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One of our favorite developers, Donald Kirker, has announced via his company blog that he plans to return to active development of his prize application, one of our favorite (and admittedly one of the few) web browsers for webOS, Universe Web Browser. Kirker announced that he has begun development of version 2.0 of Universe, and while not announcing a release date he did note that the code will likely end up on his GitHub code repository for the browser before it makes it to the App Catalog. In addition to this, he announced his intentions of working on a version of Universe formatted for tablet screens. Kirker also made mention of his role in webOS Internals as their chief WebKit guy and and his work on the open source Isis web browser for webOS, possibly implying a connection between Universe and Isis. At the very least he indicated that he plans to add some hooks into Isis for Universe so that he can add extra features currently not possible in webOS, such as user agent switching, the ability to disable images, text reflow, and "many reported rendering bugs." Kirker presumably was unable to add in many hooks to the WebKit engine included in webOS during his time at HP, as they still do not exist in the latest versions of webOS. We look forward to what Donald can bring to Universe 2.0 and the tablet version, as well as what contributions he can make to Isis and to making it widely available to homebrew users. We welcome his return to webOS and will be closely following his work on both Universe and Isis, anxiously awaiting the day we can install Isis onto our TouchPads to upgrade our browsing experience and install Universe 2.0 onto our phones so we can get a better browsing experience there as well. View the full article

It took a little bit longer than both we and Astraware apparently expected, but the ever-popular game OddBlob has finally hit the HP TouchPad. For the going rate of $1.99, you'll be able to guide squishy little OddBlob through squishy disintegrating maze levels, much to your amusement, we would hope. The arrival of OddBlob caps off the saga of the TouchPad Totalizer, Astraware's sales tracker for the TouchPad used to publicly gauge and encourage interest in Astraware's games on the TouchPad. The tally topped the 5000 mark last month, hitting the top of the scale and triggering the porting and release of Astraware Casino. With OddBlob out, we can put the Totalizer behind us. Or can we? Nope!, says Astraware. They've extended the Totalizer up to a new goal of 7500, at which point Astraware will work on getting their Word Games pack onto the TouchPad. We're currently sitting at a total of 6341 sales for Astraware games on the TouchPad, which is both encouraging (not that far to go) and a little bit depressing (only 6341?). Word Games is a five-pack of, well, word games, including Shuffle (find as many words as you can from a jumble of letters), Hexed (trace words on a hexagonal grid), Wordsearch (like the newspaper classic), Gridlock (trace words on a grid, selecting every square), and Spellmaster (you get three options, pick the one that's not misspelled). As before, we've got to give Astraware props for moving forward with TouchPad development even though the profits reaped from webOS over the four-month history of the Totalizer can't have been huge. Plus there are the easily achievable sales goals they've set - only 2500 sales of five popular games needed to move to the next tier is doable without really trying. If there's one advantage the webOS App Catalog has over the Google Play Market and iOS App Store, it's that the lower number of apps overall and new daily make app discovery easy and keeps new apps near the top of the list for a while. But then again, that's because it's a shrinking platform with a shrinking developer base. Thankfully the users and developers left are generally the dedicated kind. Like Astraware. You guys rock. View the full article

Sometimes the best kind of games are brain teasers. We've all played them, some as simple as rearranging a grid puzzle to make a picture, others more complicated like Sudoku or those darned twisted iron puzzles that when you finally get them apart you're not sure how to put it back together again. For your TouchPad, we can offer up Color Tangle, a game by SimianLogic Studios. With Color Tangle the goal is to un-noodle a mesh of criss-crossing colorful wires and nodes, but certain wires and nodes cannot cross each other, forcing you to study the grid and plan ahead, lest you get stuck. Feel like having your noggin' noodled? Good, because we've got 50 copies to give away! Contest: We have 50 copies of Color Tangle to give away. Just leave a comment on this post to enter. Contest ends next Sunday at midnight US Eastern Time, after which time we will select 50 random entrants to win. Please only leave one comment, multiple entries won’t count. Promo codes are only valid in countries serviced by the App Catalog, and users must be running webOS 3.0 or higher with the latest version of the App Catalog. View the full article

