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Posts tagged The 28 Day Experiment
Does Your HP WebOS TouchPad Need a Turbo Boost? Feeling Like It’s a Little Slow?
Aug 25th
Of all the strange places, I found this thread over at the Home Server Show forums. Erik Chavez (texasPl in the HSS Forums) posted some feedback on his overclocking experience with his new TouchPad as well as a great deal on a cover from a source that might surprise you.
Disclaimer: Overclocking your HP Tablet could result in a bricked unit and is at your own risk. The Average Guy accepts no responsibility for the content or results of the following. If it works however, we get all the credit!
Here is what Eric had to say.
Here’s the forum thread he followed to overclock:
http://www.webosbuzz.com/hp-touchpad/694-how-overclock-hp-touchpad-1-5ghz.html
Purchased a New $99 HP WebOS TouchPad? 10 Productive Things You Can Do Forever without HP!
Aug 24th
Regardless of whether or not HP supports your shiny new TouchPad in the future, here are 10 things you can do with it, right now, that will never require future HP support and are mostly free. So pull it out of the box and let’s get started!
1. Connect it to your web or Corporate Email.
I already wrote about this in a BYTE.com article, but email setup is fast and easy – even at work! In most cases, you might even be able to do it by just knowing your corporate webmail settings. If not, just check with your local helpdesk or IT Service Center.
2. Chat or video conference with your friends.
#3 Rich’s Random Podcast Generator: HP TouchPad Fire Sale, WebOS’s Future
Aug 22nd
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Were you one of the lucky few who found and picked up a “couldn’t give ‘em away a week ago” HP TouchPad tablet for $99?
Well, people all over the US went crazy this past weekend trying to track down and acquire the elusive 16/32GB tablets which had been retailing for $399/$499 respectively.
There had been some price drops the weekend before but nobody really saw this one coming. By late Friday night here in the US, folks were abuzz with the prospect of a fire sale. By 
Saturday morning, they were roaming the aisles of their local big box stores looking for the bargain tablet, or as one person said, an early Christmas gift.
HP TouchPad / WebOS: 28 Day Experiment – Day 11
Aug 18th
It’s been a busy couple of days since Monday and I haven’t used the TouchPad as much as I had the week before. I had thought I would sit down tonight after the Home Tech Podcast was recorded and drop a few notes about the weeks usage. It turned out to be a much more interesting day than that.
At about 2pm I got wind from a co-worker that HP had announced it was going to effectively scuttle the WebOS platform for the future.
Gina Smith over at Byte.com said this:
In a sharp tactical reversal, Hewlett-Packard today killed its WebOS-based HP TouchPad tablet and smartphones.
Earlier this year, HP unveiled its Palm-designed WebOS family of phones, tablets and PCs with great fanfare. Find coverage here.
The HP TouchPad, released in June, was yet another competitor struggling in vain against the Apple iPad. Recently, HP slashed prices on the tablet. And another one bites the dust.
HP TouchPad / WebOS: The 28 Day Experiment – Day 7
Aug 15th
I didn’t really get a chance to work much on the TouchPad on Saturday. I’m finding that when I am at home, the TouchPad has a hard time competing with my 24” monitor and PC. Today was filled with a bunch of PC maintenance and file clean up. I also had to edit and post two podcasts and well as do some updating to the website (hope you noticed?). Nothing I would ever try to do on a tablet.
Since the weekend means I use the TouchPad less, I thought I could use it to talk about the applications that are available. Maybe I should have said, the lack of applications. When I left the Palm ecosystem a year ago, I really thought that more apps would get written while I was away. In the first week with the TouchPad, it sure doesn’t look like it!
HP TouchPad / WebOS: The 28 Day Experiment – Day 5
Aug 12th
Well, I’m back on the WordPress app in WebOS and even using the on screen keyboard to write this post, I can’t say its the fastest way to write a post, but it is doable. Spell check is very helpful in some cases and maybe too helpful in others. I would try to write like this all the time. That wireless keyboard can really be handy.
If you read day 2 – Saving Draft Now!
Okay, that didn’t work like I thought. When I selected Save Draft, I expected it to just save and allow me to keep going. Instead it saved it and closed out the post. Not very helpful if you are saving your document on a regular basis.
When typing using the screen keyboard, its really hard to see the screen. I find myself watching the keyboard and not the screen.
HP TouchPad / WebOS: The 28 Day Experiment – Day 3
Aug 10th
Back on the laptop today and back to Windows Live Writer for the blog. When I started using the TouchPad early this morning, it gave me the update OS option which in the past 2 days I have just ignored. This morning, it would pop up literally every 2 seconds. I dismissed it several times and then just gave in to the upgrade. Was hoping to get a few more days on the old versions before I moved up, but HP would have nothing to do with that! Maybe they are reading my posts?
Here is what the warning looked like:
The update took about 15 minutes to complete and the TouchPad has worked great ever since. Still not sure what kind of differences it makes, but I will keep an eye out for them.
I was able to get Skype messaging working today as well after the update. Let me tell you, IT’S AWESOME!
HP TouchPad / WebOS: The 28 Day Experiment – Day 2
Aug 9th
This is the second time I have written this blog post. The first time I used the WordPress App on the TouchPad to write the entire article. Just before I was ready to post it, I tried to add one more screen shot. The process hung for about 20 minutes. Unfortunately, I never saved the post as a draft (something I will do from this point on!) and so when I closed it, the post was gone. Gone forever. Bummer. Huge WebOS fail. I am still running the 3.0.0 software so maybe the update will fix it. I will have to try again another time.
The WordPress App looks good from the start. It gives you a way to connect to multiple WordPress Accounts and perform basic maintenance. It makes available things like Comments, Posts, Pages and Stats for each site. From the Posts option, you can select Add New and create a new entry. It looks something like this…from the first time I tried this!
HP TouchPad / WebOS: The 28 Day Experiment – Day 1
Aug 8th
Two years ago I made the leap and jumped on the Palm Pre bandwagon. I still remember the day I brought it home, connected to my home wifi and started downloading from an apps store that had some 300 available applications. In those days, the Pre was a product of Palm, and the WebOS was the first multi-tasking mobile OS created. Even though the phone release was very late and the iPhone was all but dominating the market, I was on Sprint and wanted to give this new product a try. One year later, I found myself on Android! Guess that tells you how it went.
In all honesty, I do think the WebOS is a great platform. It looks great and is very easy to use. It suffered from poor hardware and a lack of app titles and has never really regained the ground it lost back in 2009. In 2010, Palm was purchase by HP and since then, HP has been pumping money into the product like crazy. I have been watching and waiting.
