You know, for all of the complaints about the lack of apps for the Pre, I've been spending a LOT of my day downloading apps. Yes, the official catalog is limited, but Palm and Sprint are not being a-holes about "jailbreaking", so it's taken no time for a pretty extensive catalog of "homebrew" apps to appear.

I haven't even bothered to look at how to install apps that aren't in the official store. I probably should.

It takes a little bit of doing, but is far from difficult.

Have a preferred instructional link handy?

http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/...to_Get_Started

They present 2 routes - quick and relatively painless, just what you need to get apps on. Or more in-depth that gets you root access to your phone for...whatever you feel like I suppose.

If you go the "easy" route, skip down on the page that it links you to, past the "PreBrew" section straight to the "WebOS Quick Install Method" section.

My problem is finding apps I give a rat's patootie about.


The old thread here about Fave Apps provided nothing I'm keen over. Urban Spoon is a good restaurant finder ... but like most iPhone functions, I think it would really shine more if I were traveling. Here at home, I'm not a big restaurant eater. They're an eater of too much money and time.


So what I'm saying is NOT that there aren't great apps, but that there don't seem to be great apps for ME. In fact, I've been disappointed in a couple of recommendations.


TextFree does not really provide a workable way for me to get free texts from twitter. That's the only reason I have the pricey unlimited text plan. But TextFree's email-routed solution works mainly for personal texts directed solely to you. Oh well.


Then there was an Simplify, that purported to let you access your entire music or other media libraries via the internet, but it's really just a remote access. I guess I was looking for a service that actually hosted your libraries, because I'm not going to leave my computer on whenever I'm not at home on the off chance I might want to hear a song or two from home that I don't have have on my phone. Fail.


I'm pretty much going to ask everyone who has an iPhone what their favorite apps are, but I'm, hardly bowled over by anything yet. There are some fun and handy little tools that I might use once in a blue. Tip calculators, conversion calculators, and the like. I don't play games, so those are out. It seems to me there are 50 twitter apps (I like Tweetie), two dozen restaurant apps, ten zillion games, and, um, that's about it. What am I missing?


Maybe I'm just not the target audience for apps. I seem to be pleased by the core iPhone functions far more than any add-ons. But that's a bit of a disappointment, so I guess I'll keep looking.

Does this include iTunes? Our home server is on 24/7 so this would be killer for us (if Pre has something similar).

I've not yet found my own app love, though just the SMS/IM/Email sync is beyond lovely.

Yes, and per my above edit made after your quote, it's called Simplify (but then appears on my phone as "Music 2," so I had to look up the name).

As far as I can tell, it syncs ONLY with your iTunes libraries. It will sync your music and photos and, I believe, videos ... as long as they're in iTunes. If you're the type that has their computer on 24/7, this is made for you. Not me. I don't know if there's a Pre version, but good luck.

It's a brilliant idea .... for someone else.

I believe there is a Pre version, or something similar.

ETA: Dang, the one I recall seeing in my browsing today doesn't work with iTunes, only a particular Linux-based media server.

Simplify is incredible (as long as your home computer is always on). I have a 1TB external drive that's filling up with music - it's all available on my iPhone as well as my laptop. That makes me very happy.