webOS Homebrew Birthday!

• Internalz 1.2 brings Master Mode, an Ipk Installer, a Patcher, and much more!
• webOS Power Users: Show us your tweaks [PC Brain Trust]
• Preware update bringing app blacklist, Govnah gets more options, Save/Restore backs up even more
• Happy Birthday WebOSQuickInstall and fileCoaster

What a wild year it's been! Almost hard to believe that on July 25th, 2009, the world was first introduced to WebOS Quick Install and fileCoaster. Those two programs would end up playing a pivotal role in the homebrew community and to some degree, both exist to this day.

A year ago today, the PreCentral forums were welcomed by two new ways to install homebrew applications: WebOS Quick Install and fileCoaster. Regardless of your opinions on them, at the time, they completely changed how peopled viewed the homebrew world. They made homebrew into something that the average user could use, fostering the modern hombrew movement.

Lots has changed since then, but for most of us in the webOS community, these two programs hold a special place in our hearts.  These were the installers we used when the App Catalog was smaller than our PreCentral Homebrew Gallery.  Since their first public release, there's been countless new apps, several other installers (notably Preware and Preload) and we've witnessed the birth of a strong webOS homebrew community. Almost difficult to believe it's been a whole year already.

WebOS Quick Install and fileCoaster may not be nearly as popular as they used to be, but today, let's take a moment today and celebrate the 1-year anniversary of their release. Cheers!

Sunday, June 6th is the 1-year anniversary of the release of the original Palm Pre on Sprint. Pre fans in our forums are planning on celebrating their line-waiting with some webOS boosterism.

MDsmartphone suggests making June 6th "Buy an App Day," a sentiment we can definitely get behind, while joejoe1 suggests webOS fans invade ChatRoulette to talk up their favorite phones. Abyssul takes that discussion to not-so-potentially NSFW place by suggesting Twitter and Facebook instead.

We like a combination of the above and want to help out a bit, so let's make it a contest! 

1. On June 6th, buy an app for webOS.
2. Follow @precentral on Twitter (so we can DM you)
3. Post a Tweet on June 6th: "I just bought XYZ, it's awesome. #webOSappday" or something similar. Just be sure to name the app and include the hashtag #webOSappday. Toss in "@precentral" too if you have space in your tweet.
4. We'll randomly pick three winners throughout the day to receive a Touchstone and a case of your choice for your Pre or Pixi phone from what's available in the PreCentral Store.

Simple, eh? Let's see if we can't drive up some numbers for the developers who are keeping webOS exciting while we wait to see what Palm + HP have in store.

(A few more rules after the break).

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