Popular blogging service WordPress has been offering mobile apps for writing posts, editing comments, and generally managing your blog for a few years. But the company’s iOS and Android apps have never been as easy to use as the web-based WordPress admin panel. Among other things, the mobile apps lack a WYSIWYG (What you see […]
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PalmOS emulator unofficially ported to webOS 2.1
When Palm introduced the Palm Pre and Pixi phones a few years ago running the shiny new webOS operating system, the company announced that it was moving away from support for legacy Palm apps. But rather than leave users in the cold after they had spent years (and a reasonable amount of cash) collecting PalmOS […]
HP releases webOS Doctor image for the Verizon Palm Pre 2
HP has released a Doctor for Verizon Palm Pre 2. Basically, a webOS Doctor is what you need to do a clean install of webOS on supported smartphone. With the new ROM image, you can modify and tweak the new Palm Pre 2 from Verizon to your heart’s content, knowing that there’s almost nothing you […]
webOS 3 will be able to run legacy apps which require gesture area
You may have noticed that the HP Touchpad doesn’t have any physical buttons or a gesture area on the front. You might think that means that older apps which require use of the gesture pad won’t work on webOS 3.0. But it turns out that HP has figured out a way around that. HP developer […]
Virtual keyboard packed into webOS 2.0
It looks like there’s at least one hidden feature in webOS 2.0 which HP and Palm haven’t publicized: An on-screen keyboard. Right now every smartphone that runs webOS has a physical keyboard, making an on-screen keyboard somewhat unnecessary (although that hasn’t stopped some people from hacking together their own for use in landscape mode). But […]