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Wednesday News Roundup – Pixi, webOS Update
Here were are, Wednesday night, just like always (cough). Last week saw a number of exciting webOS-related developments. First up, Palm released webOS version 1.3.1 to North America. Next, the Pixi was officially released. Finally, we’ll wrap up with some more of the news and financial analysis that’s been circulating about Palm. No need to [...]
Wednesday News Roundup – Pixi, Asia, webOS and iTunes
For those keeping score, we didn’t do a news roundup last week and instead posted our on-the-scene report about Sprint’s Open Developer Conference. If you missed it, you can read the first part here. So, with two weeks to catch up on, here are the big stories: Palm announces Pixi release date, Australia gets left [...]
Enabling Sounds in the webOS Emulator
One of the top todo items for Palm has been sound in the emulator. If you’re a developer you’ve probably noticed this line in your log file before: Error: file:///var/usr/palm/applications/com.dynaptic.matchem/index.html Error: service request: com.palm.audio is not running. This error message got me to wondering the other night so I started poking around using Novaterm. In [...]
Sprint Open Developers Conference, Wrap Up
Wednesday was the final day of the Sprint Open Developers Conference. The day included two keynote speeches and some breakout sessions. I’ll wrap up everything with my thoughts on the conference. Note: This is the third part of my coverage of the conference, don’t miss parts one and two. The morning began with a very [...]
New Apps Friday
New and updated apps arrived in the App Catalog again. Yesterday was rumored to be the release of paid apps but the attendant release of webOS 1.2 was nowhere to be found. Among the apps appearing today were two weather applications, some games and some location-aware applications. Guitar enthusiasts will likely enjoy MyAppCatalog‘s Guitarist’s Reference, [...]
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 [...]
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