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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When you are watching a video that you have either loaded on to your device or streamed from the web (as opposed to a video taken with the camcorder), have you ever noticed that your video may be zoomed in so part of the top or sides get chopped off? Or maybe you are watching a video and you see black bars on the top or sides of the video? You can actually swap between these zoomed in and out modes in your video by first tapping on the screen to bring up the video controls (if not already shown), and then tapping the  icon to zoom in (to get rid of the black bars on around the video) or the  icon to zoom out (to see the full video).

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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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The final build for Angry Birds on webOS is finished and submitted to Palm (the Pixi version will come a bit later). We have it here at PreCentral HQ and it’s everything you imagined: launching little birds from a slingshot into pig-laden structures.

You’ll need webOS 1.4.5 to run it (which hopefully will be available on more than just Sprint devices soon), but in the meantime we can say it runs just as well on the Palm Pre as it does on the iPhone 4. Better, even, in that if you get stuck you can go check YouTube for some help without having quit out of the game – webOS multitasking at its productive best.

After the break, check out a video of the game in action. After a a short time (we hope), you’ll be able to buy it yourself.

Update: Angry Birds for webOS is now available – go get it!

Thanks, Rovio! 

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Have you ever been watching a video on your device and wanted a way to easily replay the last few seconds of the video? Or have you ever wanted to quickly fast forward? You can tap the screen to display the scrubber bar and try to manually move to the position you want, but Palm added a few simple gestures for a quick rewind or advance. Simply perform a Forward swipe-type gesture across the video screen (pictured here) to advance 30 seconds in the video, or perform a Back swipe-type gesture across the video screen to rewind 10 seconds.  This will work in any app that supports video, such as YouTube, DrPodder, Facebook, etc.

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Many file types can be downloaded and saved directly from an email, such as photos, PDFs and documents, but just as there is no built-in mechanism to save a video from a text message, there is no standard way to save a non-supported file from email (including videos, mp3s, zip files and many more). Here comes Homebrew to the rescue!  Note that this requires you to get to get access to parts of the phone that can cause some serious damage. So please proceed with caution if you are not familiar with these steps.  Keep reading after the break to learn how to save attachments from your emails

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Although webOS has a built-in mechanism to save a photo from a text message, saving a video is a little more complicated. In order to save a video, you need to either connect your phone to a computer and put it in USB mode, or use the Homebrew app Internalz to access the filesystem of your phone.

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Above is a funny video staring Roger McNamee who is a major financial investor in Palm. In the video, McNamee has been chosen to be the official Pre spokesperson and goes on to make some completely ridiculous claims – or are they? Apparently the Pre responds to your emails before you even get them, qualifies [...]

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Palm is pretty pleased about who they’re visiting to show the Pre off (we’re right here, guys, come on over).  The latest being Molly McAleer of The Molls Show.  We feel the same way about waiting for the Pre, Molls, but we’re doing our waiting with a little less hipster styling.

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