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This week finds Palm at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. We previously covered the beta release of the PDK, so check that out for some background. We’ll touch on that a bit this week as well as fill in some of the additional information coming out of Palm.
We’ll wrap up the release of webOS 1.4 from last week, drop into the rumor bin for a bit and then wrap up with some assorted news in the Roundup. Keep reading, please.
Ok, I am just gonna come right out of the gate and say it… I love this app. If you are reading this review to see whether or not you should purchase it, go ahead and stop now, because you should. Now if you want to know why I love the app, then it is probably worth your time to keep on reading or go through the break so that you can watch the video.
Either way… if you are in the market for an app to help you learn something, anything really… then go get this app right now.
Ok, with that out of the way, lets get to the review…
The big news for today was Palm’s release of its Plug-in Development Kit (PDK) beta in conjunction with the Game Developers Conference. The news first broke this morning in the form of a press release. Soon after, Palm posted its own note and opened the beta for download. What is the PDK and why should you care? I’ll tell you…
Zoom, zoom! Get ready to tilt and turn your way to the finish line with Tilt GT. Hop into your yellow, nitro-equipped car and race around the ten regular tracks. Prove you’re good enough and unlock ten more extreme tracks.
When you get into your little car, the front end of the car is the one with wider more rectangular windshield. My first race involved me going the wrong way and straight into the grass. The grass, by the way, is like a golf green. The farther away you go, the darker the color and the more difficult the recovery. So don’t go too far off track. After mumbling and yelps of “No, no, bad car!”, I was able to finish the first track.
Recently I had the opportunity to talk with , author of a number of programming books. Recently, Frank’s book Practical Palm Pre webOS Projects was released by Apress. Read on to learn more about him than you ever wanted to know!
Even if you’re not a healthcare professional, you’ve probably heard of a little program called Epocrates. If you’re not familiar with it, allow me to learn ya!
First released on Palm OS devices in 1998, Epocrates started out as a prescription drug database for physicians. It included dosing information, contraindications and a list of adverse reactions. It has since ballooned into a much more comprehensive reference tool for healthcare professionals and has gone beyond drug reference to incorporate a CME credit portal, a medical calculator and so on. In fact, once you demonstrate proficiency in this app in medical school they let you graduate! … I kid.
After the break, I’ll walk you through my impressions of Epocrates for webOS, and how I think it could be tweaked to be the BEST version of Epocrates for ANY platform.
