So, I am trying to add an IPK via FileCoaster and it tells me there is an install error. Is that more than likely related to FileCoaster, the IPK, DevMode must be active, other?
- JA Castillo
Not sure what the deal was, but fiddled w/ things via Web OS Installer and was able to load the IPK.
- JA Castillo
You might want to be a bit careful, since its a pretty important little slot - I wouldn't be shoving the phone in a dirty pocket, for instance. Just a thought.
- jcunwired
true. I almost always put it in the little pouch though.
- chrisofspades
Anyone having issues w/ Tweed? I cannot get it to load properly. When it loads, the stop/refresh/progress button starts rotating, stops, starts again, stops... Anyone experience this before?
So lets say you really want to watch The Office when it airs, but you can’t get to a TV because you’re on the bus. Set your DVR and watch it when you get home, right? Well, you could do that, or you could watch it right now. VuiVision.com, which is currently in public alpha testing, offers streaming live television over the invisible tubes that connect your phone to the internet.
- Bill Heslin
from Bookmarklet
Have you tried geocaching before? It sounds like fun.
- Rodfather
No I haven't. I joined geocaching.com awhile back when I thought I was going to buy a gps but now I can use it. There is a whole community on there so I'm going to find some waypoints and go try it tomorrow. It does sound like a lot of fun and if it gets me out of the house more even better.
- Bill Heslin
I just signed up and imported a bunch of geocaches near me. Maybe I'll try to find a simple one to just try out
- Rodfather
good luck. Let me know how you make out. There's even supposed to be a geocache in the Great Pyramid. Don't think I'll be finding that one anytime soon, but it does look like a lot of fun, and like I said, gets you out hiking, biking, etc. So like I said, as long as it works and I don't get lost out in the woods somewhere, should be fun.
- Bill Heslin
Geocaching has always intrigued me. I thougt about purchasing this app, its quite good. Bill you might want to install the Send My Location app, just in case :)
- jcunwired
"There are three partitions with which you should concern yourself. There is / (root), where webOS itself and Palm’s applications are stored, there’s /media, which is your 6.7 GB of USB-mounted storage space, and there’s /var, where applications are stored. This last partition has an allotment of 253 MB assigned, which can get awfully crowded when you throw in a few dozen apps."
- Rodfather
from Bookmarklet
Ugh. This is bad. 253MB for apps? I already got this message
- Rodfather
I still can't believe it. This is just a flat out bone headed move by Palm
- Rodfather
Is there any way to manipulate the partitions sizes? Without funking things up?
- JA Castillo
Ya. There's a guide. You can also move apps to the /media partition and create a symbolic link. This is some BS though. I don't want to hack something like this.
- Rodfather
from IM
No doubt...thanks for the heads-up...
- JA Castillo
I read this too, pretty screwy on their part. Hard to believe they have fixed partition sizes with a device that is clearly lacking in storage space in the first place. I don't see any benefit to this at all.
- jcunwired
Nevermind, its not ready for primetime. The developer decided to create some crazy two book limit, but it is apparently not tied to the number of books in the system, but something totally off the wall. I haven't been able to use it, apparently I reached my limit without even loading a book. Aside from that, it only supports html files. One star, at best.
- jcunwired
"If we do release it for Palm... it might be released as a 'last time thank you' for their support... but note that we are already migrating to the Pre's WebOS. The other thing that why some Palm ppl might still want it on their older devices is the new touch UI."
- Rodfather
from Bookmarklet
I guess if you REALLY needed to watch a movie on a small screen right there and then.
- Rodfather
True, but with Adobe Flash Player coming to the Pre later this year why pay when you can fine many adobe flash sites that you will be able to streams shows for free
- jamar78
A netflix app to stream instant content would be cool too
- Rodfather
yup starting to download now. hopefully it wont break any homebrews.
- chrisofspades
I ran this a few days ago to wipe out a tweak I had on there. http://www.precentral.net/webos-r... . I was thinking of doing a complete wipe before the update since I installed a sftp server on my Pre, but if it still works fine after the update, I'll leave it.
