Zhephree

If you’re a user of my apps, no doubt you’re familiar with neato! and what it does. If you’re not, here’s the skinny:

• You’re browsing a website on your computer, maybe a news article, or a recipe, or some directions. You need to leave your house, or otherwise step away from your computer, but wish to continue reading that website.
• Click the “neato!” bookmarklet in your browser (or the Chrome extension) and blammo! the website instantly shows up on your phone.

There’s more to it than that, obviously. neato! does the same thing from your phone to your computer, or, from your phone to a friend’s phone. It also does the same for plain text, which is also handy.

The beauty of it all is that neato! runs as expected on your TouchPad! The dashboard icon hangs out up top with all your webOS 3.0 icons, but neato! does run in the mini emulator window, but it still works just fine!

One caveat! If you are restoring neato! to your TouchPad through the one time profile sync, you’ll probably have to regenerate your neato! codes in the Preferences so that the TouchPad has its own set of codes.

So that’s handy — send a recipe from your laptop to your TouchPad and then read along in your kitchen from the TouchPad. But here’s where it gets slick: since neato! can send data to other neato! users and since your phone and your TouchPad have their own codes and friend codes, they can send stuff back-and-forth!

What I did was set my name on my TouchPad to “Geoff’s TouchPad”, sent a friend request to my phone and now my phone has an option in the send-to dropdown called” Geoff’s TouchPad”. Now, I send content as I normally would and it appears on my TouchPad!

So, it may not be as elegant as Touch-to-Share, but now your legacy webOS device can send stuff to your TouchPad, and vice-versa!