After HP announced that webOS would be going open source way back in December we honestly thought we would never see another webOS update until the planned September release of Open webOS 1.0. Then, to our surprise, webOS 2.2.4 and 3.0.5 said hello to the world. It wasn't much of an update for Pre3 owners, but Pre 2 users finally received Bluetooth messaging support and Skype voice calling to add to their device's capabilities. Meanwhile the TouchPad gained faster view switching in calendar, IM presence indicators in Email, support for HTTP video streaming, an easy on/off toggle for auto-correct, the ability to insert a period when double-tapping the space bar, and a fistful of bug fixes. Sadly the Veer was still left in the cold and disappointed many owners longing for some Touch-to-Share action. So we revised our expectations, 2.2.4 and 3.0.5 to be the last updates before Open webOS hits and we maybe see something new pushed over-the-air from HP. Leave it to some Metrix logs to prove us wrong. Our very own Arthur Thornton, of Sparrow and Voice Memos fame, decided to check his logs since he had neglected to do so for a while. And what did he find while checking those logs? Why, four devices using webOS 2.2.5 accessed Voice Memos, two of which turned out to be Pre3s (the other two are unknown at this point). Curiosity piqued, Arthur checked his Metrix logs for Sparrow, discovering that at least one device running webOS 3.0.6 has used the app. Interesting, no? We've heard nothing from HP to indicate that webOS 2.2.5 or 3.0.6 would ever be coming, but that they're showing up in app logs - even relatively new apps like Sparrow, has us hopeful that they might see a release soon. webOS smartphones and TouchPad are decent with their current OS versions, but we wouldn't say no to the usual bug fixes and speed and battery improvements that are par for the course for a x.x.1 update. And we're sure Veer owners wouldn't mind having Touch-to-Share enabled nearly a year after the phone was released. So keep your fingers crossed webOS faithful, there might be at least one more update to be had from our beloved devices before Open webOS is upon us! read more View the full article

From the dawn of time, man has had to find a ways to write down his thoughts and reminders in order not to forget them. From the paintings on the walls of caves by cavemen; to the detailed hand writing on parchment paper with ink and a sharpened quill. Fast forward to today and we've made the grand leap from parchment to little neon-colored squares or paper we can stick to things. What a marvelous age we live in where we can afix reminders to the refrigerator, the mirror, and the door when you leave for work. Wouldn’t it be great to have the color and fun of sticky notes without forgetting them and the expense of rebuying them? Allow us to introduce you to Finger Notes, by Middlemind Games. It's a very simplified webOS notes app that lets you add your own creative touch now available for the TouchPad. There are other note-taking apps out there, like Pocket Mirror, Evernote, Notes HD, and even the built-in webOS Memos app, but what Finger Notes provides is simplicity and ease of control with the use of just one finger. But using just that one finger can be limiting - Finger Notes isn't an end-all solution for quick notes, and it certainly isn't perfect. read more View the full article

Quick Post, by Hedami, is a great way to take advantage of Quick Actions in webOS by posting to your Twitter or Facebook accounts directly from Just Type. Without even loading up an app, it's extremely easy to write up a post and even select which accounts you want to post them to. But what if you wanted to attach a photo to the posting as well? While this is clearly available as an option if you were to open up the app first before writing up your post, there is also a little shortcut that you can use in a Just Type Quick Action post to prompt you to select a photo prior to posting. All you need to do is start your message with "-i" before choosing to "Quick Post". This will then load up the Quick Post app with your message pre-populated and then automatically bring you to the photo picker. Once you select your photo, Quick Post will return you to your message and you can then choose to Send or Send & Exit the app. If Quick Post is not showing as an option in Just Type, don't forget that you may need to add it as an available Just Type Quick Action Quick Post is available in the webOS App Catalog for $1.50 and is compatible with all webOS devices running webOS 1.4.5 or higher. However, the Just Type Quick Actions feature is only available on devices running webOS 2.0 or higher. View the full article

