Archive for the ‘Palm Pre Hacks’ Category

by admin on March 9th, 2010
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For those of you who’ve had MyTether’s Wifi tethering for awhile now, you probably noticed that your Palm Pre or Palm Pre Plus has been upgraded to WebOS 1.4. Well, I have heard that some people are having trouble using their MyTether application and I did too. Simply, download the late ...
by admin on March 5th, 2010
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For webmasters and web designers who are tailoring their website to Palm Pres and other smartphones, here’s some free PHP code that will detect Palm Pre and other smartphones from my DIY tech blogwe: <?php $iphone = strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],”iPhone”); $android = strpos($_SERVE ...
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 November 26th, 2009
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Here’s a quick heads-up for those of you looking for Palm Pre accessory deals on BlackFriday and CyberMonday. Palm is offering $30 off any purchase $99 or more at the official Palm store during Black Friday! (valid till 12/01) – Click this link to redeem This might be a great time to sta ...
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 30th, 2009
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The other day, I noticed the PreCentral that someone has hacked the Palm Pre to shoot videos.  Well, it took me awhile to follow the directions but I finally got it working. Beauty of open source, when you make something open source, you get all these hackers flocking to make free apps.  This vide ...
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 25th, 2009
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Here’s a really simply way to make your Palm Pre’s battery last longer by simply turning your LCD brightness down to the lowest setting, which is still too bright for me. Before doing this, I got about a day of normal use out of my Palm Pre.  Afterwards, I am now getting at least 3 day ...
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 ...
 
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