We’ve profiled Zhephree’s computer-to-phone sender utility neato! before, and the app recently won itself a pair of PreCentral.net Best of 2010 Awards. But that doesn’t mean developer Geoff Gauchet is resting on his laurels. Just this week he released version 1.0 of neato!, adding in phone-to-phone sending. The new feature revolves around friend codes, which allow you to send a link or text data straight to another neato! user. Well, almost straight – the file is uploaded to SendSpace and then the link is sent to your friend. And if you’re using webOS 1.4.5, neato! can even send contacts to other users. neato! 1.0 also brings a revamped user interface and dashboard notification with links to the main scene, preferences, and sending page, all making for quick sending of stuff to your friends.

Interested? Of course you are. neato! 1.0 is available now in the App Catalog for just $1.43.

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If you’re one of those folks that lives in a country where webOS handsets aren’t yet available, but you couldn’t help yourself and got one unlocked and are running it on your network of choice, then you might want to fire up the App Catalog and check out what may be waiting for you. We’ve received reports from Portugal and Sweden that the App Catalog, at least in its free apps version, is now available to those users, despite being in a country where Palm doesn’t officially provide services. And if we had to guess, it’s probably becoming available elsewhere. Is this the first step in Palm’s path to eventually open up the App Catalog to everybody (ecommerce included)? We certainly hope so.

Thanks to Stefan and Gilberto for the tips!

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Happy Tuesday, everyone! It’s Tuesday that we look at Monday’s apps, and Wednesday that we look at Tuesday’s. It can be confusing, but remember this: there are more apps, and that’s a good thing.

• Picture News brings you the latest news (served up by Yahoo) as a wall of easily-browsed pictures.
• GetHuman provides major business phone numbers, chat options, email address and more that will get you to a real person instead of dealing with an automated routing system.

There are more apps, and they are after the break. Yeah, you’ve gotta click it.

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the PreCentral.net Best of 2010 Awards. We received more than 27,000 votes for this year’s awards, and the wide array of winners reflects the variety and ingenuity of the webOS developer community, both official and homebrew. Dozens of apps to choose from, made by dozens of skilled developers, but in the end, there can be only one Best of 2010.

So, without further ado, the winners are… listed after the break. Yeah, such a tease.

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$9.99 might seem like it’s on the high-end of the app cost spectrum, but if you’re bought into Logitech’s SqueezeBox WiFi radios, then getting a quality remote for them on your smartphone seems to be worth at least that cost. Enter Squeeze Control by PreCentral pal Wayne of angryGoat software. It’s just hit version 2.0, bringing a really-great new interface, landscape controls, and the ability to easily manage multiple players.

Check out the angryGoat forums for more info on the new release and some hints that there are webOS 2.0 features in the pipeline as well. Like we said: a must-buy for Squeezebox owners.

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With the unfortunate and oddly-timed announcement that Epocrates will be ceasing to support webOS early next year, individual healthcare practitioners as well as enterprise managers in hospital systems may be wondering whether webOS devices are a viable option for them moving forward. Well fellow providers, take heart! As it turns out, there are plenty of fantastic medical reference resources still available on the platform. Read on for a tour of all the tools you can still put in your "doctor’s bag."

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An app round-up on Sunday? What is this devil magic? It’s the result of new apps on, wait for it, Saturday. Yeah, weekend apps. What’s up with that? Either way, it’s good, because it lets us catch up on Friday before Tuesday hits. Cool, eh?

• Discography for webOS hooks into the user-maintained catalog at Discogs.com to get your info on albums.
• Plancastic allows you to easily share your plans with friends and colleagues using Plancast.
• My Diary is a password-protected digital diary with search and sharing, though we don’t know why you’d want to share a supposed to be private diary. Whatevs.

There’s more? Yes, there’s more! After the break, o’course.

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Self Aware Games has been a mainstay in the webOS App Catalog since the early days with their popular game Word Ace. That eventually led to the release of Card Ace: Hold ‘Em and Card Ace: Blackjack. Now they’re bringing it all back around with their latest release, the all-inclusive Card Ace: Casino.

Card Ace: Casino takes the popular social aspects of the previous Self Aware Games titles and kicks it up a notch. Players now have the option to choose to play games with their friends, instead of having to rely on just picking a blind size and getting paired up with random players.

Additionally, players can invite their friends from across games. You want to play Hold ‘Em, but your friend is playing Word Ace? Now all it takes to get them into the game is a single tap to send an invite. That cross-game invite still extends across all platforms, meaning your friend can be playing any of these games on Facebook, their iOS device, Android phone, etc.

There are plenty of other updates to the games in Card Ace: Casino, including the extension of Sit & Go tournaments from Hold ‘Em and the addition of drag and drop cards in Word Ace. Card Ace: Casino will be available soon for free from the App Catalog. In the meantime, head on past the break to check out some screenshots.

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After receiving more than 3,600 nominations, we’ve sorted through them all and picked the best to be put to the vote for the PreCentral.net Best of 2010 Awards. There are seventy-two separate apps up for the awards, along with a dozen developers, and some themes and patches for good measure. It’s a veritable smorgasbord of webOS goodness, and it’s now up to you to pick the best of the best. After the break you’ll find the polls to crown the Best App of 2010, Best Developer of 2010, and many others.

Oh, and did we mention the prize for the homebrew crowd? Thanks to the awesome folks at WebOS Internals we’ll have a developer Palm Pre 2 to give to the winner of the Best Homebrew Developer of 2010 award (assuming that he/she doesn’t already have one).

You’ve got until Midnight Eastern Time on December 17th to get in your vote.

Update: it’s the last day to vote – get it on after the break!

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Evernote was an early favorite on webOS and an example of some of the momentum webOS had from major app developers in its early days. Since then the app had seen a rough patch, but as we reported in October the company is hard at work on an updated version. Kudos, Evernote.

To that end they just posted a new beta, 1.3.5 Beta 1, in their forums. It brings notebook filters, an updated list view, editor improvements, and plenty of bug fixes. For reasons beyond our ken they’ve opted not to put their app up in Palm’s Beta feed, but if you know how to install an IPK (hint: WebOS Quick Install or Preware), you can head on over to the Evernote forums and grab it.

Souce: Evernote forums; Thanks hertzi!

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