gDial Pro hits the App Catalog
It's not a big secret that gDial pro has been around for a while in the home brew community. What is a bit surprising and actually pleasing is that Palm has allowed it into the App Catalog. I have used the application and like just about everything there is except for the fact that it opens your phones main dialer to actually make the call. I doubt that there is currently any other way for the developer to place the call but I do hope that Palm opens the SDK to allow for this. It would be so nice to be able to just dial your number and have it dial straight in the gDial Pro application.
If you have never used gDial Pro then you need to head over to Google Voice and sign-up for an account. It is still in beta so you will need to wait for the invite from Google. When I registered a month back I only had to wait a few days to be invited but I have heard from others that they had to wait about a week. The only other thing I dislike about the interface is the colors the developer choose to use. It's pretty much all gray-scale, here's to hoping they allow for themes in the future so we can get past the grim look of the user interface as it is by default.
Annoying bug found in Palm’s WebOS Mail application
Yesterday my boss was out for the day and while he was out he was trying to be responsive to e-mails that he received. When he would reply to an e-mail it would tell him there was a problem sending the e-mail and put it in his out box.
Today he realized that he did not have his account authentication settings set properly in his phone. He set them all as they should be and went to his out box. He would hit the refresh button and it would continue to give him the error that it was unable to send the emails. This time it started complaining about the password being incorrect. He checked the mail server and used Wire Shark to watch the TCP activity. When his email application on the phone would say that authentication failed there was actually no communication with the mail server.
it seems that if you build up 5-6 messages in your out box you cannot hit refresh to send all of the messages. You have to individually tap on each message in your outbox and hit send in order to get it to sent the message.
Let's hope that Palm fixes this issue in their mail application. While you are at it Palm, can we get a way to delete more than one email message at a time???