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by Derek Kessler Tue, 28 Sep 2010 9:34 am EDT

App Catalog With 4000+ apps, we’ve seen a lot run through the App Catalog. But every now and then we see something that catches us by surprise. We’d been expecting eventually to see apps with the name Hewlett-Packard attached to them, but what we didn’t expect to see was HP as the developer of Top 100 Rock Songs of All Time. Looking at the developer homepage of nuTsie.com it makes a bit more sense, as HP did buy nuTsie/Melodeo back in June. But what does it mean? It’s so intense.

  • Anonymous Emailer and Mail Spoof Pro, both $0.99 from Philip Bernstein, give you the choice of sending anonymous emails, or faking your email address for pranking your friends. It’s your choice, but use them only for good.
  • Birthdays ($1.99, by Code Beyond) lets you keep track of birthdays and add them to your calendar, plus get countdowns to unlimited “the big days.”

There’s more, plus the usual bucketses full of updates, after the break.

New apps:

  • Age Calculator, $0.99, by Follow Instinct. Figure out your age in years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds.
  • Anonymous Emailer, $0.99, by Philip Bernstein. Send an anonymous email - only for use for good.
  • Birthdays, $1.99, by Code Beyond. Keep track of unlimited upcoming birthdays with countdowns, calendar events, and Google Docs backups.
  • Bridge Call Dialer, $2.99, by AHUB Development. Easily dial into a bridge call from your webOS phone.
  • Bubble Trouble, Free, by Arctic Apps. Classic bubble match-and-clear game.
  • Coloring Book, $1.49, by Avner Arbel. Fill in the blank outlines with, well, color.
  • Flap Clock 3000, $1.50, by Darren Embry. A classic-styled flip clock with landscape and portrait modes and date display.
  • Kalasam Tamil Radio, $0.99, by Jason Cheeks. Streaming Tamil Internet Radio from Kalasam.com.
  • Kids Paint, Free, by Virtual GS. Random fun finger-painting for the kids.
  • Mail Spoof Pro, $0.99, by Philip Bernstein. A new twist on the anonymous email - fake your email address instead to prank your friends.
  • NFL Scoreboard, Free, by Philip Bernstein. Stay on top of the game with up-to-the-second score updates.
  • Ruler for webOS, $1.00, by Leetcom. Sliding on-screen ruler up to 2 feet in length.
  • Scary Halloween Ringtones, $1.99, by MobGen. More than 80 Halloween-themed ringtones.
  • Super Methane Bros Mobile, $0.99, by Mobila Interactive. Remake of the Amiga classic: take on the role of brothers Puff and Blow with their methane gas guns, and battle evil armies of the baddies.
  • Top 100 90s Songs, $1.99, by Hewlett-Packard. Check out and listen to the 100 greatest songs of the 90’s.
  • Top 100 Country Songs of All Time, $1.99, by Hewlett-Packard. From Cash to Brooks, listen to the 100 best country songs of all time.
  • Top 100 Love Songs, $1.99, by Hewlett-Packard. Check out the top 100 love songs ever.
  • Top 100 Reggae Songs, $1.99, by Hewlett-Packard. The 100 greatest reggae songs, in list and sound.
  • Top 100 Rock Songs of All Time, $1.99, by Hewlett-Packard. Listen to the top 100 greatest rock songs of all time.
  • Whistle Pro Light, Free, by McSportster. Blow the whistle, loud and proud.

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21 Comments

Posted by blz2 on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 9:38 am EDT

Top 100 songs from HP? Are you serious? That's Brighthouse material.

Posted by Mikey47 on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:33 am EDT

LOL, there is your big creative minds at HP working hard to bring more apps to the catalog. :P

Now, we can expect "Top 100" songs from every decade, genre, etc. I think I am going to have to install the patch to block HP apps from my catalog.

Posted by blz2 on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 2:29 pm EDT

See my comments below. Apparently these aren't directly from HP. whewww!

Posted by Cantaffordit on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 9:59 am EDT

did anyone confirm that those are really from HP? it doesn't seem like something they would want to put their name on...

Posted by shaneosullivan on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:27 am EDT

Yep, pure trash. I hope that's not what they call innovation...

Posted by musenu on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:02 am EDT

Are you kidding me? 100 awesome songs for $2 and that doesn't interest you? It's not a list, it's a music collection for $2. I think you can't get a better music deal for that legally.

Posted by blz2 on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:15 am EDT

You aren't getting 100 songs for $2. For $2 you're getting a playlist of 100 songs streamed to your phone with the option to buy them from the music store. Not much different from Pandora or Slacker really.

Posted by Cantaffordit on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:46 am EDT

is this true? has anyone confirmed it?

Posted by blz2 on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 1:58 pm EDT

"Each app retails for $1.99, and plays their respective genre/grouping of songs shuffled and commercial-free over Wi-Fi or cellular data. Of course, since this is streaming music you don

Posted by blz2 on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 2:26 pm EDT

Let it also be noted that these apps are not part of the internal develop-for-webOS contest from HP. Thankfully.

Posted by mperkinsky on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:52 am EDT

just got the top 100 90s. I've got it plugged into the stereo. Ahh, the 90s.

Posted by mperkinsky on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:54 am EDT

it's automatically set to random play. nice

Posted by ThatMatthew on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:06 am EDT

At first I thought that the HP apps were no better than Brighthouse Labs'. But if you get 100 full songs for $2, that's actually a decent deal. Although you could probably do the same with a free internet radio station.

Posted by Orion Antares on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:15 am EDT

Does anyone remember HP purchasing or starting this nutSie company?

Posted by Cantaffordit on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:46 am EDT

yes, they recently made the acquisition of nutSie...

Posted by rsanchez1 on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:27 am EDT

Is anyone still having problems updating their apps on sprint? I haven't been able to update for a few days now...

Posted by tllemmon on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:49 am EDT

Still having the problem...my error states: "The action could not be completed try again later".

Posted by Cantaffordit on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:08 pm EDT

you can update them one at a time via Preware.

Posted by mperkinsky on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:29 am EDT

No diggity

Posted by capt4chris on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:15 pm EDT

It's a full-on, double complete rainbow in my front yard!!!!

Posted by GodShapedHole on Wed, 29 Sep 2010 5:28 am EDT

HP can only fail. Whatever they do, fail. People don't even really look anymore.

No own music service for webOS? Fail. Itunes integration? Fail. A streaming music service for webOS? Fail.

Palm announces Pre early? Fail, you shouldn't announce that early, kills the buzz.
Palm doesn't announce Pre2 early? Fail, where are our announcements, other companies have them!?

Pre2 has small plastic screen? Fail, it's not glass, it sucks, and too tiny!
Pre2 has big glass screen? Fail, breaks more easily, sucks, and lol, takes up more volume than my 1997 nokia.