PalmSource Powered Up Award Winners

Posted By: Ryan Wednesday, May 25, 2005 7:28:25 PM

PalmSource honored four Palm OS developers with Powered Up Awards at its fifth annual U.S. PalmSource Mobile Summit & DevCon. The awards recognize four of the most innovative Palm OS applications from among the 400,000 Palm OS developers and showcases industry-leading mobile Palm OS applications that utilize the advanced features of Palm Powered smartphones and mobile devices.

Selected from thousands of nominations (more than 150% over last year), the four Powered Up Award winners were chosen by their peers, fans, PalmSource employees, and licensee partners based upon the following criteria:

Innovation - Solutions that are truly unique and run on the latest Palm Powered devices.
Popularity - Solutions that lead the industy in sales and downloads;
Benefits - Solutions that enhance quality of life;
Ease of Use - Solutions that are simple, elegant and useful;
Support - Solutions that are regularly updated with readily available product support.
Winners were selected in four categories and include:

Best Enterprise / Productivity Solution: The Missing Sync by Mark/Space, Inc.

The Missing Sync for the Palm OS® platform is designed to provide Mac users with an unparalleled synchronization manager for Palm Powered™ mobile devices and smartphones. In addition to supporting existing Mac conduits and synchronization technology, The Missing Sync adds Wi-Fi synchronization, intuitive conduit management, Internet access over USB and Bluetooth, desktop mounting of memory cards and other features previously unavailable to Mac users. Designed for seamless integration with iPhoto and iTunes users have mobile access to their digital media. Developers can leverage The Missing Sync's framework to create new Mac conduits for Palm OS using advanced tools such as Apple's Xcode. going forward, The Missing Sync for Palm OS Cobalt ensures continued Mac synchronization support through future generations of Palm Powered mobile devices and smartphones.

Best Multimedia Solution: SplashBlog by SplashData, Inc.

SplashBlog is a wireless photo-blogging solution designed to allow users of Palm Powered smartphones to quickly share photos with others. SplashBlog includes software for capturing, annotating and organizing photos on the mobile device as well as on the web with an account on SplashBlog.com where photos are hosted and shared with others. The new features in SplashBlog 1.5 include the ability for multiple users to post photos to a shared photoblog, a new portal page on splashblog.com that displays recently posted photos as well as the most popular photoblogs, and a streamlined approach to subscribing to other users' SplashBlogs - enabling users to automatically download and view all new photos posted to blogs to which they are subscribed. All attendees of the PalmSource Mobile Summit & DevCon 2005 will receive a complimentary copy of SplashBlog to photo blog the Conference.

Best Wireless / Over-The-Air Solution: Quick News by Stand Alone, Inc.

Designed for the latest generation of Palm Powered mobile devices and smartphones, Quick News is designed to provide easy, mobile access to online news feeds and podcasts. Quick News is the first product to automate and simplify podcast downloading, delivering up-to-the-minute information from the internet directly to Palm Powered devices. This popular application allows you to easily manage hundreds of RSS feeds and quickly locate crucial and timely information from a sea of raw data. The latest version of Quick News supports both the internal memory partitions on the newest Palm Powered devices as well as memory cards, allowing for significantly increased on-device information storage. Quick News also features automatic updates, advanced search capabilities, support for embedded images, a flexible and configurable interface, attachment support, customizable shortcuts, proxy support and improved OPML import and export capability. Attendees can use Quick News to listen to the podcasts of the Mobile Summit & DevCon 2005.

Best Games / Entertainment Solution: Village Sim by LDW Software, LLC

Village Sim is a village simulator where you care for and nurture a tribe of little people by teaching them the basics of survival. The object of the game is to grow a small village on your Palm Powered mobile device or smartphone. The villagers have food and housing needs, technologies to research and diseases to fight. As the village grows and prospers, the inhabitants become curious about their mysterious island home and the secrets it holds. Aside from guiding the villagers' day-to-day lives, the player helps them explore and restore the island. Village Sim is a true real-time game that keeps on playing - even if the player's device is turned off or if they exit the game. The villagers will have grown and new surprises will await the player hours later after resuming the game.

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TCPMP?

legodude522 @ 5/25/2005 11:28:43 PM #

Where is TCPMP? I voted 4 times and so did lots of others at Tapland.

