Being a student majoring in Network and System Administration I am always looking for more ways to help me do my job. With the huge amount of applications and the abilities that Android phones have I went on a search and was surprised what I found. There were so many applications designed to remotely control [...]

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5 useful Android apps for system & network administrators

Well it’s about time! TIME has had their apps available on iDevices and BlackBerrys for some time now, well it’s finally come to Android.
The app is pretty useful and serves up all the content that you would get from their website. This includes photos, lists, quotes, video clips, etc etc. Even better, all of the aforementioned content [...]

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TIME finally comes to Android

Eine wichtige Funktion für ein Smartphone im Business Bereich ist natürlich eine Email. Hier bietet das HTC Desire schon ‘ab Werk’ recht brauchbare Features. Es gibt aber auch noch ein paar Alternativen, um seine Emails zu verwalten und Emails zu versenden.
Ich habe drei brauchbare E-Mail Apps genauer unter die Lupe genommen und werde sie nun [...]

Es gibt inzwischen schon einige Internet Browser, die man alternativ zum Standard Browser von Android nutzen kann. Und auch der Standard Browser unterscheidet sich z.b. zwischen 1.6 und 2.x schon erheblich. Hier werden nun alle mir bekannten Browser einmal vorgestellt. Dabei unterscheide ich nach Multitouch (Pinch&Zoom) und weiteren Browsern. Android 2.x Anwender werden wahrscheinlich nicht [...]

Launched at the beginning of February, Palm’s Hot Apps competition promises to award $1 million to the top free and paid apps in the Palm App Catalog. Since then, the competition has chugged quietly along, but today got a boost in the arm from Palm. The newly-launched PalmHotApps.com lets you, me, and anybody else with one of those fancy-pants web browser things hop onto the interwebs and track the competition for themselves.

The website breaks down both halves of the competition, paid and free apps, listing the most-downloaded free apps since the start of the competition (currently lead by MojoJungle’s The Helicopter Game) and the highest-revenue paid apps since up to this point in the competition (YouView’s Visual Voicemail at the front). The site also tracks the progress of apps qualifying for the Hot Apps competition, rating their change in ranking from day-to-day and listing up-and-coming apps.

We also have gotten a better idea of what it’ll take to qualify for a piece of the Hot Apps pie: More than 11,625 downloads for a free app, or more than $513.81 in revenue for a paid app. Of course, that number is bound to rise over the remaining 78 days of the competition, but it seems that the barrier for entry is rather low for the time being.

A Hot Apps refresher: The most-downloaded free app between February 1 and June 30 will win $100,000, the #2-21 free apps will be awarded $10,000, and #22-221 will win $1,000. The highest-revenue paid app will net $100,000 at the end of the competition, while #2-21 will get $10,000, and #22-221 will win $1,000 apiece. That’s $1,000,000 total, split amongst 442 developers.

Oh, and if that June 30 date doesn’t seem right, that’s because Palm has extended the end of the Hot Apps competition from May 31 to June 30!

Wir Europäischen Palm Pre Benutzer können nun nach dem webOS Update auf Version 1.4.1 auch endlich Bezahl Apps kaufen.

As I’ve often recommended for my friends sporting Windows-running machines, rebooting every day or so is good for the soul. Well, it’s good for the stability of the operating system, and the same can be said for webOS. With limited memory available, especially on the Pixi models and the non-Plus Pre, apps with memory leaks can very quickly overwhelm the device and make it all slow and sluggish. If you can manage to go for several days without being forced to reset, you may notice that it just keeps getting slower and slower.

While the solution to that is to trigger a reset of Luna (the layer of webOS with which users interact), wouldn’t it be nice if that could happen in a more automated fashion? Thankfully, homebrew developer zinge has come to our rescue with the Reboot Scheduler app. It’s pretty straightforward: you set a time every day for the phone to completely restart (I picked 3:00 am so it won’t happen when I might be using the phone). This is a complete shutdown/restart, so everything starts all fresh and chipper when the phone is finished rebooting. And if you happen to be using the phone when a reboot is scheduled to happen, you’ll get a notification pop-up letting you know that a reboot will happen in 15 seconds. From there you can dismiss the reboot and delay it to happen the next day.

While owners of the Palm Pre in Europe are still languishing with a few hundred apps (if that many) of the free variety, they can at least take heart that their carrier hasn’t abandoned them. As noted by teltarif.de, O2 is actually behind the creation of at least four German-language webOS apps: Mobile eBay, Xing, N24, and FriendScout24. Xing is a business social networking site similar to LinkedIn and popular in Germany, FriendScout24 is Germany’s top dating website, and N24 is a German news channel (News 24, eh). Mobile eBay, as you’ve likely deduced from its clever title, is eBay Germany formatted for your webOS phone. While Europe won’t be getting paid applications until March, webOS users in Germany can at least take heart that their carrier is still looking out for them.

Thanks to Hans for the tip!

Palm’s Facebook App is now available in the App Catalog, but you’ll need to be updated to webOS 1.3.1 in order to use it. As we mentioned in the webOS Facebook App Review, it’s good for what it does but what it does is mainly let you view and comment on stuff in your newsfeed. Give it a whirl and let us know what you think!

Thanks to andrian for the tip!

Agile Mobile recently unveiled a preview of an app they’re working on: Agile Messenger for Palm Pre. While the fact that messaging apps are on the way for the Pre is no surprise, the feature list that Agile claims for their app is surprising. We’re talking push-to-talk walkie talkie functionality, voice messages, and video messaging. And Agile Messenger is to support Google Talk, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and ICQ chat.

There are three options that we can think of to explain this delicious oddness:

• Agile is making stuff up or confused about the current capabilities of webOS. Not likely.
• Agile has invested big time in their own programming to build the framework for audio and video recording and messaging. Also not likely.
• Agile has been working closely with Palm and the new features in Agile Messenger will be enabled by a coming updated to webOS and the Mojo SDK. More likely than the above.

We have no idea when Agile Messenger for Palm Pre will land, as all Agile is saying is “soon.” Currently Agile Mobile has released messaging applications iPhone, S60, J2ME, and Windows Mobile. Looking at these other apps, we can now throw some cooling water on the fiery embers of anticipation: Agile lists the exact same feature set with the exact same wording for all versions of its software.

Will Palm bring video recording and a microphone-enabled SDK to support Agile messenger’s promise capabilities? Yes, eventually, but we wouldn’t be too optimistic that it’s going to be “soon.” Though we would love to be proven wrong. Nudge nudge, wink wink.

Thanks to Azthel for the tip!