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webOS Homebrew Birthday!
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July 25th 2010 | Posted by Jason Robitaille
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!
PreUpdate, PreWare, Preload, apps, filecoaster, homebrew, news, webOS, webos quick install
November 18th 2009 | Posted by Derek Kessler
Yikes, what a title! There are five different systems out there to get apps, patches, and themes onto your webOS phone. With each choice comes different features and abilities, and pretty much the only thing they all have in common is that they can all install apps. From there, each installer is as different and comes with its own unique capabilities. So what makes fileCoaster different from Preload, Preware different from WebOS Quick Install, and where does PreUpdate fit into the mix? The chart below should answer your impassioned query in a most comprehensive of manner – it’s up to you to pick the installer, or combination thereof, that fits your style.
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September 29th 2009 | Posted by Derek Kessler
In all the years I’ve been watching technology, I have never seen a system update go off without a single hitch. There’s always something that goes wrong, and yesterday’s webOS update to 1.2.0 was no exception.
The majority of users have updated to 1.2.0 with nary a hitch to be found. But in the interests of full disclosure (and commiseration with your pain), here are some of the issues our members are facimg:
In the category of “things that don’t work the way they were supposed to work,” some 1.2 users have noted that when they receive a new IM/SMS message notification, only the message icon and the user’s picture are displayed – no text along with the notification. The launcher, which could previously be opened by swiping up in card view and closed by swiping down, now only responds to up swipes (open and close). The main reason for this is that a quick down-swipe on the top of the screen now will bring you either of the top menus. Similarly notifications cannot be minimized with a swipe down – you must either dismiss the notification or tap in the open app and hope you don’t touch an on-screen button.
And that’s not all, users have reported Google services location pinpointing their location up to ten miles off target (GPS works correctly), that IMAP Idle is not working, that email error messages keep repeating, and that Classic WiFi HotSync does not yet work (likely an update to Classic is also needed). There are several other issues that have affected a handful of users, ranging from issues with gDial to frozen web browsing to USB charging suddenly not working.
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August 30th 2009 | Posted by Dieter Bohn
The virtual keyboard for the Palm Pre has everybody very jazzed up, as it should, but that’s not all that’s new in Homebrew Palm Pre apps. fileCoaster has just gotten a major update with a ton of oft-requested features:
- Sorting
- Categories
- Update checks
- Sort by number of downloads
- Other small random tweaks.
If you already have fileCoaster installed you can use it to install the update. Otherwise be sure to check out our "How to Install Homebrew Apps" walkthough.
There are way too many new apps to list here, but we do have a nice set of quick sort links on the Homebrew Apps Gallery so you can see what’s new. You can also sort by recently popular, so you can keep up with what all your fellow homebrewers are currently digging. A tiny sampling of our faves:
- pDice- a dice roller for you RPG fanatics
- Music Player (Remix) – adds a ton of features to your Pre’s music playing abilities
- Guitarist Reference – Learn you some chords
- net2streams and SHOUTcast – listen to SHOUTcast on your Pre!
Big ups to all these great developers, including PreGame for the updates to fileCoaster. Now, if you’re interested, perhaps you’d like to chip in and help with our next big homebrew project?