RE: TCPMP?

The_Voice_of_Reason @ 5/25/2005 11:37:18 PM #

Where is TCPMP? I voted 4 times and so did lots of others at Tapland.

So that means The Core got a whopping 20 votes from all you Tapwave freaks.

These awards are a sham. Most of the winners are from companies that advertise heavily on the PDA app sales sites. Last I checked, Picard was giving away The Core for free.

"Best Multimedia Solution: SplashBlog"??? Get serious. Just be grateful that Bejeweled didn't sweep every software (and hardware!) category this year...

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RE: TCPMP?

palmdoc88 @ 5/26/2005 2:25:48 AM #

Yeah. TCMP should be the Multimedia app of the year. Shame no Palmsource!!

T3 & T5 user

RE: TCPMP?

wilco @ 5/26/2005 2:26:41 AM #

Maybe because TCPMP is GPL... I am not sure about this but the Codecs are a port from some other software, right?

Contest rules:
"By participating in the contest, each entrant thereby certifies, represents and warrants that his/her/its submission is the original design of the entrant and the submission does not constitute confidential material, the entrant has full rights to the submission, the submission does not infringe or misappropriate any third party intellectual property rights..."

But TCPMP does meet those requirements...

Or maybe because Blogs are hot these days. Eventhough TCPMP saves a lot of multimedia users from jumping ship to Windows Mobile.

TCPMP may not be a winner at PalmSource PowerUP Awards but in the hearts of many a Palm users, He (Gabor Kovacs/Picard) is...Kudos to all who help and develop TCPMP. Thanks!!!

RE: TCPMP?

skeezix @ 5/26/2005 10:09:45 AM #

I'm sure theres a lot of criterion and luck involved .. theres a pile of solid developers who deserve a lot of credit, from those like CESD who bust their rear to help people to PDAMill who've revitalized the gaming market to Picard for TCPMP who're waving the freedom flag and have a large overnight cult following; I think I was going to get it for Shadow Plan a couple years back, but since I wasn't going to PalmSourceDev.. no go. Only folks who attend can get the award, since PS want it to be a good advertising event for the developer involved, which is nice. Theres also a little of the Oscars-approach in it I think as well -- an organization will got some weighting simply because they've done their time and worked hard and never won anythign, so deserve some recognition.

Astraware are great fellows who deserve a lot of credit, and are also helping developers out (dirty cheap audio engine, PDAOffers hosting for free, etc etc), but I'm sure even they were sick of seeing Bejewelled sweep every year :)

jeff

The Shadow knows!

RE: TCPMP?

kevdo @ 5/26/2005 2:32:33 PM #

Sorry, what's TCPMP?

-Kevin Crossman, Palm Powered Software Champion

RE: TCPMP?

tooele @ 5/26/2005 3:13:08 PM #

The Core Pocket Media Player is what it stands for it is a free movie player fount here http://tcpmp.corecodec.org/
I have been using ever since finding out about it and it is the best movie player out there and it's free!

Tungsten T3 + T610

RE: TCPMP?

Frenchie @ 5/26/2005 3:13:09 PM #

The Core Pocket Media Player.

The Core is a free and open sourced media player for Palm OS. It destroys MMplayer in speed, stability, and price(free). http://tcpmp.corecodec.org/

A lot of people have switched over and i expect that the new WMV codec in MMplayer is going to be buggy, have A/V issues, and cost $30 to the product.

The world will end in 2006. Just as it was predicted in the bible along with the release of Microsoft Longhorn.... :p

RE: TCPMP?

Patrick @ 5/26/2005 4:00:11 PM #

SplashBlog would also be the beneficiary of the bias towards "data hungry" apps. PalmOne / PalmSource want to keep their wireless carrier friends happy by encouraging apps which use lots of bandwidth.

RE: TCPMP?

Dr Opinion @ 5/27/2005 4:48:40 PM #

Duh, maybe becuase TCPMP is not *finished* yet?

Quote, from their site:

"There is currently no stable release for Palm OS."

Really, guys????

"People who like M$ products tend to be insecure crowd-following newbies lacking in experience or imagination."

RE: TCPMP?

