WebOS: MapTool 0.9.6 on PreCentral, Wikay 1.0.1 in the AppCatalog, Match This! Pro in the AppCatalog
I’m going to release MapTool 0.9.6 at Precentral.net in a couple of minutes. I fixed the offline map tile downloader: JTileDownloader to work correctly with longitudes < -90° and >90°. It was a small fix, but now the offline feature will also work for our American friends. Here is the forum thread about MapTool: http://forums.precentral.net/homebrew-apps/220281-maptool-gps-logger-osm-support-more.html
MapTool can now display old tracks, has a switch to enable/disable locking and can import .loc files. Also it works in connection with preCaching to load cache lists from geocaching.com. Currently I’m working on .kml and .gpx import and will add a poor-man’s navigation mode. A global search is already implemented, just give it a try.
JTileDownloader 0.5pre (221,0 KiB, 143 hits)
Now to something new in the AppCatalog: Wikay 1.0.1 has been released. Wikay is a smart mobile view on the Wikipedia’s startpage, supporting English and German Wikipedia. It’s available in the AppCatalog for 0.99$. Please, if you like, give it a try and if you did, why not rate it and write a comment in the AppCatalog.
At last I need to point you to ‘Match This! Pro’ also available in the AppCatalog. It’s a memory-kind of game where you play against your mobile device. The free version ‘Match This!’ already was highly rated by customers. ‘Match This! Pro’ gives you now some more options, more tile sets and will be continously updated. It’s available for only 0.99$ from the AppCatalog. If you want to give me a favor, buy it and rate it.
Thx
Henk
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Preiswerte mobile Datenflat
Die wahrscheinlich preiswerteste Variante mobil immer Online zu sein, ist wohl das Internet-Packet M von O2 in Verbindung mit einem O2o-Vertrag. Mindestlaufzeit 3 Monate und 0€ Grundgebühr für den Vertrag + 8€ für die Internetflatrate. Hier der Link: http://9tr.de/GDFXKC (dabei bekomme ich ein paar Euro Provision pro Abschluss).
Frohes Neues Jahr,
Henk
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MapTool 0.9.1 for WebOS
I created a new mapping application for WebOS called MapTool:
- It displays maps from the OpenStreetMap project
- shows your current position (and allows to send your position by email)
- a selected target
- direction and distance from your current position to the target
- your current track (and can send it as gpx file by email)
- the real ground elevation at your current position and also
- allows the use of offline maps.
Offline maps can be created using this adapted Java tool from here: Tool for offline download: here
The offline maps are a couple of PNG files which has to be in a folder called .MapTool (the leading dot is important!) on the internal volume of your WebOS device. Just use the tool to download the tiles and copy them into the freshly created .MapTool folder after connecting the Pré as USB drive to your desktop computer.
If you want you can replace some of the maps with your own, but ensure you use the same naming, bounding box and image size as the OpenStreetMap project for its tiles.
The official thread about it, is here: http://forums.precentral.net/showthread.php?p=2099438
Some general usage infos:
Start the app, it will try to get your position using GPS. In same cases it will take some time to get your position, then it might just use a rough assumption. You can see the error of your position location in the bottom info strip.
The app will just starting logging your position, you can see your track in blue and in the bottom strip also the ID of your track (date + time of the starting point).
The app follows your position and downloads OSM tiles whenever necessary, use + and – to zoom in or out. Use the reload button to have it refresh the map tiles in case something went wrong. When you start moving the map, it will release the connection to your current position and the zoom-level display will display “move”. Click on it to access the list of targets or to jump back to your current position.
Use the send button to send your current location or the current track by email.
Use the menu to access the settings. Here you can switch the different OSM renderers (use the refresh button to reload the tiles). Also you can specify the error level which will used to draw your path or to convert the log into gpx. A good value is below 100 meters (sorry for only supporting metric units).
The bottom strip also shows you the altitude which the GPS reports and the elevation of the ground as it is stored in the NASA database. Therefore MapTool asks about the elevation value every 10 seconds. It will be adjustable in a later update.