- Rodfather
the only thing I unsinstalled prior to the update was the virtual keyboard. What do you use the sftp server for on the pre?
- jamar78
I was using it to make it easier to transfer files back and forth when I was tweaking the Pre. I added FriendFeed as a search provider in the global search. I probably don't need it and it would free up some resources. Maybe after the upgrade, I'll do a wipe anyway. The webOS Doctor was updated too http://www.palm.com/us...
- Rodfather
Yeah I downloaded the new webOS quickinstaller a few days ago and downloaded the new weOS Doctor just now. I also installed the app to shoot video on the Pre, but its still a work in progress can only play the vids with smplayer
- jamar78
Cool. Is that video app in webOS quick installer?
- Rodfather
Maybe I'll try it out. If it works with smplayer, maybe it'll work with mencoder to convert to different format.
- Rodfather
what's weird is that the video show up as mp4 format but quickplayer says it doesn't know how to play the file.
- jamar78
You try copying text from a web page? All I can get is a yellow dot appear. Not very intuitive.
- Rodfather
Ah it works, but not on the iPhone version of FF :p
- Rodfather
Here's the user agent string. I wonder if the browser was updated: Mozilla/5.0 (webOS/1.2; U; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/1.0 Safari/525.27.1 Pre/1.0 (update: nope, same version)
- Rodfather
from fftogo
So, if I want to run the update, I need to uninstall all the homebrew apps I dropped on it?
- JA Castillo
It should be fine if you just have homebrew. If you have tweaks like the onscreen keyboard, it's probably wise to remove them before updating.
- Rodfather
OK, then I should be good. I only went with straight-up homebrew stuff...nothing under the hood.
- JA Castillo
Is it me or does opening cards seem a bit faster?
- Rodfather
Maybe if VMWare gets around to virtualize mobile OS's. There's a video around with a Nokia N800 running both Maemo and Android at the same time. Since the Pre, N900, and iPhone 3GS use the same chip, maybe we'll see something like that someday
- Rodfather
update went smoothly. and JA, I'm like you, only homebrew stuff. no worries there.
- chrisofspades
Is it me or are all app launches much faster after this update? And Scrolling in the browser seems much smoother?
- Bill Heslin
I thought so Rodfather..snappier works for me! :)
- Bill Heslin
Seems snappier for sure, however, they took out the "brush down" gesture that makes the app launcher go away. Boo.
- Jordan Hofker
Yes, just realized that Jordan. BTW has anyone tried the download from a website? Does it do it justice?
- Bill Heslin
I do like the swipe down from the top to access the menu or connections. It was a pain before to try to tap directly on the battery icon. Bill, I haven't tried downloading from the browser yet.
- Rodfather
If you find a good test download let me know..Everything I've tried fails.. Obviously it's because the file format isn't supported on many downloads, but would love to try it on a successful download
- Bill Heslin
twit.am did work for about 5 seconds..not that, that is a download, it's streaming...but that was a bit fun to actually get TWiT for a few seconds. Now it doesn't work at all...
- Bill Heslin
I tried to grab some images from FF. The images don't show up in the Photo album since the actual image file doesn't have an extension (.jpg/.png). It dumps it in the root folder of the drive when in USB mode. I'm sure it'll grab whatever file. The Pre just won't know what to do with some of them.
- Rodfather
Hm. I tried to grab a mp3 file from directfreemp3.com and it doesn't give an option to save. 'Open In New Card', 'Share Link', and 'Copy URL' shows up. If you click on it normally, it'll stream it.
