The favorite things that Apt does for me (instead of....)

Summary:

Let's share a list of the things you really like that Apt does for you/your Palm & what apps you replaced w/Apt's functionality. We can see how others are using Apt & learn.

The favorite things that Apt does for me (instead of....)

technical1 13 May 2008 13:02

One of my favorite features is the ability to assign a launch-on-letter-entry' popup list to a given app.

I have assigned launch-on-letter to my 2day app (much improved recently), where I can see my whole schedule & natively launch 4 apps that I have assigned in 2day's launcher. I have always wanted to be able to launch more apps fm 2day, but there wasn't much I could do about it.

Now I have Apt; so I can look at my schedule, see what is coming up for the day / week & whatever app I may need, I can call up by entering the first letter of that app's name & a menu will popup w/all apps that have that initial. 2day makes the datebook info ready at hand, in one screen w/other stuff as well, but Apt makes 2day even more robust with the launch-by-letter popup menu.

Until I started using the launch-on-letter feature, my favorite was having Apt recognize the mounting of my SD backup card's volume, launch my backup program & then pass on the command " /B " (control bar & "B") from the backup app's menu item: "New Backup /B".

I insert the card, & Apt does the rest for me. Way cool.

So far, w/the tap/stroke capability I have replaced McPhling, ButtonsEx assignments are now done by Apt, AutoOff - ditto. Macros in Apt work along w/mySkin (myKbd), which I still use for skinning (thanks Dr. Pruss). Since Apt launches DA's I no longer need to use ZLauncher's Quick Launch. In each case I am saving memory; & b/c I no longer need to use QL in ZL, I am also saving valuable memory used to hold apps that stay resident (cache is it?).

You have to love it when you get all that functionality in one place, keeping things simpler, less likely to crash b/c of two apps that do the same thing, & of course saving all that RAM & resident memory.

This app rocks!

p.s A list of apps people were able to delete (or partially do w/out), courtesy of Apt!
AppLock, AutoOff, Bird, ButtonsEx, ClockPop5, Dimmer, DisplayManager, Event Launcher, McPhling, Switch5, TreoMax, TreoOffOn, TreoWink,

(possibly 2PlayMe when Apt 1.1 comes out), Some MyKbd macros, Quick Launch feature of ZLauncher, The Command-Bar+ letter launching feature of MacroPlayer"

Last edited on 14 May 2008 05:40 by technical1 Show more

Re: The favorite things that Apt does for me (instead of....)

cyberdude 13 May 2008 14:45

I use Apt to do several things, but my favorites are:

* toggle the DIA with the 5way down
* set brightness to dim after a couple of minutes of inactivity and have it come back with a tap
* set ereader to go to nearly full brightness and disable autooff
* set my third party launcher, LauncherX to come up after a reset
* When 1.1 comes out I hope to set my alarms and nightly tasks in it instead of 2PlayMe

I've replaced DisplayManager, Event Launcher, Some MyKbd macros, Dimmer, Bird, (possibly 2PlayMe when 1.1 comes out) among others with Apt. This is great - less vying for resources and fighting over notifications!

Re: The favorite things that Apt does for me (instead of....)

Pgr 13 May 2008 17:58

I currently have 20 target apps configured in Apt. Many of these have more than one trigger/setting configured. It would take me way too much time to elaborate, let's just say it changed the way I work with my Palm, my buttons, and almost every single one of my favorite apps.

With Apt I dropped Switch5, ButtonsEx, MyKbd macros, and DisplayManager, but I don't think this is enough to reveal the usefulness of Apt, because I didn't just replace the functionality of these apps, I am now WAY ahead in terms of functionality than I ever was, or dreamed possible, with my Palm T|X.

Re: The favorite things that Apt does for me (instead of....)

trgeoff 14 May 2008 04:57

As I anticipated when I started the Treocentral thread someone did ask for a list of replaced apps, so I will compile this and update there and here as we go. So far its:

"Deleted by me personally:

AppLock
TreoMax
TreoOffOn
TreoWink
AutoOff
ClockPop5

Deleted by others:

DisplayManager
Event Launcher
Dimmer
Bird
Switch5
ButtonsEx
McPhling
(possibly 2PlayMe when Apt 1.1 comes out)

Other "part" replacements:

One poster also stopped using the Quick Launch feature of ZLauncher, (which tends to slow down the system).
Some MyKbd macros
The Command-Bar+ letter launching feature of MacroPlayer"

T1- maybe with a few appropriate edits you could pop this into your first post in this thread?

My favourite and most used (but unexciting!) feature of Apt is the per-app control of Brightness and AutoOff.

My exotic use of Apt is the one referred to in the last line of the list above:

"The Command-Bar+ letter launching feature of MacroPlayer"

Macroplayer is an amazing macro recorder but it becomes difficult to remember which macros are assigned to which key. Apt allows me to group all my Macroplayer macros on one hardbutton, and then choose the one I want. Its neat the way that Apt increases the functionality of other apps.

cheers

geoff