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New in the App Catalog for 20 January 2011 7

by Derek Kessler Fri, 21 Jan 2011 9:44 am EST

It’s time for another round of App Catalog round-uping, and as usual, we’re going to start things off by taking a look at a few stand-out entries in the most recent app drop...

  • Lights Off is the classic turn-off-all-the-lights game, but as you’ve likely deduced, it’s harder than it sounds.
  • Blackboard Mobile™ Learn provides the eager mobile college student access to their Blackboard account on the go. Now you can check out your courses, see your grades, and read announcements, all without having to be tethered down to your computer. Life is grand.

Not in to addicting but frustratingly simple games and apps designed to make your college experience better? Fine, there’s more after the break for picky people like you.

New apps:

  • Baird & Warner Mobile, Free, by Smarter Agent. Check out homes for sale, recently sold homes, and properties for rent in the Chicago area.
  • Bee Gees Songs (Keys), Free, by TEARN media. Play Bee Gees-themed Pictionary against search bots.
  • Blackboard Mobile™ Learn, Free, by Blackboard. Log into you school’s Blackboard system and access your courses, discussion boards, grades, announcements, and everything else that is Blackboard (school enablement required).
  • Boston Real Estate, Free, by Bushari Group. Check our real estate properties in Boston, complete with price and feature filters and neighborhood searchs.
  • Dr. Shiver, $2.49, by Dream Design Entertainment. A skill game where you have to operate silly parts from a hapless patient using tweezers (i.e. Operation).
  • Falling Animals, $1.25, by Canny Technologies (Hyderabad). Save matching animals before they fall into the snake’s mouth.
  • HipHop Backgrounds (Full), $3.25, by Middlemind Games. A regularly-updated collection of hundreds of hip-hop themed backgrounds. [HipHop Backgrounds (Lite)]
  • InterfaceLIFT.com for WebOS, Free, by krischeonline.com. Search, view, and download artistic photographs from www.interfacelift.com.
  • Lights Off, $1.99, by Steven Troughton-Smith. Turn off all of the lights. Easier than it sounds.
  • Morbid Backgrounds (Full), $3.25, by Middlemind Games. A package of, well, morbid backgrounds, updated every other week. [Morbid Backgrounds (Lite)]
  • Official New York Rangers Hockey, Free, by Handmark, Inc. and Madison Square Garden. The official app for the NHL’s New York Rangers, complete with news, photos, videos, schedule, and game day coverage.
  • Pastebin, Free, by milclobe. Unofficial beta client for Pastebin.com code and text sharing site.
  • Quit Facebook, $0.99, by Infinite Appz. Track your unsuccessful effort to spend less time on Facebook.
  • Sea Treasures, Free, by DS Effects. Try to collect sea treasures of varying sizes and values.
  • SWAB antibioticaboekje, Free, by dIGGYtec. [Dutch] Access a database of antibiotics treatment guidelines.
  • WikiLeaks for Palm, $0.99, by Infinite Appz. Check out WikiLeaks with ease on your phone.

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7 Comments

Posted by Sitho on Fri, 21 Jan 2011 2:25 pm EST

The Blackboard app is a very very important app for webOS. Blackboard is used by faculty and students in many colleges and universities around the world. I use Blackboard on a daily basis.

This opens the door to one of the most used functions of many users on a daily basis. Too bad there is no discussion on this app here. This app is the kind of app that makes a platform. I don't think there is a Blackboard app for iOS. But there is one for Android.

People should be cheering for such an important app to finally make it to webOS.

Good job to the Palm dev relations team for landing this important app and supporting BlackBoard in porting their app to webOS.

Good job

Now we just need a Moogle app!

Posted by KingNoso11 on Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:22 pm EST

I agree!

I was always wondering if blackboard had a mobile app. Too bad that my school doesn't have the blackboard mobile enabled. I'm going to contact the helpdesk and see if they can help. This will be such a valuable app since I work full-time and go to school. This is great news!

Posted by sanaking on Fri, 21 Jan 2011 4:42 pm EST

blackboard? Ppht we pushed that closed source, microsoft-part-owned cow out of our uni in favor of Moodle.

as for wikileaks-interesting/on point! Ironic that it's not free tho, unless the devs are donating some proceeds...

Posted by KingNoso11 on Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:53 pm EST

I wonder if HP had anything to do with Blackboard coming to webOS as part of their reach to the education segment.

Posted by stung on Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:37 am EST

Nice to see apps with good UIs making it into the catalog. These apps make some of the others many on the forums enjoy look like amateur hour.

Posted by cooz0977 on Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:58 pm EST

Blackboard seems nice, still can't believe there isn't a first part Wordpress app.

Posted by mttj on Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:19 am EST

Finally! Blackboard is a blessing for my smartphone