Posted by: Christopher Meinck
on Sep 16, 2009
With all the news lately surrounding the Palm Pre, we're happy to see developers still pumping out apps for Palm OS Treo owners. The latest is 2TwitMe, a full featured Twitter app available for the Palm OS. 2TwitMe offers support for:
- Reading
- Posting
- Direct Messsages
- TwitPic Support
- Link Preview
- Background mode
- Multiple accounts
2TwitMe normally retails for $7.00, but the Everything Treo Software Store is offering $2.00 off through September 19th. You can also download a free trial. Let us know if you pick it up.
Posted by: Christopher Meinck
on Feb 11, 2009
In a discussion with investors, Palm's CEO Ed Colligan spoke about plans for the upcoming Palm Pre and signaled the end of the Palm OS. The current Centro model running Palm OS could be released on other carriers, but there will not be new devices running the legacy OS. Palm instead will focus their efforts on webOS and Windows Mobile. With the Pre running webOS, Treo devices being exclusively Windows Mobile, that leaves a question mark for the future of the Centro line. There has been speculation of webOS based Centro devices and that certainly appears to be possible in the future.
As for the Palm Pre, the Sprint exclusivity will carry through 2009 and Palm will look at other carriers in 2010. The Palm App Catalog will not be the only method to add apps to your Palm Pre. The Palm Pre will support adding applications that did not originate in the Palm App Catalog. Colligan also mentioned that Epocrates was one of the key applications that he expects will be available at launch.
Posted by: Christopher Meinck
on Jan 8, 2009
Palm has confirmed they will release an SDK for webOS. Application development is done using HTML and CSS. According to Palm, developers will find it "easy to create apps". Developers created a Twitter app in less than 3 days. The company has partnered with a few long-time Palm OS developers in effort to get their apps on the Palm Pre.
Palm has not built-in backward compatibility for Palm OS applications. The company has no plans to do so, but instead will rely on a third party developer. StyleTap was able to port Palm OS apps on the iPhone, so they are most likely the developer who will look to create an emulation app for webOS and the Pre. The company never released their Palm OS emulation for iPhone, but rather showed it as a "proof of concept". Anyone from StyleTap want to comment? Plenty of Palm OS owners looking to make the jump to webOS will be looking to keep their old apps.
Posted by: Christopher Meinck
on Sep 4, 2008
Hobbyist Software today announced the release of Butler 5.0 . Butler has been a best selling app for both the Treo and Centro and the new version introduces a host of new features.
- New 'flash screen' function for alarms
- New interface for accessing the growing number of features
- Added auto-off options page to let you control how/when your device turns off
- Added Speedy keys options page to let you navigate and even type faster!
- Option to select apps which will disable the keyguard.
- Added sliding keyguard option.
- Keyguard completely rebuilt to offer transparrent drawing over the main screen (It looks beautiful!).
- Loads of status icons for the keyguard.
- Added Lefty preference page to set the global 'Lefty' setting and a Lefty slider for the keyguard.
- Support for 4Cast weather in keyguard.
Butler 5.0 is available at both the Everything Treo Software Store and the Everything Centro Software Store.
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