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Video Recording on the Palm Pre, Unofficially of Course

September 25th 2009 | Posted by Juventino Quinones

Since most of you reading this post found out the Palm Pre was not going to be release with video recording, some felt bad about it, others thought the phone was unworthy. But many, like me, believed on this smartphone, so we went ahead and gave it a shot, and have no regrets about it [...]

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Tweet Palm Pre’s GPS Location to Your Twitter [Video]

September 4th 2009 | Posted by Juventino Quinones

By now, chances are you still remember the whole ordeal when the news broke about Palm “spying” on you. Well, this time is not Palm, but yourself. This time you can hack your own Pre to tweet its GPS location to Twitter. The guys over at Palm Pre Hacks have managed to get a Palm [...]

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Palm Pre Gets a New Virtual Keyboard

August 26th 2009 | Posted by Juventino Quinones

Recently the Palm Pre received a little help to get a virtual keyboard working with it. Although it was in development and in it’s early stage the guys behind it at WebOS Internals gave hope to those who want a “soft” keyboard on the Pre.

This time, thanks to Alan Rodriguez, those who love the idea [...]

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webOS 1.0.4 update blocking homebrew Pre app loading

June 30th 2009 | Posted by Chris Davies

Palm have released webOS v1.0.4 as an over-the-air update, and as you might expect it addresses the most significant security hole discovered by Pre-hackers: side-loading applications via email.  In fact, aside from blocking up some security holes, webOS 1.0.4 brings no new applications or features.
Unfortunately, due to the way Palm have constructed their OTA update [...]

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Pre is the Hackers Friend

June 15th 2009 | Posted by Shane McGlaun

One of the things that many smartphones have in common is that there is a large community of homebrew fans and those making all sorts of cool and often quasi-legal apps for devices by hacking the firmware. Often these hacks are to add new features like tethering to phones that lack it or to free [...]

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