With some apps (like music software that has to be region-restricted), it makes sense. To our mind, though, most of the region-restricted freeware shouldn't be. It remains to be seen whether this workaround will stick around - Palm may change their url structure to stop it. It lets you view freeware App Catalog apps and gives clickable IPK download links, installable by WebOS Quick Install. In addition, the amazing developer Blacklight, from the Nexave forums, has developed a cross-platform desktop application called IPK Fetcher. WebOS Internals let us know that they're not adding any functionality to Preware to enable this well-known technique until they hear from Palm on the issue - more here. Update: it will list the apps, but not allow download. Now, you can go to the Ipkg Viewer in WebOS Quick Install and add the custom feed of and you'll have unrestricted App Catalog freeware downloads. Rod Whitby added it unofficially to their Packages files for their App Catalog feeds. Since the URL format's discover a few days ago, things have progressed quickly. And given previous developer reports of the Palm app submission form not recognizing their choice for full international release, this is bound to make many users and developers happy. While I'm sure some US-specific apps might not function fully, the vast majority seem to. What does this really mean? Well, in a nutshell, the sometimes arbitrary region restrictions on freeware App Catalogs apps is removed. ipk file URL that will work to download all freeware applications. Basically, using the application number (found within the screenshot URLs), version number and package ID, you can build a. The format was uncovered by a few people at roughly the same time, with pman_lt being the first to post it on our forums. Using a combination of information found within public Palm feed API and a basic URL template, it's become possible to get a direct download URL for freeware App Catalog applications!

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