HP Opens Up TouchSmart To Third-Party Developers 32
TheTieGuy writes "HP recently released their TouchSmart Application Development Guidelines to third party developers, allowing anyone to port and create touch-friendly applications that integrate and run within the TouchSmart Software suite on their popular TouchSmart PC. As part of the release, HP has gotten behind Capable Networks' Touchsmart Community website and forum to distribute the guidelines to developers while providing an environment for TouchSmart developers to interact. Also on the site is a download hub that allows TouchSmart developers to upload and share their creations with TouchSmart owners in a central location. To kick off the new development initiative, the TouchSmart Community is running a promotion that will send one developer (travel expenses paid) to demo their software in the HP booth at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, along with a free TouchSmart PC, HP MediaSmart Server, and a month of promotion in the community."
Re:HP software scares me (Score:3, Informative)
Like this? [hp.com]
I absolutely hated the scanning interface, but then I installed this and use Irfanview to invoke the other non-twain interface which is quite decent compared to the other one.
Re:HP software scares me (Score:1, Informative)
They make good printers but I just hate to use the software included with them.
I was recently tasked with setting up dozens of HP printers for display in a retail chain. The software is so poor and non-modular, installing multiple networked HP Photosmart or HP Officejet printers on ANY PC causes their software to freeze and crash. Modularity often goes hand-in-hand with adhering to standards. HP's software design philosophy for consumer products is, "If the software looks nice and showcases product branding, it receives exemption from quality control". Why should we expect the TouchSmart programmers were any more competent?
HP - Great hardware disabled by equally poor software