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by Derek Kessler Thu, 05 Aug 2010 8:54 am EDT

App Catalog AppBookShop may have found some more random subject matter ebooks to push out, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other apps we can talk about:

  • GPS Fix is now available for free in the App Catalog to keep your *cough*Verizon*cough* GPS working just fine.
  • Beantown Sports News is for the Boston sports fan in all of us (you don’t have to admit it).
  • Blackjack21 lets you light up the virtual Blackjack table with your Vegas-honed skills.

As always, there’s plenty more after the break. Don’t believe me? See for yourself.

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21 Comments

Posted by mrbizzy72 on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 9:08 am EDT

okie dokie then...

Posted by headgamer on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 9:31 am EDT

I am SO GLAD for the patch that grays out whatever developers you don't want to have to deal with. Bye Bye AppBookShop. Waste of coding.

Posted by L3v3l0rd on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:05 am EDT

I am SO GLAD for the patch that grays out whatever developers you don't want to have to deal with.

So. What

Posted by JED-WEB-OS on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:16 am EDT

The Patch name is "Hide App Vendors"

Posted by Damian Knight on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:28 am EDT

.... rushes off to install this patch.

Darn not working on 1.4.5 yet!

Posted by morningisbad on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:21 am EDT

you can also do this with the new version of preware :)

Posted by morningisbad on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:21 am EDT

i really hate you AppBookShop. and you upwardmobility. you flood our catalog with crap in the hopes that you make a couple bucks. how about this, put up a donate link and we will all donate $1, but in doing so, you agree to never put out another worthless app.

Posted by Derek Kessler on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 5:04 pm EDT

Hey, Upward Mobility is actually putting out something useful. They hire experts in the particular fields so that they can put out a quality, if niche, app. You're not going to find something ridiculous like "Ghost Hunting" from Upward.

Posted by Upward Mobility on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 9:17 pm EDT

Thanks Derek! I appreciate you saying that. I can see why in a small catalog it's frustrating to see so many UM apps. I think this could be helped by a little better search mechanisms. In Apple and Droid stores, you really have to be specifically looking for a topic to find one of our apps.

Posted by dajlol77 on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:29 am EDT

Let's play "Spot the Bush-ism" haha

Posted by lpable on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:32 am EDT

Derek, I really appreciate this list of what's new in the app catalog. This lets me scan new applications better than the app catalog itself does, since the "by date" option in the catalog doesn't differentiate between a new app and an update to an existing one.

Perhaps a way to minimize the pain of those who hate particular vendors while not showing favoritism to anyone (or worse yet, censoring the list of apps) would be to sort the list of new apps by vendor, with a secondary sort on app title, rather than just sorting on app title alone. That way, readers that want to skip all of the apps by a certain vendor can skip down in the list easily. For example, high school students who have no need for help with professional certification can skip easily past everything by UpwardMobility, while professionals could read through those offerings as easily as they do today.

Posted by Derek Kessler on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 5:05 pm EDT

You're just trying to make more work for me, aren't you? :P

Posted by Karl on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:25 am EDT

while the app spam can be annoying, these developers are transitioning their full app portfolios to webOS...which is good. Hopefully more developers do so. While I have no use for their product, there are those that do.

Posted by elyon on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:29 pm EDT

Practically speaking, I've known of a lot of people who "dinged" the Palm App Catalog strictly based on the number of applications. No mention on quality ... just quanitity. Honestly, if we were to have "filler" apps, I'd rather them all be in the same category (books) rather than making everything harder to find.

Posted by Karl on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 6:26 pm EDT

if I remember correctly the future webOS update (probably 2.0) included updates to the app catalog and I also believe it was referenced that it would in the future it would have categories similar to the Featured Apps template.

Posted by avramski on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:36 pm EDT

WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET SKYPE FOR WEBOS!!!!!!!!!

Posted by speedygodzilla on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 2:21 pm EDT

When we have cameras on the front of the phone! That is gonna require new hardware. It would make no sense on the the pre or pixi as they stand. Just think about it.

Posted by noco37 on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 2:28 pm EDT

I think we need the mic API first. I'd be happy with just normal Skype with no video calling.

Posted by blackmagic01 on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 4:54 pm EDT

Not soon. There don't seem to be companies of the name recognition you're talking about making webos apps. I've been hollering for basic stuff that don't even require special apis like epsn, mint, photoshop since the phone was launched. Still nothing. i wouldn't hold my breath on the name apps.

Posted by speedygodzilla on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 2:21 pm EDT

Congrats James on making GPS Fix in the official catalog. It is a great app.

Posted by bryon on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 9:23 pm EDT

Come on! Ghost Hunting? Seriously?