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Wednesday News Roundup – Pixi, Heroes and webOS 1.2

In addition to the new apps released on Thursday, the last seven days have brought us the Pixi at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, more rumors of webOS 1.2 and its app catalog, a Pre appearance on Heroes and more. Palm Pixi at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Palm definitely turned up their marketing efforts with their appearance [...]

New Apps Thursday

It looks as if Palm has settled into a routine of updating the App Catalog on Thursday. This Thursday brings ten new apps. Several of these new apps are graduates of the PreCentral’s Homebrew App Gallery. Included this week is the third-party Google Voice app gDial Pro. It was widely reported that Apple nixed Google’s iPhone app.

Wednesday News Roundup – Pixi, Price Cuts and webOS 1.2.0

The last week has been very active for Palm.  The biggest story is the Palm’s announcement of their newest webOS phone Pixi.  Next we’ll talk about the leak and the premature announcement of official release of webOS 1.2 and the Palm Pre’s price drop.  Finally, we’ll wrap up with the new apps that hit the [...]

Interview With Self Aware Games’ Seppo Helava

Recently, we had a chance to sit down (virtually speaking) with Seppo Helava, Self Aware Games‘ designer and one of the minds behind Word Ace, now available for free the Palm Pre and iPhone.  In the interview we talk a bit about Self Aware Games, Word Ace and their design process.  Read on:

Wednesday News Roundup, September 2, 2009

August has drawn to a close and September has started.  As we mentioned last week, the Pre is loose in Canada now.  This week there were some interesting rumors about new Palm models showing up in Sprint and Verizon databases, Mitch Allen will be giving a webOS webcast and Palm has a patent on location-aware [...]

Wednesday News Roundup, August 26, 2009

Wednesday is upon us again so it’s time for another news roundup.  This week’s big news was the addition of new apps to Palm’s App Catalog.  Following that, our friends to the North are getting set as Bell Canada plans to roll out the Palm Pre there tomorrow (Thursday August 27th).  We’ll wrap up with [...]

Wednesday News Roundup, August 19, 2009

We’ll catch up on two weeks’ worth of news stories this week. Over the last two weeks a number of interesting things happened, among them preDevCamp wound up, Palm opened the App Catalog for Beta submissions and a tempest in a teapot surrounding Palm collecting usage information.

Pre101 Match ‘Em Game Available

We are happy to announce that Pre101′s first game, Match ‘Em, is available in Beta version at PreCentral’s App Gallery.  Match ‘em is an implementation of the classic game of concentration with a space-themed image set.  Match ‘em is just the first of several apps that we’re working on here.  Stay tuned for more announcements [...]

Wednesday News Roundup, August 5, 2009

Things were a bit more quiet this week as regards Palm and Palm Pre news, but there are a few things that appeared: preDevCamp This Weekend Are you interested in developing applications on webOS, the Pre’s hot new operating system?  Are you looking for a developer to develop your ideas?  Head out to a preDevCamp!  [...]

Keeping It In Sync

The Palm Pre aims to become your central repository for all your digital information. In order to accomplish this you need to be able to easily get information onto and off of the device. Fortunately, a number of third party synchronization utilities exist that can make moving information from your phone to your computer easier. We’ll take a look at a few of the solutions available and see how to use them.