Attaching a photo or video to an SMS/MMS message is a fairly straight-forward task. You can either push a multimedia file to a new message from another app, such as directly from the Photo or Video app, or you can attach it directly from within a text message. The easiest way to do this is to tap the icon in the bottom-right corner of the screen to load up a photo selection screen, choose your desired folder and then photo, and tap the "Attach Photo" button. If you want to send a video, use the icons on the bottom of the screen to switch between photos and videos.

You will notice that once you start writing your message, the icon turns into a icon to send the message. If you want to attach a file after this, you don’t need to first delete your text to get the icon back. Instead, just swipe-down from the top-left of the screen to bring down the Messaging application drop-down menu and select "Attach File" and follow the same steps as above.

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Hopefully everyone knows that you can plug in your webOS device to speakers, a car stereo or any device with an auxiliary input jack using the phone’s headphone jack to output audio, but did you know that if you can also connect your phone to a media player that has a USB input? As detailed on an Official Palm Blog entry, many modern TVs or stereos that have an input for a USB plug will allow your phone to act the same as a thumb drive, allowing you to access any media file (music, videos and pictures) over that USB connection. Of course, each TV, home entertainment system, car stereo or speakers will have different procedures  on how to access the files once connected, but to initiate that connection just plug in your device through the USB cord and select "USB Drive" (as if you were connecting to your computer). And as a bonus, this will charge the battery, too.

Be advised that just because an external device has a USB input, this may not work for you. As stated in the original posting, "some gadgets implement USB connections in a non-standard way, [so] we can’t guarantee this will work."

Source: The Official Palm Blog; Thanks to tllemmon for suggesting this tip!

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Currently webOS only lets you upload photos to Facebook and Photobucket. While a lot of photos do end up on those two sites, there’s more to the internet photo game. In particular, there’s Flickr. If you’re looking to get your photos onto that services, the app Flickr Mundo (from developer Shane O’Sullivan) is here to help.

Flickr Mundo makes uploading your photos to Flickr a snap, even allowing you to perform batch edits of photos in your albums. Beyond that you can download Flickr photos to your phone, put them into a wallpaper rotation, and add comments to photos and sets. Oh, and you can even create slideshows with musical backing. There’s a lot more to this $2.99 app, including location-based searches, favorites, and tagging, but you won’t get to play with it all until you download it. And you’re going to download it, right?

Still not convinced? Check out the video after the break.

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When you are looking at a photo on your device, there are a number of different actions that you can perform with that photo. To access these actions, first you need to load up a photo via either the Photos app or by tapping on the photo thumbnail in the Camera App. Then, you can pitch-to-zoom or double-tap to zoom to navigate the photo, rotate your phone to view the photo in landscape mode, or you can work with the various buttons on that screen, as shown in the screenshot here (if you do not see any of those buttons, just tap the screen once to make them appear).  Continue reading after the break to review what each of those buttons do.

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After you take a picture or video, you can quickly access your Photo Roll (for last photo) or Video Roll (for last video) directly from within the camera/camcorder app. After you snap your picture/video, you will see a thumbnail of it on the bottom left of the screen. All you need to do is tap on that thumbnail and your picture/video will be loaded up. At that point, you can swipe back to return to the camera/camcorder, or if you are looking at a picture, you can swipe left or right on the picture to browse through the pictures in your Photo Roll.

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One of the newest additions of the Facebook app has been the ability to upload a photo, write a caption for the photo, and then tag it directly in the Facebook app. Of course, you can also tag a picture in any of your other albums–not just the ones you upload from the App–but note that you can not tag any of your friend’s photos To accomplish the upload and tagging, just follow the simple steps after the break:

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The News Feed essentially acts as your homepage within the Facebook App and provides a decent amount of flexibility to viewing and managing your feeds. There are a variety of actions that you can perform from this main page: update/review your status, upload a photo, read through your news feed, filter the feed to your various contact "lists", and refresh the page.  Keep reading after the break to learn all about how to accomplish these tasks.

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Even though a photo that you receive via text message (MMS) gets embedded within the conversation, you are able to easily save that picture to your device. To copy that photo to your device, click on the thumbnail of the pic within the text message and a pop-up will appear. Click "View" to view the full size picture, and then click "Copy to Photos". That photo will now appear in the "Messaging" folder in the Photos app or when in USB mode.

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Pinch-to-zoom is a good way to zoom in and out throughout webOS, but you can also perform a double-tap to quickly zoom in on large blocks of text within an email, website or document. Simply double-tap on the text you want to read and you will find that the device automatically zooms in so that text fits the screen width. If you want to quickly zoom out, just double-tap again. You can also double-tap on a Photo to zoom in to a specific spot.

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• Note that you should wait for the email, website or photo to completely load, or else the zoom level may reset once it finishes loading.
• Unlike Android, webOS doesn’t ‘reflow” the text to fit the screen width (which we prefer anyway). If text is still too small when you zoom in, try turning your phone sideways for landscape mode.

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To save a picture from within a website, just press-and-hold the Option (Orange or Silver) Key and click on the picture, then select "Copy to Photos".  Although the Photo will be saved to the root USB directory (/media/internals if viewing from Internalz or via Command Line), note that it will show up under "Miscellaneous" from within the Photos App. 

Thanks to not-yet-pre for suggesting this tip

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