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Palm Tips: How to add ringtones to your Treo -- for free!
Tue, 07 Feb 2006

Ringtones are a huge and weird market with people willing to pay more for a 20 second craptacular rendition of a song than for the raw or mp3 version of it. With such a huge market and millions of dollars being made you can believe the telcos like to make it hard to install a ringtone without first heading to their ever-so-convenient online store. Fortunately Palm has so far not been the sort of company to throttle the function of a device in order to give them another market.. so for us, installing new ringtones is easy.

Easy as Sunday morning. Heres how...

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Palm Tips: Reseting, or, How to remove misbehaving drivers, patches, and applications
Tue, 31 Jan 2006

(I resisted the title "Drivers, patches, and applications - oh my!")

Thanks to our friend the light bulb everyone is familiar with the on/off switch; anyone whose used anything more complex is also familiar with the crash and the reset cycle. Technology should be more stable -- when is the last time you saw your VCR or microwave oven crash? -- but we all know that it has been a long time since the days when Palm OS users could make jokes about the blue-screen-of-death to Pocket PC users.

But many people do not know about the many flavours of reset; most people know about the 'soft' reset (what I call the Pinhole Reset to keep it straight) and some unfortunate folks know about the 'hard' reset, there are others though it is out of scope of this posting to talk about the debug reset and the PleaseDon'tFormatMyLifedriveHardDisk-reset, but I will mention a third very useful variation..

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Palm Tips: Backup, backup, backup!
Thu, 19 Jan 2006

Historically, Palm OS has been bullet-proof -- lasting for weeks or months on alkaline batteries, rarely (if ever) crashing, and a past hotsync always ready to rescue you. These days Palm OS is still as fast and fun to use as ever but some of the devices are a little less reliable than they were so many years ago - the introduction of newer and fancier technology has taken its toll in stability. But who would turn their back on sharp high res colour displays, NVRAM to survive battery outages, bluetooth and 802.11 wifi, fat SD cards -- the veritable kitchen sink? But data is what its all about, and we never ever want to lose it.

One of these days I'll talk about home backup and redundancy techniques as I'm researching for myself (RAID, cheap backups, offsite storage, etc), but for now lets just talk about how to survive mobile theft, crashes or smashes.

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