The HP TouchPad has only been available for a few days, but hackers are already starting to develop custom themes and other apps to tweak the tablet. HP’s tablet is the first device to ship with webOS ...

Photo: A Palm Pre sporting a Ubuntu Linux boot skin. Up until recently, if you wanted to hack your Palm Pre, you hopped over to the Pre-Central forums for all of your hacking needs, where you could ...

There are always folks who love to tinker with their gadgets, and many platforms have a homebrew community that supports that effort. Developers release homebrew patches, apps and themes to make ...

After growing frustrated with the Bing implementation in the webOS Maps app, homebrew developer Jan Herman decided to build his own Google Maps app for webOS. After growing frustrated with the Bing ...

Within hours of a leaked WebOS root image spilling onto the internet, would-be developers have coaxed a respectable number of hacks and tweaks out of their Pres ...

The abiding impression of the Palm Pre seems to be, "Nice phone, shame about the app store." At a little over 1,000 apps, the Pre app catalogue is a disappointment. Happily, the vibrant community over ...

Today WebOS Internals' Rod Whitby sent a few words out in a speech at webOS Developer Day in NYC about webOS Homebrew development. All the way back to a million years ago, 2009, when the Palm Pre was ...

If you like your software homebrewed with just a hint of alpha then boy do we have an app for you. The WebOS homebrew community just released Precorder; an app that lets your Palm Pre record audio and ...

WebOS Internals and HP recently spoke about getting the Isis browser and QtWebKit running on TouchPads before the release of Open webOS 1.0. WebOS Internals and HP recently spoke about getting the ...