The_Voice_of_Reason @ 5/27/2005 9:42:52 PM #

Duh, maybe becuase TCPMP is not *finished* yet?
Quote, from their site:
"There is currently no stable release for Palm OS."

Really, guys????

In reality, this "beta" is more stable and better than all of the commercial video players currently available for PalmOS.

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RE: TCPMP?

ackmondual @ 5/28/2005 6:31:10 AM #

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"Best Multimedia Solution: SplashBlog"??? Get serious. Just be grateful that Bejeweled didn't sweep every software (and hardware!) category this year...

LOL!

My favorite is still from Handago's own "awards". They had Bejeweled2, some ringtone player for Treos, and Pocket Tunes in the same category... "best software for play". How do you realistically compare a game, a ringtone player, and an mp3/audio player that really belong in their own categories?

RE: TCPMP?

ackmondual @ 5/28/2005 6:36:31 AM #

........... I think I was going to get it for Shadow Plan a couple years back, but since I wasn't going to PalmSourceDev.. no go. Only folks who attend can get the award, since PS want it to be a good advertising event for the developer involved, which is nice. Theres also a little of the Oscars-approach in it I think as well -- an organization will got some weighting simply because they've done their time and worked hard and never won anythign, so deserve some recognition.

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So going by this, our votes are meaningless unless we voted for the right entries? If we vote for non-candidates, nothing happens, while valid candidates get their vote tallied?

So much good stuff

Timothy Rapson @ 5/26/2005 10:32:24 AM #

I like so much of the software out for my Palm.
TealPaint
WordSmith (needs an update with support for external formats)
Resco file and phote viewers
MyBible
AcidImage
VideoHand

RE: So much good stuff

Timothy Rapson @ 5/26/2005 11:29:33 AM #

OOPs!
Video"HOUND" not hand
And I might add DiddleBug and NoahPro.

And many others.

RE: So much good stuff

Timothy Rapson @ 5/27/2005 8:37:15 AM #

HEy, I posted a boring comment here and no one responded. What is going on? You mean there have already been a hundred threads like this and 1,000s of responses?
So, I need a weird name/title to get a response to a new comment?
I will not be ignored. I will go around to your threads and take it up with Kirvin, VOR, Mike, Abosco, Gfunk, and the rest of you punks. Now, you get back here and start calling me names or else.

RE: So much good stuff

Timothy Rapson @ 5/27/2005 8:41:09 AM #

You are such a pathetic loser, Rapson.

RE: So much good stuff

Timothy Rapson @ 5/27/2005 8:42:03 AM #

Get a live, will 'ya.
No one wants to talk to you, you little twitburger.

RE: So much good stuff

Timothy Rapson @ 5/27/2005 8:43:49 AM #

That's get a "LIFE", Rapson. And you definitely need to.

RE: So much good stuff

Timothy Rapson @ 5/27/2005 8:44:56 AM #

I love myself
I think I'm grand
I go to the movies
and hold my hand

I put my arm
around my waist
and when I get fresh
I slap my face

RE: So much good stuff

The_Voice_of_Reason @ 5/27/2005 4:39:19 PM #

You are such a pathetic loser, Timmy.

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RE: So much good stuff

beboscott @ 5/27/2005 5:05:41 PM #

Best thread I've read here in a while. At least Timothy is staying on topic!

IIIxe & 3:16

RE: So much good stuff

mikecane @ 5/28/2005 1:18:55 PM #

Geez, Rapson, didn't you see where I quoted you from BH in another post here? You aren't being ignored. Only your silly topic is.

Nothing else from DevCon?

orb2069 @ 5/26/2005 7:45:57 PM #

I heard they demo'd Palm Linux, among other things - Surely that's a little more important than this?

1000->Personal->IRUpgrade->TRGPro->HE330->Treo 180

RE: Nothing else from DevCon? Not much...

The_Voice_of_Reason @ 5/26/2005 9:39:24 PM #

I heard they demo'd Palm Linux

Do you remember the scene in The Wizard of Oz when everyone sees how bogus the wizard's tricks are? That is PalmLinux today. Remember all those wonderful SD peripherals that were demoed a few years back by Panasonic when SD was announced? That is PalmLinux today.

