Comments on: Palm Pre Apps — A Weekend with Homebrew Titles

By: MilenkoD

MilenkoD — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:00:42 +0000

I’ve applied two updates while having homebrew apps on my Pre. the only apps that broke were ones from the App Catalog. The homebrew apps (that I use) weren’t affected.

I guess it’s possible though.

By: DJ

DJ — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:55:15 +0000

so what happens when WebOs is updated? Does everything need to be reinstalled? Is it the antagonistic Apple thing where Palm hammers the folks who go off the reservation or is there some support for these apps. In the end, I need my phone to work :-) and while I like to experiment, that has gotten me in software/hardware challenges before…color me very interested but hesitant…

By: Milenkod

Milenkod — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:10:20 +0000

Over 100 now….PrePod is my fav.

By: Jason Cochran

Jason Cochran — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:28:30 +0000

The Palm Pre is the place to be!

If you are looking for a job give my job search application a try called Jobr. It’s the fifth one in the list on FileCoaster.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:18:07 +0000

I love the app! It was one of the first ones I installed as I’m always looking for SBUX when I travel. Well done.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:13:53 +0000

Yeah, I never had an iPhone to play with (hate AT&T) so I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the Pre to learn about their development tools and the WebOS system.

Have to say, it’s really fun. I’m not much of a programmer, but I learned that beating my head against it long enough usually makes it work (and my head sore). It’s especially fun with limited, and inaccurate documentation :)

You’ll see I threw a bunch of stuff into the Starbucks app just to see how they work. The distance slider. A pop-up type alert for the About Us page. An actual separate page for the Contact page. A pre-populated e-mail form to report problems.

Tweaking little things today so there will probably be a new version posted tonight. Really hope I can get an accurate database with locations, store hours and WiFi availability.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:49:06 +0000

Robert, I didn’t know that was your app! I saw it in the catalog, but since I know where all of the Starbucks are within a 30 mile radius of me, I didn’t install it. Now I’ll have to! :)

By: Rodfather

Rodfather — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:57:58 +0000

PrePod is a nice app

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:40:38 +0000

Thanks for covering this event. The idea got me motivated too so I wrote a very important little app for anyone that travels frequently – a Starbucks locator. One click uses your GPS to find the nearest location. When I travel I’m always looking for a place to work, and usually end up at Starbucks.

I’ve already received some useful feedback so a new version will be posted soon, but the current version in the Homebrew catalog works pretty well. Let me know what you think:

http://bit.ly/1601da

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:42:09 +0000

I couldn’t get gDial Pro working either this weekend. But since your comment, I figured I had something configured incorrectly. Took a closer look and got it working: turns out that I needed to enable Web Dialing — without that, the app would simply call my GV voicemail, not the person I was trying to call. It’s working now that I made that change and it rocks! Full history of calls, SMS, VM and more. :)