For all you Pre users out there, here is some  good news on the WebOS application development front.  Palm has just made its WebOS Software Development Kit Beta available to all, hopefully starting the latest craze in application development for the blossoming smartphone OS.  While Palm won’t be taking official application submissions until the fall, this is the first step in the kind of App store that Pre owners are hoping will enable the new operating system to show its full and true colors.

UPDATE: Here is some further information from Palm about the release of their WebOS SDK:  http://blog.palm.com/palm/2009/07/mojo-sdk-available-to-all-.html.

Anyone care to comment on the type of applications that should be near the top of the list?

[via Engadget]

For years I’ve strived to find a set of earphones that sounded as ferocious as I feel when I listen to Jack Johnson on maximum volume. So when JayBird (tweet) offered to send over a free Tiger Eyes (roar) wired headset to review, I pounced on the opportunity. These earphones feature an in-ear design that’s especially light and sweat-resistant, so they’re supposed to be the bees knees for workouts and active lifestyles. I’d have asked for a review pair even without all those fancy pants features, though: look at the design — and it has tiger in the name!

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MotionApps announced today that they are working on incorporating Hot Sync capabilities into an upcoming version of Classic for Pre.  Classic is an application for Palm’s WebOS based Pre that allows users to run native Palm OS applications in an emulated environment.  Until now, a glaring ommission has been the lack of Hot Sync capabilities.  In the upcoming enhancement, Hot Sync will be supported over Bluetooth and wifi.  MotionApps indicates that support for syncing the native Palm OS PIM apps as well as third party application’s conduits will be integrated, and will sync using the standard Palm Desktop software.  You can read the full announcment on MotionApps’ blog here.

This post is a amazingly off-topic, however, it is very very cool, and I wanted to share this with our readers!

I remember as a little boy all of the excitement, adventure and patriotism surrounding the Apollo 11 launch and Moon Landing.  Basically, everybody stopped what they were doing and tuned in to Walter Cronkite’s live coverage of this unique space mission.  It created optimism and unity patriotism among fellow Americans and spoke to our imagination, creativity and ingenuity.  It was science-fiction coming to life, as only a few years earlier, it was only a dream. The Apollo 11 astronauts were our heroes and we watched with anticipation throughout the days that followed.

Picture below is a screenshot of the WeChooseTheMoon.org website.

In the last few years, there has been a renewed interest for Americans to reopen the history books and learn about our Moon Missions.  NASA has had many successes over the years, especially in regards to the Shuttle Program, however, from an IT perspective, I always felt that the moon missions were a cut-above all other accomplishments; to successfully put men on the moon and bring them back to Earth safely.  In my opinion, orbiting the Earth and putting mechanical devices on Mars, takes away the excitement of being there.  There is nothing like experiencing the adventure first-hand.

My all-time favorite book on the Apollo Missions is “Full Moon”, by Michael Light, which is coffee table picture book without words that showed various Apollo Missions in chronological order from take-off, landing and walking on the moon, to splashing down.  The picture quality was amazing and the detail was so great that you felt like you were there.  And then came the DVD documentary, “In the Shadow of The Moon”, which included unseen video footage and narrative from actual Apollo Missions describing what they felt and adding on the scene commentary throughout the film.  So what would be the next step closer to being there?  That is exactly what you are about to discover.  If you were born after the first mission to the moon, here is your chance to enjoy the experience and take part in one of America’s greatest achievements.

With modern-day technology, the JFK Presidential Library is “launching” a virtual “live”(virtual flashback) of the Apollo 11 Mission.  The website goes live at 9:32 am on July 16, tomorrow, which is exactly 40 years since the actual rocket launch took place.  The experience will be enhanced with audio/visual “real-time” transmissions from mission control and the crew.  There is a mission widget available to put on your desktop to track the mission, as well as the ability to receive Twitter, Facebook, MySpace or standard email updates.  The experience will be an Information Technology spectacular!

Read more at the Press Release and at the WeChooseTheMoon.org website.

If I haven’t been posting much in the last week it’s either because I was toying with some upcoming review items, celebrating my birthday, or working on the launch of a new site. This quick post is all about the latter.
There is a lot of great art being created on the iPhone platform and Patrick Jordan (founder of Jamm and Jaib) and I (a Canadian male) thought it would be fun to gather works from a variety of artists and showcase them on one site. The posts should be short and sweet and focus on interesting music, videos, paintings, and photos created on Apple’s smartphone.

We went live just this morning, and we’d love it if you’d come on over and take a look see!