http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com Palm OS / web OS news and opinion source Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:32:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en O'Reilly has just released what is likely going to be the last chapter of their webOS book - it is chockfull of sample code: As usual - further information can be had here: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9780596802097 Related posts:O’Reilly releases chapter 5 of WebOS bookAnother new chapter of webOS book availableChapter 8 of WebOS book ... http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2009/07/03/final-chapter-of-webos-book-released/ Palm used to be extremely popular among Mac OS heads due to their excellent Mac support (especially when compared to Windows Mobile handsets). Unfortunately, the Mac version of Palm Desktop was eventually abandoned...which caused various eekers and happened to make the boys at Mark/Space insanely rich. Mark/Space has since released ... http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2009/07/02/palm-pre-sdk-available-for-mac-os/ Rumors about Telefonica having an Europe-wide exclusivity have surfaced multiple times in the past - and it looks like they were spot-on at least for the UK. The Guardian (a very popular UK magazine) reports the following on its web site: ... O2 already has an exclusive deal with Apple to stock the ... http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2009/07/02/o2-to-get-uk-exclusivity/ Tapwave's long-deceased Zodiac handheld started the zodttd development group...which has since expanded to other platforms. Palm's Pre is the latest victim: The Palm Pre uses some of the same hardware as the iPhone 3GS and Pandora gaming handheld and it is fast! In this short video below you can see Wipeout XL ... http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2009/07/01/palm-pre-gets-playstation-emulator/ The picture below hits us via a forum called tinhte: Nothing to add :) Related posts:Palm Multiconnector joystick adapter spottedTreo 755p blue display unit spottedUpdated-the equillibrium of Palm, Symbian and PPC hardware-or-Tam,the sucker http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2009/07/01/palm-pre-spotted-with-gsm-hardware/ Krusell is a huge Swedish manufacturer of protective cases. Their top list tends to be somehwhat representative for "average users" - and saw some severe changes this month. RIM fell out, Palm didn't get in (no wonder due to European focus)....and Sony Ericsson has gone amiss too: 1. (3) Nokia 6300 2. (-) ... http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2009/06/30/krusells-top-sellers-june-2009/ MobileRead's Bob Russell managed to undig these images some time ago - they show two Palm OS Cobalt smartphones which were developed by a Singapore-based company called Oswin: Looking at the specifications, I really have to wonder why these two never hit the road - back when they were to be ... http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2009/06/30/two-cobalt-smartphones-which-never-were/ People who own more than one handset can tell a tale of the charger eekers - every manufacturer has at least one (usually two or more) incompatible charger types. This is not only annoying (extra weight), but also bad for the environment. As such things tend to attract EU regulators attention, ... http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2009/06/30/european-phone-manufacturers-agree-on-microusb/ Palm's Pre recently had a pretty annoying security hole regarding the installation of applications via an email - while this was extremely helpful for homebrew heads, the security implications are pretty clear. Palm thus was obliged to fix the little loophole - which is exactly what version 1.0.4 of the OS ... http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2009/06/30/palm-releases-webos-1-0-4/ I have absolutely no idea why the folks at MotionApps chose to use a bluescreen rather than a fatal alert for program errors - but they did that for one reason or the other. According to photoframed, fixing it is as easy as deleting two readme files - hit the ... http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2009/06/29/fix-motionapps-classic-bluescreens/