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Mobile Nations Podcast Feed Mobile Nations on iTunes Mobile Nations YouTube HTC One X - a second opinion Hands-on with the HTC EVO 4G LTE Instagram for Android now live in the Google Play Store Here’s the List of Stuff RIM Needs to Solve for BlackBerry 10 to Succeed BlackBerry Mini Keyboard Review Reminder: Win a Trip to BlackBerry World 2012 and more in CrackBerry's BeBold Video Contest! From the Editor's Desk: Last blog standing Carbon finally updated to fix broken mentions and search How to install CyanogenMod 9 Android on your TouchPad The official iMore for iPhone app is here! Download the FREE app now! AT&T to begin officially unlocking off-contract iPhones, and good on them! How to use your iPad (or any device!) in direct sunlight Lumia 900 Review AT&T HTC Titan II makes a very nice first impression Leaked images of a Lumia Pure View Windows Phone? View the full article

One of the great things about webOS devices is the Palm Profile or HP webOS Profile. Sometimes it is handy to have more than one and your can hear why on this week’s preNote. You can listen to this and every preNote in the following ways: Subscribe to our Feed: use your favorite Feed Reader Download it directly Sign up to be notified: text “prenotes” to 41242 - You’ll get a text alert when the next preNote is ready (US only). What are preNotes? preNotes are short audio clips (typically between 5 – 10 minutes) that give you tips on how to better use your Palm Pre. 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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 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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 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Hop on over to Store.webOSnation.com to shop and save all weekend on webOS accessories. Use the coupon code "hop15" during checkout. This offer is not valid with any other coupon and expires at Midnight PST Monday 4/9/2012. Don't forget about our Fast Free Shipping on US orders of $50.00 and higher. Share this hopping great coupon code with your friends and family. Enjoy this special sale while it last! Happy Holidays! Hop on over to Store.webOSnationcom and let the savings begin! View the full article

So you’ve got your eggs, dye kit and your basket of chocolate Easter bunnies and rainbow peeps. Making those baskets take a lot of time and energy and the dye on the eggs you just made will take a few minutes to dry... but what if you break them? Remember that scene in Steel Magnolias while they were trying to take the Easter eggs to the church and they got crushed? There go your memories of this year, eh? Go digital this Easter - it's easier, it' cleaner, and you can print and share your Easter egg creations with family and friends. How to do this? Use the $0.99 FunTime 3D eDesigner Easter. It's really simple to create your own special design that you can keep forever. Upon opening the app you're presented with several options that lead you to create the marvelous Easter egg of your digital dreams. You can even name and add a short message to said eggs. The five options allow you to add different textures and colors. There are dozens of textures to choose from, including words, hearts, and geometric designs. Adding color is a bit less straightforward, with funky arrows to adjust the color depth and hue. But once you've got that down you can choose to bathe your egg all in one color or use the spread of the digital rainbow. Once all the designing is done you can actually touch the egg and turn it and make it face different directions. We know, "Ooooh... pretty...". You can save the file, spin it around on the screen and admite your creation, or even package it up an email and share it with your far-flung relatives. If you'e feeling particularly modern, you can even slap your TouchPad down on the dinner table for the Easter feast. Big, glowing, perfectly-made digital Easter eggs courtesy of FunTime 3D eDesigner Easter, or a little bowl of puny painted eggs that took hours to prepare and yet still look sloppy. Your choice, though we know which way we're leaning. View the full article

Various webOS meet ups are commencing in big cities and small towns all over this great land and you are invited. It doesn’t matter if you are an expert at developing thumping apps, a blogger who loves technology, or just someone who is curious about what make this community so great. This is a great opportunity to get to know who’s who in the community, eat great food, and dish about the best OS there ever was. And who knows... you could pick up some really cool goodies along the way. So here is your invitation for an afternoon of fun, creativity and spirited talk about what’s happening next. Here's what's coming up for the month of April: Saturday, April 7 in Jacksonville, Florida Saturday, April 14 in Dallas, Texas Sunday, April 22 in Chicago, Illinois Saturday, April 28 in Nashville, Tennessee View the full article

