Reuse Your Old Palm Pda As An Lcd Display

palm lcd display
if you’ve got an old palm device (palm, visor, clie, workpad), you can use it as an lcd output device for your pc or robotics project.  the open source software palmorb runs on palm os 2.0 or above and makes your old palm pilot emulate a Matrix Orbital LK204-25 LCD.

this is great.  i’ve got an old palm 3 collecting dust that can get some use now.  there are some code samples on the site, or you can use lcd4linux or lcdsmartie to communicate with your new lcd device.  thanks for the link ray.

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Connect Your Handspring Visor To The Internet Via GPRS

Handspring Visor

This hack is for those of us die hard old skool types still making good use out of our Handspring Visor handhelds. You’ll also need a SonyEricsson phone with GPRS and an IR-port to make this work. This hack comes from Ola Eriksson, distant cousin in the Norwegian branch of the Sony Ericssons.

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Enable Bluetooth Headsets On Ipaqs

enable bluetooth headsets on ipaqs

here’s one hack a day pal lars sent in…

there is a reg. key you can edit to enable bluetooth headsets on ipaq.
put 1 insted of 0 in:

HKeyLocalMchineSOFTWAREWidcommBtConfigServices005Enabled=1

and add a DWORD Enabled=1 Enabled=1 to

HKeyLocalMchineSOFTWAREWidcommBtConfigServices006

and also there is a key in softwaremediaplayer that has somthing in the lines of play unsupported=0 (off) enabeling it must do something but i dont know what,but i supose U people could figure it out.

so if you have a bluetooth headset for your phone and have a bluetooth ipaq, there’s a good chance you can use your headset to listen to audio through the headset.

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Wifi On Treo 650 Uberhack

wifi on treo 650 uberhack

okay, maybe i’ll consider the treo 650 now. before, it was extremely disappointing that the wifi drivers weren’t out when the phone shipped, but now thanks the “shadowmite” here’s the hacked up sdio wifi drivers and instructions.

1) Copy the file to a SD card
2) Run the file
3) It will go threw installing some files, followed by a soft reset
4) It will install some more files, and identify itself as T5 Wifi installer
5) It will ask for the Wifi Card

Enable Dell X50 Series Pocket Pc Secret Software

pocket pc

a couple of you dell totin’ pocket pc hackers sent this in–turns out there’s a secret contrast app the you can unlock by editing the registry.

‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINEControlPanelContrast’ renaming the “redirect” value to “redirect_” (or rename to something else, or remove it completely). soft reset and go to start > settings > system > contrast and adjust the contrast.

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