AirTraffic Lite (Free on the App Catalog) is a simple arcade game reminiscent of the widely popular Flight Control game on a competing mobile platform. The game screen is a top-down view of an airport landing strip area while airplanes of varying sizes as well as helicopters fly into view from off-screen and you assume the role of an Air Traffic Control agent. You have to drag your finger from these airborne vehicles to their designated landing strips, creating a path for them to land safely. Each type of aircraft is assigned to a specific strip. Seems simple enough. However, you have to make sure not to let a mid-air collision occur or else it’s game over. This can be quite the challenging task when the game picks up pace and you have planes and helicopters all over the screen.

The game sports relatively nice 2D graphics and smooth animation. Since it’s free, you have a little admob banner at the bottom of the screen but it doesn’t get in the way of gameplay all too much. This game is great for a short play while commuting or waiting in line somewhere. It doesn’t involve too much effort on the part of the player and offers a lot of replay value by asking you to beat your own recorded high score, although there isn’t a global leaderboard which would be nice. Perhaps in a paid version whenever it becomes available.

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Despite the fact that the Pre comes with a great physical keyboard, there is a large demand for an on-screen virtual one.

Until Palm makes one of their own, there are two different ways to make this happen: the Virtual Keyboard patch, or an app.

So let’s say you are a doctor who needs to call a patient, but you don’t want to call them from your cell because it would give away your personal number. This would be a perfectly valid use of the app iSpoofCard, but that is like explaining that Google’s “InPrivate” browser feature is for buying gifts on the sly…

We all know what the real usefulness of an app like iSpoofCard is…pranking someone. In the 80’s (when I was a kid), you could call just about anyone you wanted without fear of them having a clue who you were. Teenagers across the country did this just about every night for one reason or another. In the 90’s a little trick called *69 came about and scared the bejeebers out of a lot of people who weren’t technically savvy (for the young ‘uns out there *69 was a way to call back the last person who called you making prank calling a bit more difficult).

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So in Palmland, last night was pretty amazing. Never, in my life, have I sat around for hours just to click an update button on a device and tweet with 100 other geeks (and had a great time doing it).

Awesome.

For those of you who weren’t in on it, last night we at webOSroundup took it on ourselves to let everyone know when the update would be released. Over 100 people took us up on that promise and let us get the blisters. So tap away we did…all day…and into the wee hours.

The whole evening we twittered with dozens of Palm fans out there who couldn’t resist checking right along side us. We even ran a little contest (more on that in a sec). Personally, I spent my time in between taps watching Live Free or Die Hard (I didn’t know it starred the Apple guy…). I conked out about 1am eastern time, while Dan picked up the torch and ran it home. We are proud to say that we were one of the first sites (if not the first) to announce the release of 1.4.

So…the contest. In the heat of the moment, I decided to run a little contest. The first person to guess, within 10 minutes, the time when Dan received the update would get a free app. Well, officially, Dan got the update at 12:39 am central time, and no one won. However, I can’t end such a great night of nerdom like that, so I am giving the prize away to the person with the closest guess of 12:22am.

So congratulations goes out to @RaleighRETalk!!

Thanks, everyone who stayed up with us and making it a memorable one. Enjoy 1.4!!!

With February drawing to a close expectations that webOS 1.4 would arrive on Friday were running high.  If you happen to live on the west coast of the US then Palm did not disappoint.  Those further to the east needed to equip some caffeine and practice patience.  However, webOS 1.4 is released (for Sprint in the US and on the O2 UK, O2 DE, O2 Ireland and Movistar networks in Europe.  Update: Verizon now released.) and is now available for download.  Those of you who’ve applied custom themes are recommended to remove them prior to installing the update.  Patches, services and homebrew apps should be safe to leave behind if you have updated to the latest versions with AUPT.  Everyone knows that video recording is coming with 1.4, what else can you expect?  Keep reading…

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Hey everyone…so today is supposed to be the release of 1.4 and a lot of people are really excited about it.

If you happen to be one of those people who are getting blisters on their fingers because you keep hitting the update button on your phone, then we are here to help.

William, Dan, and I have all bought blister proof gloves and a case of Red Bull each so that we can keep a watchful eye on when 1.4 deigns to land on our phone.

So if you aren’t already following us on twitter, then now is the time to join up.

Save your fingers! Follow us, and as soon as we know…you will know.