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Despite Matias Duarte's hard work to duplicate the awesome multitasking found in webOS, Android 4.0 'Ice Cream Sandwich' still seems to come up short! To say that the card metaphor found in webOS nailed mobile multitasking would be a huge understatement. Some would argue that it perfected it. All webOS love set aside, many of you have loaded Android onto your TouchPad in order to enjoy the many creature comforts that Android has to offer - like Netflix and Draw Something. Don't worry, we aren't judging (much). However, you still find yourself yearning for some good ol’ fashioned webOS esque card swiping even when using Android. The gestures are a hard habit to break, and for good reason (being that they rock). To soothe your wanting fingers, there's WebCM9. WebCM9 is a neat little mod for a couple of TouchPad ROMs that changes the current task switcher found in Android 4.0 to a webOS-style task switcher. Yep, it's cards on Android. WebCM9 currently supports CM9 Official Nightly 2/28-3/09, 3/12-3/19, and 4/04-4/12; AOKP (Build 28, 29, and 31; and Milestone 4); and CM9 Alpha 2 ROMs (if you followed the instructions linked above, you've got CM9 Alpha 2 installed). WebCM9 isn't guaranteed to work on any other Android ROMs, and the developer doesn't recommend you try, unless you're willing to deal with the potential consequences. Installation is straightforward enough and is accomplished via Clockworkmod Recovery. Once installed you can further tweak out the settings of this mod with the Task Changer Pro app found in the Google Play Market. If you would like an in depth walkthrough on both WebCM9 and Task Changer Pro webOS Nation forum member ncinerate has done a very nice job of giving a step by step breakdown of the whole process that is bound to help even the most lost and confused of Android hacking hopefuls. So there you have it folks! You can have it both ways on your TouchPad. webOS cards in webOS, and webOS cards in Android. Sure, it's not the same as being able to run those apps in webOS, but it's better than nothing. If anything, webCM9 makes using Android feel a little bit more like home to webOS users. And of course, our thanks go out to Dubi, Pacosal, Bboyairwreck, Brucekey, Tbob18, and everybody else who helped make webCM9 a reality. View the full article

Developers, if you gather information about your install base for your apps you've likely run across Metrix, a project between Syntactix, one of our favorite developers, and webOSroundup. Following the announcement by webOSroundup earlier this month that they were going to be signing off for the last time, the decision to send Metrix offline was announced on Wednesday. The servers used to host Metrix cost around $250 per month, a high cost for a service provided free-of-charge to developers. Metrix is one of the most widely-used analytics tool by webOS app developers and for good reason - implementing the tool with your app is a breeze and you can be up and running in a matter of minutes. Syntactix also made the decision to open source the entire Metrix codebase - meaning the Mojo and Enyo libraries to interact with the Metrix servers, as well as the Metrix server-side code. As such, any developer with the desire to continue gathering analytics on their apps can do so with relative ease, so long as you have the means to use the code, which requires a Windows server among other things. For developers looking to keep a historical record of their apps, you've got limited time to act and it requires that you contact Syntactix. They can provide you with a CSV file containing all of your Metrix data. Do keep in mind that there is no way to import this data into Metrix with ease so that will all fall on you to either manually enter the data into your Metrix server or to build an import function; if you choose the latter it would be beneficial to contribute it back to the developer community. Metrix has had a good ride and we've learned a lot over the years from Metrix data, such as when Palm was testing the Pre2 with Zhephree's foursquare app. We are saddened to see Metrix go though we can certainly understand why it must and we're grateful for the decision to open source the tool. View the full article

Pandora has been available for webOS for as long as webOS has been available, but the app never made it to the TouchPad. Sure, there is the HTML5 webapp for Pandora, but we'd rather not have to work it through the browser. We need something less finicky, and that's where the Jake Morrison and Taylor Kimmett's new app Apollo Radio comes in. Pandora, for the uninitiated, is sort of like your own personal DJ. Based on the Music Genome Project, Pandora's algorithms allow users to build their own personal radio station around their musical preferences. Tell Pandora what music you like, and Pandora digs up other music that it thinks you'll enjoy. If you aren't enjoying what Pandora's served up, you can give the song a thumbs down and Pandora will remove it from your playlist and adjust its predictions for your musical taste. After a while, Pandora can build up a fairly good idea of what you will and won't like. The service is provided free of charge, only asking that you listen to some ads along the way to help pay for the music and servers. Pandora has historically made their own app, releasing versions for all major smartphone platforms. read more View the full article