At long last the single most popular Twitter app for webOS smartphones has seen an update. Long overdue, the folks at dots & lines pushed out an update to Carbon that has fixed a number of bugs and improved support for the HP Pre3. It's a minor update, but it fixes major problems. As far as bug fixes are concerned, you can expect version 1.2.4 of Carbon to mark the return of functional feeds for Trends and Mentions, as well a working Twitter search function (in as far as Twitter search itself is working well, which often it seems to not). As for the Pre3, Carbon's graphics library has been updated to support the big-screened higher-resolution webOS smartphone, and tweaks have been applied to get rid of that damned black bar at the bottom of the screen. The end result is a crisper-looking app that fits the full 3.6-inches of the Pre3's 800x480 screen. To be honestly, we're just totally pleased to be able to see our Mentions again. That's just the bug fixes and improvements that Carbon has seen. While we still love the webOS version, we can't help but look at the Graphite-inspired features like inline image previews that have been worked into the newer Windows Phone and Android versions of Carbon. Then again, given what we would expect the current sales rate for Carbon webOS to be, we wouldn't expect dots & lines to exert the effort it would take to rewrite Carbon to support the new features. We'll take this update and call it a happy. Carbon 1.2.4 is available now in the App Catalog. It's a free update to current Carbon webOS users, or $1.99 to new purchasers. If you're a webOS smartphone owner and Twitter user and haven't downloaded Carbon yet... well, you might be wrong. View the full article

Yet another HP executive is leaving webOS, this time it's VP of Marketing David Gee who is heading out. Gee served in the role as webOS marketing chief for five quarters (which seems to be significantly longer than most of HP's webOS executive appointments), prior to that spending seven years as the marketing VP for HP Software and HP Enterprise Services. Gee is headed to IT automation provider Infoblox as their new Executive Vice President of Marketing. We can't say we really blame Gee for leaving the webOS group, it's not like his job was really needed at this point for webOS. There's simply nothing to market, and won't be for several months at best. So he's headed to greener pastures, and, as he told us, "returning to my enterprise infrastructure roots" with the move to Infoblox. Gee's departure appears to be on much more amicable terms than the surprise removal of Sam Greenblatt as the CTO of webOS, or Richard Kerris's departure for competitor Nokia. We wouldn't be surprised to see the VP of webOS Marketing position sit empty for a while - right now with this ongoing transition to an Open Source webOS and an uncertain future, there's not much need for a dedicated marketing team, much less a vice president to oversee it. After all of the layoffs that have hit the webOS group, we'd honestly be surprised if there was a marketing team left, mostly surprised that HP would let go engineers from what amounts to a software engineering project before marketers. Given how well HP's marketing efforts went before things went south, perhaps some fresh blood is needed in the webOS marketing department anyway. Or a whole new team, maybe. Really, we won't likely have an idea what's going on with webOS marketing for some time. So long as there's somebody, eventually, with what amounts to a good plan, then we'll be cool. View the full article

Today, David Baxter of webOSroundup.com announced that the site will have one last podcast next week and then close up shop. While we've been in competition with webOSroundup since their inception in late 2009, we've also always been on friendly terms. Sure, we battled back and forth for readers, exclusives, and just getting the story up first, but in the end - like the webOS community as a whole - we were in this whole thing together. The past few years have been a lot of up and down and we've watched competitors rise and fall. webOSroundup is just the latest site to fall, but also the largest, and while in any normal, healthy ecosystem I might be celebrating the fall of a competitor, with the situation we find our community and platform in it's not that simple and it's not good news. read more View the full article

