Elements for webOS.

Elements is more of a personal application that it is for the community. I’m the type of person that carries around a pocket periodic table in my wallet (because you never know when you’ll need to know the Atomic Weight of Lithium). I’ve had my pocket periodic table for 10 years now and over time the ink has started to fade making a lot of the values difficult to read.

My answer to this problem was to make an application for my phone. I always have my phone with me so it works out. Because it’s just bytes on the phone I was able to add information that wouldn’t fit on a credit card sized periodic table. I am charging $0.99 for Elements on webOS, I don’t expect to make a lot of money with Elements. But I like to think that it’s a handy reference tool for people that need it or like to have one handy. See the screen shots for more detail.

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My GPS started out as kind of an accident for me.  I stumbled across the API for this while working on another application.  After tinkering around with it for a few hours I decided that it couldn’t hurt to make an app based around these API calls and My GPS was born.

My GPS started out as just a simple get location/get speed app but as I worked more and more on it I have been able to add some different features.  My GPS allows the user to see heading/speed/altitude/latitude longitude and the user can see the margin of error as well.  I’ve done my own calculations to let the user decide if they want the speed in MPH or KPH and they can turn top speed for the current session on as well.

In addition to these setting I have added the ability to search for nearby locations and included a list of common things that people would want to search for: gas station, restaurant, hotel etc.  They can also enter their own search term if what they want is not in the list.

There’s also the ability to ask for directions, if you have gotten your current location recently it will prepopulate the ‘from’ address with that one.  Of course you can change that if you want.

Update: some people have been having issues with My GPS not returning information when requested.  I believe that this is because they don’t have a very good signal and that when I created the application I decided to conserve battery life which would cause long delays in getting information (or it possibly wouldn’t be returned).  I have hopefully fixed this issue with an update that should be approved in the next couple of weeks.

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My second try at an app for the Palm webOS platform. UberCalc simply contains a bunch of calculators and conversions. Calculators include: loan, sale price, sale tax, tip calculator, date, leasing, and tire size (yes I incorporated the tire size calc into this app). The converters include: temperature, speed, volume, weight, and length. It’s not all that sophisticated but it does what it says it does without fail. I have some ideas for future features if I ever get the time to implement them.

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My first attempt at a Palm Pre application (and mobile application for that matter).  I created an application like this for one of my car oriented websites so I figured this would be a good place to start.  This app lets you calculate how far off your speedometer will be if you change your tire size.  Your cars computer calculates a lot of different things based on your tire height; including speedometer, miles traveled, rpms etc.  It’s a rough app but it’s free, so be kind

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