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Announcing the PreCentral.net webOS Theme Gallery!

September 19th 2009 | Posted by Dieter Bohn

We are proud to announce the PreCentral.net webOS Theme Gallery!  Like our Homebrew App Gallery, the Theme Gallery consists of user-contributed themes to help you make the most out of your Palm Pre.

The gallery has themes that were made with Jason Robitaille’s excellent – and brand spankin’ new – Web OS Theme Builder desktop application. They are available to all PreCentral.net members as a zip file download, which you can then install via Jason Robitaille’s excellent – and also newly updated – WebOS Quick Install tool. We have a full How-To article all written up to help you through the steps.

We have to give huge thanks to the members of the Pre community who helped make this possible: Jason Robitaille, madolen for his huge batch of Pre themes to get us started, Sarah Peterman for her incredible work organizing and fostering our webOS Themes Forum, and to everybody who has been creating themes in the forums.

One quick note: themes basically work by replacing system files on your Pre – mainly graphics files – and so are a use-at-your-own-risk affair.  As with patches, you should always remove themes before installing any webOS update, the good news is that the new version of WebOS Quick Install makes it easy.

Go on and take a look! After the break, some nitty gritty details for you developers out there.

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How To Install Themes on your Pre

September 19th 2009 | Posted by Dieter Bohn

Now that our Theme Gallery is live, we thought we might show you how to install the suckers. We’ll start with some disclaimers – installing themes will replace some system files (images) on your Pre, so we strongly recommend you uninstall them before an update. You’re going to be going through a very similar process to the one we described when we told you How To Install Homebrew Apps on your Pre, including putting your Pre into developer mode.

If that doesn’t scare you off, here’s your how-to!

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