webOS launched with Google Maps integration, but after Palm was bought by Microsoft best-buddy HP, they switched over to Redmond's solution of Bing Maps. There are reasons to like Bing Maps - the "birds eye" view available to TouchPad users is especially nifty. But there are plenty of reasons to mourn the loss of Google Maps, including Google's superior mass transit directions and international coverage. That said, the webOS Google Maps app had fallen way behind, and by the time the switch was made to Bing, Google had plans to deprecate the Maps API used in webOS, so the app was bound to die eventually anyway. Rather than remake it with Google, HP did best bud Microsoft a favor and switched to Bing. We didn't like it then, and we still don't like it today. In our not-so-humble opinion, Google Maps is the superior mapping solution, for everything from traffic to just finding things. Google Maps also includes incredibly handy features like Street View for seeing what it looks like at ground level or Terrain mapping. webOS Nation Forum member and homebrew developer 72ka decided that he too was tired of Bing Maps, and as a European webOS user, he was even more frustrated by HP's switching. So he did what any enterprising developer would do and made his own Google Maps app that puts both the new Bing Maps and old Google Maps apps for webOS to shame. As in never show your face in public again because everbody avoids making eye contact with you because they see you as wholly inadequate and you know it even though you don't want to admit it shame. Let's run down what the new homebrew Google Maps app brings to the table: View maps as standard streets, aerial photography, combined hybrid, or terrain; routing directions, including easily to or from search results; multi-touch, double-tap, and button-controlled zoom levels, a handy distance scale at the bottom, as-you-type search suggestions; Just Type integration; landscape support for all views; current traffic overlay; and Street View. Yes, Google Maps Street View. And it's even more awesome than you can get in the browser version of Google Maps - here you can zoom out to a super wide angle 180° view. Also, unlike some of the other attempts at making a replacement mapping app, the homebrewed Google Maps is actually attractive. It looks like it belongs on the device. The app is also a Mojo app, so it works delightfully well on all webOS devices, without all of the jitters and lag we've come to associate with the Enyo-based Bing Maps app on webOS smartphones. It's relatively smooth on everything from the Pre to the TouchPad. Oddly, though it doesn't behave as well on the Pre3, despite being the most powerful of webOS smartphones. Perhaps having 2.5 times the pixels of any other webOS smartphone is more than webOS and the app can handle at this point. We're hopeful it'll get ironed out soon enough, as the developer notes this is still at an "early development state". Really, there's only one place that we see the homebrew Google Maps falling short of the admittedly not-that-high mark set by the Bing Maps app: there's no bookmarking support for your favorite locations. It's not a huge deal, but it's nice to have. That said, developer 72ka has a favorite locations implementation in mind, and if all goes according to plan it'll even be tied into your Google account, so you'll be able to manage your favorites from any computer. We heart the cloud. Google Maps by 72ka is available now from the webOS Nation Homebrew Gallery and can be installed via WebOS Quick Install or Preware. There's more we migh want to say, but we just too darned excited to have the potential for a powerful, attractive, and intuitive Google Maps app back on our webOS devices. View the full article

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Glimpse by Inglorious Apps is an app that bring multitasking to a whole new level on your TouchPad, literally allowing you to run multiple mini-apps (called "widgets") by splitting the screen into panes and letting you determine which widget you want to run in each frame. But did you know that you can adjust which widgets show up in the selection toolbars, deactivating those that you would never use and activating others that you might not have been aware of if they were deactivated? To adjust your widget options: Swipe-down from the top-left within Glimpse and select "Preferences" Go to the "Widget" tab on the top From there, you can toggle any widget on/off When you are done selecting your desired widgets, just press the "Done" button on the top-left to return to the app. Glimpse is available in the webOS App Catalog for $4.99 and is compatible with the HP TouchPad running webOS 3.0 or higher View the full article

There's been a big question mark hanging over webOS since HP announced their plans to open source the operating system: then what? Come September, assuming HP has met their roadmap obligations, Open webOS 1.0 will be free and available for anybody to use. But for it to stand any chance at lasting relevance it's going to need to be put onto devices that people can actually buy. Last month we talked about the massive hurdles that one would have to overcome to build a webOS smartphone or tablet. Chief among them (and chief among Palm's problems before they were bought by HP) is money. You need money to buy components in bulk. You need money to pay for engineers. You need money for certification, factory space, packaging, and a million other pieces that are needed to bring a modern computing device to fruition. You need money. We'll admit, Derek was being his typical sardonic self when he threw in the line, "You aren't getting it from Kickstarter, are you?" That was a week after Kickstarter's biggest project to date - kooky game Double Fine Adventure had raked in $3.3 million over the course of a month from more than 87,000 backers. For those not familiar with Kickstarter, here's a crash course: Kickstarter allows enterprising entrepreneurs to publish a product proposal on the site and collect pledges from potential customers. They have to set a pledge goal and deadline, and backers aren't committed until both the deadline has passed and the project has reached its goal. For Double Fine Adventure, the developers were looking for $400,000 in pledges to get their game up off the ground. They got eight times that amount. read more View the full article

