Filed under: Palm, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0, Microblogging
Foursquare beta now available for the Palm Pre
For the last month or so, I've been keenly keeping an eye on the progress of the open source webOS application for Foursquare: the location-based mobile game that's been in the tech spotlight since its launch at SXSW last year.Whilst you can check in online using Foursquare's mobile website, the folks at Foursquare have been gradually rolling out more native applications after launching with just an iPhone app. On top of the existing iPhone, Android and beta Blackberry applications out there, the new webOS app has just been made available for Pre and Pixi users to use.
Though the application is available as part of the webOS App Catalogue, it's currently still in beta. As such there are a couple of unfinished areas to the app - including the leaderboards for each Foursquare city.
However, if you simply have to check into it at the gym, coffee shop or elsewhere on your Pre, be sure to have a look at our gallery after the break and visit the App Catalogue to download the beta!
The Illusionist's Dream is a simple platformer; you play as a magician who needs to get through each level by transforming into any number of animals that you encounter along the way.
Each animal can do different things; the butterfly can obviously fly, but if it encounters a frog, the frog eats it, and you have to start over again. There's also a fox that runs fast and leaps far, but it eats any rabbits that cross its path. That means that, if you may need to be a rabbit later on, you need to take that into account ...
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not yay said 2:16AM on 1-02-2010
shiny bobbles for having one's privacy raped is a good deal how?
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Argent said 7:34AM on 1-02-2010
in looking over my stats, i can't say any of the instances of the browser itself are all that memory intensive (each tab is between 20 and 30 megs, flash-intensive sites can range from 50-80 megs per.)
extensions (i run 8 atm) are around 9 to 15 megs each, nothing terribly harsh there.
but then there is the flash plugin. with two tabs open (neither of which are really flash intensive), it's sucking up 100 megs atm. pop open a a few flash sites (games, any type of FB game, video, etc) and its consumption just goes ape. snl skit on hulu, farmville and a random youtube vidoe and the flash plugin was guzzling 300 megs by it's lonesome self.
so, at least from where i sit, a lot of the memory footprint in chrome seems to be tied to the flash plugin -- something that wouldn't surprise me if it's true in firefox as well. that said, chrome has never given me the bad memory leak issues that FF constantly subjected me too.
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Argent said 7:36AM on 1-02-2010
hooray for weird lastpass-induced posting necromancy. please just ignore the previous post.
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motang said 1:31PM on 1-02-2010
Glad to see support for the WebOS platform. I think it's a good platform just being overshadowed by Android and iPhone.
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