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There are Palm apps, and there are awesome Palm apps.

13 10 06 - 15:06 Most Palm apps are pretty good. But there are just a few out there that are not just good, they're awesome. You'll see what I mean.

Google Maps for Palm
Available here - freeware
This app came out not so long ago. It's awesome. It's designed for a Treo, but works on any recent Palm with an internet connection (my TX for one). Unfortunately, it doesn't support 320x480, only 320x320. Still, it's an awesome app nonetheless, and we may see 320x480 at some point in the future.



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Flash Player for Palm OS
Download it here - freeware

This is only supposed to run on Sony Clie units. But a talented programmer called Dmitry Grinberg reverse-engineered it and modified it to run on most OS 5 Palms. Works on my old Tungsten E and TX.

The downside - it's only Flash 5 compliant, nothing newer than that will work properly. It also won't do 320x480 and messes up if you rotate the screen, because it wasn't designed to run on the TX.



The Core Pocket Media Player (TCPMP)

Get it here - GPL



Awesome video and audio player. Plays almost everything you throw at it, and it's free!

There's an even better commercial version coming out on the 18th.

Resco Explorer

Get it here - shareware

This app is really cool. It's not a case of what it does, it's more what it doesn't do!

It's a:
Text Editor
Image viewer
Zip/Unzip program
Tweaking Utility
File manager
Resource Editor
Application Launcher
and much more.

It's really good because you can download a program from within Blazer as a zip file, unzip and install it from on the Palm!



Chatopus
Get it here - shareware

A Jabber client for the Palm. It's capable of running in the background if the jabber account is not using SSL.

I use this to login to my Jabber server using my Motorola v3x as a modem. 3G net access + Jabber = :D



NetChaser
Get it here - shareware

A simple network stumbler for Palm. Capable of exporting to CSV, and capable of driving a Bluetooth or Serial GPS.

I wish it was passive mode though :)



Opera Mini
Get it here - freeware

I have 4 web browsers on my Palm. Blazer, NetFront, AvantGo and Opera Mini. Why is Opera Mini good? It uses a proxy server. The page is scaled down before it is sent to Opera Mini. This means that less data is transferred - good for browsing over 3G (as it's costing me 0.4c/kb). Blazer is a lot faster, but uses a lot of data - same as that of a desktop browser.



Pocket Tunes
Get it here - shareware

The Basic version is actually included on the Palm TX when you buy it. It's a great MP3 player (but it's not limited to MP3s. It plays WAV, OGG and WMA if you're so inclined...).



The nicest feature is the background playback - you can keep playing tunes in other apps. You can bring up the console and change tracks/volume etc by either pressing the hard button or doing the shortcut you assigned.



It can also listen to streaming radio too!

Only thing it can't do is play AAC (TCPMP can though, and so I could use that, but TCPMP has no background playback as it's primarily a video player.)

Garux
This is much more than a single application. It's a Linux bootloader, and so you can load up Linux on the palm!

I've posted a howto before - you can look for it if you're interested.



Oh, and by the way - the GPS controller stuff got committed. r206 of KisMac.