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Added some cool stuff to neato! last night. You’ll get this update probably tomorrow, with some other enhancements as well.

By popular demand, you can now e-mail yourself the link to get the bookmarklet so you don’t have to retype it on your computer.

And you can probably see that history button there too. Yep, you can view the last 10 messages sent to your phone, even if neato! wasn’t running at the time. Great in case your screen shut off before you sent the item, or maybe your phone’s across the room. Tapping on an item in the list will launch it exactly like neato! does when receiving it from your web browser.

And, now you’ll be able to select which maps app opens Google Maps URLs, and, you’ll be able to decide whether Internalz or Preware opens links to ipk files. Basically, this allows you to install homebrew with about 2 clicks, with no copy/pasting or retyping or emailing yourself links.

Also, a little fun fact: your bookmarklet is secretly already working with Precentral. When viewing a homebrew app in the Precentral homebrew catalog, like, say Dr. Podder, instead of highlighting the URL of the ipk and using the copy/pasted text to copy/paste into Preware or Internalz like Precentral’s video explained, in the new version simply clicking neato! while viewing a homebrew app listing will grab the ipk URL automatigically and open it on your phone with Internalz or Preware, depending on your settings.

Also, now the Text View screen allows you to not only Copy the text sent to your phone, but you can now easily open up a new e-mail or SMS message with the text pre-filled in the body of the message.

Two more features you can’t see in these screenshots:

If the text you’ve highlighted on a webpage is a phone number, the Phone dialer app will open with the number pre-filled for you. neato! supports a variety of phone number formats, so it should work fine. It may have issues with international numbers, but I’m working on that.

The final new fetaure is, if the text you’ve highlighted on a webpage is a URL, neato! treats it like a URL. So if you’re reading a forum and someone pasted a URL in a message, highlight it, and send it to neato! and it’ll open up on your phone, just as if you were viewing that page. This works great for sites other than Precentral that link to homebrew.

I have a lots more features still on the way (like sending from your phone to your computer!), but this next update will be a huge boost. You’ll likely see it on Wednesday night.

Also, make sure you keep an eye on this post from yesterday to see all the different ways people are using neato!. I’m updating it as I see new ways.