There are myriad options when it comes to getting music onto your phone. There’s the straight-forward built-in music player app and there are internet radio streaming apps like Pandora. And let’s not forget podcasts in apps like drPodder. With all these options, there’s one place practically everybody listens: in the car. Sadly, webOS doesn’t have the fancy-pants remote control options available to our iOS-using friends, but that doesn’t mean you still can’t get your tunes into the car.

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 Here’s some of the latest talk in the forums:

• Are you curious about the differences between all of the overclocking kernels out there made for overclocking?  If so, I’ve got some good news: Rod Whitby from the webOS-Internals group is here with the final word. 
• A certain development company (Appible LLC) borrowed the source code of a homebrew turned App Catalog favorite (DrPodder) without so much as a mention in the App Catalog description.  DrPodder is licensed under the GPL and Appible LLC covered their legal responsibility by giving credit in the source code, but the question remains:  did they violate the moral conventions of what open source should mean?  Go ahead: chime in.
• Member Sviatapolk is looking to make the switch from a BlackBerry 8310 to the AT&T Palm Pre Plus.  CrackBerry addicts turned Palm faithful should speak up to let ‘em know what trade-offs to expect.
• Hey Pixi owners: member berdinkerdickle is curious if you’re glad that you went with the slimmer and slightly less powerful device over the Pre! 

We look forward to seeing you in the forums!  Not a member? Well, Join us!

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We asked you what your favorite travel apps were, and you weighed in.  Here’s what the PreCentral readership can’t do without on their travels:

• Flightview, $4.99: Flightview gives you real-time flight information that you can act on. Track upcoming and in-air flights, use the air map to see flight progress, save flights, and get notifications when a flight’s status changes.  
• Sprint Navigation (TeleNav), Free on Sprint and available for a monthly fee on other carriers: TeleNav’s excellent turn-by-turn GPS navigation program for webOS.
• Where: Where is a location aware program that enables you to quickly access local information, including: including weather, news, gas prices, movies and much more.  
• The Weather Channel: One of the more popular (and free!) weather applications available to webOS users, The Weather Channel lets users browse interactive radar and satellite maps, check current coditions and hourly forecasts, and check out 36-hour and 10-day forecasts.
• Yelp: This app’s implementation on webOS is as effective as it is simple. Using the on-board GPS, Yelp for webOS allows you to search nearby restaurant, bar and shop listings while on the go.  
• DrPodder, $0.99: Travelling would be a bore without your favorite podcasts in tow, and this long-time homebrew favorite turned App Catalog success story lets you manage them in style 

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Hey, look at that, new apps! Yeah, new apps make us smile. Especially when the list of new stuff includes stuff like the bible translated into Klingon or a fantastic homebrew graduate like podcatcher drPodder. It’s stuff like this that makes us laugh (because we’re giant geeks) or proves useful that makes up for things like the “quotes” apps that we see so much of. For what it’s worth, don’t worry too much about the App Catalog being overtaken by this stuff – we’re not alone. While you won’t find Apple and Android patting Palm on the back and saying “It’ll be okay, trust us,” they’ve lived through the proliferation of less-than-useful apps as well. How do you think Apple got to more than 140,000 apps? It wasn’t sheer willpower, we’ll say that much. Regardless, we’ve got new apps, and you’ve got a list after the break to check out. Do it.

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A longtime favorite in the Homebrew space, the best podcast listening app on webOS is now officially available in the App Catalog for the low price of $.99! DrPodder will allow you to download podcasts on a schedule, listen to them at your leisure, or even stream them on the go. You can search for podcasts, add them manually, or even export all your podcasts from iTunes and import them into DrPodder (Click Podcasts, then go File -> Library -> Export Library. Be sure to name the file drpodder.xml, then put that file on your Pre’s USB root) 

Even if you’re already using the free, Homebrew edition, if you have $.99 to spare (and we know you do) it’s worth a download from the App Catalog. If you’re not a homebrewer but are addicted to podcasts, you owe it to yourself to give the app a whirl. Our favorite feature, naturally, is that our very own PalmCast is featured.

Go get it.

Thanks @Audemars02!

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