Palm Pixi GoGadget – A Music Lover’s Delight!

Matt — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:00:11 +0000

Now that you've bought your own much awaited Palm Pixi, it's time to personalize it! If you are a music lover or a media freek, take a look at the GoGadget for webOS released by Mark/Space. It helps transform your Palm Pixi into a cool music player, a digital photo organizer, and an easy to use reader for viewing files and documents.

The Mac Edition of the GoGadget for webOS is available for just $19.95. The Windows edition of GoGadget for webOS is expected to be available very soon. As it's tag line 'Give Fun, Get Fun' suggests, the Palm Pixi is a fun phone aimed at providing you with full-on entertainment. The GoGadget app is a great way to enrich the fun experience on your very own Palm Pixi.

Create Playlists for your favorite tracks, artists and sync them with your computer in a hassle free manner. You can easily create ringtones from your favorite tracks. The iPhoto feature of GoGadget is a great way to organize and transfer your photos. You can even watch movies on your Palm Pixi using the GoGadget for webOS. The Palm Pixi offers an awesome video watching experience and GoGadget helps transfer video files to your phone with a single click!

If you are a voracious reader, GoGadget is handy for you as it helps you view many types of documents including Microsoft Office, PDF, and eBooks as well.

Testing webOS Applications on the Palm Pixi

Matt — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:00:16 +0000

While we've already discussed the consideration for developing webOS Applications for the Palm Pixi, now is the time to take note of some key points regarding testing these applications.

Like the Pre applications, you can use the Palm Emulator to test any Palm Pixi application. The Palm Emulator is a part of the SDK itself so if you've been developing applications using the SDK, you should already have the emulator available for use. You would use the emulator in the same way for Pixi applications as for Pre applications barring one difference - Resolution.

As we've discussed earlier as well, Palm Pixi has a lower resolution (320x400) than Palm Pre (320x480). The default resolution of Palm Emulator is same as that of Palm Pre so you need to change it in order to test Palm Pixi applications. The Palm Emulator page provides the instructions for configuring the Emulator to suit the Pixi resolution. Since Palm Emulator is based on the VirtualBox platform, therefore the instructions listed on the Palm Emulator page are actually VirtualBox configuration commands. The VBoxManage command offers a convenient mechanism to control the various features of the Palm Emulator Graphical User Interface including the resolution, screen layout etc.

Any mobile application needs to be exhaustively tested for providing a rich User Experience and Palm Pixi applications won't be an exception to this rule. Make sure you test your webOS Pixi application thoroughly for resolution, layout and positioning related issues before you release it. We hope that you find these guidelines useful while testing your Palm Pixi webOS applications.

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Palm Pixi GoGadget – A Music Lover’s Delight!

Testing webOS Applications on the Palm Pixi