If you managed to snag a HP TouchPad for $99, you’ll want to get the most out of your bargain tablet. The HP App Catalog is one of the smallest out there, but it’s where you’ll want to go for the few good apps, and best of all--free apps--to keep you entertained until hackers port Android 3.0 on the TouchPad.

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The free app supports Facebook messaging, news feed, a list of upcoming events, and features HP webOS notifications. You can also upload photos taken with the built-in camera directly to Facebook.

As a side note to the list below, you may notice that no links are provided to the apps I suggest here. That's because HP does not offer any direct links to specific apps. That means if you're not reading this on a WebOS phone or tablet, that give you direct access to HP's app catalog, you'll need to visit HP's Web-based apps store to browse apps.

• As much fun as the HP Touchpad apps that are available in the App Catalog are, you might consider taking a look at what the WebOS Homebrew guys have to offer.
• HP was overwhelmed by the demand for the TouchPad and now it seems the company is treating new TouchPad owners to some free applications. 'How does a cool, refreshing, and free 6-Pack sound?'

Let's look at 10 interesting WebOS apps that won't cost you a penny.

Facebook: Social Networking

The WebOS Facebook app is an elegant way to keep in touch with your friends. The free app supports Facebook messaging, news feed, a list of upcoming events, and features HP webOS notifications. You can also upload photos taken with the built-in camera directly to Facebook.

Spaz HD: Twitter Client

Spaz is a full-featured three-column, multiple-accounts Twitter client for TouchPads which performs just as well as its paid competitors. The free app currently lacks support for lists and Exhibition mode.

WordPress: Blogging

The TouchPad can make a bargain mobile blogging machine with the free Wordpress app featuring an elegant sliding panels interface. You can write and edit posts, moderate comments and there’s support for multiple blogs too.

Epicurious: Recipes

Foodies have a refuge in the free Epicurious app, which lets you find recipes based on category or specific ingredients. You can also add all the ingredients of a dish to a shopping list, for when you take the TouchPad shopping with you.

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Citrix Receiver: Productivity

If your work place uses Citrix to host applications, you can use this free TouchPad app check your email, review documents, tune into project dashboards, and approve expenses.

Kindle: EBook Reader

The free Kindle for TouchPad app allows you access and read books you have downloaded from the Amazon Kindle store, as well as shop from the extensive library available.

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TuneIn Radio: Thousands of Radio Stations

You can listen live to around 50,000 radio stations from across the world with the free TuneIn Radio for TouchPad. You can search stations from your area or go global and search for stations by topic.

WeatherBug: Weather Updates

WeatherBug presents you with a virtual open window with a recent picture of your location. Besides this nifty detail, you get the usual weather forecasts, radar images and wind speed and direction, all for free.

Angry Birds HD: Gaming

Yes, the addictive world-famous game is free on a TouchPad. If you want to go beyond the free levels included, there’s always Angry Birds Rio HD ($1.99).

Box for TouchPad: Storage

We saved the best for the last: You get 50GB of free cloud storage for the foreseeable future from Box.net via this free app. You can organize content into folders, view it on your device, share it with links, and content can be accessed from your computer too (A sign-up from the TouchPad is required.)

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Looking Forward

It's unclear how many new tablet apps might be in the works for the TouchPad - if any. HP has a note on its app section of its site that states: 'Thousands now. Bazillions on the way.. Find them all in the new HP webOS App Catalog.' HP then offers a link to a 'Notify me when available' link for its app catalog.

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In light of recent events HP is probably not planning on releasing 'bazillions' of apps anytime soon. But I think there is a good chance some new WebOS apps may surface - they just might not be tablet optimized. My reasoning for this is, WebOS isn't dead (despite repeated reports of its death) and HP's Pre 3 handset that runs the WebOS mobile OS will go on sale later this year in Europe (but not here in the U.S.).

While most mobile app developers are jumping from the WebOS ship and headed for Android, according to reports, some WebOS app development will continue as long as HP is marketing and selling the Pre 3, I predict. That is until the final nail is pounded into the WebOS coffin.

The HP TouchPad may have been discontinued, but the thousands of people who picked up tablets since HP dramatically slashed prices still have plenty of apps to choose from. HP has hundreds of dedicated TouchPad apps in its store, and the tablet can also run about 70 percent of the more than 8,000 apps designed for HP's WebOS phones. The phone apps run in a little phone-sized box on the tablet's 9.7-inch screen, though.

