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Guide: Converting the TouchPad’s Micro USB Port to USB C

Well, it’s 2024 and technology continues to advance. The TouchPad isn’t new by any means, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be slightly modernized to be more convenient today. Specifically, it is entirely possible to convert the TouchPad’s Micro USB port to USB C for charging and USB storage access. I’ll show you how.

This is a tough mod which requires micro-soldering and modifying a PCB which you will have a hard time sourcing a replacement for without buying another TouchPad. Proceed at your own peril.

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webOS Talk at VCF East

The Vintage Computing Federation hold a number of events. This year’s VCF East festival will be of interest to fans of webOS phones, tablets and other computing devices of the past.

The festival is held at the InfoAge Science Center, 2201 Marconi Rd., Wall, New Jersey, 07719 and runs over three days from the 12th to 14th of April. The festival includes three elements:

For readers of this blog, representation of webOS devices will be in two of those areas. Jon W of the webOS Archive is attending over the weekend and will give a 50 minute talk at 900am on Saturday the 13th. The consignment shop will have a small selection of webOS devices for those who are interested.

So if you are in the area, why not go along?

If you can’t make it, you can follow along via the VCF video channel and TouchPads are available remotely at Tindie

Discussion is at the VCF East forum thread. You can read more about the InfoAge museum.

Picture Credit: Apc106, Wikimedia Commons.

Unlock your HP TouchPad 4G

webOS friend and LuneOS project aficionado, Herrie, recently embarked on an unlocking adventure.  His HP TouchPad 4G gave up the ghost and passed away quietly.  So he did what anyone would do and got a new one!  That’s what you’d do if your TouchPad died too, right? Continue reading Unlock your HP TouchPad 4G

LuneOS Browser: How to sideload Flash & WideVine plugins (Netflix, Amazon, YouTube Red)

Since the most recent release of LuneOS called “Decaf” which includes Qt 5.9.2, support for 3rd party browser plugins (such as Adobe Flash and Google’s WideVine CDM) has been added to the Browser App and has been enabled by default.

However the source code of these plugin binaries is not available and therefore these binaries cannot be compiled and provided in the LuneOS images.

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