PalmLinux will not be fit for human consumption for AT LEAST A YEAR. If ever. At this point, PalmSource needs to cut the vaporware BS and S T F U until they have come up with something that is real, stable, and worthy of the name PalmOS. Developers aren't fools and once bitten (Cobalt), twice shy (PalmLinux). Once people like CESD (DateBk5) get pi$$ed off enough that they port their apps to Windows/PPC, I expect a wave of defections to PPC. And if StyleTap's Platform for Windows Mobile ("STP" - http://www.styletap.com/) gets picked up and promoted by a major company, the point may be moot, anyway.

This week's DevCon had the smell of death in the air. I think developers have now lost faith in PalmSource's ability to sustain the platform.

Pépé Gassée and the idiots (his former colleagues at CrApple) that approved greasing his Palm with millions for his useless, defunct company (Be) will be remembered as the ones that killed PalmOS. Great legacy, Pépé. Thanks.

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RE: Nothing else from DevCon?

Gekko @ 5/26/2005 9:58:32 PM #

PalmLinux isn't real. It was a figment of Nagel's imagination.

RE: Nothing else from DevCon? PalmLinux release date:

The_Voice_of_Reason @ 5/26/2005 11:12:28 PM #

PalmSource claims they'll have PalmLinux ready by early-mid 2006. Yep. 2006. After the Cobalt Catastrophe, it's shocking to see PalmSource pretending they can meet a goal that is technically imossible for them to achieve.

With ZERO devices shipping with Cobalt 18 months after that fabled OS was supposedly released, any guesses when consumers will actually see the first REAL, SHIPPING device with PalmLinux installed? How about 2008. In other words, expect to see PalmOS 5 shipping on devices for at least another 2 years. Incredible. Basically means a 2004 Tungsten T3 or CLIE TH55 is as functional a PalmOS PDA as you'll see for the next two or three years.

If you want a good investment, buy a bunch of T3 in closeout and then eBay them to desperate users over the next year...

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The Palm Economy = Communism™
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RE: Nothing else from DevCon?

hotpaw4 @ 5/27/2005 4:17:13 AM #

I did not attend the DevCon this year, but just got back from the after-event dinner with many of the biggest big name developers in attendance. There was only slightly less buzz in the air than last year. I met a few brand new developers who seemed to be doing quite well, thank you, with their Treo-specific products. Hardly a sign of the imminent death of the Palm economy...

In fact, the biggest complaint I heard was that the weak US dollar was hurting European developers revenue.

RE: Nothing else from DevCon?

Timothy Rapson @ 5/27/2005 8:49:27 AM #

RE: "I expect a wave of defections to PPC."

What product for the Palm OS needs to be ported to PPC?
I have a word processor, photo viewer, file viewer, paint program, maps, music, video, most used nearly daily.

Every program I can think of has not only as good a program on the WM. 9 out of 10 have better.
No, I don't see defections to PPC/WM camp as significant. That market is already full of good developers, bought and paid for with the huge support MS can afford to give them.

RE: Nothing else from DevCon?

Surur @ 5/27/2005 8:57:56 AM #

Yes, but POS defectors need to their familiar software, with the POS UI/ Look and feel. Its a new niche.

Surur

RE: Nothing else from DevCon?

The_Voice_of_Reason @ 5/27/2005 12:58:20 PM #

What product for the Palm OS needs to be ported to PPC?
I have a word processor, photo viewer, file viewer, paint program, maps, music, video, most used nearly daily.

There are many specialty apps that are coded by either smaller niche companies or hobby coders that have no identical app for PPC. There are probably several examples from the fields of medicine, law, education, real estate, etc. that people could name.

More importantly is the comfort level derived from being able to use familiar apps. Many Palm users like the apps they've used for years and don't want to try new software. For example, I've used DateBk3/4/5 for 6 or more years and would prefer to use a monochrome Palm WITH DateBk 5 than a VGA color PPC WITHOUT DateBk5. Are there other good PPC datebook apps available? Of course. But like many people, I prefer to stick with what I already know. Port DateBk5 to PPC and I have one less reason to stick with PalmOS.