- Rodfather
I'm glad your doing the work Rodfather...lol...I'm so lazy about this...let me know...hehehehe
- Bill Heslin
"Here are some major changes listed by Palm: * Search is now available in the email app, allowing you to find by subject, from, to, or CC fields (no message search yet). * The web browser now supports cut, copy, and paste within a webpage (text only). * Music purchases via Amazon can now be done over EV-DO. It's not clear if they mean that you can download the tracks, or just queue them (that would be lame, however). Anyone test this yet? * A new gesture has been added which allows you to swipe down from the top of the screen to open the application or connection menu -- which should be a huge help to everyone missing those small targets! * You can now download files from within the browser, and Palm has created an easy method to open a link in a new card."
- chrisofspades
from Bookmarklet
If anyone contemplating getting one this weekend seems to be a great time to get one, but have to quick since it expires on Monday.
- jamar78
from Bookmarklet
"I will be joining Ben, my best friend, partner in crime, and fellow Ajaxian, as we take a new role as Director’s of the Palm Developer Relations team. We will have the responsibility of the developer experience with Palm. We will be trying to create a rich connective tissue between the company and the Web developer community that we love."
- Ken Sheppardson
from Bookmarklet
Palm's App Catalog for the Pre properly launches tomorrow, and right now the question on most peoples' minds is just how many paid apps will be in there when the doors open. Based on the latest word from the development team, the answer could be quite a lot. Apps submitted late to the party are apparently being added to approval queues so long Palm is having a hard time keeping track of them all. Developer Community Manager Chuq Von Rospach has indicated the approval group has "more applications than we could handle well," apologizing because they have "dropped some things on the floor." We're hoping they'll be picked up and dusted off quickly, because the five-second rule is not something to be messed with.
- JA Castillo
from Bookmarklet
...i'm with ya... I've had that same problem intermittently for last few days. I tried going to "Trending Topics" and then back to "Home" and that seemed to fix it, 2-out-of-3 times. I'm trying out Spaz on the Pre Now.
- .LAG liked that
...yeah, unfortunatley. Like LAG, I have started "jumping" from one "feed" to another to shake things up and get synced. When I have EV highlighted, it generally works; via WiFi, it gets wonky.
- JA Castillo
glad it aint just me. would be gladder if it just worked. LAG, let us know how you like Spaz.
- chrisofspades
...what I like about Spaz is it's easier to setup and log into multiple accounts, including Identica/Laconica microblogging sites, and it has a better search interface, IMHO. on the minus side, I think it relies a bit too much on cacheing, as sometimes I logon and see tweets in my timeline that are several days old, or older. Now, perhaps there's a setting to change that, I just haven't found it yet. Overall, it's certainly worth a try. only 2 Pre TT clients so far, it deserves a spin...
- .LAG liked that
Thanks for the review LAG .LAG liked that wrote: ..what I like about Spaz is it's easier to setup and log into multiple accounts, including Identica/Laconica microblogging sites, and it has a better search interface, IMHO. on the minus side, I think it relies a bit too much on cacheing, as sometimes I logon and see tweet in my timeline that are several days old, or older. Now, perhaps...
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- chrisofspades
from email
I have this issue with Tweed and with Spaz. It's really weird. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. I'd use Twitter's mobile site more often, but I can't find a link to see DMs on there.
- Jordan Hofker
Maybe it has to do with the API calls for 3rd party apps? I think Twitter changed something in reaction to the most recent outages. Twee was working fine until then.
- Jericho
"Sprint (NYSE:S) today launched another wireless industry innovation. Sprint is stepping past the idea of calling circles to provide Any Mobile, AnytimeSM – a new feature of Sprint Everything Data plans. With the new Any Mobile, Anytime, Sprint customers get unlimited mobile-to-mobile calling from the Sprint Network to ANY wireless phone on any U.S. wireless carrier network at any time."
- jcunwired
from Bookmarklet
"I tell you: I am sorely tempted by the Pixi. Yes, it's not as powerful as the Pre. Yes, it lacks WiFi. Yes, it has a smaller screen. But the always-there keyboard and the blissfully tiny size are compelling. I probably won't switch because of those three issues, but honestly I don't envy the decision a future buyer will have to make if he or she doesn't care much about one of those three things."
- Rodfather
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