New in the App Catalog for 30 January 2010 44
by Derek Kessler
Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:16 am EST
Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:16 am EST 
The folks at Palm are screwing with my head, I swear. I open up the App Catalog this morning to see what’s new, and behold, there is new stuff listed under older. Again. I know this stuff wasn’t there yesterday, and being under older means it certainly wasn’t there night. No, these are apps from a parallel dimension. It’s the only plausible explanation. The thought had crossed my mind that maybe it was a glitch on Palm’s servers, but then I realized that the alternate dimension theory made much more sense. Seeing as this oddness is still comprised of new apps, it’s all listed after the time vortex-free break.
New apps:
- AirTraffic Lite, Free, by NO2 web and mobile apps: You are the air traffic controller - guide planes to safe collision-free landings.
- Audio Grenade, $0.99, by Lane One Apps: High-frequency tone generator.
- Drag Stats, $1.99, by James Almand: Accelerometer and GPS-based vehicle performance logger. Congratulatiosn to Homebrew Graduate Beherrschen!
- Gossip Fix, $0.99, by Hidden World Hut: Get the latest gossip from popular celebrity news websites.
- Irish Recipes, $1.99, by Brighthouse Labs: Get tasty and easy-to-make recipes for Irish dishes.
- Lexi-Comp ON-HAND, Free, by Lexi-Comp: Access the Lexi-Drugs and Lexi-Interact medical databases.
- Moo, Free, by Markus Leutwyler: The cow says moo and the duck says quack. Congratulations to Homebrew Graduate pretomcat!
- New York M Baseball Fans, $1.99, by Brighthouse Labs: Am I the only one amused by the fact that they can’t say “Mets”?
- ScanCode, Free, by omoco: Scan and decode barcodes and QR codes.
Updated apps:
- Bible Reader Lite, Free
- Brain Booster: An ultimate guide, $3.45
- Brothers in Arms: Hour of Heroes, $5.99
- bWeather, Free
- Cabbie, $0.99
- CashBox Lite, Free
- CashBox, $0.99
- Celebrity Tweets, $0.99
- Color Flashlight, Free
- Farkle Deluxe, $2.99
- Fortune Cookie, $0.99
- Foursquare, Free
- Fuel, Free
- Match This! Pro, $0.99
- Oregon Trail, $4.99
- Pack ‘n’ Track 7 Day Free Trial, Free
- Parking Place, $1.49
- PicSketcher, $0.99
- Pong Free, Free
- Remote, $4.95
- Scoop, $0.99
- Tasty Toons, $1.99
- Tune Your Guitar, Free
- WHERE, Free
- Wikay, $0.99
- WOG Kid Protect, $2.99
44 Comments
Maybe Palm stuck them under older because noone could give 2 craps about any of these junk apps.
Air traffic is fun as hell
Totally agree! I love the game and will gladly pay for a "pro" version with more airports and more challenges.
This version is a lot better than ATC 4.0 for the iPhone/iPOd Touch. It's simpler and much easier to land planes. The iPod game does offer more challenge but too much, in my opinion.
My 2 year old niece loves Moo so much that I can't even use my Pre around her anymore because whenever she sees it now she immediately wants to play with it.
Yeah this confused me too! I ran Updates yesterday and it saw new versions of Scoop & Foursquare but they weren't listed in the catalog. Weird. I hadn't considered alternate dimensions though, that must be it.
Oh ohh, wheres the wormhole them Slider apps used. :O
I too was confused. Then I thought maybe Palm was too caught up about WebOS 1.4 being launched tomorrow that it did this to play with our heads ;) Now I don't think it will release tomorrow...but we can only hope.
Also...many people are talking about a process that has to take some time before actual updates can be sent over the air so we may not get the update after all. To those people I say this:
Palm is not stupid. If indeed there is a lengthy process then I'm sure they started that sometime this month so it could be ready for a February date like they specifically stated @ CES...so rest assure - we'll have it in the coming weeks =)
Dont confuse "in Feburary" with February 1st. This is what fills the chat and forums with drooling short bus riders insisting Ruby broke his promise and is late delivering upgrades.
yea, I wasn't going to get my hopes up, cause that didn't sound right. It would be sweet, but when it does drop all be just as excited.
I don't see the need for a rude analysis of my comment if that was your intention. I'm not confusing 'in february' for 'february 1st' and if you couldn't read into the playful sarcasm I was making then I feel sorry for you. Keep things productive here on a positive note...this is a WebOS community!
is it coming tomorrow? All I ever heard was "February."
no
It's coming February 7th. Or was it February 19th? Oh yeah, they delayed it till March...
I could make up dates all day.
It's coming on the eleventeenth.
Not coming probably until mid Feb.
They still haven't released the beta version of Flash.
If anything comes out tomorrow it'll be Flash beta.
Which kinda makes sense, since Slacker Radio is available but you can't download it yet since it's "not a valid webOS application"
Drop date is February 29th... :-)
A barcode scanner didnt think this was possible without an auto focus camera.
For what it's worth, I couldn't get it to process any barcode pictures I snapped.
Nothing here either. Probably just a placemarker so they could get their name registered and work out the kinks later. No docs on how to take photos so it would work either. I tried close up, no flash, far away so that the barcode would be in focus - nothing.
it's a qr code scanner, not regular barcodes. And it sends the picture to an external server
From the App Catalog:
"ScanCode is an application which decodes various types of Barcodes and QR-Codes. The decoded information can be copied to your clipboard. If the type is specified direct interaction e.g. open a URL oder write a message is possible. If an EAN code is detected you search for it to get information about the product. Because JavaScript can not access the image directly it is uploaded and processed by a server."
it clearly says it scans "barcodes" in the description. I tried. Doesn't work.
