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Once again, we want to thank everyone who submitted an app to our Weekly App Hack. This was kind of a tricky one, and we weren’t sure what kind of response we’d get, but you folks don’t disappoint!

Our winner this week is…

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Now that webOS 3.0.5 is in the wild, we can start playing with some of the new functions that arrived with it. One of these features is a new sensor API, and that is the subject of this week’s App Hack.

The sensor API can be used with PDK (details in the PDK documentation), but is also available to the SDK, as webOS 3.0.5 implements the DeviceOrientation and DeviceMotion Event Specification. Let’s see what we can do in a simple Enyo app.

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Thanks to all of you who made “Got Game?” our best App Hack yet. We had a ton of entries, which made judging a challenge, but also a blast! We saw imaginative designs and control concepts, some great kids apps, and a few nicely rendered game clones. The winner, by a whisker, is…

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The App Hack-meisters of webOS Developer Relations will be taking a little break for the holidays.

Big thanks to all of you who submitted entries for the “Got Game” App Hack. Keep an eye out for the results. See you in the New Year!

Well, it’s been a pretty exciting week, and we wanted to end on a high note, by announcing the winner of the Mapping App Hack. As you may remember, the challenge was to map data published by the Liquid Robotics PacX Wave Gliders project. So, without further ado, we are pleased to announce that the winner of the challenge and the 16GB TouchPad is…

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Well, yes we’re a bit late getting this week’s challenge out, but we think you’ll like the challenge anyway, and in the spirit of holiday generosity, we’ll even give you a little extra time to work on it.

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Well, we’re not sure whether it was anticipation of a turkey and stuffing induced coma or being overwhelmed with pre-holiday jitters, but darned if we didn’t forget to post the winners of the last App Hack. Sorry about that!

You may recall that the theme of the week was “Three”, and we challenged developers to do something creative with the number three.

This week’s winner (and the winner of a 16GB TouchPad) is…

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As promised, we’re back from a quiet weekend gorging on turkey and pumpkin pie for another App Hack. For this week’s challenge, we are going to explore how to display data on a Map. First, we want you to check out a fantastic project called Pac-X, which will be the source of our data. Go ahead, check it out! We’ll wait. (Hint – while you’re there, be sure to register so you can get access to the data.)

Okay, now that you’re briefed on the project (how cool is that?), it’s time to get to work. We want to take some of the data from Pac-X’s Wave Gliders (seriously, how COOL is THAT?) and plot it on a map using Enyo and its Map control. For the purposes of this example, we’ll keep it simple. It will be up to you to make it rock and roll.

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Hello all!

In light of the US Thanksgiving holiday next week, we are giving our developers and ourselves  a short break from the Weekly App Hack. Hacking will resume the week of November 28th.

We here in the webOS Weekly App Hack team have something special to give thanks for this year—the amazing enthusiasm, talent, and creativity of the webOS developer community. You have rallied to the challenge of our App Hacks week after week, and never cease to impress and delight us with your amazing work.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. We’ll be back after the food coma wears off!

It’s time once again to announce the winner of the webOS Weekly App Hack! The theme of the week was multi-touch, and some of the entries decided to help us celebrate Thanksgiving in the US as well. Well played!

Without further ado, this week’s winner is (imagine trumpet fanfare now)…

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