Also I’m glad to announce the appearing of OGCOpenInfo in the official AppCatalog. A very handy tool for all passionate “The Open Golf Challenge” players.
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Dezember 28, 2009
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WebOS roundup
Seems to be time to write some lines about my latest WebOS apps for Pré and Pixi:
Match This!, OGCOpenInfo and MapTool
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Some findings on WebOS
Auto text-correction in WebOs is at least in German not always very smart. One could wish to disable it:
Pick up your WebOSQuickInstall app and change in
/etc/palm/browser.conf
the value at
[General]
EnableSmartText=false
To examine is still if /etc/palm/browser-app.conf contains the value to cache webpages.
Another patch is to show the state of the mute switch:
http://www.nexave.de/forum/37659-status-des-stummschalters-anzeigen.html?highlight=
or a patch for fast toggle between GMS (2G) and UMTS (3G)
http://www.nexave.de/forum/37545-app-fuer-umschaltung-umts-gsm.html?highlight=
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Heading for a nice free online Golf game?
Do you have some minutes to waste? And do you like online challenges? Have a look at http://www.ogcopen.com. they release a pretty cool 3D Golf game which is not only free, but also multiplayer, has a nice world ranking list and is playable without any real download. Actually they’re using flash, means it run completely in your browser.
To connect this topic with Palm at the end: I will soon release a little info app which brings you your actual world ranking and tournament results on your WebOS device. Stay tuned and have a course at http://www.ogcopen.com
Have some more screenshots after the break.
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November 26, 2009
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2TwitMe 1.3
It’s done when it’s done and now it is done: 2TwitMe 1.3
Still the best Twitter client for Palm OS comes now with a ton of new cool features and enhancements. The first one: The Timeline is much more readable than ever before. You even get avatar pics. Here is the list of changes (still have in mind that I usually forget about the stuff I fixed):
1.3
* bigger timeline display (use lowres font)
* mark new tweets
* optional: keep current tweet on manual update
* tweet list position saved on app close
* optional: avatar images in tweet list
* hide pwd in account settings
* thumb-enabled GUI
* support of yfrog.com in preview
* search the tweet list
* handle first link in message view using space key
* better text input windows for permanent tag, search and url trim
* added is.gd as url trim service
* refresh avatar pics on user page (>>)
* Conversation display from message view
And now, hurry up and download and try it. You’re always welcome to leave a short message (on twitter for example, I follow the 2TwitMe tag) about your experiences.
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Stay cool,
Henk
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November 24, 2009
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Recording audio on a Pré
Well. just before I come with a 1.3 release of 2TwitMe (which makes it also one of the best Twitter clients even on a Pré) I found a way to record audio on the Pré. It’s not a way you would do every day, but maybe on could wrap it into a nice UI:
* install the terminal app from the precentral.net
* open the terminal and enter parec test.pcm
* say whatever you want
* exit recording using sym+c
* play the file with pacat test.pcm
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Palm User Meeting 2009 in Hannover
Yesterday was the PUM 2009 in Hannover, Germany. Torsten started with an introduction into WebOS from a user’s view. After that, we had an interesting live-video chat with Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith from Palm. Afterwards, there was a small break for food, drinks and head-to-head chats. After the break I made a talk about developing for WebOS and presented some of the concepts (Services, Ajax-Requests, Databases, HTML5-Canvas) based on a fresh example application. The example application is a kind of GPS tracker with track view for WebOS and will be developed into a full application during the next weeks. It’s called MapTools atm.
As last talk, Jonas presented Homebrew on a Pré and the possibilities and risks.
The evening ended with a raffle where actually I won another Palm Pré which I now will give to my girlfriend. See some links and further infos after the break:
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List of mobile apps for the Palm Pré
Since a week I have my own Palm Pré. The amount of available apps is still limited (even if I try to increase it too). Therefore it would be quite interesting to collect websites and web-apps which work well on the Palm Pré. The websites and apps are usually made with the iPhone in mind but the similarity of the browsers make quite a few also working well with the Palm Pré and other WebOS devices.
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