Posts Tagged ‘how to’

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 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 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 20th, 2009
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The second day I got the Palm Pre, I was able to SSH into my own Palm Pre and also make it into a WiFi Router.  Of course, this is usual business for me as I manage about 30+ web servers on a daily basis.  If I see a linux machine, the first thing I want to do is SSH into it. What is SSH? SSH is a ...
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 ...