neato!
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Description
Update: New UI! Now send from one phone to another phone! Bug fixes! Send a contact to a friend (webOS 1.4.5 only)!
neato! is a small app that sits in the dashboard and allows you to launch URLs from your computer's web browser straight to your phone! Reading a long blog post and want to take it on the road with you? Click the neato! bookmarklet in your favorite web browser and it'll instantly be loaded on your phone! Or maybe you looked up an address on Google Maps and want to put the directions on your phone without retyping them on your phone. Click the neato! bookmarklet and in a second, the directions show up in the webOS Google Maps app! neato! also lets you send short selections of text from a website to your phone to easily copy & paste into an e-mail or text message!
* Can now send data to your computer!
* Send your text to a bunch of different apps!
* Send stuff and contacts to your friends!
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Should be free.
The reason it isn't free is because the amount of bandwidth neato! uses on my server isn't free, and neither is the underlying PubSubHubBub technology. I'd love to make it free, but frankly, it's financially impossible. I would go broke. 10s of thousands of neato! clicks happen daily and I get charged for each one.
Also, $1.43 is nothing. Real software you buy on your computer that does less will often cost $10 or $20, and larger software suites like Photoshop cost thousands.
$1.43 is a drop in the bucket for an app developed by one person in his spare time.
bought it.. like it.. wondered though how to use it to send snippets of text that is NOT from a web page.. i.e sometimes I like to type something on my computer keyboard (cuz its faster) and currently I email it to myself, have to then open email on the pre, check email, open the letter, do 'select all', copy', etc....
I see on the screenshot a "yeah I have ..." which looks like it would not have been a copy of static lines of text 'published' on a web page.
sorry if I'm dense, but .. how to send over a little bit of text that I am typing? still.. very handy as it is, and the promised updates/fixes will make it that much better.
if I'm wrong and so far theres no functionality to do what I'm asking.. what about zheephree hosting a web page that would have a text box like this comment window, then one could 'publish' it to become a static line of text on a webpage that could be copied for neato.. but then obv would want to delete it so all private messages not 'posted' on the page..?
Limited to CA, FR, DE, IE, MX, ES, GB and US.... I live in Switzerland. Too bad that Neato! is not available here :(
Love the app, well worth the $1.43
I'm unable to send PDFs. Anyone else having this issue? Error message comes up blank!
http://www.precentral.net/sites/precentral.net/files/webos-homebrew-apps...
Sweet, sweet awesomeness.
I purchased this, and it is a neat piece of software, but I think it should be noted more clearly that this has to run in the dashboard in order to work. Perhaps you could have an optional service downloadable via homebrew that would eliminate the need to keep something in the notification area? That way you could still sell in the app catalog as fully functional, but the slightly more advanced users could opt to use the background service. Then if Palm ever releases their push service, it can be migrated to that.
This is a neat app, but I like my screen to stay clean and having something always in the dashboard area is no good for me. Unfortunately, because of this, I rarely use this app.
The first line in the app's description:
"neato! is a small app that sits in the dashboard and allows you to launch URLs from your computer's web browser straight to your phone!"
Not to sound rude, but it tells you right there. Anyhow, I have no plans to remove it from the dashboard unless Palm supports an official way to do it. I want to keep neato! in the App Catalog.
Honestly, I don't keep neato! open all the time either for the same reason. It loads fast enough though that I just load it up each time I want to send something to my phone.
Zhephree,
Either that wasn't there or I'm just blind. ;) I didn't mean to put down your software, this really is great, and I still use it on occasion. I just thought there might be a way to have one for the Palm Catalog and either an option to add a background service, or just a beta version in homebrew with it. I would Gladly pay another $1.50 or donate $5 to the cause. I just returned to my Pre from the Evo 4G and missed this functionality a bit. Again tho, this is great piece of software, I was just explaining why I don't use it more than I do.
Thank You for taking you the time to develop this app!
Is there any plan for the future to give neato! the ability to send an SMS message through the Pre from your PC? Not just send the text to the phone, but actually transmit to another person. Thanks.
Well worth the money! Constant updates on a great app (developed and maintained in the developer's spare time). I wish I knew how to!
Also, great support from Dev via twitter!
Great and essential app!
But the new design is more ugly than the previous :(
What I am really looking for is an app that will grab the url of a webpage I am looking at on my Pre Plus and send it to mail.
The page> share link on the Pre sends a the title of the page and a png image. When things work right the email sends it in html and clicking on the page title in the email opens the page. But sometimes it doesn't work and then the page title is useless.
I know I can select the url, copy and paste it into an email but that involves several steps.. It would be nice to just click share and automatically sent the link to email,
Hmm... got it, but seems pretty useless to me.
1. Uploaded a video to SendSpace, 9.5MB, .mp4, Codec: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1). Send link to Neato, click Download, nothing happens...
2. Tried to send a link to download an application via Neato, nothing, just loads up the page, doesn't bring up AppCatalog nor Preware nor InternalzPro, regardless of what .ipk handler is set to.
So far, no use, especially given that I already have Spare Time and a browser patch to read stuff I want. Perhaps it will be of some use for sending URLs to articles that I then will send to Spare Time (Instapaper) and read. That's about it.
Hi, I'm new to using Palm Pre 2 so need help.
Can't find a way to download & install Neato.
The link on this page takes me to an HP page. The option to send to phone via mms does not seem to work, and I can't see a download link. Help! Thanks.