neato! bound for cross-platform bliss 18
Editor's Note: I'm happy to welcome aboard one more new writer to the webOS Nation team: Ryan St. Andrie. With plenty of experience in the webOS community, Ryan brings a lot to the table. Plus, he litterally is working on the railroad. Welcome to the team, Ryan!
When our good friend Geoff Gauchet (known around the interwebs as Zhephree) says he’s working on something new, we can't help but find ourselves interested. This guy has created some of the finest webOS apps to ever grace our devices. From Foursquare to incredible! we can’t seem to get enough of his work. One of our favorites, and one of the more utilitiatian useful, is neato! For the unfamiliar, neato! is a slick little app that enables sending of URLs between your webOS device and your computer with supreme ease. With our Zhephree fanactic status now established, you can imagine how we went a little crazy when Gauchet tweeted this last night:
Oh, you know, just working on a cross-platform @EnyoJS version of @neato_webos http://yfrog.com/h2ob5zp
It's entirely possible we giggled like little girls upon reading that. Call us crazy but the thought of using neato! across multiple platforms makes us a little giddy. We also managed to wrangle a few extra details out of Gauchet about how cross-platform neato! will work. For one, instead of the old "codes" you'll log into your Zhephree Account and be able to manage your authorized devices with handy nicknames. You will be able to send and receive content from device to device, or broadcast to all devices on your Zhephree account at once.
Gauchet tells us he is aiming at releasing this to not only smartphones and tablets but also browsers and desktops as well, thanks to the magic of Enyo. So in essence you could send information to and from any and all devices you have. It doesn't take long to imagine all of the awesome implications this could have.
That's is all the information we have at the moment, but be sure to stay tuned for any and all future updates on neato!'s cross-platform future. In the meantime we'll just be sitting here drooling over the thought of sending a link from our computer to our phones, tablets, and other computers all at once. Oh, the future looks amazing.
Source: Geoff Gauchet (Twitter)
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Great news, hopefully someone finally irons out the lack of SYM key (for international and special charaters) in enyo for webos 2.x phones. This is what the competition DataJog (also enyo) lacks of, and only because HP did not get it fixed since months: http://www.datajog.com/
If you can't spell his name right, your other spelling and grammar choices are rather moot. Spelling someones name wrong (and more than once!) is a big no-no, you giggly crazy giddy fanactic (sic).
Heh, didn't catch that. Yeah, there's only one "t" in my last name, Ryan!
Actually this is all on Derek lol. Those are his edits.
Actually this is all on Derek lol. Those are his edits.
Damn you, Kesseler!
I didnt notice that, but noticed misspelling of around in "(known aroudn the interwebs as Zhephree)"
Imma sucky spellerz.
Is this webOSNation or webOSroundup?
First Arthur, now Ryan. Welcome, Ryan!
Definitely webOS Nation. Happy to be writing beside Arthur and the rest of the guys here.
Yep, definitely great to be here at webOS Nation, especially working side-by-side the great Ryan St. Angry ;)
Only I could hope that one day that I could get a job at webos nation, even though I qualify as newcomer to the Webos platform. Yet, I have the energy to inspire a lot of positivity into WebOS Nation. Where do I speak to, to apply for this amazing job at this website. I'm guessing derek kessler will be the go-to-guy, but it's not easier to get ahold of him.
Yo-ho!
derek@webosnation.com
two part question ;) .. 1st part : I'm not familiar w/ Neato but it sounds similar to: Touch to share ... w/ extra capabilities?
2nd part: Can Neato be integrated w/ touch to share or is it already?
Speaking purely as somebody with knowledge of Touch-To-Share, the only functionality built into webOS 2.2 and 3.0 (Pre3 and TouchPad) for TTS is URL sharing. It *could* be possible for someone to modify the LunaSysMgr binary to enable more than that but that would be difficult (similar to the patched VKB on the TouchPad).
As such, technical limitations inside webOS (at present) would not permit for this. It could be possible with Open webOS, but again I do not speak for Geoff.
This post is filled with awesome. Cross-platform neato! is, dare I say it, incredible! And Ryan (and Arthur) great to have you on board. Missed you guys.
Ok, a non_tech_erudite one here;
1.- Making neato cross platform means it'll be possible to transfer urls with iOS and android devices?
2.- Neato sends urls, but from what I've understand, the new cross platform neato would be able to transfer "content" either privately or broadcast to "handy nicknamed" logged into "Zhephree account" devices. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the closest to bb-messenger I've heard of. And if so, could neato become the first cross platform webOS-messenger?! What's stopping it from happening?! That would lead us (webOS) right to the mobile intercommunication bullseye!
Can someone with more knowledge put me out of my misery, if that's the case? If not, the pinch me cause this has been a dreamy app for so long! Either way:
LONG WILL LIVE WEBOS!!!
I'm excited beyond belief. I cant wait to be able to download this app on my parents iPhones, Dang, I'll even pay for the app myself. Congrats, Zephree, you are awesome.