Have some trolls to fight? Excellent. Roll your next attack with Dice Roller ($1.43 on the App Catalog).

Providing the standard RPG polyhedron die (and a two sided coin), dice roller lets you build groups of dice rolls. Simply tap the dice you need out of the dice bag and separate the groups using the parenthesizes. You can add in +/- modifier values as you need them as well.

When you click roll, you are shown what was rolled on each dice as well as the total for the roll. Each dice group is rolled or you can choose which ones are rolled by removing the the check mark on that group.

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February is drawing to a close and the big question on everyone’s mind is: Where is webOS 1.4? Unfortunately, we don’t have an answer for you. But, we do have a rundown of the news from the last week. The news this week is all about apps. We’ll cover them in quick succession and clean up any leftovers in the Roundup. Let’s get going…
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We’ve heard plenty about third party instant messaging applications coming to webOS… but that was months ago! Where are they?

We at webOSRoundup posed this very question to the folks over at Mundu IM, who promised that their robust instant messaging service would eventually land on webOS.  They were very quick in their response.  Here it is:

Hi,

We thank you for your keen interest in mundu IM.

The native client for mundu IM on WebOS devices is under development.
The same is scheduled to be released by mid-next quarter. We shall
keep you updated on its release.

Thanks & Regards,
mundu IM Team.

So, while we’d certainly prefer an app like Mundu IM would hit the App Catalog NOW, we now at least east we have a more concrete date:  April-May … -ish.

Mundu IM provides access to instant messaging applications such as MSN Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messaging, AIM, and GTalk.  It works on many mobile platforms, including Android, RIM, Windows Mobile, Nokia…  even Palm OS!  For those wanting  a price watch, it costs $11 for all of those platforms. If you’re curious why iPhone wasn’t mentioned, keep reading.

Want to use Mundu IM on your webOS device right now?  Well, you can. Sorta. Just enter pre.mundu.com in your mobile browser to access a mobile web version of the app.  It works pretty well (screenshots below), though you’ll definitely be yearning for a native app when you use it.  Curiously, our iPhone friends have been relegated to the same fate and also have to use a mobile web app!

As soon as Mundu IM hits the App Catalog, we’ll review it.  That’s a promise!  We’ve also contacted the folks over at Agile Mobile, who also promised their IM messaging app for webOS a long time ago.  We’ll update you with their response as soon as we get it.

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I am a huge history buff…especially Roman and Greek history. This probably comes from the fact that my mother is a high school Latin teacher (this is her 40th year teaching by the way). As such, I have always been enthralled by the Spartans. Those kind of warriors just don’t exist today…and probably for good reason. However, the whole concept of a warrior from birth taps straight into the hero complex that I have.

So any form of media that has to do with Greek/Roman mythology, Spartans, gladiatorial combat, etc and you can usually count me in as a customer (as you might have guessed 300 and Gladiator are some of my favorite movies). So when I see a game called Hero of Sparta (by Gameloft, $6.99 on App Catalog) I pretty much have to get it.

So I got it, what do I think of it? It’s frustrating fun…

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“Okay, there’s only one way to settle this… everyone pick a number out of a hat… whoever’s number gets chosen wins.” That was the old way of doing it. But what if you don’t have a hat? Or any scraps of paper? PencilPoint Software has a solution for you: 9 Tails Coin Toss.  All you have to do is plunk down 99 cents and you have an app that serves not only as a coin flip app, but also as a “pick a number out of a hat” function.

Let’s start with the latter concept, since that’s what the app is named after. You have the choice of selecting 9 heads, 9 tails, or 9 Euro coins.

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Many of you know Totally Palmed for its great articles on how to get the most out of webOS and your Palm phone. The owner, Dan Ramirez (aka vara411), does an amazing job trumpeting the webOS horn on both twitter and his site.

Today, Dan and I are beside ourselves excited to announce that Totally Palmed and webOSroundup will be joining forces so that all types of webOS users can have a home. Whether you just got your Pre and need tips on how to get the most out of it, or you are Preware master with dozens of patches, webOSroundup will have the content you are looking for.

In addition to our focus on apps, reviews, and editorial content, we will now have a plethora of educational and “how-to” articles to make anyone a Pre guru.

Over the coming days/weeks we will be creating a new portal for these educational articles called…you guessed it…Totally Palmed. All of Dan’s outstanding articles will slowly find their way to their new home.

In the meantime, if you are one of our twitter followers you will begin to hear a lot from Dan and also myself (if you aren’t following, why not?!).