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Gowalla hits webOS with a slick new client

Filed under: Palm, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0

We covered location-based game Foursquare’s webOS client earlier in the year, noting that competitor Gowalla had a client for the Palm Pre and Pixi ‘in the works’ - and today, just in time for SXSW, the Gowalla webOS client has appeared in the App Store. As with [...]

Mobile Minute: Free EA games for UK and Ireland Palm Pre users!

Filed under: Palm, Freeware, Mobile Minute

With Palm’s webOS App Catalog finally starting to roll out paid applications around the world, EA Mobile and Palm seem to be enticing folks to start using the App Catalog with a trio of free games. Unfortunately, in order to nab the three downloads — Need for Speed Underground, Monopoly [...]

Gowalla 1.0 hits the Android Market

Filed under: Social Software, web 2.0, Android

We recently covered the beta version of Gowalla’s location-based social app for Android, and now it’s hit version 1.0. You can download Gowalla from the Android Market starting today. Gowalla’s main competitor, Foursquare, has already been on Android for some time.

If you’re familiar with the Gowalla iPhone app, the [...]

ReMail may live on - Google releases source

Filed under: Apple, Google, Open Source, iPhone

In what comes as a bit of a surprise move, Google has decided to open-source the code for ReMail, the iPhone app it recently purchased and retired from the App Store. Speculation at the time was that Google was killing the existing ReMail product as a way to gain [...]

TheMacSale and MacHeist bundles offer Mac users deep discounts

Filed under: Macintosh, Commercial

It’s bundle time for Mac software lovers. If you’re not familiar with them, there are a few companies out there that collect a bunch of great (and sometimes not-so-great) Mac software titles into a bundle, and sell them at a highly discounted rate. It’s attractive to buyers because you can often get [...]

Grooveshark’s iPhone app is unbelievably awesome, but totally unapprovable

Filed under: Audio, iPhone

I’m not shy about my love of Grooveshark. No one pays me to say it, it’s just the best streaming music app I’ve used — and it’s fully functional in Canada unlike some of its geotarded cousins in the audio game.

They caused a bit of a ruckus recently when they decided [...]

Gull1hack ‘jailbreak’ for iPhone shows how little users care about security

Filed under: Apple, iPhone

Jailbreaking iPhones and iPod touches is nothing new. It’s been going on for ages, and it’ll probably never stop. What needs to stop, however, is the carelessness people display when they do things like installing apps or unlocking devices.

Recently, a developer released Gull1hack, which was reported to unlock the iPhone 3.1.3 firmware. [...]

Vispa does quick but advanced tweaking of Windows 7 and Vista

Filed under: Utilities, Windows

Ages ago, a friend of mine introduced me to xpy – a handy tweaking app for more advanced (and possibly reckless) users of Windows XP. Its developer later crafted a Vista-compatible version called Vispa and has been updating it ever since.

Recent builds have added Windows 7 compatibility, and Vispa remains an awesome [...]

Gowalla’s Android app is in beta, uses Skyhook for accurate geolocation

Filed under: Social Software, web 2.0, Android

A big part of getting a location-based app right is — shocker! — providing an accurate location.

Gowalla is using that principle to get a leg up in its battle with Foursquare for location-based check-in supremacy. Gowalla now uses Skyhook in its Android app, which means it’s providing some of [...]

Apple comments on Boobiegate, won’t pull corporate sexy apps from store

Filed under: Business, Apple, iPhone

Apple’s been catching a lot of flack for their new policy banning iPhone apps featuring semi-nude ladies (and the occasional dude) from the app store. When around 5,000 such apps were pulled, developers got in touch with Apple, who confirmed that there’s a new “no skin” policy. A couple of days [...]