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All info can be found here: GPS Tracking @ Pre Dev Wiki This little modification will allow you to track your Palm Pre if it ever gets lost or stolen. Just ask this guy what he thinks about GPS tracking on his iPhone. After implementing this GPS tracking method, your Pre will email you updates [...]
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Credit goes to fish199902 for this one. Basically, you setup an SSH tunnel to the Pre, which supports running as a SOCKS proxy. You then configure your browser to point to this proxy and BAM, you’re tethering away. First, you must have rooted your Pre and installed/enabled SSH.\ UPDATE 8/6/09: Easier method with GUI: MyTether [...]
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[A Guest Post from Silki Garg] Web 2.0 is all about Community Websites. The biggest advantage of these community websites is that they are user driven. You, as the webmaster, do not provide the content, you are just a facilitator. The content is created and shared by the users and members of your website. Just [...]
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Last night, I found a spanking deal on a 9800GX2 (paid $150) on Craigslist. After bringing the card home and taking another look at it, I realized that the card has two power inputs, which need both a 6 pin and an 8 pin PCI-E power connector. Nobody locally carries the adapter and I don’t [...]
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After purchasing my math book from iChapters.com, I was pissed off to find out that the chapters are in secure pdf format (.spdf). That means that I had to install the Oracle IRM unsealer in order to view my chapters. These .pdf’s cannot be opened without the unsealer program, which authenticates you and unlocks the [...]
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Sadly, internet connection sharing (ICS) is not enabled on the Sprint HTC Touch Pro by default. Instead, Sprint wants you to pay for a “phone as modem” (PAM) plan in order to unlock the functionality. However, if you already have an internet plan for your phone (e.g. SERO plan), you can unlock the internet sharing [...]
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Flashing a custom ROM to your HTC Touch Pro allows you to have an operating system that fits your likes and needs. In many cases, custom ROMs strip out non essential preinstalled software as well as apply various performance tweaks. In my experience, using a custom ROM is much better than the stock ROM simply [...]
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“Lapping” a CPU involves removing the nickel plating on the IHS (integrated heat sink) from the processor. Due to manufacturing variations, the IHS on processors may be slightly concave or convex. This results in an uneven contact with the heat sink which degrades cooling by a moderate margin. If you’re an enthusiast who loves to [...]
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Remote Desktop is a great feature of Windows which lets you remotely control your desktop from a remote location. Many IT professionals and users utilize this free feature in Windows 2000/XP/Vista. Remote desktop is a huge time saver because you do not have to physically be at the computer workstation to control the computer. Basically, [...]
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Almost all of us have come to the point where we had to reinstall our operating system whether it be Windows, Linux, or MacOS. Typically, it would take me about 2 hours on a good day to rebuild a machine by completely reinstalling Windows XP, all drivers, and standard software like Firefox, Office, etc. However, [...]
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