Nova Charter
30Dec/110

Our New and Updated webOS apps

Over last weekend two of our pending apps were pushed to the webOS catalog. One of the apps is an update to an app we've had in the catalog for sometime now, How's Charlie. The updated included a new icon and new RSS error scene. Our other app, Klingon App Launcher, is new to the webOS catalog. It is similar to our LCARS Launcher app but, as the name suggests, is themed to mimic the interface from the fictional species in the Star Trek television show and movies.

All of the apps mentioned above are free of charge and accessible on webOS devices with OS version 1.4.5 & above.

You can Download the apps with the following links:
Klingon App Launcher
How's Charlie?

Disclaimer: STAR TREK and related marks are trademarks of CBS. These apps are for entertainment purposes only. No infringement is intended. CBS does not endorse, sponsor, and is not affiliated with these applications.

18Dec/100

Check Out Phaseruptor for webOS

Another Star Trek app for webOS made it's debut to Palm's official app catalog last month. Phaseruptor, wraps two energy weapons from the Star Trek universe into one... The Federation Phaser and the Klingon Distruptor. We, Novacharter.com, developed the phaser and distruptor graphics for this app, but all the hard work was done by qurgh at www.wizage.net who did all the coding.

The Klingon distruptor has two settings while the Federation phaser has several power settings. This app is Free and avalible for download in the webOS app catalog here.

Phaser

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26Sep/100

Free No More: Font Capture

In a previous post I praised the online tool Font Capture. Since that post, it has changed it's name to YourFonts and it's price. The once free service now costs $9.95. Of course, for the quality and usefulness of this product the asking price is quite reasonable. It saddens me that the product is no longer free, but if you are looking for a cheap font creator, YourFonts is still one of your best options.

Do you create your own fonts? If so, what do you use? Let us know!

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30Jul/100

HP Hits the Official App Catalog

We have seen HP apps in the webOS beta/web feed (here). Today, for the first time as far as I am aware of, an app developed by HP staff has hit the official webOS app catalog. "World Time", a simple world time zone app, is simple and functional (and free).

World Time Zones

Simply tap the black rectangle and a scrolling dialog box pops up with a large list of countries and cities to choose from. What I would like to see in a future update of this app is for the map in the background to update to the location that you have selected in the menu. Type-to-search, seen in other apps such as @zhephree's Foursquare, would improve usability (since there is an extensive list making it difficult to manually search through). It would also be ideal to have more of a continuity between this app and the OS. Although a person may intuitively realize that you need to click the black rectangle, there is nothing from the interface that would lead a person to do so.

Overall this is a good app for finding out what time it is in another place in the world, ideal if you have contacts in other countries.

Update: It appears that the app was developed to fit the Pixi's screen. As you can see from the screenshot above, the image of the map becomes tiled to fit my Palm Pre's screen.