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Pre3minent Prelude

So my out-laws live in beautiful Marysville, in a beautiful house on the side of a beautiful hill overlooking a beautiful valley.

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Pre3xistence Disappointment

So, an update about little Miss Pre3… She’s been happily sitting on her touchstone charger running an ssh server and simple IDS software for our home network.  Until recently. At some point in the past month, she decided to run an update without my blessing, and in the process has de-homebrewed herself. This is starting… Continue reading Pre3xistence Disappointment

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Pining for Pre3xistence

I am thinking about restarting the experiment once some new charging cables arrive. It seems a shame to have such a beautiful device acting as a dumb linux server…

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Pre3xistence Day 1 redux

Homebrewing is fraught with difficulty… After googling and a lot of trial and error, this is how it worked for me: – Enable developer mode on the Pre: + ‘just type’ the following: webos20090606, then run the secret app and follow its instructions. – Download and install the Palm SDK on the Mac – it… Continue reading Pre3xistence Day 1 redux

Pre3xistence Day 1

Today was the day the SIM went in and the full immersion was to start. After yesterday’s random reboot problems were solved, there was still a niggling issue with performance. Touch responsiveness has always seemed sluggish and reactive, and according to precentral (again) this was because of detailed logging being switched on by default. If… Continue reading Pre3xistence Day 1

Pre3xistence: Day 0

After all the enthusiasm of last night, this morning’s cold hard daylight revealed a clean cutover would require some additional tools (like a micro-SIM tray). These will be acquired post-haste. In the meanwhile, I have been playing carrying out detailed testing of the Pre as a fat iPod Touch. Items of note from day zero:

Pre3xistence Prelude

This evening, a good friend popped over with his kids for dinner. And with a small box from America. Apparently, despite its being killed off prior to launch by the even shorter-lived CEO Leo, the AT&T-version Pre3 is available for sale – if you know where to look. This good friend happens to know I’m… Continue reading Pre3xistence Prelude

Thoughts on Siri & Search

I’ve been conversing on and off with Siri since she first appeared in our house, trapped between two sheets of Gorilla Glass. Some things of note so far…