Back in the days of webOS 1.x, it was possible through the magic of homebrew to alter the webOS app launcher in any number of ways. There were dozens of patches to change the spacing between apps, the size of app icons, the number of rows and columns and whether or not your apps had names and how big those names were… And then webOS 2.0 came out. It brought a fancy new natively-coded app launcher that while faster and smoother and more reliable was also impossible to patch without replacing the entire package. The beauty of the 1.x launcher was that it was coded in HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript like the rest of webOS. It was just another app as far as the phone was concerned, just one that you used to launch all other apps. It was easy to write up a patch to change a few lines of that code and suddenly have four columns and five rows of apps instead of the traditional three by four webOS view. The uncustomizable launcher carried on into webOS 3.0 to an even greater degree. Unless they go through a not-as-easy-as-patching process, TouchPad owners can't even change the names of their launcher tabs, let alone create new pages or change the spacing of app icons. It's utterly preposterous that we're stuck with nonsensically named tabs like "Apps", "Downloads", and "Favorites". Shouldn't the favorites tab be the first one? And aren't all of the launcher pages populated by apps, not just the first? And am I supposed to leave every app I've downloaded under the Downloads tab, or is it acceptable practice to move them somewhere else, like "Favorites"? It might take more code to make adding, removing, moving, and renaming launcher pages a possibility, but the TouchPad launcher scheme was unacceptable when the tablet launched, and it's even more so today more than a year after the TouchPad was announced. So here's what needs to happen (feel free to roll all of this into Open webOS). The launcher needs to have customizable pages. As with webOS 2.x, the page names must be renamable and the pages themselves reorderable. This is a bare minimum. If we can't do that, just dump the whole tabs scrolling launcher pages concept and put us into the paginated world of iOS and Android (hint: that's not what we want). The next step is to enable customization of spacing and icon size. Some people want big icons that are well-spaced, others prefer a tightly-packed layout that fits as many icons on a page as possible. For most the TouchPad's icon spacing works fine, but on webOS smartphones like the bigger-screened Pre3 it's silly to be stuck to just three icons across on a page. Have your own thoughts on this or any other webOS Wish List entry? You do, we get it. That's why we have the comments, it's your place to say how right - or how wrong - we are. And we have little doubt you have your own ideas as to what ought be on the webOS wish list, and so we've created a forum thread just for that - and an awesome discussion it has proven to be. View the full article

We don't get to review many accessories these days, for reasons that are fairly obvious: nobody makes or sells webOS devices, so why would anybody make accessories for those devices? It's a hard life for the accessory-wanting HP TouchPad, HP Veer, or HP Pre3 owner. But just because they aren't available doesn't mean accessories don't exist. For example, there's the Touchstone bluetooth audio dock, a never sold and never announced successor to the original Touchstone that incorporated Bluetooth audio streaming into the charging mix. At least a few have landed out in the wild, but they're exceedingly rare. You know, like the HP TouchPad Go. We've managed to get our hands on one such example of the HP Touchstone 2 Audio Dock, and it's partly what we expected, and partly not. read more View the full article

While your webOS profile will forever remember all the of the apps that you have ever purchased and allow you to re-download any of those apps for free, there is no way to actually see that list of all your purchased apps aside from reviewing all the individual emailed receipts that you received. While we would prefer a section in the App Catalog to display this information, we will have to settle for a homebrew solution from the great WebOS Internals' using the app Impostah (available for download in Preware or webOS Quick Install). Open up Impostah Tap on "App Catalog" Select "Show Purchased Apps" You will get a view of all the apps you have purchased on your profile, although it will be the App ID, not the app name. If you are unable to figure out what app it is, you can always navigate to: https://developer.palm.com/appredirect/?packageid=[App ID] (replacing "[App ID]" with the actually App ID) to load up the app description webpage Unfortunately, this page will not show if the app is installed or not, but you can export the list by swiping down from the top-left to bring down the Application dropdown menu and choosing "Email" to send yourself a email with a listing of all the apps for you to then compare against what is installed on your device If you notice that an app is in the list but is missing on your device and you can not find it in the App Catalog, this may be because the app is not listed as compatible with your device. If this is the case, can try using the homebrew App Tuckerbox to access the app in Preware, but be aware that there may be compatibility issues and the app may not work correctly (or it may work fine and the developer just never marked it for use on your device). View the full article

