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If you are one of those lucky ones to get HP's new TouchPad, you may have noticed that Hulu has finally blocked the access to its website for TouchPad devices. So How to bypass that Hulu Block for your HP Touchpad.

Some webOS geniouses have already figured out a way to bypass that Hulu block. All you have to do is just follow this instructions.

Basically Hulu blocks the devices based on their Flash version. For Touchpad its "WEB 10". The hack shows you how to edit that libflashplayer.so and change that Flash version from WEB 10 to WIN 10.

Once you change that, Bingo! You should be able to run your Hulu videos on your touchpad without any issues.

1. Working Hulu access for HP Touchpad
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3. GET:
4. hexeditor, HxD
5. Palm webos sdk
6. usb cable, hint: it came with the tablet.
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8. DO:
9. MAKE SURE THE TOUCHPAD WEB BROWSER IS CLOSED.
10. Turn on developer mode, google for help.
11. install sdk, google for help.
12. Add novaterm to sdk.
13. Once you have a working Novaterm connection to the touchpad
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15. cp /usr/lib/BrowserServerPlugins/libflashplayer.so /media/internal/libflashplayer.so
16. mv /usr/lib/BrowserServerPlugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/BrowserServerPlugins/libflashplayer.so.bak
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18. Ok, so now we have a backup of the plugin, and a copy we can mod. End the novaterm session and access the standard usb flash storage. google for help.
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20. open libflashplayer.so in your hexeditor, search for "WEB 10" you will find it @ offset 67F184. Now just change the E to I and the B to N. Save the file.
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22. Eject the flash drive via safely remove hardware. Restart novaterm connection.
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24. cp /media/internal/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/BrowserServerPlugins/libflashplayer.so
25. chmod 755 /usr/lib/BrowserServerPlugins/libflashplayer.so
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27. That should do it. Start browser and check out great content like Lady Gaga in a bikini.
28. Perhaps a nice dev will write a little patcher that makes this easier.

 Thanks Pastebin

Updates:

 Watching Hulu on Touchpad is now even easier. First of all, install Preware on your HP TouchPad using webOS Quick Install. Once you have Preware installed, open the Preware and then click on "List of Everything" and type "Hulu Fix" and it should be the only item. Just hit "Install" and you should be all set to watch Hulu videos on HP TouchPad