HP will reportedly kick off one last fire sale for the TouchPad, with the 16GB model selling for $99 and the 32GB version for $149. These TouchPads are said to be refurbished, rather than brand-new models.

It remains to be seen if any more apps will be created for WebOS. But after much discussion, HP recently announced that it will not sell its webOS unit but instead contribute the platform to the open-source community. The company said it will 'continue to be active in the development and support of webOS,' but handing it over to the open-source community will help improve applications and Web services for next-generation devices.'

This decision may mean a steady flow of new apps will appear for the TouchPad and other devices, but we wouldn't count on it for the near future. Of the TouchPad's existing apps, many are games and productivity apps, but you'll find some entries in all of the usual-suspect categories. Some big names are represented, but not others: Kindle, Facebook, and Angry Birds are all on board. Slacker Radio, Autodesk Sketchpad, Fruit Ninja, and other popular iPad apps haven't made it over. On the other hand, the iPad doesn't have a dedicated Facebook app yet, while the TouchPad does.

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Discovering TouchPad apps is much simpler than it is on Android devices, although it's not quite as foolproof as on the iPad. Peering through the HP App Catalog, just look for the little gray words 'for TouchPad' below titles; those apps show up at the top of each category list on the TouchPad. That's superior to Google's frustrating, undifferentiated jumble, but it would be nice to be able to hide the not-for-TouchPad apps entirely.

The TouchPad's app catalog comes with one major unique feature: Pivot, an 'app discovery magazine' with articles by professional journalists seeking out interesting apps that may not appear on top or new lists. The current issue of Pivot may be its last, but it was a very neat idea.

The relatively thin app catalog gives some developers room to stand out. Typewriter, for instance, is a good-looking and ingenious text-entry app that uses the simple formatting language, Markdown. Spaz, a popular Twitter app on the Palm Pre, takes on Tweetdeck's columnar approach on the TouchPad.

Many apps in HP's catalog—especially the games—are paid, and prices are similar to what you'll pay for similar iPad apps. Every TouchPad must be associated with a Palm Profile, and setting up your profile includes adding a credit card. After that, it's just two clicks to buy apps—quick and seamless. Developers get paid via PayPal, which works to deliver money in about 100 countries.

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Here are our picks for the best TouchPad apps so far.

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• 1HP App Catalog

  The HP App Catalog, like other mobile app stores, lets you look at the most recent or most popular apps, as well as search by category.

• 2TouchPad App List

  To find TouchPad apps in the App Catalog, look for the little gray words 'For TouchPad' next to the name of each app. The last two apps in the list here don't have 'em; those are Palm Pre apps that can run on the TouchPad, but in a smaller window. You can’t scale them up to full size, like you can do with the iPad’s 2x button.

• 3Angry Birds HD (Free)

  In 2011, Angry Birds is the sign that your mobile platform has made it. Angry Birds HD for the TouchPad is smooth, free, and plays in full screen. If you become a real addict, though, you'll have to shell out $1.99 for Angry Birds Rio HD.

• 4Facebook (Free)

  The TouchPad is only the second tablet with a dedicated Facebook app. And HP's app implementation is impressive, with several unique features, including this Flipboard-like full screen view of your news feed. A two-pane interface lets you flip easily between your news feed, messages, events, places, friends and photos, and the places where your friends checked in show up on a map.

• 5Glyder 2 HD ($2.99)

  The TouchPad’s Qualcomm Adreno 220 GPU has some real oomph, so I went looking for games that showed off its 3D chops. Glyder 2 HD is a beautiful, nonviolent 3D flying game where you swoop around an animated landscape trying to pick up crystals.

• 6Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit ($9.99)

  Need for Speed is the premiere series of mobile driving games, and Hot Pursuit adds something a lot of the other versions have missed: an entertaining plot. You can play as a cop or a 'racer,' pursuing illegal drivers or trying to evade the police. Action is smooth and good-looking on the TouchPad, and you steer with the accelerometer.

• 7Amazon Kindle (Free)

  What's a tablet without a Kindle app? There isn't much to the TouchPad's version yet, but it syncs with your existing Kindle library and lets you search for text, mark pages, and check your notes. There's also a link to the Web-based Kindle store, but when I checked it before launch, it wasn't working.