Some things we never thought we'd see. Like Microsoft somewhat getting their act together or Rod Blagojevich kind of sort of admitting his guilt. Or a virtual on-screen keyboard for webOS smartphones, especially in the App Catalog. Now, webOS 3.0 and the TouchPad by necessity have a virtual keyboard, and it's been demonstrated to work at phone sizes, and way back when there was even a hack to enable one in webOS 2.x, though it never really made it to primetime. Now, live in primetime and the webOS App Catalog is a new app by D Gardner: Quick-Keys Keyboard. The app throws a virtual keyboard into the notification area that you can use to type on your Pre without ever opening up the keyboard. Or you can use it on a TouchPad, if you're thinking the default virtual keyboard is just too darn big at any size. This $0.99 app lives in your notification area, ready to pop up and get you typing with a mere tap. Well, at least a close approximation of typing. Somewhat by necessity, Quick-Keys Keyboard types words one-at-a-time in the dashboard and a space or enter sends them into the appropriate app. It's a tedious existence, especially without any predictive or autocorrecting type available. Obviously we'd prefer that it put the letters we type in the app's text field as we type them, but we also can't imagine this was particularly easy to code. Maybe in a future update - perhaps one that brings a serious visual refresh. webOS is by-and-large an elegant operating system and the Mojo and Enyo SDK widgets have ensured that it's not hard to make apps that look good too. Quick-Keys does not. Despite the relative ugly, Quick-Keys Keyboard does bring some neat features, like a quick-text option that lets you set up to 28 different one-tap shortcuts that circumvent the one-word-at-a-time typing method for pre-canned messages that appear in your text field with a single tap. It can also insert the current date/time, and in a format of your choosing. Quick-Keys Keyboard has some potential as a creative solution to a problem that's been with webOS for three years now, but it's going to need some serious user interface and experience polish before it's ready for primetime. View the full article

One of the coolest things we at WOR were involved in was the creation of Metrix, an analytics tool for webOS. Hundreds of apps used it and, at its peak, our server was processing over 6 million hits a month. As you can imagine, our server didn’t like this very much and it cost us a good amount (about $250/month on average). So, as I mentioned on the podcast last week, we have to shut her down… But fear not brave developers! If you want to track your apps you will still be able to because have opened everything up and given it to the community to do with as you please. Use it, upgrade it, whatever you want… You can find it over at github, so go download it when you can. As for the servers, we will be shutting them down on the 25th of this month, so you have about a week to set it up on your own server and have no downtime. I also recommend that you take a screenshot of your current analytics because, unfortunately, there is no way to port the data. We want to thank all of the developers who used Metrix and helped us make it such a success. View the full article

Hosanna! Updates to the HP webOS Developer Center! As we begged and pleaded in one of our earlier webOS Wish List entries, there's a great need for shorter, more consumer-friendly promo codes. The kind you can easily re-type, you know, maybe 15 characters tops instead of something that rivals Microsoft's validation codes for having an excessive number of characters. As we noted then, the current system of 32 alpha-numeric digits allows for 1.9 quattuordecillion (that's 1.9 billion trillion trillion trillion) possible codes. No matter how successful webOS possibly is in the future, it'll never got through that many promo codes. Developers now have the option of generating "printable" codes that are fifteen characters long instead. The codes are also a much much much easier to process five letters, five numbers, and five letters. That's still 20.6 quintillion possible combinations, so the chances of somebody successfully guessing a functional code are still more than remote. There's been another update that's far more important for most developers: they can now read reviews left in the App Catalog by users from the developer portal website. The reviews expose not just the name, date, rating, and text of the review (like the App Catalog itself does), but also allow for on-the-fly translation and show the developer what version of the app that user had installed. This makes it easier to track down bugs based on the version (or see if somebody is just using an outdated version of the app and has been ignoring update prompts on their phone). The developer center reviews still don't make it possible for the developer to contact the user to address any issues they might have (be it PIBKAC errors or a legitimate problem with the app), but being able to review the reviews from someplace other than the App Catalog. It's a step forward, and hopefully the first of many. View the full article

