Handset makers building FM tuners into phones is a barbaric and uncivilized practice, as Radiotime demonstrates by giving access to the online feeds of hundreds of thousands of terrestrial radio station feeds, talk radio, podcasts, and more. 

There’s a lot to like about Radiotime, and one of my favorite things is the fact that it’s location aware, meaning that dialing into local radio is actually easier than using a standard FM tuner since the program automatically finds your location and displays a list of accessible radio stations.

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Have you ever come home from running errands, only realized that the one thing you forgot to put on your list was available at a store near where you were already shopping? If you’re like me, chances are you’ve done that more than once, and it really gets old after a while. PreCentral forum member and developer of the popular homebrew app Music Player (Remix) is coming to our collective rescue with a new original app called GeoStrings.

GeoStrings is a cross between a task list and a GPS tracker. As the video above demonstrates, one operates the app by entering a reminder item, such as picking up the new Star Trek DVD, and then adding a location (or locations) at which to accomplish that activity, thus making a ‘GeoString.’ When you’re in the area, GeoStrings puts up an alert on your phone so that you can go and take care of the task.

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Games can very easily be credited with a good portion of the success that the iPhone platform has seen. In terms of playability and graphics, the iPhone and iPod Touch rival the Sony PSP and Nintendo DS. While it may be a while before we see such powerful games on webOS, the developers are doing what they can to make impressive apps with the tools provided by Palm’s Mojo SDK.

One of those game developers, Conniption Entertainment, has released two similar games to the webOS App Catalog: Zombie Invasion and its Christmas-themed brother Shotgun Santa. The graphics of these shooter games are surprisingly robust for the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript tools the SDK provides. Both games are stationary shooters where you, well, you fight off a zombie invasion. The more zombies you kill, the higher your points total, and the further you’ll advance up the leaderboards. But the more days you survive, the worse the zombiepocalypse grows.

Zombie Apocalypse and Shotgun Santa by Conniption Entertainment are both available in the App Catalog for $0.99 each.

Developers, interested in having a video of your app on PreCentral? Post your video to YouTube and then put a link in this thread on the PreCentral forum and we’ll check it out.

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