What's New in Homebrew Apps, 6 August 2009

There are plenty of new and updated apps in our beta Homebrew App Gallery for the Palm Pre just a day after launch.  If you've never tried it, we'll have a first-install walkthough up for you later today.  It's just a 'first-install' walkthough because your second and seventieth install are a lot easier now that fileCoaster allows you to directly browse and download from our gallery. 

Longtime PalmOS users can relive the glory days of low-fi stylus-tapping action with Dope Wars, BlackBerry switchers can get that BrickBreaker feeling back, shippers can track a package (and watch the sometimes insane routes they take) with PrePackage, shoppers can put together a Shopping List, runners can help test out the fledgling PREtracker GPS/running app, and, well, you get the idea.

Oh, and people who aren't afraid of Linux access should take a look at My Tether,  which does exactly what you think it does. Don't overdo it, though, because even Sprint will get grumpy if they see you pulling down 'too much' data.

We'll help to add more features to fileCoaster (and big ups to PreGame for bearing with us) and offering a standard, open format feed for other app downloaders, so stay tuned. As always, the apps in our Homebrew Gallery are for testing, not production.