When I started this site in November 2009 I never expected the amazing ride it would turn into. What started out as a simple app review site grew into the second largest webOS fan site on the planet with over 300,000 visitors a month, a live podcast, two trips to CES, a lot of contests and more fun than one group of guys should be allowed to have. It is with great sorrow then to say that it is time for webOSroundup to sign off. It has been obvious for a little while now that WOR has not been able to keep up with the stories and news like we used to and rather than just languish and put up an occasional story from time to time we wanted to go out on our own terms and say thank you to each and every one of our fans…so in standard WOR fashion, we are going to do it with one final podcast. Next Tuesday (April 10th) at 9pm(Eastern) all of the WOR miscreants from the past and present will be around to talk about the wonderful ride running this site has been. We will be doing it live so we want everyone who can join us to do so. On tap to join us is: Dan Ramirez, myself, Jesse Mendoza, Ryan St. Andrie, and (hopefully) Roy Sutton. It should be a grand time where we can reminiscent about all the antics, webOS as a platform, and some behind the scenes stuff that you probably wouldn’t otherwise hear. Also, if you have questions, we will answer those as well. We hope you can join us and add your webOS and WOR stories into the mix as well. If you have any questions or stories, feel free to email me at [email protected] and we will do our best to get to each and every one of them. View the full article

An 800x480 screen, 1.4GHz Qualcomm processor, 512MB of RAM, 16GB of storage, an underappreciated but not fully matured operating system with a unique look and feel, and a physical design unlike anything else on the market. Name that phone. Is it the announced-15-months-ago-but-never-released HP Pre3, or the brand new Nokia Lumia 900 running Windows Phone on AT&T? Well, it's both. Nokia's latest Windows Phone 7 salvo is hitting AT&T with the force of, well, Nokia and Microsoft, and unlike the Pre3, you can actually buy it in stores. Our friend Daniel Rubino over at WPCentral just reviewed the latest Windows Phone flagship device, and here's what he found plenty to love: For $99 on contract, the Lumia 900 is one of the nicest Windows Phone on the market today and for the foreseeing future all at a great price. It has solid hardware including super-fast 4G LTE and the latest version of Windows Phone Mango ensuring a great experience for new users and veterans looking for an upgrade. Plus the device oozes with Nokia’s quality craftsmanship making it a device many will want to talk about. With all the hype around this phone, this could be the next “it” device for the summer. That $99 price point is really the super interesting part. Nokia and Microsoft are pushing this hard, and with that subsidy it's clear that AT&T is planning to push it hard too. AT&T says that the marketing drive for the Lumia 900 will be their biggest ever, eclipsing even their efforts for the iPhone. It's an interesting show to see the difference that a committed (and perhaps desperate) companies like Nokia and Microsoft can make when they through their full weight behind a product. Not that we're making any allusions to the fate of webOS under HP or anything… Read: WPCentral's Nokia Lumia 900 review read more View the full article

We know a lot of you aren't interested in Android, let alone considering installing it on your precious TouchPad. That's fine, this guide isn't for you. There are plenty of TouchPad owners who are and they have plenty of legitimate reasons to do so. Be it to get apps like Netflix on their tablet, to see what all the fuss is about widgets, or merely for the novelty factor of installing a second operating system on a TouchPad, there are reasons to do it. This guide will go over how to install the CyanogenMod 9 Android build on the HP TouchPad. CyanogenMod is a third-party open source distribution of the Android Open Source Project, with CyanogenMod 9 (CM9) based off of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS). It offers all of the core features of Android, though it does not come with the Google services integration that has come to be associated with the majority of commercial smartphone and tablet distributions of Android. The CM9 install is done alongside webOS. Once all is said and done you'll have the option when booting to launch into webOS or Android. It might seem daunting, but in reality it's not that complicated. Still interested? Alright, here's what you need... read more View the full article

Steve Jobs put an end to the Newton project, in part because he hated the concept of using a stylus. The original Palm Pilot was a runaway hit -- in part because of the use of the stylus and its handwriting recognition. Now, Palm is dead and Apple is ginormous and Samsung is trying to bring the stylus back with the Galaxy Note line... So, who was right? Just as the iPad is reaching the stratosphere in usage, the stylus is making a comeback. We ran a quick poll and the initial results were intriguing enough we wanted to get a better sense of just what was going on across all platforms and all of our mobile communities. So here's a short survey. Does the stylus inhibit or amplify your touch screen experience? Let us know! Take the Survey! View the full article

