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Flash Player for webOS Gets Closer

We’ve heard for a while that Flash Player will be coming to webOS.  We had heard that it would be arriving this year.  Now, Adobe reveals their plan for Flash Player 10.1.  Read on for more about Flash Player 10.1 and a demo video showing it running on a Palm Pre.

Palm Developer Relations Co-Leader Responds to JWZ

Recently Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer (of Ajaxian.com and Bespin fame) joined Palm to lead developer relations.  They faced their first crisis with Jamie Zawinski’s well-publicized complaint about Palm’s app approval process.  Ben has posted an early response to the community on his blog.

New Apps Thursday – 23 New and Updated

Today brings a bumper crop of new apps to the app catalog. Despite a few hiccups the App Catalog should now reflect new and updated apps. Don’t worry if you only see 50 apps displayed: The current version only displays 50 apps at a time. If you want to find the [...]

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.

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.

Navigation

The Palm Pre comes with a built-in GPS receiver and software to take advantage of it.  Standard with every Sprint Palm Pre is the Sprint Navigation app.  Also standard is Google Maps.  Both of these programs can help you get to your destination and both offer good tools for seeing traffic.
Sprint Navigation
If you’re not expecting [...]

Homebrew On The Palm Pre

The Palm Pre has a very vibrant homebrew community. Even before the official SDK was released by Palm applications were being written for the Palm Pre. In this post we’ll cover what homebrew applications are, where to find them and how to install them.

All A’Twitter

Social networking sites are all the rage these days and one of the most popular is the micro-blogging site Twitter. The Palm Pre makes it quite easy to communicate with all your friends on Twitter. This article briefly covers three options and describes how to share pictures from the Palm Pre with your Twitter followers.

Help Is Just a Click Away

How to find help using the Palm Pre. Where to find the Help app and Web sites that give you further information.

Keeping It Fresh

How to update your Palm Pre’s operating system and apps using the built-in Updates app.