Strangely, the only new stuff in the App Catalog was old stuff – nineteen updates, but no new apps. So we held steady from Friday’s number of 843 apps, but as you may have seen from the Smartphone Round Robin videos posted last week and this week, that number is around double that in the Windows Mobile Marketplace. Of course, we’re still well behind the iPhone and Android app stores, and a few thousand behind BlackBerry App World, but then again Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein expects “several thousand” new apps with the release of the Ares development platform and the App Catalog’s emergence from beta. In the meantime, we’ve got a list of the updates, and it’s after the break for your perusal.

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Update 9:54 Eastern: Palm has pulled nearly all of the paid apps (we see only Checkers Pro) while they fix what we understand from the folks at webos-internals to be a critical security bug. We’ll update again when we have more.

What a long (but surprisingly quick) road it’s been, but the time is finally here. Welcome to the world of paid webOS applications! Starting at about 4 PM EST today, paid applications made their entry into the App Catalog, starting with the $1.99 Air Hockey from Acceleroto, the same company behind the popular Air Hockey game for the iPhone (though this version appears to be limited to just player-vs-phone for now).

This is the first of what we expect to be many and numerous paid apps for the Pre, but when we’ll see more is anyone’s best guess.

• Who Wants To Be A Millionaire from Capcom Interactive, $4.99.
• BlockDrop by Daniel Farina, $4.99. Our First Palm Pre Homebrew Paid app! Congrats!
• Weatherbug Elite hits for $1.99, live, local maps from WeatherBug – configurable background updates too.
• GolfPinFinder at $9.99, another homebrew graduate!
• Card Ace: Hold ‘Em. Free Online Texas Hold ‘em from Self Aware Games, syncs your profile with Word Ace.
• GetMeVino! Lite, Free Wine Info app, Homebrew Graduate, congrats mt3ck!
• Mezzoman, Free "Meet in the Middle" app for finding friends, from Mezzoman Studios
• Polar Bowling, Free game, Homebrew Graduate, congrats kmax12!
• Word Whirl Lite, Free word game, Homebrew Graduate, congrats sacherjj!
• Work Out Tracker Trial, Free work out tracking app, Homebrew Graduate, ohallord!
• Dungeon Quest, a free fantasy-themed RPG complete with Facebook Connect. You guessed it: Homebrew Graduate. Congrats justinmoblyng
• Stitcher Podcast Radio lands for free, bringing streaming podcast fun to the mix.
• Checkers Pro, a semi-Homebrew Graduate from Kense of Keen Studios, rolling in at $0.99. Congrats Kense!
• Mine Search, another Homebrew Graduate, this time it’s tonyparisi with a $0.99 app.
• Here I am, GeezerNetwork’s $.99 app for texting your location to a friend
• Word Whirl, the full version of sacherjj’s Word Whirl Lite, Homebrew Graduate
• FriendsFlow, a $1.99 Facebook Feed app, Homebrew Gradaute, congrats grepper!
• JogStats, $4.99 from Rusty Apps, a GPS exercise tracker.
• Lottery Generator, $.99 app from Ovlite for making random numbers
• Remote from Hobbyist Software, a $4.95 app for controlling iTunes
• VLC Remote, a $4.95 app, also from Hobbyist, for controlling VLC
• Work Out Tracker, the full, $3.99 version of the lite version. Homebrew Graduate, congrats again ohallord!
• Go To Tool, $7.49 congrats to Homebrew Graduate markpowers! Get your place saving action on.
• NewsRoom, $4.99 news app, covers tech, gossip, sports, etc and caches on-device.
• Mezzoman, $0.99, like Mezzoman – Free, finds the place you want to go between you and your friend, or with this version, two friends (i.e. three people).
• Wobble Words, at $4.99 from Gobico Games, is a cross between Boggle, Tetris, and Scrabble.
• Classic finally gets its update: Hotsync over Bluetooth or WiFi. Free.
• Dungeon Quest 50 Gems, $4.99 nets you 50 gems for your Dungeon Quest character.

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