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by Derek Kessler
Apr 04, 2012
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...
Article
by Derek Kessler
Apr 04, 2012
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,...
REVIEW
by Derek Kessler
Apr 04, 2012
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...
Article
by Derek Kessler
Apr 04, 2012
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...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 02, 2012
It's no secret that we at webOS Nation HQ are Mac people. We aren't really sure why we're Mac people, it's just that we are. As such, we've been left on the sidelines every now...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 01, 2012
That Enyo 2.0 is open source is awesome. That the webOS developer community is taking advantage of this open source awesomeness is even more awesome. While the application frameworks for webOS have...
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 29, 2012
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...
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 29, 2012
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...
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 28, 2012
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...
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 28, 2012
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...
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 27, 2012
At long last, webOS finally has an app that can identify songs via audio fingerprint. That app is the oh-so-aptly-named Song ID from SSGLabs (their first webOS app). $5.00 brings the basics of a...
Article
by Derek Kessler
Mar 26, 2012
If there's one thing to like about iOS, it's that all of your preferences and settings are accessible through one app: Settings. It's, at least in my mind, poorly organized and hit-or-...
REVIEW
by Derek Kessler
Mar 26, 2012
HP was gearing up to try something really interesting with webOS. We're not entirely sure how Music Synergy would have worked and where HP Play could have gone, but as you well know, things didn...
Article
by Derek Kessler
Mar 26, 2012
Sometimes it can be hard being a webOS fan, sitting on the sidelines watching all of the fancy new hardware fly by at 4G speeds. A lot of it isn't all that exciting, but every now and then...
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 26, 2012
While our webOS phones had access to handy little app called Multiple App Launcher, it didn't really work well on the TouchPad. So developer ScienceApps set out to remake the multiple...
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 23, 2012
Less than a month after the release of the Enyo 2.0 beta 2, beta numero 3 is now out, bringing bug fixes, core improvements, and some new user interface elements.
The Onyx user interface style (...
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 22, 2012
We here at webOS Nation associate Las Vegas with one thing: the agony and ecstasy of CES. The rest of the world associated Vegas with blackjack, slot machines, craps, and roulette (plus a different...
Article
by Derek Kessler
Mar 22, 2012
There are some things that we never expect to see happen. We're talking tortoise riding a unicorn type stuff here. That's the level of make-believe upon which we had stashed the thought of...
Article
by Derek Kessler
Mar 21, 2012
There are two things that really make Gmail Gmail: threaded conversations and labels. For the uninitiated, Gmail's labels are the result of a rethink of folders, instead of filing a message away...
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 21, 2012
Every other week or so a new thread pops up in the webOS Nation Forums about the possibility of building our own webOS smartphones or tablets. It always seems to garner a bit of attention,...
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 20, 2012
HP CEO Meg Whitman's crusade to right the plundered ship Packard is poised to really shake things up at the Silicon Valley giant: according to a report today from AllThingsD, the Imaging and...
Article
by Derek Kessler
Mar 20, 2012
Folks, it happened: Astraware's TouchPad Totalizer tracker of TouchPad game sales finally topped 5,000 sales, the top level for Astraware's we'll-make-these-if-you-buy-enough-of-those...
Article
by Derek Kessler
Mar 20, 2012
The march towards a fully open source webOS continues, with today seeing the release of the Nyx hardware abstraction layer. As described on the nyx-lib GitHub repository, "Nyx is the webOS...
Article
by Derek Kessler
Mar 20, 2012
Unsurprisingly, our call for people to lay out their vision for branding for Open webOS drew a lot of awesome entries. Surprisingly, HP liked it enough that wanted to get involved, pitching in a...
Article
by Derek Kessler
Mar 19, 2012
When HP pulled access to their previously-open-to-all App Catalog feeds, we were understandably disappointed. But HP had promised something new and innovative in the way of app discovery. That...
Article
by Derek Kessler
Mar 19, 2012
Right on schedule (for taking place in the month of March, that is), the Linux Standard Kernel version 3.3 has been released, bringing a metric ton of Android driver support to the mix. While the...
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 19, 2012
Some of us are qhat you might term "news saavy" and have a complicated system of combined RSS feeds, Twitter, and regular sites that we use to get the news. Others among us are less...
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 19, 2012
It's not often we get to cover industry news here on webOS Nation, mostly because webOS is currently somewhat detached from the industry. Write about the carriers and their never-ending quest to...
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 16, 2012
As the owner of a TouchPad, Pre3, and iPhone, I can tell you there's one thing that's needed in spades with a virtual keyboard over the hardware variety: strong and aggressive autocorrect....
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 15, 2012
Nearly five months ago HP VP of webOS Developer Relations Richard Kerris vacated his post for a new job at Nokia, just eight months after he was trotted out before the world at Think Beyond. Granted...
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