Glimpse is a Touchpad App designed to maximize your productivity by allowing you to perform multiple tasks simultaenously, using a unique (customizable) split-screen interface.

The App comes pre-loaded with some core mini-apps (also called widgets) which you can run on any of the split screens. Simply click the 'Widget Selector' at the bottom of each screen, to switch widgets





Widgets are light-weight (mini) Apps that are designed to take advantage of each split screen. They are designed to be fast and easy.

The App comes pre-loaded with some stardard widgets, but more widgets can be added through App updates or by clicking 'Get More Widgets' in the App Menu (tapping upper left corner of your screen).

Below are some of the widgets avaiable

Built-in Calculator. If the calculator is loaded in the smaller windows, it's a basic calculator. But if loaded in the larger right-hand window, it's a more advanced calculator





A simple calendar for easily creating appointments





Display Local and International time in Digital or Analog formats.





Easily convert between units (length, volume, mass, area)





View your subscribed feeds from your Google Reader Account. Share, Mark as Read, Mark as Unread and Star/Unstar. You can also toggle the left button to show only unread feeds





Instead of waiting idle for the 5-10 secs it takes to load a webpage, you could kill time by 'doodling'..





The Notepad widget is handy for taking quick notes. So for example, you could be taking notes while watching a Lecture series video on Youtube, without switching back-and-forth.





Notes are stored within the App, and are easily shareable via email or twitter, using the easy access buttons.

The Notepad widget is designed to store your note in the specific window you took it. For example, if you type some text in the right-hand window, your note only persists in that window

View articles from your Read It Later Account. You can also add new articles by tapping the '+' button or selecting 'Read It Later' from the popup options in the Web Widget, Twitter Widget and RSS widget









You can create shortcuts for quickly launching your favorite Apps with one tap.





To Create an App shortcut, you need to know the "App ID" of the App. The easiest way to find this out is by searching for the App in the App catalog, tapping the share button, and selecting "Via MMS". An MMS message will be generated with the App's id. It's usually in the form: "com.companyName.appName"



A simple viewer for Stock Prices. Just Add the Symbol (e.g. HPQ). You can also swipe a row to delete. Click row to expand to view more details. You can also setup the refresh frequency from the Prefs









View, read and share your favorite RSS/News feed. The RSS widget also has a built in media player for playing podcasts. You can edit/delete the default feeds, and add your own custom feeds (you have to know the url). To Add a new feed, tap the selector arrow, and go to 'Edit Feed'





You can also set the frequency at which your news feeds get refreshed from the 'Preferences' in the App Menu



You can create shortcuts for quickly launching your favorite Apps with one tap.





To Create an App shortcut, you need to know the "App ID" of the App. The easiest way to find this out is by searching for the App in the App catalog, tapping the share button, and selecting "Via MMS". An MMS message will be generated with the App's id. It's usually in the form: "com.companyName.appName"



A Stopwatch/timer widget.







Stay organized with the built-in Tasks widgets. Create tasks, set due dates and priorities. You can also swipe a row to delete





The twitter widget comes with the basic features like viewing your tweets, mentions, direct messages, replying to messages, retweeting, sending direct messages, uploading pictures, searching, viewing profiles, Multiple Accounts, and Notifications (which can be customized in the Preferences in the App Menu)







You can also easily tweet using 'Just Type' by adding a "tweet/" prefix. For example, to tweet "Hello world", in the 'Just Type' area, type: "tweet/Hello world", and tap the Glimpse icon to tweet



A basic 5-day weather forecast widget at your finger-tips. Just enter your city or zip-code, and hit 'enter'. You can also choose between Celsius or Fahrenheit





A built-in web browser for viewing your favorite websites. You can also add bookmarks, share links via twitter or email and view flash webpages.

You can also easily launch a webpage using 'Just Type' by adding a "web/" prefix. For example, to go to google.com, in the 'Just Type' area, type: "web/google.com", and tap the Glimpse icon to launch you straight into the specified site





View Youtube videos by searching or choosing from Recent, Popular or Most-Viewed Videos.





You can also easily search for a video using 'Just Type' by adding a "youtube/" prefix. For example, to search for "Keyboard Cat" in the 'Just Type' area, type: "youtube/Keyboard Cat", and tap the Glimpse icon to launch you straight to the search Results



Peform quick actions using "Just Type".



