointed out in my Top 10 Treo & Centro Software post a few weeks ago, there is a new application called TouchLauncher which has extremely rapidly and somewhat surprisingly become the #1 bestselling title in our software store.At its most basic TouchLauncher is an application that attempts to deliver the same type of “screen-scrolling” experience to your Palm Treo or Centro smartphone as that found on Apple’s iPhone for example. You simply place your finger at the bottom of the screen and move it left or right to scroll through your collection of installed applications (images above).
The other thing that you can easily and quickly do (only in the ALL category though) is “drag-and-drop” individual application icons anywhere you like so that you can organize each screen with exactly the programs that you want. In the example above I just dragged the Camera icon and switched its placement with Backgammon. Next, both a Dynamic Calendar Icon and Dynamic Messaging Icon allow you to respectively see the current date (Wednesday 6th in this case) and the number of unread SMS messages (one unread here). To use the dynamic icons you just need to add the relevant Calendar or SMS Custom Icon (image above left) via the Manage menu.Finally, TouchLauncher allows you to manage your applications with functionalities such as creating a Custom Name, removing the app, filing it in your preferred Category and more. Among others, you can press the Home or Space bar to bring up a list of your Categories (image above left) and also create WebLinks (image above right) to quickly launch your favourite websites using the Blazer browser.
Thanks to its set of innovative and fun features and functionalities TouchLauncher should clearly continue to prove extremely popular for some time to come – particularly at its present low price. Having said this, there is no doubt that TouchLauncher is a “young” application which is currently still no match for other (albeit more expensive) best-of-breed launchers such as my Editor’s Choice Propel (see Propel Launcher review).
