We were pretty jazzed up about neato! for webOS last week and now that it’s here, we thought it might be useful to show you all just how cool it is in video-form. What neato! does is let you a bookmark to any browser that you can use to send ’stuff’ to your Pre or Pixi. Just have neato! running in the background, click the bookmark, and then:

• URLs: If you don’t highlight any text in your browser, the URL for the page you’re visiting gets opened up directly
• YouTube & Google Maps: If you happen to be looking at a YouTube video or a Google Map page, neato! will open those apps up directly
• Text: highlight some text and neato! will send that text to the neato! app on your phone so you can copy it
• Apps: Yep: highlight the URL for an app and you can send that to your phone to open it up either in the App Catalog or in Preware for direct installation

It’s hard to ‘get’ until you’ve tried it, but trust us when we say it’s well worth the $1.43 asking price. Check out a video showing how to do all of the above, after the break!

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Not long ago, we mentioned how much we’d like to see something like Chrome-to-Phone come to webOS. It’s essentially a service that allows you to send data from your web browser to an Android phone instantly and easily. We noticed (honest!) that FourSquare Developer Zhephree made a very curious comment on that very post and when he teased a new app on the PalmCast we held our tongues.

Well, that app is here and it’s called Neato! (with the exclamation point). The app cleverly works by providing you with a unique URL that you can then visit from any browser to get a bookmarklet. That bookmarklet will allow you to send text from the browser to your phone via PubSubHubBub instantly. It will read (and open) Google Maps and YouTube links or let you send arbitrary highlighted text so you can copy it to your clipboard. Phone number support is coming soon.

Zhephree looks to to charge a very reasonable price of $1.43 for the app – primarily to cover server costs. The app has been submitted to Palm – we’ll have our pennies saved up for when it arrives.

Source: Zhephree.com; Thanks Beerad!

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Google announced at its annual I/O event back in May that it was going to bring a new extension to Chrome and an app to Android Market that would enable users to send maps, articles and videos directly to your phone with the single click of an icon that lives in the Chrome toolbar.  The Chrome extension has been available for some time now, and Google officially made the Android app available today.

As Marshall Kirkpatrick over at the ReadWriteWeb opines, this feature should be on every phone, and I’m inclined to agree.  It seems given how powerful extensions are in Chrome and Firefox, and how easy it would be to develop an app in webOS that could communicate with said extension, that an enterprising developer could make an extension/app combo that replicates the functionality of Chrome to Phone.

I could very well be wrong about jut how easy it would be to bring this to webOS of course, what with my not actually being a developer and all, but the usage cases for this technology are vast. I’d imagine that the first dev to bring a compelling product like this to market in the App Catalog could very well gain some significant notoriety.

Hit the break of a video overview of the technology.

Via: ReadWriteWeb, Android Central; Source: Google’s Mobile Blog

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