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Tip: Go straight to your frequently-used mobile web pages from your Skweezer Homepage!

Greenlight Wireless continues to remove usability barriers by making your favorite web pages front-and-center to your mobile web browsing experience! Simply browse to the page you frequently view and add it to your collection of bookmarks stored in Skweezer!

Reminder: In order to store Favorites, please create an account first.

When you store Favorites in Skweezer, they show directly below the Skweeze box on the homepage…
To save a Favorite, simply tap in the URL you wish to visit, and Skweeze it.
Upon arrival, simply view your page. After you’ve scrolled down to the bottom, you’ll see a toolbar. Click “Add To Favorites”.	� …. scrolling to bottom … �
You’ll then be presented a screen to modify the link info prior to saving it to Skweezer. Select the Skweezer radio button and click “Save Changes”. You’ll then be redirected back to the page you just saved.
When you go back to the homepage, click the “Favorites” link (or tap the “1″ on your keypad).
You’ll then be presented a list of your Favorites. By either searching or browsing the list, you can Skweeze any of the WWW content previously saved. To modify a Favorite, click “Edit” at the bottom of the list.
Upon locating your Favorite, click the link to edit it.
Make whatever changes you desire in this edit screen, including displaying it on your homepage. TIP: You can also pre-select whether or not Images show/hide when you view the page. Click the “Save Changes” button to commit.
Upon going back to the Skweezer homepage, your Favorite will show up in the list. (Refresh the page, if it’s cached.)

MORE TIPS:

1. You can add as many Favorites to your Skweezer homepage as you like. However, the more links you put on the homepage… the longer it might take to retrieve. My recommendation would be to find the right balance between access and usability
2. Use your PC to set up your mobile Favorites. Simply go to http://www.skweezer.net/ in your desktop browser, and start viewing/adding pages to your Favorites as if you were using your phone. Once you’ve stored your assortment, then do all of your “Save on home page” edits with your desktop browser for quicker responses
3. Shorten the “Page Name” of your Favorite for better use of real estate on the Skweezer homepage. By default, Skweezer carries over the value that is stored in the “<title>” attribute of the page being saved

Happy Skweezing!

Posted by Kevin Perkins

TIP: Machine Translate Any Mobile Webpage With Skweezer!

Skweezer is easily one of the most international mobile applications available with users in over 170 countries. Through our partnership with WorldLingo, Greenlight Wireless has pioneered the method of mixing machine translation services with a page mobilizer like Skweezer. With 13 language pairs available, users can very easily consume foreign content in the language of their preference. Here’s how….

Pull up any content of your liking…
In the footer toolbar, click the Translate button…
Next, you’ll come to an interstitial page that prompts you to choose your “before” and “after” language pairs…
The page reloads in your target language…
As you keep browsing—ON THAT DOMAIN—you will remain in “translation” mode for the language pair of your preference!

For this example, I started with English and went to Spanish—both languages I know very well. And, considering a “machine” translated this article, it was pretty good! Of course you could do this example with a different start language… just so long as one of the languages in the list is the language of the original webpage (Spanish to English, Portuguese to Italian, etc).

Bonus Tip: Create an account and set your Skweezer language UI to be: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, or Portuguese!

Posted by Kevin Perkins