Yes, the Chicago webOS meetup remains a calendar fixture and it’s happening on this coming Sunday, 22nd November, 7pm at Moretti’s Ristorante and Pizzeria, Schamburg.
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News Crumbs – 9th November 2015
Munching on the last crust here, but everything tastes good with marmalade. It’s been a while since the last round up, so before I head to the bakery for supplies, lets clean out some crumbs!
- LuneOS developer, Doug Reeder tweets:
#FirefoxOS may be adopting card stacks from #webOS: https://t.co/2GjfZq5iE1
— Doug Reeder (@reeder29) August 12, 2015
- Tomomi Imura, a former developer relations engineer at Palm, now working for Pubnub, showed off a cat facial recognition system on Leo LaPorte’s Screen Savers web show. The segment begins at one hour in, includes some discussion of her time at Palm and lasts about 12 minutes.
- In the previous Newscrumbs, we mentioned that Josh Marinacci, former Developer Advocate for webOS at Palm, was looking for work. Good news! He has joined Ms Imura at Pubnub: The Hubbub About PubNub
- LG’s lightweight ‘Gram’ laptops arrive in the US. Who actually owns gram? The lonely little website is still out there if you want the Prelude font…
- Alan Morford tweets that, “You can buy a Sprint Pixi again!
Excited to announce that our sleek 7-inch PIXI 7 LTE tablet is now available at @Sprint! https://t.co/0PRbWJjn3Q pic.twitter.com/wcvDUsawBp
— ALCATEL ONETOUCH USA (@ALCATEL1TOUCH) November 6, 2015
Alcatel have made a lot more Pixi’s than Palm.
- Crowd-funding for a webOS router is now planned for March:
Designs for new #WebOS #touchscreen (3.2") #wireless #router coming on! This will go on either #kickstarter on #Indeigogo in March 2016
— WiFi Hotzones (@WiFiHotzones) November 6, 2015
- It seems someone else has a RaspberryPi:
— Jason Robitaille (@JayCanuck) November 7, 2015
That’s it for now. Don’t forget to donate to pivotCE so we can keep the article machine fueled.
LuneOS on more devices!
These are exciting times for LuneOS. Following the news that Open webOS was running on a router, more device news has popped up on twitter.
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News Crumbs – 3rd August 2015
Has it been almost four months since we last shook out the toaster? Some of these crumbs may be a little stale, but lets recap:
- OK, it’s not webOS related, but it is an amusing toaster game!
You’re a slice of bread that desperately wants to toast itself – Boing Boing - Mobilespoon looks at the history of webOS.
- Connect SDK Developers :: Connect SDK 1.4.4 released
- Unsurprising: Of course you can run Android 5.1 on the HP TouchPad – Liliputing
- If you like shuffling cards, then webOS is the mobile OS for you and maybe Poker is your game. Here’s webOS developer, Eric Blade combining both interests at the world series of Poker.
He finished 2189 out of 22,374 at his first attempt. The top 10%! - So, you’re a pivotCE reader. You have an interest in webOS & LuneOS. You probably have a device – maybe two or three. Some people have spares for backup, others actual collections. But how much of a webOS nut are you? This much?
- Cleaning up after the Apotheklypse: Hewlett-Packard will pay $100 million to settle lawsuit tied to $10-billion Autonomy deal
- Josh Marinacci, former Developer Advocate for webOS at Palm, seeks a new position.
That’s it for now. I’ll be looking for ideas for the next batch.
Tip: How to Bypass Activation
When powered on, a ‘new’, reset or doctored webOS device will attempt to contact HP’s servers to allow a user to log in to an existing Palm Profile account or create a new one. In the past, this allowed access to the app catalog and other services such as cloud backup & remote wipe.
Now, the HP servers are gone. You can read articles on these pages about the various community fixes for issues that have arisen over the years and how to set up the device and install apps. But if starting afresh, you’ll hit an apparent brickwall: webOS wasn’t designed to skip the activation if contact isn’t made. Palm naturally assumed that everyone would want to download apps & use the services, so the machine waits for contact, advising the user to check the connection or contact HP.