venturebeat.com - 1/2/2009
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In November, Google launched voice search capabilities for its native iPhone application. It took a fairly pointless app and made it cool, interesting and useful. But alongside that update Google added a hidden menu, which it revealed today on the Google Mobile Blog.
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Google Wants You To Know About Its Hidden iPhone App Menu
TechCrunch —
Google put an easter egg in the menu of their iPhone application, but they hid it so well that no one stumbled upon it, so they simply decided to blog about it to reveal the gem.
Venturebeat was first to report and has more screenshots.
If you have the Google Mobile App installed on your iPhone, go to the Settings tab, scroll to the bottom and keep swiping upwards until a secret option dubbed ‘Bells and Whistles’ appears (this also works the foreign language versions of the app, and it will stay there once you’ve found ...
Google Reveals Hidden Menu in its Google Mobile App
iPhone Hacks —
... your finger upwards (quite a lot) to see the “Bells and Whistles” menu. Tapping on this menu reveals the extra options such as an option to change the apps color to anything you want, the option to have the app’s default sound replaced by monkey or chicken noises, an option to see live waveform show up as you talk and the option to open links in the app itself. [image] [image] [image] [image] A neat way to hide the Easter Egg. What do you think? [ Google Mobile Blog via Venture Beat ] [image] Follow this blog Top iPhone Hacks Categories: Hacks ...
Google Reveals Hidden Menu in iPhone App
Cult of Mac —
... on the iPhone’s touch screen from the Settings menu. At first glance, there appears to be nothing below the tab labelled “About” but continue swiping upward on the screen (five swipes in my case), and a “Bells and Whistles” tab will appear.
From the B&W tab you can change the app’s theme color, its default sound effect and more. OK. Now that’s out of the way, let’s see what else we can accomplish today…
Via Venture Beat
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