New apps begin appearing in App Catalog 39
Mon, 08 Jun 2009 4:21 pm EDT 
And we’re off to the races! Palm has started loading new programs into the App Catalog, and we’ve got seven new apps to tell you about, bringing the total to twenty five.
GoodFood (by Goodrec)
A location-based restaurant locator with cuisine and price sorting, plus the ability to rate restaurants and see what your friends think.Infopedia Beta - Mobile Wikipedia Lookup (by SplashData, Inc)
An on-device Wikipedia optimizer, complete with news headlines, bookmarks, and saved history and searches, plus an easy send-to-a-friend (or self) feature.Match.com (by Match.com, LLC)
You’ve seen the commercials, now it’s time to find some love, assisted by winks, emails, and the omnipresent GPS.mCraig Beta - Mobile Craigslist Browser (by SplashData, Inc)
It’s Craigslist, formatted for your phone, and complete with location-based searches.Shortcovers (by Shortcovers)
A digital library and reader with new releases and free classic works.
SplashID Beta - Secure Password Manager (by SplashData, Inc)
It’s the one app that so many have been waiting for, and it’s here, at least in Beta form. Securely store your various usernames and passwords, bank account and credit card numbers, prescriptions and whatever else you like. As a beta, SplashID is going to be free, once the complete version is released it will be a paid application.Sporting News Pro Baseball (by Zumobi, Inc)
Get the latest scores and schedules from your favorite teams, get your fantasy team players’ stats, and follow in-progress games in the MLB!
So there you have it, new apps for the Pre, with more likely on the way. We’ll do our best to keep tabs on what’s new, but hopefully in the near future it’ll just be too much to bear. According to the Official Palm Blog, some 150,000 apps were downloaded on Saturday alone!
UPDATE: As has been noted in the comments, soon after we posted this, SplashID was pulled from the App Catalog. According to bitmage the app works fine up until you try to import stuff from the desktop application, at which point it falls into some sort of wacky temporal paradox loop. We don't like temporal paradoxes (they give use headaches), not does SplashData, so it appears to have been removed. We'll keep an eye out for what we imagine will be SplashID's imminent and triumphant return.
Thanks to Ryan, Bill, and Kris for sending this in!
39 Comments
Now they just need to find a way to make the Wikipedia search from Universal Search bring up the Infopedia app. It's a little redundant this way...
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So does the new SplashID sync to something? With the PalmOS app it syncs to a local desktop app so you have the information in more than one place. big fan of this app. Happy to hear it is out for WebOS.
Keep em coming... :-)
Exactly! Thanks Palm. Love the phone BTW!
i installed classic to brink 2 pos apps over. klondike by elctron hut (?) and splash data id.
klondike crashed classic, and i couldnt figure out what to bring over for splash to see myinfo.
classic is coming off and splash beta is coming on. dont really care if it syncs. it would be noce, but not a deal breaker.
btw, i dont see ID, i see 2 other apps from splash though.
I see all the apps except SplashID Beta. That's the one I wanted most! Anyone else?
well, craigslist doesn't work. returns error when searching. the food app is ok, but i'll never use it. i'd like having a password app, but am waiting for a keypass port (open source and really nice). Keypass is free. I've used it on my desktop for some time now as well as my blackberry. I don't see a reason to pay for something inferior. I did download and try it, but removed it quickly. The bookstore is nice, but after owning an e-ink reader, I could never use my phone to read. I'm not a fan of baseball and don't need to find girls, so those are useless for me. I like that they are adding titles at this rate though. Since they were all added at once I guess we can hope for a daily refresh? that will at least keep me from checking the app store 5 times/day. thanks for the update.