Steve Jobs put an end to the Newton project, largely because he hated the concept of using a stylus. The original Palm Pilot was a runaway hit - largely because of the use of the stylus and its handwriting recognition. Now, Palm is dead and Apple is ginormous, so, who was right? Well...maybe they both were. Just as the iPad is reaching the stratosphere in usage, the stylus is making a comeback. So, we want to know what you think. Does the stylus inhibit or amplify your touch screen experience? Let us know by taking the short survey below. Take the Survey! View the full article

Perhaps one of the coolest features webOS users have enjoyed since webOS 2.1 has been Exhibition mode. There is something inherently awesome about having your device do something useful during charging/idle time. When we set our Pre smartphones and TouchPads onto a Touchstone charger we have "at a glance information" of everything from news to weather to Twitter getting fed actively and passively to our glancing eyes. The rest of the world, meanwhile, has little to no relationship with their devices while they are charging. Their iPhones and Lumias and Droids just sit there and charge. That is about to change for our Exhibition-less fellow smartphone users, all thanks to one of our favorite webOS developers: Inglorious Apps. Anyone familiar with Inglorious Apps' flagship TouchPad app Glimpse should recognize Dock immediately. Dock is basically just a repackaged version of Glimpse's Exhibition widgets, built for smartphones. The Enyo-based app allows you to view streaming stock market data, RSS feeds, your Google Reader headlines, Twitter and Facebook streams, the latest news, a clock, or the weather while your iPhone or Android device is idle. Unfortunately, thanks to the design of Android and iOS there is no way to have Dock automatically load when you plug in your smartphone to charge, so you'd have to get into the habit of manually opening it up upon plug-in (some Android devices may support opening Dock as part of a "dock mode" or "car mode", but there's no universal Android way to do it that we're aware of). Even though Dock is a repurposing of bits from an Enyo app, it's the first Enyo app we've seen launch for non-webOS devices before webOS. Sure, you can buy Glimpse for your TouchPad and get these very same Exhibition widgets, but you can't do that on your webOS smartphone. Either way it is nice to see more Enyo goodness on other platforms and is a good indication of things to come with open webOS. This neat little app is currently available in the Google Play store for $1.43 and is currently routing its way through the iOS App Store approval process (hopefully to not meet the same fate as Inglorious Apps' Glimpse port Panes for iPad). Don't have an iPhone or Android device but still want some Dock up on your Pre or Veer? Inglorious Apps may not have yet created a version of Dock for webOS phones, but says that if there is a big enough demand they'd be more than happy to submit it to the webOS App Catalog. The comments away for your display of "I want!" Also, you can check out an iPhone emulator video of Dock in action after the break. read more View the full article

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This tip is only for devices running webOS 3.x The order of the email accounts listed in the email app is determined by the order that you add them to the app. While you have been able to reorder those email accounts since the original days of webOS and only needed to add a slight tweak to get it to work on webOS 2.x, this will not work in webOS 3.x on the TouchPad since Enyo does not currently support the ability to press-and-hold to rearrange lists. As a result, the only way to reorder your email accounts is to remove them and re-add them in the proper order. To accomplish this Take a look at the left-most sliding pane in the Email app, that shows the current order of your accounts and figure out the order that you want them to be listed. From any screen within the Email App, swipe-down in the top-left corner of the screen to bring up the Email Menu, and select “Preferences and Accounts” Under the “ACCOUNTS” listing, you will see each of your Email Accounts. Tap on any account that you need to remove and then re-add to the bottom of your account listing Scroll to the bottom of that specific Account Settings page and choose "Remove Account". You will then need to confirm the removal This will bring you back to the Preferences and Accounts page. Once you are done deleting your email accounts, leave the Email app and open up the Accounts app As long as you just removed the Email account from the Email app, you can then just find that account again in the Accounts app, select it, toggle "email" to ON and then press the Back button to start a sync of the account . You don't need to reinput your login credentials since you never completely deleted it from your Synergy accounts Keep adding accounts until you have them in the order that you would like Once completed, you unfortunately may need to go back to the Email account and set any preferences that you had previously setup for that account prior to the removal Here's hoping that Enyo will one day support press-and-hold to rearrange lists and this workaround will no longer be necessary. View the full article