A few months back, webOS developer extraordinaire Geoff Gauchet (Zhephree, as he calls himself in the mirror) released his newest app, a media-cataloger for the TouchPad titled Wooden Rows. Shortly after release Wooden Rows saw a back-end overhaul, thanks to its reliance on Amazon's database causing some terms and conditions issues (Amazon's totally cool with you querying their database for info, so long as you're not doing it from a 'mobile' device, such as a tablet - presumably they don't want to enable comparison shopping that might undercut their own prices, however unlikely that might be). Things have moved forward from there, but with other projects taking up the front burners on his development stove, Gauchet decided to take a radical step with Wooden Rows: open source. The app is still available in the App Catalog for $3.99, but the entire source code is now hosted on GitHub for anybody to tinker with and see if they can improve. Specifically, the hope is that others with a data source of their own they love that they want to see in Wooden Rows can code it in themselves and Gauchet will take their pull requests, merge them into the official client, and release it to the public with all of the newness included. Kind of like what HP's doing with Open webOS. Additionally, as part of the open source drive, Gauchet hopes to get some assistance porting Wooden Rows to other platforms, including Android and iOS. While he'll still be handling the server-side coding, the app itself is available under the Apache2 license. So, technically if you felt up to it, you could download the code and compile it yourself - that that's not the point of this project. So here's the question you have to ask yourself: Are you a Wooden Rows fan, or would you be if it cataloged your antique fire extinguisher collection in addition to your Blu-rays? Then head on over to GitHub, take a look at the code, and see if you can help improve Wooden Rows. View the full article

If you've ever been the type that got into Tumblr, you know how addicting the microblogging - social network mash-up can be. And while your TouchPad certainly supports having multiple websites open at once, there's something to be said for having quick access to your favorite Tumblrs with just a few taps. That's where Peek-A-Dash by Chris Van Hooser comes in - it displays your Tumblr dashboard in a pop-over window triggered from the notification panel. You can keep other things - whatever app you had going already - while browsing Tumblr blogs like the official The Enyo Blog, from which you can easily reblog your favorite posts. Normally this Tumblr insanity would cost you $0.99, but we just so happen to have 50 copies to give away. Contest: We have 50 copies of Peek-A-Dash to give away. Just leave a comment on this post to enter. Contest ends next Sunday at midnight US Eastern Time, after which time we will select 50 random entrants to win. Please only leave one comment, multiple entries won’t count. Promo codes are only valid in countries serviced by the App Catalog, and users must be running webOS 3.0 or higher with the latest version of the App Catalog. View the full article

Gaming developer Hexage got their start on webOS back in the day with one of our favorite time killers, the retro-classic modern updating of Space Invaders known as Radiant, with their tongue planted firmly in cheek with cringe-worthy pun-laden dialogue just to put a smile on your face. They're back, this time with a new TouchPad game that has also hit iOS and Android devices: Radiant Defense. Taking the same retro-new aesthetic as the classic Radiant, the new Defense game puts the old-school tower defense game in space, complete with expandable labyrinths, multiple upgradeable weapons, a multitude of enemies with varying weakness to your various weapons. And the goofy sound effects and awkward beep-and-buzz imitated dialog are still there, along with some of the sillier alien attackers we've seen in a long time (is that Kirby on acid? We'e not sure…). Radiant Defense also treads a new path for Hexage - it's free, with a limited arsenal at the outset. The game is not just free, it's ad-free, though you are nudged through the dialog and the you-just-died screens to purchase additional more powerful and versatile weapons packs through in-app purchasing. It's an interesting tactic that we've seen other games pursue with great success on other platforms - we doubt the in-app purchasing done through Radiant Defense on the TouchPad will be enough to make a notable impact on Hexage's ledger sheet, but we're glad either way to see them sticking to the same app model even for smaller platforms like ours. We've been toying around with Radiant Defense for the past few days, and it's brought us back to the days not that long ago where we lost many an hour of real time and battery life to extended Radiant gameplay sessions. Radiant Defense still has all of the cheeky charm of its predecessor, though updated with superior graphics and an entirely new gameplay mechanic. Cringe-inducing dialog included. View the full article

