Installing Pre homebrew apps: now even easier

While Palm is busily engaged in a game of domination with Apple to see which one can keep iTunes sync working or broken the longest, the Pre homebrew community hasn't been sitting idle, introducing two new and painless ways to get homemade software up in your handset. The first is a desktop app called WebOS Quick Install that works on Mac, PC, and Linux, allowing installation with just a drag, a drop, and a click. The other is called fileCoaster, enabling users to download and install IPKs right on the phone itself, plus other files too. Two great apps for fans of unofficial softwares and good tidings for a warm future of basement innovation -- only a month after the first custom apps came to light.

[ByronGman Posted Jul 27th 2009 12:37PM]

what can't sentence back to school... GeekGirl :)


Ph33r, the Palm Pre was recently released so if you're interested I would go for it.

[whiteasianrose Posted Jul 27th 2009 12:49PM]

ohhh bad spelling error (tsk tsk to self)
by the way, does grammar check work on your computer?
;-)

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 27th 2009 12:19PM]

bad flashlight?

[whoster69 Posted Jul 27th 2009 12:26PM]

It is because Apple goes to such great lengths to control users iphones that I won't have anything to do with them. Good for Palm for not being such assholes.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 27th 2009 1:00PM]

+1
It took the palm community 2 months what took the iPhone community 3 years.

[Bakkendance Posted Jul 27th 2009 3:17PM]

I agree, I love how open this phone is

[sr1329 Posted Jul 29th 2009 12:23AM]

Let's not pretend this is exactly in Palm's best interest right now. They must allow this to happen to compete. They need to attract every developer they possibly can right now. What better way.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 27th 2009 1:20PM]

^^ says the person who has a PedoJokerBear as his avatar.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 27th 2009 1:28PM]

I downloaded the Dev kit and used the emulator. The OS is awesome! errr.. let me rephrase that... It's AWESOME. Most of the api's seems to be in JavaScript so I'm not quite sure how it's hard it is to access root services. I haven't looked at the code much yet.

I'm definitely getting an unlocked GSM Pre when it comes out (eventually). The Sprint service in my area is just awful.

[sr1329 Posted Jul 29th 2009 12:20AM]

GSM Pre FTW. I want one too despite the issues I hear about the actual hardware of the device. Great inside but could have been built with a little more care to quality. The form factor of QWERTY in portrait is IMHO the best possible. Turning a phone sideways is a chore.

[dtom2444 Posted Jul 27th 2009 4:35PM]

Hmmm....you look familiar...http://bit.ly/RziTL

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 27th 2009 6:52PM]

WAT UP PALM PRE LOVERS........ CAN ANYBODY HELP ME OUT............ WERE DO U GET THIS PROGRAM ??????? IM NEW TO THIS

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 28th 2009 11:06AM]

Precentral.net, in the homebrew section of the forums. Enjoy.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 8th 2009 12:12PM]

Please help...I have tried restarting my computer(Mac OS X) and rebooting the developer mode on my Pre and I still get the same message: Error 1 Connection Refused and then No device found

HELP!! Please....what am I doing wrong. I have the latest Java, I have installed WebOSDoctor and WebOSQuickInstall. I don't know what else to do? Does anyone have and ideas