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As we noted last week, our little post about the branding design for Open webOS caught some eyes at HP and they decided they wanted to kick things up a notch, throwing in a TouchPad and a session with their design team for the winner. In response you all kicked things up a notch, with well over a hundred entries pouring into the comments over the weekend. Well, we've waded through all of your creative responses to our design query and picked out what we think are ten deserving candidates to have some confab time with HP's design team, plus a TouchPad for the hell of it. Those with a chance to leave their mark on Open webOS are after the break. read more View the full article
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In 2009 the world welcomed two random-partner chat platforms to the internet. Getting most of the press because of its skeeziness and the prevalence of male genitalia was video-based Chatroulette, overshadowing the ealier-in-the-year launch of text-based random chatter Omegle. With the tagline of "Talk to strangers!" Omegle pairs you with, well, strangers, to chat about whatever. They don't know who you are, and you don't know who they are. Perfectly anonymous chatter. And if you want to get to it on webOS, there just so happens to be an app for that: Padegle, a $0.99 app by Cool Story Products. And if you're the type that wants to get some chat on with a truly random stranger, then we have one of fifty copies to give to you. Contest: We have 50 copies of Padegle 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 50random 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 2.x or higher with the latest version of the App Catalog. View the full article
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This tip is only for webOS phones When webOS 3.0 and the TouchPad were released, Bing Maps was the default mapping application, replacing the Google Maps app that was installed on al webOS phones. Shortly after, those webOS phones were then updated to also replace Google Maps with Bing Maps, bringing almost all of the same functionality of the larger tablet-based version. One similar feature is the ability to change how you view the map, including the standard street map, satellite view and the "Bird's Eye" views that provide an angled viewing of a map. Unfortunately, unlike the TouchPad version, you can not rotate the angle of the Bird’s Eye view. To change you desired view type, tap on the icon on the top-right of the app to open the “OPTIONS” screen and use the bottom dropdown to select your “VIEW”. This will then take you back to the map and reload it as selected View the full article
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Mobile Nations Podcast Feed Mobile Nations on iTunes Mobile Nations YouTube Reminder: The Android Market is now the Play Store Hands-on redux with the HTC One X Three UK announces availability of Sony Xperia S RIM's quest for app developers in the wake of PlayBook 2.0 Why I love my BlackBerry PlayBook now more than ever D-pad app for PlayBook gaming may be coming soon to a BlackBerry near you OpenMobile working with HP to make Android apps on webOS a reality Open sourcing Open webOS branding, a super sweet prize awaits! Should HP make a "Nexus" hero device for Open webOS? Apple unveils the new iPad, and here’s everything you need to know! 2012 iPad buyers guide: How to choose the perfect model, size, color and 4G LTE carrier iOS 5.1 for iPhone and iPad walkthrough AT&T Lumia 900 delayed till April 22nd? Say it ain't so... Windows Phone "Tango" limitations officially confirmed It’s Official: Windows Phone Users Hate Macs View the full article
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If there's one thing that webOS and the Palm Pre ushered into maturity it was the gesture-based user interface. While gestures had been a part of modern mobile operating systems like Android and iOS, they'd only been present in places like the app launcher or widgets panels. webOS kicked that all up a launch, using gestures to go back, to go into multitasking mode, to switch between apps, close apps, delete items, open menus, and much more. It was a genius use of gestures and it gets so engrained in your use of webOS that your author often finds himself trying to swipe up into card view on non-webOS devices. The TouchPad ditched a lot of that when webOS 3.0 could have taken things up a notch (or ten). The multitasking gestures are still there, and for hardware and usability reasons the back gesture went away, but as I noted back in August, there's no reason that webOS couldn't have adopted plenty of new gestures. Be it swiping in from the sides to switch apps (a feature now in use in BlackBerry's PlayBook OS and Microsoft Windows 8), two finger swipes to go forward and back in the browser, and so much more. None of these would be necessary for anybody's use of webOS, unlike the Playbook which is almost dependent upon knowing gestures, but for users that do know the gestures will make webOS even faster and more fluid to use. So, HP, you're working on Open webOS 1.0. Give the gestures are bit of love, will ya? Have your own thoughts on this webOS Wish List entry? Of course you do - the comments are below. Surely 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 what has proven to be an awesome discussion. View the full article
