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Original Palm Pre auf WebOS 2.1 updaten

Hier wollte ich mal kurz beschreiben, was ich machen musste um meinen Palm Pre, gekauft im November 2009, auf das gerade veröffentlichte WebOS 2.1 upzudaten. Als Vorbereitung sollte man dafür sorgen, das 1. Die WebOS-interne Datensicherung auf aktuellem Stand ist. 2. Mit Save/Restore aus dem Preware-Katalog die meisten Anwendungseinstellungen gesichert sind. 3. Ein Backup aller […]

Februar 23, 2011 · admin · 3 Comments
Posted in: Allgemein, Palm

R.I.P. Apple

Yes, Rest In Peace Apple. 3 years ago there was a saturated smartphone market, Nokia, Palm and Microsoft were sharing the market between them. Then a new player entered the ring: Apple. Steve Jobs promised a new smartphone feeling and brought to us not only a new way of usage (just like he did in […]

Februar 9, 2011 · admin · No Comments
Posted in: Allgemein

A dynamic list of my apps for webos

My Apps  And here is the patch for a better working browser in offline mode. Do you know it? When you are in an area with bad coverage you you eventually click a link in your email or twitter app? The browser window comes up to tell you about missing online connection and asks you […]

Januar 30, 2011 · admin · No Comments
Posted in: Allgemein, Palm

Ferientermine im WebOS-Kalender? @Palm_DE

Hier mal ein Tipp für deutschsprachige WebOS-User. Wie bekommt man schnell die Ferientermine in den Kalender auf seinem Pre? iCalImporter in Verbindung mit Schulferien.org ist die Lösung: iCalImporter für 0.99€ aus dem AppCatalog herunterladen, einmal starten damit sich die App für iCal-Dateien registrieren kann. Dann auf Schulferien.org gehen und die gewünschte Kalenderdatei herunterladen. Den Rest […]

November 28, 2010 · admin · One Comment
Posted in: Allgemein

Create Birthday Events for your Contacts

It all started with a patch. To improve usability and allow better support, I turned this patch now into a separate app: I’m glad about feedback. thx

November 20, 2010 · admin · One Comment
Posted in: Allgemein

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 🙂

September 4, 2010 · admin · No Comments
Posted in: Allgemein

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 · admin · No Comments
Posted in: Allgemein

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 · admin · 7 Comments
Posted in: Allgemein

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 · admin · No Comments
Posted in: Allgemein

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 […]

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