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The Palm Economy = Communism™
The Great Palm Swindle: http://www.palminfocenter.com/comment_view.asp?ID=7864#108038

Hmmmm....

orb2069 @ 5/27/2005 1:07:08 PM #

So, are you selling short this week, Vo'R', or looking to drive the stock down and buy?

1000->Personal->IRUpgrade->TRGPro->HE330->Treo 180

Nevermind - I found a link.

orb2069 @ 5/27/2005 1:19:16 PM #

http://www.palmfocus.com/index.php?item=78

Pictures from the presentations, for those of you who want actual news about the platform instead of listening to folks air out their latest revision of the 'They faked the moon landings!' screed.

1000->Personal->IRUpgrade->TRGPro->HE330->Treo 180->270

PalmLinux by June 2006? Suuuuuuuuuuure.

The_Voice_of_Reason @ 5/27/2005 4:04:58 PM #

So, are you selling short this week, Vo'R', or looking to drive the stock down and buy?

You crack me up. Really. I have no Palm stock and I'm not delusional enough to think anything I (or anyone else for that matter) post on PIC would be considered important enough to affect Palm's stock price. Thanks for the compliment, though. You like me! You really, really like me!

If you were at DevCon or bothered to actually READ the slides from the blog you linked to, you'd see where PalmSource (optimistically) claims to be in their development timeline. Those of us that understand software development know what a crock of sh1t these "forward reaching" statements always are. Believe whomever you choose to believe. Either way, PalmLinux will NOT be shipping mid-2006.

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Sony CLIE UX100: 128 MB real RAM, OLED screen. All the PDA anyone really ever wanted.
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The Palm Economy = Communism™
The Great Palm Swindle: http://www.palminfocenter.com/comment_view.asp?ID=7864#108038

RE: Nothing else from DevCon?

Dr Opinion @ 5/27/2005 5:01:34 PM #

Voice, you're such a troll. It takes a big man to make predictions that he's not going to be held to. Short the stock, or *shut* up. .

"People who like M$ products tend to be insecure crowd-following newbies lacking in experience or imagination."

Friendly wager: PalmLinux will NOT be on devices July, 2006.

The_Voice_of_Reason @ 5/27/2005 9:46:07 PM #

It takes a big man to make predictions that he's not going to be held to. Short the stock, or *shut* up.

Wow, you're quite impressive there, madam. Is that a strap on?

I stand by all of my predictions and they're almost always correct. I don't trade Palm/PalmSource/pa1mOne stock - it's been manipulated so badly by Palm's management it's laughable.

I'd suggest you go away and don't come back here until July 1, 2006 and we'll see who's correct. If I'm wrong and PalmSource has PalmLinux on a shipping device, I'll donate $50 to the charity of your choice. If you're wrong, you'll have to bend over and let Mike Cane party upon your a$$. Again.

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Sony CLIE UX100: 128 MB real RAM, OLED screen. All the PDA anyone really ever wanted.
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The Palm Economy = Communism™
The Great Palm Swindle: http://www.palminfocenter.com/comment_view.asp?ID=7864#108038

RE: Nothing else from DevCon?

ackmondual @ 5/28/2005 6:42:24 AM #

PalmLinux had a demo. Shows some promise, but much work is yet to be done.

RE: Nothing else from DevCon?

Sam H @ 5/28/2005 6:59:33 AM #

Pictures from the presentations, for those of you who want actual news about the platform instead of listening to folks air out their latest revision of the 'They faked the moon landings!' screed.

Any word on what display layer PalmLinux will use? What toolkit? Anything tangible? Thought not.

RE: Nothing else from DevCon?

mikecane @ 5/28/2005 1:21:21 PM #

>>>If you're wrong, you'll have to bend over and let Mike Cane party upon your a$$. Again.

Jaysus, will you PLEASE take an OD of *something*? *Anything* so that I'm no longer your nightly wet dream... or "palm pal."

RE: Nothing else from DevCon?

rcartwright @ 5/28/2005 5:47:54 PM #

VoR said

>This week's DevCon had the smell of death in the air. I think developers have now lost faith in PalmSource's ability to sustain the platform.<

Did you attend DevCon this year VoR?

"Many men stumble across the truth, but most manage to pick themselves up
and continue as if nothing had happened."
- Winston Churchill

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PalmLinux by June 2006? Suuuuuuuuuuure.

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