Open webOS Community Edition released

For those of you who have a HP Touchpad, the Open webOS project came one step closer to fruition this week. The Open webOS team have released a package for the Touchpad that allows users to “learn how the TouchPad works, modify your TouchPad experience and then apply that learning to Open webOS 1.0 in the future”.
Although Open webOS Community Edition (WOCE for short) doesn’t work on non-HP/Palm devices at present, the team has said that Open webOS 1.0 (due for release in September) will hopefully “enable the community to develop ports for the hardware of their choice”.
The official release blog post can be found here, with instructions for building and flashing on webos-ports.org. As always, neither myself or CoolSmartPhone accepts any responsibility for what you do with your device.

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AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition was PCWorld's top pick in April 2012's Free Antivirus You Can Trust. It performed well in virtually all of the tests we ran.

In our real-world malware detection tests, which evaluate how well an antivirus package will block brand-new threats, AVG's freebie blocked 85.7 percent of the samples, tying for the best result among the programs we tested. It detected 98.7 percent of the more than 129,000 samples of malware from the past four months in our malware "zoo" test. That's a good score, although a bit short of the best results we've seen.

AVG was at the top of its class in disabling active malware infections: On our test PC, it de­­tected and disabled all malicious software, and removed all traces of malware two-thirds of the time.

AVG also scans a PC relatively quickly. When we directed it to check 4.5GB of data, it sped through the job in 1 minute, 35 seconds, the third-fastest time in this test and only 4 seconds slower than the fastest. Its on-access scanner--which runs when you open or save a file--took 4 minutes, 55 seconds to go through the same amount of data, about average for the programs we looked at.

I like AVG's main interface, though its advanced settings could intimidate some users. Apart from that caveat, if you're looking for solid, fast PC protection, look no further than AVG.

--Nick Mediati

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