Really? mCraig works great for me. I love the formatting on it. You can reply or forward it right from the app. Only problem I see is that it doesn't store your location, so you have to set your location everytime you run it. It's still beta, so hopefully it'll be fixed soon.
yeah mCraig works perfectly for me. The "My Location" was off so I just put in my home city.
damn, i put in my location as well. maybe it was because I was using a category and subcategory? I kept getting errors when searching.
ok, those fields are required. looks like certain combinations return search errors. i did get some to work, so it looks like it's still beta for a good reason. ya this could be a nice app, I'll keep it around.
Are all these apps free at this point? None of them list any cost or mention that you need to purchase (except for Classic).
oh and the wikipedia app is ok, but it needs to support landscape viewing.
yes all are free except classic at this point.
Hmm, I can't see SplashID either, but a few of the other ones are showing up. Maybe App Catalog needs to refresh?
I don't see splashid either. Maybe they took it down?
Me want SplashID! No see! Come soon!
wow, they did remove splashid. makes me kind of regret uninstalling it, though i wasn't goign to use it anyway.
has anyone figured out how to remove that stupid nascar program, or the amazon mp3 store?
I haven't done it yet, but I see the option. If you open your launcher and then click in the top left corner where it says "Launcher". Select "List Apps..." If you click on Nascar right away in the Built-in Apps, it'll only give you the "Done" button. If you click on a Downloaded Application first, then click Done, then click on Nascar, you'll get the Delete button.
Let me know if it works for you.
ya that doesn't work for any "built-in" apps. You can click delete all you want, but nothing happens. Hopefully they'll let us do it sometime in the future.
Unless the Pre is architecturally different than the typical hardware layout, Palm/Sprint has laden its ROM with lots of useless apps and at best you can only "hide" them by shoving them in unused categories or using apps that effectively hide them from the launcher.
In the past, the only way to kill those ROM apps off was using a ROM editor and a bit of skillz. Shadowmite was really helpful in the early Treo days, but he has given up on Palm and gone to the iPhone side.
Has anyone looked at these apps in the file system? Are they all really just javascript and html/css?
Splash ID is gone. I've downloaded and installed, but haven't run it yet. Should I be afraid?
I don't think you need to be afraid - but I may know why it was pulled. It worked fine on initial install, but then I tried to import my old data (exported to a VID in the desktop software).
It tries to import, but then goes into an endless loop of importing, asking for my password, importing, asking...
Closing the app and restarting shows no data imported.
I've sent a support message, so hopefully they're working on it...
in the words of jeff-goldblum's-type-cast-character-of-choice: "MUST GO FASTER"
Hey Derek are you saying you want to go to the Hofbrauhaus in Newport? I would so be there! I live like 15 mins from that place, I love that place such good beer.
It has been a long time since I've been to Hobrauhaus... almost a year, now that I think about it. A visit may very well be in order!
nice this a good start.. i thought we'd be waiting a lot longer for new apps
I keep seeing discussions mentioning Palm's App Catalog. Is it only viewable from the Pre, or is there a web site?
Only on the Pre.
Maybe Linkesoft's Secret will be developed for WebOS. In my opinion, a vastly better app than SplashID.
where's loopt? i thought that was gonna be available at launch.
It's not there, for whatever reason.
how about an app that will do a REAL search for every item in my palm (this includes calendar events). this synergy stuff is bullshit (for me, at least). i need to be able to put in a name and have the pre search for EVERY entry in the machine. how hard would that have been to include??
and how could they essentially eliminate cut and paste?? huh? that's what made it so much better than the iphone. oh - you can cut and paste editable text?? thanks but no thanks. i want to be able to edit ANY text (INCLUDING text in the calendar!!!) i really hope that they fix this stuff!!!!
First let me say that I don't own an iPod, iPhone, or Mac product at all: the new iPhone 3.0 has universal search that covers more of the universe than the Pre (and a lot of that searched-coverage is the calendar, txt mssgs, crap-local-to-the phone). If the iPhone had a physical QWERTY...
And it would make sense for Palm to expand universal search to include more local stuff, both because of that competitive reason and because the old Palm OS searched those things and longtime users will be clamoring for it.
MLB audio now works. Yea!