simple collision detetion without rays

i need to find a way to detect if i bump into another collision object. Since i just went on programming with the 9th demo. I dont really know much about it yet.
I have found out how to detect collision with rays, but i dont want to have to make a gazillion rays to check if i bump into an object from any angle.
I also need to know if its a specific object not just if I hit "something"

cheers
Sjinta

You can perform collision test with specified collision shape and all the shapes in the newton world.

Using collision callbacks you can check against the type of primitive with the specified ID you gave at the collision of that body's creation.

i have not found how to yet, so atm i made my own funtion that looks something like this: if(posBodyA-posBodyB < distance) collision.
very basic, but it works okish