Teeting: Add a "tweet/" prefix before your message. For example, to tweet "Hello world", in the 'Just Type' area, type: "tweet/Hello world", and tap the Glimpse icon to tweet Youtube: Add a "youtube/" prefix before your search. For example, to search for "Keyboard Cat" in the 'Just Type' area, type: "youtube/Keyboard Cat", and tap the Glimpse icon to launch you straight to the search Results Web: Add a "web/" prefix before your url. For example, to go to google.com, in the 'Just Type' area, type: "web/google.com", and tap the Glimpse icon to launch you straight into the specified site

By default, you have 3 window views fro your widgets. But you can Toggle off any of the views by going to the App Menu (tapping upper left corner of your screen), selecting 'Views'





You can also go to the Preferences in the App Menu, can toggle on/off certain widgets



This App contains some 'bonus/hidden features' (with more to be added periodically). One of such is a special widget 'Pix'



Easily search for pictures from popular web services like Google, Bing, Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket. Save, Share or set as Wallpapers

Note: For this widget to appear on your widget list, you need to have the separate Pix App installed

If you have Advanced Browser by MakleSoft installed, you will be able to run Advanced Browser as a widget in Glimpse. Advanced Browser extends the native browsing experience by giving cool features like Tabbed Browsing, Autofill and Searching Webpages. Note, if it doesn't show up on your widget list, it's probably toggled off in the Preferences.

How do I get help?

Send an email to [email protected]

Send an email to [email protected] How do get an App's id?

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See Shortcuts I have an idea for a widget, how do I request?

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See Here How do I view international Markets in the Stocks widget?

Just add the market sign and a ":", before the symbol. For example, add "LON:HRN" to add the HRN symbol for the London SE Market.

Version 1.2.3

Fixed the stocks widget bug

Updated Advanced Browser

Fixed issue with occasional lag when sending a tweet

New Redesigned Exhibition Mode called 'Dark Slider'

New Dark Theme for Rss, Google Reader & Twitter Widgets (turn on/off from Prefs). App restart required.

New 'Clock' widget for viewing local and world times (turn on from Prefs)

Added Currency conversion to Converter widget

Added option in Prefs for handling Url Taps. For example, if you set the option to "Web Widget", anytime you tap a url in a tweet, the link is instantly opened in the Web widget (instead of showing a dropdown to choose from).

Added option for viewing image previews in Twitter timeline (turn off from Prefs)

Added the ability to view international markets in the stocks widget. Just add the market sign and a ":", before the symbol. For example, add "LON:HRN" to add the HRN symbol for the London SE Market.

New redesigned Preferences and additional options

Brought back the 'accordion' view as an option for viewing Rss/Google Reader Articles (turn on from Prefs).

Fixed other minor bugs

Added new feature: 'Ticker'. This displays a scrolling list of information at the bottom of your screen (like those News Channels). Toggle on/off from the App Menu and customize the source

Added Ability to open New Cards

Added New Widget: Advanced Browser. Note: this needs to be turned on from Prefs. Also, the Advanced Browser App is needed for this to work

Redesigned the RSS & Google Reader widgets and fixed a few bugs

Added ability to Hide/show toolbars for widgets, from the Preferences

Fixed several bugs affecting the Google Reader/RSS widgets

Added the ability to turn on/off twitter auto correct from the preferences

Fixed a bug in the twitter widget that caused refresh whenever the screen rotatated

Added New Widget: Google Reader

Added the ability to now view up to 5 widgets (Advanced Views)

Added Exhibition Mode

Replying tweets now adds a 'space' after username

Removed auto-correct from Tweet composing

Web widget now loads the last viewed webpage

Minor Bug fixes/enhancements

Added New Widget: Read It Later

Added New Widget: Stocks

Added the ability to Neato urls to PC from the Web, Twitter and RSS widgets

Added ability to view links (in tweets and rss feeds) using the Web widget

Added ability to add links (in tweets, rss feeds, web widget) to Read It Later

Minor Bug fixes

Twitter Added ability to Add/Remove/View favorites

Fixed issue with Duplicate Tweets

Fixed issue with setting manual refresh rate

Fixed issue with sending tweets

Fixed issue with tweets containing HTML characters

Tapping twitter notification clears all notifications

Rss Added Popup option for 'View Article

Converter Added Temperature

Initial Release