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I got this idea while looking at a Palm Pre sitting on its inductive Touchstone charger. I thought, “If the Pre sticks to the dock using magnetism, wouldn’t it be cool if the Pre itself was magnetic?” The back to the Pre seemed to have a little extra room under the cover, so I stuck [...]
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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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Here are some followup pictures of my three day old InvisibleShield install on my Palm Pre (see the original install here). Most of the air bubbles worked their way out, but there’s still one on the right edge that refuses to go away. It gets smaller day by day, so maybe it’ll just take some [...]
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After having an InvisibleShield for my old HTC Touch Pro, I decided to get one for my Palm Pre as well. The InvisibleShield is a thin (1mm thick) silicone like skin which wraps around your phone. About 90-95% of the phone is covered, protecting it from scratches and light drops. The first thing I did [...]
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In case you guys haven’t seen this, here’s the speed test from CNET: The bootup time test is pretty retarded. Actually, it’s really retarded. Not because I love my Pre and the iPhone 3GS spanks it in boot time, but because nobody really ever turns their phone off, so why would it be included in [...]
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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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Now, these aren’t your typical GUI applications, these are Linux console apps. For 99% of the users out there, this doesn’t mean squat. However, the hacker and developer community probably shat their pants earlier today (I know I did). Programs are installed through the Pre’s built in ipkg package manager. Installing programs is as easy [...]
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Hot damn, only 4 days after the release and people have already figured out to gain root access to the Pre! Credit goes to dsevil from the PreCentral forums for discovering the now infamous Easter Egg left by the Palm developers. Those sneaky, but hilarious, developers found a way to incorporate the “Konami code” into [...]
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Straight from Apple’s site: http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-3g-s/ Let’s take a look at the new features: “The Fastest iPhone Ever” – Claims that the new 3GS is up to twice as fast as the 3G model. Seeing as we don’t know any hardware specs, nor can we trust Apple’s tainted advertising reputation, we’ll just have to wait till [...]
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Alright folks, here’s what was lacking on most all review sites: a good demonstration of the Palm Pre’s multitasking capabilities. In the video, I’m opening some commonly used apps and switching between them via the Card view. As you can see, there was very little slow down, even after multiple apps were opened. Try doing [...]
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