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by Derek Kessler
May 08, 2012
By now you know how we feel about former HP CEO Léo Apotheker and his reign. Many of the major players in the tech industry - Apple, Google, Microsoft - have charismatic CEOs that act as the...
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by Derek Kessler
May 08, 2012
There are numerous ways to fool around and make art with your TouchPad. One of those ways is a fun app by Phantom App named Pixelism. As you might gather from the name, Pixelism is pixel art of...
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by Derek Kessler
May 04, 2012
He hadn't held the job for very long, but today HP has told us that veteran Palm employee and webOS Developer Relations head Fred Patton is departing the company for the ever vague "...
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by Derek Kessler
May 03, 2012
The joy of the Enyo application framework is that apps can be easily built not only to work on webOS smartphones and tablets, but across platforms. We've seen plenty of apps take advantage of...
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by Derek Kessler
May 03, 2012
What do you get when you mix together a 4.8" 720P AMOLED screen, 8 megapixel camera, quad-core processor, a 2100mAh battery, a smooth riverstone-inspired shape, and a wireless charging system?...
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by Derek Kessler
May 01, 2012
These are strange times in which we live. One month ago we were watching accomplished webOS app developer Inglorious Apps - the guy who brought us Glimpse - building an Enyo app called Dock to bring...
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by Derek Kessler
May 01, 2012
Last month we gave away a hundred copies of Wifi Media Sync in conjunction with the app gaining a new Mac client. This month, developer 8-Bit Development has decided to put the flagship app on sale...
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by Derek Kessler
May 01, 2012
When you're doing something awesome, people can't help but notice. They might not acknowledge it, but they take note and sometimes they just outright copy it. We saw it before when Research...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 30, 2012
In 1908, G.K. Chesterson published the book Orthodoxy, a study of his own personal journey of how he came to believe in the Christian faith. The book isn't an endorsement of Christianity, but a...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 27, 2012
With the runway from April showers into May flowers growing short, HP is closing out the week by making good on their April code commitments for webOS. What can you expect to find in HP's...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 25, 2012
It's been a while since we've had the whole Mobile Nations team together. This time around we talk BlackBerry 10, HTC One, Nokia Lumia 900, the new iPad, something something webOS, and...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 24, 2012
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...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 23, 2012
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...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 20, 2012
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 -...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 19, 2012
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,...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 19, 2012
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...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 18, 2012
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....
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 18, 2012
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...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 18, 2012
On June 6, 2009, Palm launched the Pre smartphone on Sprint. On June 6, 2009, legions of new webOS users discovered that events imported from Facebook were at the incorrect time in their phones. At...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 17, 2012
April 2010 brought the surprise announcement that HP was purchasing Palm for $1.2 billion. It wasn't a surprised that Palm was for sale or that they had found somebody to buy them up, the...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 16, 2012
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...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 16, 2012
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...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 15, 2012
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...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 15, 2012
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...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 13, 2012
HP Pivot was so unique in its application that it ended up a finalist in the 2011 Digital Magazine Awards. That uniqueness of the App Catalog magazine was severely hampered by the decisions made...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 10, 2012
If there's one thing Vegas is known for (besides mistakes we never speak of again and CES… one and the same), it's gambling. Poker, blackjack, rows and rows and rows of slot machines...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 05, 2012
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...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 05, 2012
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...
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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...
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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,...