• 8Localscope ($2.99)

  Because the TouchPad is Wi-Fi-only and lacks GPS, there aren't many location-based apps. The ones that are out there use Wi-Fi networks to find your location. Localscope gives you nearby results from various search engines for restaurants, banks, cafes and such, but it's conspicuously missing reviews.

• 9Spaz HD Beta Preview 1 (Free)

  Spaz was my favorite Twitter client on the Pre 2, and it's back on the TouchPad with a vastly expanded feature set. You can skim through multiple search columns, log in as multiple Twitter accounts, use different image hosting and URL shortcut services and, of course, Tweet. It's all the Twitter you'd want on this tablet.

• 10TuneIn Radio (Free)

  Pandora can give you music, but TuneIn gives you local news, sports, and other favorite local radio stations. This app automatically gathers all of the streams for radio stations in your city, arranging them along a virtual AM/FM spectrum; if you want to go farther afield, you can browse a global directory of streams by topic.

• 11Typewriter Beta (Free)

  An ingenious, and good-looking text processor for the TouchPad, Typewriter uses e-mail-like formatting conventions (for instance, '_italic_' and '[hotlink]' to create elegant documents. You can save your files to Dropbox, email them, or just save them on the TouchPad to transfer over later via USB. I'd like to see more features, such as spell check and find-and-replace, but this is a good start.

• 12Epicurious (Free)

  Like to cook? Epicurious is a veritable cornucopia of recipes, allowing you to plan your next big dinner party, or just a late night snack. It’s highly searchable, from main ingredients all the way to meal size, and can even help you generate shopping lists. It’s a food lover’s best friend.

• 13Groupon (Free)

  The popular group discount giant comes to the TouchPad with a great new app. Snappy and easy to use, Groupon lets you browse daily deals throughout hundreds of cities, which can add up to some serious savings.

• 14WordPress (Free)

  Blog much? Then you’re probably familiar with WordPress. This app gives you easy access to your WordPress blog, with adjustable columns to help you navigate. There’s also a host of helpful features like advanced post editing, comment management, notifications, and site statistics.

• 15Pandora Radio (Free)

  Pandora is one of the most popular automated music recommendation services out there. Like The Magnetic Fields and want to hear something similar? Just pull up the Magnetic Fields station and wait for songs from Belle & Sebastian and The Smiths to zip by.

• 16Box.net (Free)

  Have too many pictures saved on your TouchPad? Send them to the cloud! Box.net is a cloud-based storage app, which means you can upload files from any device with Box access, and retrieve them on another. Better yet, new users get 50GB of free storage space.

• 17Interface Lift HD (Free)

  The TouchPad’s already a good looking device, but Interface Lift makes finding compatible wallpaper a snap. You can sort by artist, category, or tags, though it’s also fun to browse the most recently update wallpapers. They all look gorgeous on the TouchPad’s 9.7-inch LCD.

• 18Robotek HD (Free)

  Robots have taken over the world, and you have to take it back, energy node by energy node. Robotek’s gameplay is turn-based, and centers around a slot machine. Sound weird? It is. But it’s also extremely addicting, and the futuristic cartoon graphics look excellent on the TouchPad.

• 19Mosaic Reader (Free)

  Mosaic is a great-looking Google Reader app with a unique, tablet-centric way of doing things. It presents all the items in your RSS feed in an attractive, tiled view. Stories open up in an embedded browser, from which you can email and Tweet links.

• 20AccuWeather (Free)

  The TouchPad's AccuWeather app provides you with an absolutely gorgeous look at the weather forecast. The layout is simple yet comprehensive, covering everything from daily forecasts to wind speed and direction to radar images. It'll even tell you if it's good weather to mow the lawn. And it's all presented in a lush, attractive package. Rainy days never looked so good.

• 21Camera for TouchPad ($.99)

  The Camera for TouchPad app allows you to snap still photos using your TouchPad's front-facing camera. That's it. Pretty basic, yes, but there's no other way to do it, as the TouchPad doesn't come with a still camera app.

• 22ToodleTasks HD ($4.99)

  The TouchPad is sorely lacking a native task app. ToodleTasks HD is a comprehensive task management app that makes excellent use of the TouchPad's sliding panes. You can filter and sort tasks, perform full text searches, and even create subtasks. It syncs with Toodledo, so you can access your to-do list from almost anywhere.