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Touch-to-share was a concept that was introduced at the Think Beyond event with the unveiling of the Veer, Pre3 and TouchPad. The concept was that you could use a near field communications-type technology to share data between your devices simply by touching them together. While touch-to-share was ultimately going to be expanded to include a lot of different types of data, even giving developers the ability to access it in their apps, touch-to-share currently only lets you share web pages between devices and doesn’t appear that it will be expanded any time soon. And unfortunately, while the Veer has the hardware requirements to allow touch-to-share, it never received the software update to take advantage of this functionality; so, you will be required to have a Pre3 and a TouchPad (or two of each device) to access it. So how does touch-to-share work? All you need to do is place the back of the Pre3 (where the HP logo is) on top the home button of the TouchPad and let it sit for a second or two. You will know that the touch-to-share was activated because a giant ripple will emanate from the home button on the TouchPad, and then one of a few things will happen: If Bluetooth was not turned On on either device, you will get a notice saying that you will need to turn Bluetooth on in order to take advantage of this feature and give you an option to turn Bluetooth on. Once on, try touch-to-share again If the two devices were not already paired together via Bluetooth, they will automatically get paired together and you will get a pop-up on your Pre3 asking to allow messaging access to share your text messages across the devices. Regardless of the answer to this question, your devices will now be paired together and you can access touch-to-share. You can also adjust your Bluetooth preferences (such as allowing messaging or phone calls between devices) later or even open up the Bluetooth app and swipe-to-delete a device from your list if you want permanently delete it from your list of trusted devices. Assuming that you now have Bluetooth turned on and two devices paired together, if you have a webpage active on the screen from the stock web browser on the Pre3 and/or the TouchPad when you touch the two devices together, the URL of that site will be sent to the other device and the stock web browser will launch and open that page. Unfortunately, it will not send your position on the page or any other data that you may have filled in on the originating device. It simply sends over the website address While this is not a feature that is probably used often, it is convienent when you are reading a site on your phone and decide that you would rather read it on the larger screen of your TouchPad, or if you are reading a site on your TouchPad but have to leave the house and you can quickly transfer that site to your phone. And, until HP or someone within the Open Source webOS team expands touch-to-share, this is all that we will be able to use touch-to-share for. View the full article
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An interesting question was posed this morning in our forums by aia832003: should HP make a "Nexus" device? For those not familiar, Google has over the past few years commissioned a series of "Nexus" phones for Android, phones that are the launch device for a new version of Android and run "pure" Android, [mostly] free of carrier and manufacturer interference. They're also typically the state-of-the-art as far as smartphones of the moment are concerned. For example, the current Nexus device is the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, a powerhouse of a smartphone no matter which way you cut it. With webOS going open source, HP's going to face two problems going forward. The first, and largest problem, is convincing another manufacturer to take a chance on webOS. The second will be controlling webOS - while you technically can't control an open source project, especially with HP's plan to go with Apache licensing, setting the example can go a long way towards setting consumer expectations. With Android, consumers have come to expect and differentiate between the experience offered by the skins of HTC, Samsung, and Motorola. Obviously HP will want to avoid that kind of fragmentation, and setting the example with a "hero" type device might do that trick. That said, there are some potential problems with the Nexus-approach for HP. The first being smartphones - it'll be hard enough to convince any manufacturer to pick up webOS, it'll be even harder to convince the carriers to give webOS yet another chance after years of disappointment at the register. There is of course the tablet market, in which HP could easily do the Nexus thing. They're planning on making ARM-powered Windows 8 tablets, and that hardware engineering wouldn't be that far off from what an open source Open webOS kernel could support. Heck, HP CEO Meg Whitman even said she'd like for HP to get back into the webOS tablet game. So what do you say, oh webOS Nation? Should HP take the lead and set the example with webOS hardware, or should they leave it to the professionals? View the full article