The two-finger scroll is not an official gesture in webOS, but rather one that has been built into applications to allow for quick-scrolling to the top or the bottom of the app. This gesture was first introduced in the twitter app Carbon by dots & lines, where they dubbed it the "Power Scroll". To activate the power scroll, put two fingers side-by-side on the screen and then just flick upwards or downwards, just as in the screenshot to the right. Since debuting in Carbon, the Power Scroll has made its way into other apps, such as Paper Mache and Internalz Pro, and even into the web browser on webOS phones thanks to sconix's Advanced System Behavior patch (available in Preware or webOS Quick Install) Do you know of other apps that utilize the power scroll? Leave a comment below to let us know! View the full article

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They are released each week and cover a wide array of helpful tips so that you too can become a webOS ninja. … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears:When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears:When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears: When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears: When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears:When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears:When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears: When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears: When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears:When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears:When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears: When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears: When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears:When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears:When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears:When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears:When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears:When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears:When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears: When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears: When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears: When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears: When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears:When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears:When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears: When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears: When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears:When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … Pop-Up Localize Views The Hyperword menu appears:When you select text When you select text and hit Enter Does not appear, keyboard shortcuts only When you select text and hit F2 Shift-Right click on selected text When you select text and hit Shift+Esc When you select text while holding down the Command Key When you select text and mouse over iconOpen results in: Same window New window As lightboxAlternativly, Ctrl/Command click opens in: Same window New window As lightboxHyperwords in Right-Click / Control-Click Menu: On Off Services Amazon: Google: Wikipedia: Link preview Show small Link Preview window (hold the Ctrl-key down and hover the link with mouse pointer).Wikipedia Links Always black Black, when opened from HW Unchanged Convert Search Google Top Result Google Amazon Google Image Bing References Google Definition Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Share Email Google Mail Twitter Facebook … View the full article

Eight months after getting cancelled, the HP TouchPad is becoming a rare bird in the retail space. A few random retailers have them, some trying to sell the discontinued and heavily-discounted webOS tablet for full price, but whether or not you're actually going to find one is a crapshoot. But sometimes the TouchPad pops up with full retail force, on sale like nothing ever happened. It's been nearly three months since we've seen the TouchPad last pop up on Woot's sale-of-the-day site, and back then they were asking $219.99 for a refurbished 32GB TouchPad (the refurbished 16GB version was available for $169.99). Today, however, new-in-box TouchPads are available through Woot, with the price tag of $249.99 (+$5 shipping), a price that includes a sleeve-style slip case. Now, $249.99 is a full $100 higher than HP's "sell everything!" fire sale pricing from back-in-the-day, but it's also well under the initial list price of $599.99 for the 32GB TouchPad. As always with Woot, the deal is good for today and today only, so if you're looking for a TouchPad - or just have $255 burning a hole in your pocket and have been struck with the fancy for a 9.7-inch tablet that can run webOS and Android - the we suggest you head over to Woot as quickly as your browser and internet service provider will allow. View the full article

One year ago, one of our favorite webOS Twitter client - Carbon - launched into the App Catalog for webOS smartphones. That was a different time, and the past year has been full of twists and turns for webOS, enough to give any mobile developer the chills. Carbon developer dots & lines has fought through those chills to release Graphite for the TouchPad and recently updated Carbon with a slew of fixes. But one can only handle so much, and the small development firm of dots & lines has decided to call it quits on webOS. Citing the continued cost of development to keep up with changes to Twitter's APIs and user expectations coupled with unsurprisingly declining sales, dots & lines made the decision to pull both Carbon and Graphite from the App Catalog. That means no more sales for either app, but it also means that existing purchasers of the app won't be able to redownload the apps after deleting them or when setting up a new webOS device. While we can understand the thought process behind ceasing development on Carbon and Graphite, especially with dots & lines already having released Carbon for Windows Phone and with Carbon for Android in alpha and Carbon for iOS on the drawing boards. We are disappointed by the decision to pull Carbon and Graphite from the App Catalog, as it denies current users the option to redownload it in the future. Sure, Carbon stands a very good chance of becoming abandonware as Twitter makes changes that break the current API implementation, but we know that now going forward. Then again, new purchasers might not realize that and could be stuck with an app that only functions for a short time. dots & lines is at least considering open sourcing the code for Carbon, even if it is the year-old Mojo framework and not the newer Enyo. Update: dots & lines has announced on Twitter that they are offering refunds to anybody who purchased Carbon or Graphite for webOS in the last two weeks. View the full article