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Crimson Fields for @Palm Pre #WebOS

That’s a screenshot of Crimson Fields for WebOS. I submitted the game 2 days ago and expect the approval in a couple of days. If you like turn-by-turn strategical games, don’t miss it. And don’t forget to tell your friends about it. Just try the Share-it button People who looked at this item also looked [...]

September 4, 2010   Posted in: Allgemein  No Comments

PalmHotApps competition

In the last PalmHotApps competition 2 of my apps where getting each one of the 1000 US-$ prices: MapTool and Match This! Palm will send all winners a nice Hot Apps Award logo to include in our website. Until it arrives I will direct your attention to the list of all my apps in the [...]

August 21, 2010   Posted in: Allgemein  No Comments

An app to register another app for a certain file type…

Here comes an app which allows to register another app for a given file type on WebOS. The app is very basic and you can’t unregister or register for urls. But anyways here comes the app which performs the registration. It still might be handy for other devs which want to have some file type [...]

Juli 30, 2010   Posted in: Allgemein  2 Comments

WebOS: register your own app as file handler

This is some info I gathered doing enhancing my app iCalImporter. If you like this info here, you could buy this app to show me your appreciation. Have you ever tried the menu item “Default Apps” (German: Standardanwendungen) in the App Launcher’s menu? Then you know that apps can register for certain file/mime types. But [...]

Juli 27, 2010   Posted in: Allgemein  No Comments

MapTool, one more

There is now another great option to create offline maps from various source: Mapc2mapc. You can read here: http://forums.precentral.net/homebrew-apps/220281-maptool-gps-logger-osm-support-more-14.html#post2571144 the post from pitsop about it. Mapc2mapc is available from here: http://www.the-thorns.org.uk/mapping/ This tool was made by John Thorn and he also added OSMtracker support which is compatible with MapTool. Very, very nice Also I add [...]

Juli 26, 2010   Posted in: Allgemein, Developing, Palm  No Comments

MapTool – offline maps on WebOS

Here are some tutorials how to use MapTool and offline maps on your WebOS device: In Spanish In German The official thread about MapTool is here in English Something more: Here is a thread about my current changes to the build-in calendar. Goal is to render the calendar into a productive tool. Check it out [...]

Mai 7, 2010   Posted in: Allgemein  No Comments

Have some more details in calendar’s week view #webos

I used the free day today to work on a patch which brings some more details in the calendar’s week view: it shows 2 lines of event subject and a small bell to indicate an enabled alarm for this event. The bell also shows up in the day view. I will try to put some [...]

Mai 1, 2010   Posted in: Allgemein  3 Comments

2TwitMe 1.3c preview #palmos

Here is a preview of the next 2TwitMe version: http://www.metaviewsoft.de/2TwitMe.prc History: ——– 1.3c * added “Send later” to post error alert * added copy to message view and text preview * tapping a word in message view copies this word to clipboard 1.3b * added “Send later” to menu * unsend Msg is saved on [...]

April 22, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Allgemein  2 Comments

Sources for offline maps for use with MapTool for #webos

Some more words how to use offline maps in MapTool for webos. You have 3 main sources: JTileDownloader  for tiles created from OpenStreetMap (OSM) data PDA TileManager for tiles created from OSM data Mobile Atlas Creator for tiles from Google Maps. For the use of Mobile Atlas Creator read here what user AurelioB wrote about: [...]

April 16, 2010   Posted in: Allgemein  One Comment

Developers: Use MapTool to display multiple spots on a map

Just a small how-to for WebOS developers to use the free MapTool app to display several spots on a map. You can sublaunch MapTool from your app and give it a parameter set with a description of the spots you want to show. MapTool is available from the AppCatalog and the Homebrew repository on Precentral.net. [...]

März 27, 2010   Posted in: Allgemein, Developing, Palm, WintecTool  No Comments