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Two days ago we posted what we thought would be a fun exercise: getting the webOS Nation community involved in working up fresh branding for Open webOS. At the time we were doing it just because, with no expectations that HP would do anything with what was worked up, much less that they might be paying attention. Well, dear reader and potential logo designer, HP is paying attention - they've been watching the comments rolling in and like what they've seen thus far. So much so that they want to get involved, well, technically they want to get you involved. So they've pitched in a sweet prize pack that will go to the winning logo designer (more on that in a bit). So to determine who gets this sweet prize pack we're going to take this fun exercise and turn it into a competition. We'll be taking submissions (keep posting them in the comments of the original post) through Sunday, March 11th, at which time we'll pick a group of what we think are the best and put it up to a community vote to determine the winner. What does the winner get? Well, HP's chipping in a brand-new TouchPad, an article that is becoming harder to find every day. They'll also want to get the winner involved with the official branding process and will arrange for them to do some speaking on their design with the design team currently working on the branding for Open webOS. So go ahead and get cracking on those Open webOS logo designs - a TouchPad and your chance to leave an official mark on webOS are waiting! View the full article
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I'll be honest, this is one of those wish list items of something minor that's always bugged me. I'm talking about the App Catalog, which if anything should be the epitome of webOS apps. So what does it do? It completely ignores the most characteristic of webOS TouchPad app features: the sliding panels of Enyo. For most of the browsing experience in the App Catalog that's forgivable. The top and bottom tabs do just fine and make sense to navigate around. Where things break down is when you open an app listing. Suddenly you're presented with this tabled layout that works, but there's this weird, out-of-place button labeled "Back" in the bottom left corner. You know, right where the Enyo grab handle should be. The App Catalog is an Enyo app, there's no doubt about that, but in the most identifiable of ways it behaves more like something out of iOS or Android. Heck, even the web browser has sliding panels, and that's for things like bookmarks that could be very easily displayed in a pop-over list. Think about it - browsing in the App Catalog could be greatly enhanced with the addition of Enyo panels. You could have a list of the apps on the left and the listing itself on the right, enabling fast one-tap comparisons. Screenshots could be presented in true full-screen instead of the also out-of-place overlay. There's a lot that Enyo could bring to the App Catalog, and it just doesn't make sense that it's not there. [/rant] Have your own thoughts on this webOS Wish List entry? Of course you do - the comments are below. Surely 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 what has proven to be an awesome discussion. View the full article
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The built-in Memos app for webOS isn't all that great. We all know it. With a big 9.7-inch screen like that on the TouchPad, its even more unforgivable how basic it is and how little its been updated. If there's one good thing about the pitifulness of the TouchPad Memos app, it's that it has opened the door for several third-party developers to built the better notepad. One such developer is Inglorious Apps, who created the aptly titled and well-featured Notes HD. For the asking price of $1.99, Notes HD drags memos on webOS up to modern standards. Well, really it brings back a lot of the features from the Palm OS Memos app, including titles, password protection, and categories (gasp). read more View the full article
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When you get an email from someone in your contact list, did you know that you can easily call, text, look up their address, or get access to any of the data from their contact record with just a single tap on the screen? From an email message on either webOS phones or the TouchPad, tap on the header that shows who was the sender of the email. On phones, this will bring you directly to that person's Contact record, while the TouchPad will give you a little pop-up dialog box with all of their information. From here, you can tap on a phone number to call the person, tap on the SMS icon next to the phone number to text them, initiate a skype call, or perform any other action based on the data available, all without really leaving the email application. If you want to go back to the message, just back-swipe on phones or press the "Close" button on the TouchPad. Note that if the person is not in your contact list, you will have the option of adding them by tapping on the sender header. View the full article
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So everybody's got their panties all in a bunch over some new iPad or something that's being announced today. You heard it here first, folks: It'll be better than the last one. It'll be more magical than the last one. Magical-er. Anyhoo. Our pals at iMore are rocking the all-day coverage, including a boatload of live commentary. And just like with the iPhone 4S event, there's a better than average chance that Phil will swing by to remind everybody that it's just an iPad, they should all go outside and enjoy the fresh air -- basically do his damndest to burst that Reality Distortion Field. Just keep it glued to iMore.com. View the full article
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Sometimes, for reasons we've yet to determine, the built-in first-party apps can disappear off an HP TouchPad. It's rare, but it happens, and for the average user it's annoying, frustrating, and confusing to have a basic app like the App Catalog or Calendar just up and disappear. Thankfully, HP has made it relatively easy to restore these apps, and you can do it all on your TouchPad, though some homebrew magic is required. First things first, you'll need the excellent homebrew file browser Internalz Pro installed on your TouchPad. Our how-to install homebrew apps guide will give you a step-by-step of how to install Internalz (or any other homebrew app, for that matter). read more View the full article
