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by admin on February 2nd, 2010
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Developer of the WiFi tethering app for the regular Palm Pre, Raja, has just pinged me on the status of his My Tether app. My Tether now officially supports Verizon’s Palm Pre Plus, meaning you don’t have to pay the extra $40/month Verizon is charging you.  On top of wifi tethering, yo ...
by admin on January 2nd, 2010
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Hey, Happy New Year everyone! Sorry last year was sorta hectic but I will try to get more active with my Palm Pre hacks this year. Btw, Engadget just released their new Palm Pre/Pixi app, check it out here. ...
by admin on November 12th, 2009
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Here’s a ridiculously cool hack that shows you how to make a Touchstone Palm Pre Car Mount.  As for me, I will keep my Palm Pre Touchstone on my desk where its used more often but I might consider putting one in my car soon too for turn-by-voice GPS navigation. I personally use a Duracell I ...
by admin on September 28th, 2009
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Besides Sprint’s phones being about $2000 cheaper over a 2 year term over AT&T’s iPhone or Verizon’s smartphones, the actual cost of the phone is now officially much cheaper at $79.99 from Walmart.com after $100 rebate.(via engadget) Palm Pre has been on the rise, selling over ...
by admin on September 25th, 2009
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Well, we have been getting a lot of questions on how to install the My Tether wifi router software onto your Palm Pre, so I figured I could make a short video on how to do that step-by-step in YouTube video fashion.  This should answer a lot of questions for people who are having trouble so… ...
by admin on August 23rd, 2009
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(Screenshot of @trackmypalmpre, which gets updated with location of my Palm Pre every hour.) As promised on my last blog post on how to set up Google GPS tracking on your Palm Pre, I will now show you how to “tweet’ your GPS location to a Twitter account so you can track it on Twitter ...
by admin on August 22nd, 2009
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A lot of carriers now offer the ability to track your kid’s cellphones to track where they are.  Well,you can do that on the Palm Pre too. Here’s how you can setup a “website” on your Palm Pre and secretly track your Palm Pre, whereever it is in “real-time”. Fir ...
by admin on August 21st, 2009
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(screenshot of SSH Top command showing processes running on my Palm Pre) Since the Palm Pre is based on Linux, I figured that you could probably run a Wordpress blog on the Palm Pre.   Well, after about 3 hours of research, I found a way to run a wordpress blog using Optware Lighttpd and MySQL ...
by admin on August 2nd, 2009
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Yesterday I showed you how you can use My Tether to turn your Palm Pre into a wireless hotspot. Well, if you don’t need wireless or simply don’t need to connect multiple devices at the same time, you can also tether your Palm Pre via USB and use your Palm Pre as a USB Modem. Sprint has ...
by admin on August 2nd, 2009
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UPDATE: I made a YouTube video on how to do tether your Palm Pre into a WiFi router step-by-step for XP machines. UPDATE (2/2/10): My Tether beta now officially supports Verizon Palm Pre Plus Tethering,  Only flat fee of $14.95 versus $40/month! For those of you who want to hack your Palm Pre int ...