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July 2009

Turning Things On and Off

A quick tutorial on turning on and off the radios in the Palm Pre: phone, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

Keeping It Fresh

How to update your Palm Pre’s operating system and apps using the built-in Updates app.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Tips for using the keyboard and gesture area on the Palm Pre, including how to select text and take a screen shot.

First Homebrew Game

Janni Kovacs has produced what I think is the first homebrew game for the Pre: Snakes.  Snakes is your typical ‘eat-and-grow-longer’ style game and I’m sure it will evolve nicely.  We’ll look forward to finding this on the App Catalog when Palm opens it up.  Unfortunately, if you’ve (been) updated to the 1.0.4 firmware you [...]

Gesture Reference

Gestures are an important part of the Pre experience.  Getting to know them all and how to use them makes you more productive.  Most of the gestures are very intuitive, which only goes to show what a great job the designers did on webOS.  Here’s Palm’s official gesture guide.  Note the section at the end [...]