What’s New in Homebrew Apps: Quick PIM Apps, preDevCamp Apps
As of this writing, our Homebrew Apps Gallery has 117 apps for your downloading pleasure. What's new? Plenty.
We have several apps that look to fix up the Pre's core PIM functionality. There's Quick Event, which uses the Pre's "Just start typing" philosophy to let you enter in calendar information like "Dinner with Jane 8pm to 10 pm Thursday at Vescio's" and turn that into a calendar entry automatically (bonus: Linux gurus can patch Universal Search do to the same!). We have Quick Contacts and Quick Dialer, two honest-to-god speed dial applications, too. Or how about three Google Voice apps that have been seeing near-weekly updates?
There's plenty more, but we're going to take a moment to once again point out that we have a bunch of app that were created or significantly updated at preDevCamp - find them all here. preDevCamp developers have until Midnight on Saturday to submit their apps to the gallery for voting both in for the category prizes (Pre phones!) or the User's Choice award (another Pre Phone!). More details on the contest here. Developers: Contact us to get in the gallery. Homebrew lovers, be sure to vote on your favorite preDevCamp Apps!
What’s New in Pre Homebrew Apps: There are over 100 of Them
You read that headline exactly right - there are now over 100 apps in our Homebrew forums and more on the way. There are three different Google Voice Apps (including one with SMS support, update: make that two), the above-pictured iTunes Remote app, calculators, games, an iCanHazCheezburger picture finder, an excellent podcast downloader/player.. there's a lot.
Once you get your SDK installed, you're ready to participate in the beta testing action. With any luck at all, Palm will be accepting many of these apps into their App Catalog. Until they're able to get their high falutin', city-slicker system up to speed, though we invite you to check out the down-home, wild west of homebrew apps for the Pre. Don't forget that there are now easier ways to install now - fileCoaster and webOS Quick Install.
If homebrew isn't your thing (it can be a bit much and yes, everything here is very much Beta), it's still worth looking around to get a taste of how easy it is to develop webOS apps and see the stuff the grass-roots developers are working on.
After the break, we present you with the current list compiled by chuccck, newer additions in bold. Before you get to browsing all the homebrew, though, do chuccck a quick solid and congratulate him on his bacon-based proposal (she said yes!). Also, take some time to thank all the great developers who are building these apps!