What is the point of this app though. I don't see much use in this if i can't check prices with it. Seems to me developers keep making apps that don't provide much use to the average consumer. it's gotta do something other then just scan. It's like releasing a camera app that zooms but doesn't take pictures or a music app that plays the song but doesn't actually output sound to speakers or headphones.
There's like pages and pages of app requests threads with very good app requests an every day it's "fart app 37", "Quote from Joe Nobody", and some sort of calculater or converter hitting the catalog. perplexing. I can't believe people used to diss the importance of games because with some exceptions the games are some of the best apps coming out. with out them there'd have been next to nothing in months.
Well, I'll call two of these apps and welcome them as somewhat appreciable contributions. Can we RETURN TO SENDER and let the other universe keep their crAPPs? We have enough on this side of reality already.
I think because of the 1 Million dollar contest that palm is having whoever gets the most downloads we should see some great apps in the catalog from February 1 until March.
That's what I'm thinking as well.
i'm thinking the goal posts keep getting moved. first it was like 30 days after the catalog, or when they released the sdk, or when it comes out of beta. I've yet to see this explosion of apps. I'm thinking it's cause there aren't any. i remember whenthey said they were swamped with apps. Clearly they weren't good ones. just tip calculators and such. if they had better apps they'd have released them.
The funny thing is that I was able to see all these apps in PreWare for the last two days.... but when clicking on them, I got to an App Catalog page saying that this is not a valid WebOS app.... it was pretty odd...
People, I think Ver. 1.04, will drop tomorrow. Why? Because, Verizon & Palm is holding up a mega commercial for WEBos. Verizon has just lunched their lite WEBos adverisement, holding up for bigger one until palm drop the powerful Ver.1.04, to coincide with it's special features like, FLASH,VIDEO RECORDING, SPEED,& more. Palm,wouldn't delay this. They need this out now..so the Big Red,can throw some lil magical touch on WEBos commercial,showing off it's special features.Well..again, with Palm, you just never know exactly. Atleast,we're getting it Febuary.Exactly when? Is everyone guess.
Yeah...good luck with that. We wont see any WebOS specific ads. VZ didn't order enough devices to support a real promo effort. VZ is selling Droid, their Palm efforts are for traffic and a bait/switch effort before handing over the Pixi or Pre. Hopes that VZ outsells Sprint for Palm devices will need Santa Claus to deliver the results.
It's webOS, not WEBos. And we're way past 1.04 at this point.
Last night, the newest App that I saw at the top of the recent list was gpsDashboard Free. This morning when I went into the App catalog there are 35 new (or updated) apps added after gpsDashboard, and all the Apps in the whole catalog are now listed under "older". What happened to the "yesterday", "this week", and "last week" categories?
(I take this as a sign that there are big changes taking place over at Palm, as they prepare the next big update. Call me on optimist)
I'm a Mets fan, and unfortunately I am amused by the app title. Now I'm going to go cry in a corner:(
I was excited about the bar code reader until I read the description, then I decided not to download it.
FlightControl, I mean AirTraffic, is well made though! If you liked Flight Control on the iPhone/iPod, get AirTraffic... Of course it's not as good as the iPod/iPhone version, but it's free and it's very VERY close. I'm super impressed by what they did. I would rather have it land scape mode and a bit more zoomed out though. But since the Pre screen is smaller, maybe it's better this way. I did notice the "paths" draw out on AirTraffic aren't as "nice" as the ones drawn on the iPhone version though.
Course the question is how much it'll cost (the full version). The iPhone version costs 1 buck. I'm guessing the Pre version might cost up to 5?
Brothers in Arms: Hour of Heroes update the update was the price glad i got it for 4.99 not 5.99 glider 2 is also more now bought for 2.99 now its 4.99
Am I the only one that noticed the "SlideToUnlock" app in Preware then when I tried installing it, I was sent to the app catalog only to be told that app is nowhere to be found. I'm a Sprint user, but it doesn't say anything in the description about being limited to Verizon customers. What's the dealio here?!?!
Am I the only one excited by Lexi-Comp?
Complex Pants - no you are not the only one. I wish PreCentral had a dedicated article to announce the splash. Lexi did not email me (as promised) that it was released either. I only saw in the "older" app posting section. I am thrilled as well. The 30 sec load time stinks, but after that does well. Go Lexi!!!
can't wait to see ur guys' respond when you see that BrightHouse Labs has got 36 new apps in the catalog, all of which are variations of the same thing (not surprisingly). I think Palm should really ad a developer rating system, similar to amazon's feedback system. That way his bad press will be carried w/ every app he releases...
can't wait till they update 500 apps and bump them back to the top of the "new apps" too.
The app I really want to see is an active Home Screen (just like Andoid has). It would be great to have a nice analog clock, your upcoming events for that day, etc.
Yay, Directv!!
Funny. I saw this on preware's feeds the day before it was apparently really there, and tried to install it, obviously with a failure. Glad it made it the next day!
If they would download your favorite channel lists from the DVR, as well as full access to the recording manager, that would be great. Obviously the ability to stream movies from the DVR would be nice too, but I'm assuming we won't see that any time soon, if ever :-(
In other news, the Hulu standalone app for Linux seems to work really well, even on my 64 bit systems. With flash coming out this month, along with having the PDK, can we see a native Hulu app on the phone? That would kick so much ass!
oops. Posted above to wrong thread. It should be in the Jan 31 list. Sorry 'bout that.
When do we officially start calling it the Brighthouse Labs App Catalog instead of the Palm App Catalog?
As others have noted, the full version of AirTraffic can't come out soon enough. I spent an alarming amount of time playing it last night after reading about it here.
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