Icab security5/15/2023 ![]() ![]() Now, thanks to iCab your entire family can use one browser to get online without invading each other’s privacy. But there are always things like email that you might want to keep private. IPads are now home computers, we share them with our family members. iCab can now always stay in background, so if you are downloading a big file (yes, unlike Safari, iCab lets you download files), you can go ahead and put the iPad to sleep or switch to any other app without worrying about killing the download. This is one of the biggest features introduced in iCab 8.0, thanks to iOS 7’s background refresh. If you use iCab to do your online research, you can save the trips from the keyboard to the screen by using built-in keyboard macros or assigning new ones yourself. But writing and browsing goes hand-in-hand. iPad, with its distraction free setup is a great tool for writers. If you are even a little bit serious about working on the iPad, you have a keyboard dock. All of this is done by using web services integrated inside the app.Ĭheck out all the modules by going into Settings -> Services -> Modules. So, by assigning a multi-touch gesture, you can potentially send a page to Pocket, your Safari Reading List or Evernote, share the page on Facebook or twitter or even convert the page into a PDF or ePub book. Modules are snippets of code that let you interact with a different service or an app directly from iCab. ![]() Tap the hand icon, draw a gesture and assign an action. You can assign gestures from the Settings menu but there is a more convenient option located in the Toolbar. There’s also support for sharing a page, saving a screenshot, adding a page to bookmarks and basically every action you can do by tapping a button or fiddling with menus can be done by drawing on the screen. Drawing gestures include all the generic and specific actions I talked about in the multi-touch sections above. The Action list goes on for a couple dozen more options and I suggest you explore them on your own. So next time you draw the letter G, you’ll be greeted by us!īut of course, you can do a lot more than that. Yeah, the alphabets are sometimes still a miss but the generic gestures like arrows, lines and shapes are registered every time.Īgain, what can you do with it? You can assign an alphabet to open your favorite websites like Guiding Tech. I had to use (gasp) a stylus!īut thankfully, drawing experience on the iPad using my fingers is nothing like that. In fact, I remember using them on my Java based phone that had a resistive touchscreen. Yes, drawing gestures on screens are nothing new. So, with one multi-finger gesture, you can send the page you are currently reading directly to Pocket. What are modules? We’ll talk about them in detail below but right now just think of them as bookmarklets or extensions. Not only are generic functions like next tab, previous tab, fullscreen, etc included, but you can also pull directly from 50 or so included modules. ![]() Multi-touch gesturesįrom Settings -> User Interface -> Multitouch Gestures you can assign multiple 1 to 4-finger tap and swipe gestures, totaling to about 17 combinations. One that responds amazingly to touch and is advanced enough to make out the differences between 4-finger tap and a 4-finger swipe. Multi-touch gestures, keyboard shortcuts, multi-user login and most importantly – integration of services from different apps. It is a browser that lets you do everything that Safari says is a no-no. Today, I’ll tell you about one such app called iCab ($1.99, Universal). But for every single thing that the iPad can’t do, there are multiple things it can, rather magnificently. You can’t access the file system or make one app talk to another directly. Yes, there are a lot of things you can’t do on the iPad. The ones set by Apple engineers and Steve Jobs. ![]()
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