While webOS does not have any cool third party apps to quickly share contact information, Palm did make it very easy to send someone else the details of any contact in your address book. There are 2 main ways to share this information, but first you need to load up a contact record, which can be accomplished by using Universal Search, opening up the Contacts App, clicking on a missed call notification or a variety of other methods. Once you have a contact record open, you will want to swipe-down from the top-left corner of the screen to bring up the Contracts Application drop-down menu.  Keep reading after the break to learn what to do next

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Did you know that you can press the Option (Orange/Silver) key and then click on links or pictures in the browser to bring up a pop-up menu with some options on how to interact with those areas? The options are different depending on which one you click on Option + tapping a link will bring up the following options:

• Open in New Card: Opens a new browser card with the specified link
• Share Link: Opens a new email message with that link
• Copy URL: Copies the URL of the link to the clipboard

Option + tapping a picture will bring up the following options:

• Share Image: Opens a new email message with a link to the picture and also attaches the picture as an attachment
• Copy to Photos: Saves the picture to your device. See this tip for details

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Do you have an application that you love and want to easily share with your friends? You can always go to PreCentral’s App Catalog App Gallery and search for the app, copy the link location and send it as an email or text message, but there has to be a faster method, right? Indeed there is! All you need to do is:

1. Open up the App Catalog on your device
2. Find the specific app you want to share by either searching for it from the main page, or clicking on the Shopping Bag button on the bottom right to bring up a list installed apps
3. Once you have the App Description page loaded, click on the "Share" button and choose either "Email" or "Text Message"
4. This will open up either an email or text message with the direct link to the app for you to send to your friends
    

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Palm’s stocks may have fallen, but that doesn’t appear to have shaken Elevation Partners. On the contrary, they’re hold strong and standing with Palm in the belief that Palm’s webOS is the future of mobile computing.

Elevation Partners have a long history of investing with Palm. They currently control roughly 30% of the company and have invested a total $460 million invested in Palm. An Elevation Partners spokesman told Reuters,

"Jon and his team have built the best mobile operating system available today and they are now working through short-term execution challenges with Elevation’s complete support."

The statement might not be overly surprising, but it is definitely a welcome note of support. The statement’s wording of "short-term execution challenges" might seem optimistic, but recall that Elevation and Palm believe that webOS is a ten year strategy.

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