The folks at webOS Nation have reported that Sam Greenblatt has left his post as webOS CTO and will no longer be in charge of webOS. After reaching out to HP they also received confirmation with the following comment: “Sam Greenblatt is moving from webOS to a new role at HP and will continue to assist the team during the transition. The Open webOS project is on schedule and HP remains committed to the roadmap announced in January.” Currently, there is no indication as to who may be next to take the reins of webOS. For the time being, Greenblatt will remain with HP simply in a different capacity. Sources have told webOS Nation that some developers within HP may have had issues surrounding the current pace of the open webOS roadmap. Going as far as possible head-butting going on stemming as far back as when Greenblatt originally came on to manage webOS. We are hopeful that this is simply yet another stepping stone in the long trail of stones that have faced webOS and that HP chooses the right person to head webOS as the next CTO. We are hoping they are able to continue making progressing and sticking with the promise to remain on track. Source: webOS Nation View the full article

Today saw yet another release along the Open webOS roadmap, with Novacom and Novacomd finding their way onto GitHub. The two pieces comprise a generic communication toolset used to communicate between a host (your computer) and embedded device (your webOS device) over USB. It's what allows the webOS SDK and programs like WebOS Quick Install to access the device over a USB connection without having to put the device into USB Mode. Plus there's the fact that USB mode doesn't allow access to the file system. Novacom has been distributed as part of the webOS SDK and webOS Doctors since what seems like the beginning of time, and was released as a separate downloadable executable a while back as well. The separate release, while not open source, enabled WebOS Quick Install to get by without downloading the entire webOS Doctor just to be able to extract Novacom to install a single app or patch. There are two parts to the release, Novacom and Novacomd. The latter is the service that runs on both the host and the target device, while Novacom is the command line user interface that provides a human-accessible way to access that service. With both now out in open source, the webOS developer community (and the developer community at large) is free to enhance, fix, and repurpose the two as they see fit. The release of Novacom nearly closes out the Open webOS release commitments for March, with just LevelDB and MojoDB/DB8 left for the month. Major releases for March have included the Nyx hardware abstraction layer and the Linux Standard Kernel 3.3, both of which will go a long way towards opening up Open webOS to installation on a wide range of devices. There's still a lot to go on the roadmap, but despite what feels like near constant drama, Open webOS is still making progress. Update: HP has also released to open source the DB8 database abstraction layer. It's aparently "a work in progress and not currently buildable," though that is expected to soon change. DB8 first step in incorporating LevelDB databases into Open webOS. View the full article

We've been hearing rumblings of tension within the leadership of HP's Open webOS unit, and today we've learned that webOS CTO Sam Greenblatt is transitioning away from his leadership position within webOS. We contacted HP and they confirmed that Greenblatt will no longer be in charge of webOS, though they offered no hints as to who might be taking the lead: "Sam Greenblatt is moving from webOS to a new role at HP and will continue to assist the team during the transition. The Open webOS project is on schedule and HP remains committed to the roadmap announced in January." Sources indicate to us that developers within HP were frustrated by the pace of the roadmap (whether they wanted it to go faster or slower, we're not certain), and that there has been considerable head-butting since Greenblatt took the lead of webOS just a few short months ago. For what it's worth, HP has delivered on Enyo 2.0, QtWebKit, the Linux Standard Kernel, and the Nyx hardware abstraction layer. Before coming to webOS, Greenblatt had been "VP of Strategic Program, Strategy & Corporate Development", a job title that tells us pretty much nothing, but still sounds like something that would mesh well with leading a group like webOS. Additionally, at least according to his LinkedIn profile, Greenblatt also currently holds the CTO of Enterprise Global Distribution position at HP, so he'll still have something to do once the transition to whoever is new is complete. Of course, the last webOS leader that transitioned to another position within HP eventually transitioned to a hammock in Mexico. HP Chief Strategy Office Bill Veghte is still in place, guiding the webOS effort from above, as are the remnants of the Open webOS staff after the most recent round of dismissals. Drama like this is never good for any group, and it's especially not good right now after all of the hits webOS has taken in the past five months. We're hopeful HP will pick a new leader for the webOS CTO position that will be keep Open webOS on track and drama at a minimum. View the full article