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You know what's fun about open source? Anybody can contribute. While that generally has to do with code-level stuff, there's still plenty of user-facing design work that has to be done with open source software projects - Open webOS included. We've already seen the snazzy logo HP whipped up for the open source Enyo application framework, but as of yet we haven't been graced with a new logo for Open webOS. So we're asking you, webOS Nation, to step up and show HP how it ought be done. We know there are a lot of good designers and artists in the crowd, and we want to see what kind of work you can come up with for the Open webOS branding. This isn't an official or unofficial HP project - we're just doing this because we think it'll be fun and, frankly, Derek's a giant design nerd. So have at it, dear reader, and post your attempt at a logo for Open webOS in the comments of this post. You know you've got a good idea or two! View the full article
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webOS developers from around the world gathered yesterday in person and online to take place in the first ever virtual Enyo hackathon. The event lasted right around six hours, including an introduction from HP's Ben Combee, a Q&A session, and judging period. Seventeen apps were submitted by the end, with the only rules that they must made with Enyo 1.0 or 2.0, use a publicly-available API, and run either on a TouchPad or in the Chrome browser. The judges - Combee, Enyo Developer Relations guru Lisa Brewster, and your's truly - selected apps to win the vaunted label of best design, best functionality, and best overall app, with the best overall winning an HP TouchPad while the other two went home with a Pre3. So, without further ado, the winners are… read more View the full article
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The biggest stumbling block for webOS, apart from mismanagement on the part of HP, has always been the relative lack of apps. Sure, there are standards there and the most basic needs are covered, but the "long tail" of apps, those apps that aren't the nine or ten that everybody's downloaded, that's where webOS has struggled for the whole time it's been around. The app situation isn't entirely responsible for the predicament webOS is in today, but it certainly played a big part in the vicious cycle (despite our protestations that Palm and HP do something about it). Enter OpenMobile with a solution that aims to work around this problem by drafting Android into the webOS ecosystem. OpenMobile was showing off their Android Compatibility Layer product at CES, which grafts Android as a runtime into webOS, allowing users to run Android apps in webOS, complete with cards, notifications, and all that jazz. At the time, the folks at OpenMobile had made the ACL work on Meego and webOS, but at the time they weren't involved with HP. Since then things have been pretty quiet on the OpenMobile front, but webOS Nation forum member Zukny reached out to OpenMobile to see if he could find out more information. Unexpectedly he got a call back from OpenMobile CEO Bob Angelo, who informed him that not only is HP interested in getting the OpenMobile ACL onto the HP TouchPad and Open webOS, the project has high-level support within the webOS organization. Additionally, though OpenMobile's original business plan was to work with HP and other manufacturers to integrate the ACL into the product before it shipped, they've changed gears with webOS for obvious reasons and are exploring offering the ACL as a package you'll be able to purchase at what they're expecting to be a relatively low price point - though we're sure plenty of you would pay good money for access to a couple hundred thousand more apps over the couple thousand currently available to TouchPad owners. We're pleased to hear that OpenMobile is encouraged by the enthusiasm the webOS community has expressed for their efforts and hope it won't be long before we're running Android apps without running Android. View the full article
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We think it's safe to declare Mobile Nations Fitness Month to have been a success. Looking back at February we had many members on webOS Nation and across the Mobile Nations network of sites getting up, going out, and getting fit - and dragging the editorial staff along for the ride. As we said at the outset, we would be running a contest through our forums to give away a TouchPad bundle and a quartet of TouchPad Touchstone chargers. And as you might expect from the best community in mobile, there was plenty of participation! So without further ado, the winners are… Grand Prize - 32GB HP TouchPad, Touchstone charger, Bluetooth keyboard, and folio case: woosh! Weekly prizes - a TouchPad Touchstone charging dock: camiller, Cyberpmg, solaimadhan, and romeytang! Congratulations to all our winners, but also congratulations to everybody who participated in Fitness Month for taking steps in the right direction for fitness and health. As you might have noticed, it is now March. Fitness Month is past us, but there's no reason to stop now. Our minds are at our best when our bodies are in good condition, so keep up with the running, with the weight lifting, with the reduction of sugar, the taking the stairs, or whatever it is you're doing to get into better shape. It's your health we're talking about here - there's not much more important than that. View the full article
