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Old Oct 5, 2011 | 5:48 am
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Originally Posted by pseudoswede
Or just go directly to touchpadplus.com

Yes, the app library is extremely small, and many of the free apps you love on Android or iOS will cost a few dollars in WebOS. Make sure you subscribe to the WebOS newsletter. Every Thursday*, they give away free codes to apps you normally have to pay for. Once the e-mail is sent, you have about two hours to download/install it before the allotment is used up.

* - It has been every Thursday afternoon, except it was Friday morning two weeks ago.

I have plenty of useful apps to keep me occupied until a Honeycomb/Ice Cream Sandwich port is stable (I don't want Gingerbread). The only thing I'm really missing is a Firefox-type browser. The two that are available (one of them being stock) are lacking.
This website provides instructions without the intrusive ads:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/hp-touc...patches-webos/

The only step I would recommend avoiding is load the, "Increase Touch Sensitivity and Smoothness 10" patch which, at least in my experience, does neither.
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