As a website, on of our favorite advancements in web technology has been the adoption of server-stored CSS fonts. Here on webOS Nation, for example, we make liberal use of the ITC Lubalin Graph font family, designed by Herb Lubalin in 1973. It's a beautiful geometric font with slab serifs that works well at a variety of weights. It's no-nonsense, yet quirky at the same time. But if you're the type that only visits webOS Nation on your webOS device, that's something you'd never know, as the current implementation of WebKit in all versions of webOS lacks support for fonts that aren't basic web fonts. If the browser doesn't recognize the font, you get Prelude, which while a beautiful font in its own right, doesn't do justice to the choices made by a growing crowd of design conscious websites. For an operating system that's built around web technologies, it's almost silly that webOS doesn't support something as simple as rendering text in a font stored on a server. Have your own thoughts on this or any other webOS Wish List entry? You do, we get it. That's why we have the comments, it's your place to say how right - or how wrong - we are. And we have little doubt you have your own ideas as to what ought be on the webOS wish list, and so we've created a forum thread just for that - and an awesome discussion it has proven to be. View the full article

Even if you've only been casually following the news this week, you've likely heard the big story. No, it's not that the Supreme Court is debating the constitutionality Obama's healthcare plan, nor is it that the Pope went to Cuba or that Syrian President Assad seems to have accepted a peace plan put forth by Kofi Annan. It's not even the Hunger Games movie, American Idol, or a Jet Blue pilot suffering from a mental break at 40,000 feet. No, the big story this week is five hundred million dollars - the estimated jackpot for the Mega Millions lottery drawing on Friday. It's the largest jackpot in lottery history, hitting half a billion dollars for the first time (and if by some insane happenstance nobody wins it this week, it'll go even higher). It's also approaching half the price of what HP paid for Palm, and likely right around (or higher) what HP was getting offered for webOS when they were trying to sell it. HP's since gone open source with webOS, but there's still a big hurdle to be overcome: hardware. Needless to say, buckets of hardware ain't cheap. Palm and HP spent billions of dollars building software and hardware with limited success. Now there's the chance HP to could make webOS hardware again, but the success or failure of Open webOS will depend on more than just HP. Other manufacturers have to get involved. The question is - who would want to make that hundreds of millions of dollars investment? We already tackled the numerous obstacles that have to be overcome with making a smartphone or tablet, but in the end it all boils down to the Benjamins. Half a billion dollars could go a long way, wouldn't you say? Now, we're not encouraging anybody to go out and buy a few dozen Mega Millions tickets and commit your hypothetical winnings towards starting a company to make webOS devices. It's your money, and your hypothetical winnings, you can spend it how you wish. After taxes the winner of the lottery can probably expect to take home something closer to $300 million, which is still a good chunk of change. With only minimal software development to pay for, that whole chunk of change could be dedicated to personnel recruitment, supplier contracts, hardware development, and all the other things that need to happen to make a smartphone or tablet. Heck, if you're willing to plunk down a few hundred million (after saving some for yourself and that super sweet Gulfstream G650 you've had your eye on), you might find that others are willing to chip in a few million as well. So, just for fun, we have to ask: What would you do with half a billion dollars? View the full article

Ah… you can feel it in the air. The crystal white snow has melted, no icicles dripping on the fragile limbs of trees and your breath no longer condenses in the air before your eyes. Yes, springtime is finally here (at least on the upper half of the globe), and with that we urge you to pack a picnic, put on your shorts, and grab your webOS devices to have some fun. To help you out, we've rounded up four webOS apps for smartphones and tablets that will put some spring time bounce in your step and maybe help you with that plant-killing black thumb of yours. read more View the full article