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When we announced our name change to webOS Nation a few months back, we noted that the webOS platform and this very site only exist today because of the community. Without our more than half a million members and millions more readers there would simply be no webOS Nation. You're this community's fuel. So we're going to gake some time out of our weekend every now and then to look at some of the tremendous members of our forums. With more than 9000 posts to his name and more every day, Shane (you might know his as Shadavis08) is the kind of engaged, helpful, and all-around aweomse member we love to have. He’s also our very first reader spotlight! read more View the full article
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There are a lot of cool ideas in webOS, and there are plenty of cool ideas that we're sure they've come up with in Sunnyvale over the past four years they just didn't have the time, money, and personnel to put together. Some they even patented, like the slick multi-layer wave launcher we picked out of Palm's patent portfolio a few months ago. The ideas was to allow you to pause on a wave launcher icon to open additional options, such as displaying favorites under Contacts or bookmarks from Web or direct-launching into different parts of Carbon. The multi-layer wave launcher would allow for all manner of even faster webOS actions, be it firing off a tweet or calling the spouse. Just Type and Quick Actions are great for some things, but let's be honest - should you really have to bust out the keyboard to call the office and let them know you're running late? No, you really shouldn't have to do that. The office is already one of your favorites, but the only place you see those favorites is in the Phone app or when searching. Why not swipe > pause > pick > release? Unlike some other Wish List items, the multi-layer wave launcher isn't borrowing from other platforms or even standard computing expectations or picking up where Palm OS left off. This is taking after an idea that Palm already has, an idea that they own. And what good is an idea like this if you don't act on it? Have your own thoughts on this webOS Wish List entry? Of course you do - the comments are below. Surely 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 what has proven to be an awesome discussion. View the full article
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Talking about cutting WebOS staff in half! View the full article
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As a reminder to our wonderful developer community, the virtual Enyo Hackathon is set to kick of on Sunday at noon Eastern Time. Groups will be gathering in New York City, Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, Dallas, San Diego, and San Francisco as well as tuning in from more than twenty countries around the globe to hack their way with EnyoJS and webOS. As we noted last week, prizes hadn't yet been announced, but now they are known: an HP TouchPad will go to the best overall app, while the best app design and best functionality each will get an HP Pre3. And that's just for the hacking part - if you're able to make it in person to an event you'll see a bunch of prizes onsite from the individual meetup organizers. As for who is going to be deciding the winners, a three person slate of HP's Ben Combee and Lisa Brewster joined by webOS Nation's Derek Kessler (yours truly) will be doing the evaluating, with the winners also getting featured on EnyoJS.com and this little site as well. So if you've been itching for a reason to do some EnyoJS hacking, well, itch no longer - the Virtual Enyo Hackathon is this weekend, and it's bound to rock. View the full article
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Have you ever tried to either purchase or update an app from the App Catalog and you get a "Download failed" error? First, don't panic! Second, don't immediately give the app a 1 star review since it would not download. While these types of errors occasionally occur when downloading apps, especially when updating multiple apps at once, it's usually easy to fix and just requires a little manual intervention. There are actually a few places to perform this fix, either from the Software Manager, on the App description page, or from the error dashboard notification. If you load up the actual App Description page from the App Catalog, you will see "Download failed" where you would normally tap to buy the app along with a yellow error triangle. Tapping on that error will give you the option to try to download the app again or to cancel the download. From the Software Manager app, you can find the failed app with that same yellow error triangle replaced over the version number of the app. Tapping on that error triangle will give you the same options as above to try the download again or to cancel the download Finally, depending on your webOS device and version, tapping on the Download Failed notification will either take you to you to the App Description page or the Software Manager. The just follow the directions above You should first simply "try again" to reinitiate the download. If you still get an error, then select the option to cancel the download and open up the app directly in the App Catalog and try to manually download the app again. If the app still does not download, wait a little while to see if it's simply a glitch on the app catalog server. Finally, if you can not get the app to update regardless of what you do, contact HP/Palm support. Do not contact the developer because they will not be able to support your download Please note that if you had previously installed a paid app from outside of the App Catalog but the developer updates the app in the catalog, you will still receive a notice that the app was updated. However, the app will always fail to download no matter what you do since the app is not listed in your profile as a paid app. If you want the updated version, first delete the app from your device and then purchase it directly in the app catalog. View the full article
