Archive for November, 2005
Palm Problems: Pt 2: Digitizer Fixes
26 Comments Published November 29th, 2005 in editorial, howto, palm, quicktips(Last revised and updated Feb 29, 2008)
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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 […]
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Palm Problems: Pt 1: Reset Loops, Crashes
12 Comments Published November 28th, 2005 in editorial, howto, palm, quicktips(Last updated Feb 29, 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 […]
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Dynamic Memory Heap And Why It’s Important
1 Comment Published November 26th, 2005 in editorial, howto, palm, quicktips(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 […]
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Putting It All Together: Pt 10: Expand Your Alarm Collection
2 Comments Published November 24th, 2005 in editorial, howto, palm, tutorial(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 […]
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Putting It All Together: Pt 9: Optimizing Battery Life (II)
0 Comments Published November 22nd, 2005 in editorial, howto, palm, tutorial(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 […]
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Putting It All Together: Pt 8: Optimizing Battery Life (I)
1 Comment Published November 20th, 2005 in editorial, howto, palm, tutorial(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 […]
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Putting It All Together: Pt 7: Security Programs
1 Comment Published November 18th, 2005 in editorial, howto, palm, tutorial(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 […]
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Putting It All Together: Pt 6: Protecting Your New Investment
0 Comments Published November 16th, 2005 in editorial, howto, palm, tutorial(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 […]
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Putting It All Together: Pt 5 : Backup Your Palm Just In Case
3 Comments Published November 15th, 2005 in editorial, howto, palm, tutorial(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 […]
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Putting It all Together: Pt 4: Restoring From Your Backup Folder
1 Comment Published November 14th, 2005 in editorial, howto, palm, tutorial(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 […]
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