I ‘ve been doing that thing where you try to tweak your iPhone setup to make it as fast as possible while trying to add things that Apple just didn ‘t think you ‘d want “ in short, I ‘ve been exploring Cydia and Installer a bit more lately. One of the nuggets that floated to the surface (eww, that sounds gross now that I say it out loud) has been QuickGold, and it ‘s been quite a find so far!
I ‘m not claiming this to be live breaking news at all “ I assume a lot of you jailbroken folk out there know about this program already, but that won ‘t stop me from yammering on about it like it ‘s the next gen iPhone OS. I installed the program through Installer (it ‘s also on Cydia) for free and then fired it up using the home button on springboard. QuickGold fires up pretty much instantaneously and it ‘s always lightning fast to operate.
You can then type in a name of a contact, safari bookmark, or application and have the items appear on the list as you type. Contacts can be e-mailed or called, but there ‘s no option to send a text. You can search by first or last name, though, which is great! Once you pick an option from the list the appropriate app will load up immediately.
But QuickGold is a lot more powerful than that: you can also start Wikipedia, google maps, or google searches just by starting the search off with the corresponding letter. Typing ‘g Just Another iPhone Blog ROCKS ‘ will start a fantastic google search that everyone should try “ and Safari will load up pretty much instantly. Heck, you can even just type in a URL and then press GO to launch. It means you don ‘t ever have to touch that top bar in Safari again.
The app is free, but ad-supported. The ads are pretty darn unobtrusive though, so there ‘s really nothing for me to complain about here. Well, that ‘s not right. I want to complain about something why didn ‘t I know about this app sooner?!
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