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There are a great many things you can do wirelessly with the HP TouchPad - heck you can charge the darned thing without plugging it in. But transferring files from your desktop computer to the tablet has always involved either a giving a song-and-dance performance to appease the cloud syncing gods or just plugging in with a Micro-USB cable. We at webOS Nation do a lot of screencapping, and we've taken to just emailing the shots to ourselves as the fastest and simplest method to get the images back-and-forth. "The line must be drawn here! This far, no farther!" said homebrew developer ShiftyAxel - he wanted more wireless. So he whipped up a Samba installer for webOS and put together a the cunningly named app WiFi File Sharing. The app, currently available in the webOS Nation Homebrew Gallery, when opened turns your TouchPad into a local network drive accessible by your computer. Simple as that. Out-of-the-box, WiFi File Sharing is set up to allow access to a newly-created Public folder, though with just a few taps in the Preferences pane you can allow access to the entirety of your USB drive and boot partitions. That's not just browsing access - WiFi File Sharing mounts your TouchPad as a fully-accessible network drive, complete with read and write privileges. All you have to do is have WiFi File Sharing open and in the foreground ("maximized") to maintain the connection. Toss the app away and the connection is automatically terminated. Ideally your computer should be able to automatically the TouchPad right off the bat after installing and launching, but there's always room for finickiness. This is why we're beginning the migration to tablets as everyday devices - they're just nowhere near as finicky. Anyway, on first launch we couldn't get our Mac to notice that there was a fun new network drive to play with. But directing our file browser to connect to the smb://Touchpad/Public server (Go > Connect to Server… (no password) on a Mac, Start > Computer > Map Network Drive for PC) solved the issue handily. Now we're wirelessly slinging files back and forth through the ether, and we find ourselves agreeing with ShiftyAxel - this kind of stuff should be included in webOS. Sure, it's a an advanced feature, but it'd be there to supplement the cloud and cabled options. Either way, WiFi File Sharing and Easy Samba are available now through our Homebrew Gallery, webOS Quick Install, and Preware. Go download it. Now. read more View the full article
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With yesterday's release of the Enyo 2.0 UI widgets bringing February's code commitment for Open webOS to a close, it's time now to look forward to March. webOS CTO Sam Greenblatt took to the HP webOS Developer Blog to lay out what we can expect in the month ahead - and it's right as the roadmap said it would be, though fleshed out with som additional detail today. March's release will expand the already-released QtWebKit framework to incorporate Open GL ES and WebGL graphics libraries (the latter having taken far too long to make it on to web-based webOS), 3D audio API OpenAL Soft, and streaming media framework GStreamer. We'll also get our first look at HP's implementation of the Linux Standard Kernel (v 3.3), which they'll be supplementing with a new hardware abstraction layered called "Nyx" that provides access to layers not available through the standard driver set. What exactly Nyx will provide access to (cellular radios? advanced sensors?) isn't clear at this point, but HP's got 31 days to clear that up. Database-wise the Open webOS implementation of LevelDB will be released, as well as the developer-facing MojoDB/DB8 abstraction layer. Lastly, later in the month, we'll see the open sourcing of the Novacom USB driver, which though not yet open source is readily availabile already. View the full article
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We're not entirely onboard with Pinterest's pinboard-inspired photo sharing social network, but we can understand why somebody would be. It seems like it might be fun, you know, if we had anything worth sharing. webOS Nation forum member BeckeyJane found herself wanting better (read: any) Pinterest support for her TouchPad, and she found her savior in fellow member and webOS developer hkowalczyk. Mr. Kowalczyk just so happens to have a wife who's also an active Pinterest user, so he created a patch to add "Pin This" to the tap+hold images context menu in the webOS browser. Essentially it's a bookmarklet that throw's that images URL over to Pinterest for pinning on your pinboard (obviously a Pinterest account is required for this to work and be useful). The patch is available right now in the webOS Nation forums - just download it on you computer and install with webOS Quick Install or use Preware or Internalz on your TouchPad. It's pinteresting. View the full article