(Last revised and updated July 16 2009)

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Do a soft reset first
Determine what is touching the screen
Preventative screen maintenance
Clean edge of the screen
Tighten the screws on the device
Disable hacks
Install current updates and patches
More ideas found on the internet (proceed with caution)
Digitizer Software
Freeware digitizer software
Shareware digitizer software
Digitizer or Screen Test apps
Hard reset to determine software or [...]

(Last updated Nov 24, 2008)
Sometime in the future (if you haven’t experienced a crash already, you’re quite lucky if you haven’t, btw), you will experience a crash in the Palm. It can be due to software conflicts between the device and third party applications, lack of freely available RAM of dynamic heap memory, unexpected button [...]

(Last edited Feb 29, 2008)

If you are a major gamer who loves to play emulator type games, or Astraware games like Bejeweled 2 or other graphics intensive games you probably already know about dynamic heap memory and that many Palm devices do not have enough dynamic heap memory required to run most of those type [...]

(Last edited Feb 29, 2008)

This is part ten of the Putting it all together series. If you haven’t read part one, please check it out here.
Sorry if this series ended up being much longer than I had anticipated. There’s so much important information that I wanted to share that I felt [...]

(Last edited Feb 29, 2008)

This is part nine of Putting it all together series and the second part of Optimizing battery life. To read part one of Putting it all together click here. To read the first part of the Optimizing battery life, click on the this link.
Aside from lowering the brightness setting [...]

(Last edited Feb 29, 2008)

This is part 8 of the Putting it all together series. If you haven’t read part one, please check it out here
Battery life is an important part of the Palm and unfortunately, many of us find that the battery life of the Palm isn’t as good as we had expected or [...]

(Last edited Feb 29, 2008)
Again, I want to take a moment to thank Sammy McLoughlin for mentioning my blog on his ever so popular Palm Addicts site. It’s such an honor to be repeatedly mentioned by Sammy and I am grateful for all the views I’m getting here.
I hope everyone finds this blog helpful [...]

(Last edited Feb 29, 2008)

This is part six of the Putting it all together series. If you haven’t read part one, please read it here.
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Cases
Send back to Palm for repair
Extended Warranty
Screen Repair
Repair services Online
Palm Screws
Take Apart Instructions
Screen Protectors
Screen cleaning
eGrips
Physical protection for the Palm
Hard or soft or crystal case

You’ve spent quite a nice sum [...]

(Last edited Feb 29, 2008)
This is part five of the Putting it all together series. If you haven’t read part one, you can read it here. In this part, I will be discussing several third party backup program solutions.
Shortcomings of Hotsync as a backup solution
In the previous post, I have discussed that although [...]

(Last edited Feb 29, 2008)

This is part four of the Putting it all together series. If you haven’t read part one, you can read it here. In this part, I will be discussing several third party backup program solutions.
Along the lines of the expansion flash memory SD card, backing up your RAM data [...]

(Last edited Feb 27, 2008)

This is part three of the Putting it all together series. If you haven’t read part one, please check it out here
The power of the expansion card slot (SDIO): more storage for running programs
Once you’ve removed the programs and have enough RAM to run them, you’re pretty much stuck with [...]

(Last edited Feb 27, 2008)

I just want to take a brief moment to acknowledge and thank The Palmdoc Chronicles for mentioning my blog on their site and adding a link to their blogroll. If you’re in the medical profession, please take a moment of your time to check out a great blog site that [...]

(Last edited Feb 27, 2008)
Before I start on the topic of this posting, I would like to take a moment to remind everyone that today, November 11th, is Rememberance Day (in Canada) or Veterans Day (in USA). In Canada, we wear a red poppy on our clothes to show our rememberance of the Canadians [...]

(Last edited Feb 27, 2008)

Screenshots of the Hotsync Application
Here’s some screenshots of the Hotsync application to provide you with the various menu options available.

The Options menu: Modem Sync Prefs, LAN Sync Prefs, Primary PC Setup, Conduit Setup, Connection Setup, About Hotsync

Modem Sync Preferences screen
Select from Network or Direct to Modem

LANSync Preferences screen
Select from LANSync [...]

(Last edited Feb 27, 2008)

In this second part, we will be discussing how to install a Palm program via Hotsync.
Installing a Palm program via Hotsync
Aside from synchronizing data between the Palm and the computer, another important task that the Hotsync application does is the installation of Palm programs which is set up via the Quick [...]