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Carve / extract resources from Palm PRC files #
prc2bin 1.0 [14k] + Takes a Pilot resource database (PRC) file and extracts each resource into a separate file. 
/palm | Nov 14, 2011
Bluetooth Internet Sharing with Snow Leopard, Treo 755P, and Missing Sync #It's easy to connect your Treo 755P to the Internet via Bluetooth thanks to Missing Sync for Palm OS. Just open "Internet Sharing Assistant" under Missing Sync's Help menu and follow the few simple steps for configuring the Treo. No need for enabling "Share my Internet connection with other Bluetooth devices" in System Preferences > Bluetooth > Advanced... or "Internet Sharing" in System Preferences > Sharing. The only caveat is that you may have to setuid on pppd (sudo chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd) to resolve Error: PPP Timeout (0x1231) when connecting. Be aware of the risk involved with setuid:
chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppdOnce more:
What this does is make pppd run with root privileges even if the binary is run by an ordinary user. This allows a normal user to run pppd with the necessary privileges to set up the network interfaces and the kernel routing table.
Programs that run 'set uid root' are potential security holes and you should be extremely cautious about making programs 'suid root'. A number of programs (including pppd) have been carefully written to minimize the danger of running suid root, so you should be safe with this one, (but no guarantees).
(from the Linux PPP HOWTO)
Programs that use this bit must be carefully designed to be immune to buffer overrun attacks. Successful buffer overrun attacks on vulnerable applications allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code under the rights of the process being exploited. In the event a vulnerable process uses the setuid bit to run as root, the code will be executed with root privileges, in effect giving the attacker root access to the system on which the vulnerable process is running.Tested under Missing Sync for Palm OS 6.0.6 and OS X 10.6.8. Additional keywords: reverse DUN, tethering.
(from Wikipedia)
/palm | Nov 08, 2011
Interval alarms for Palm OS #- Timer 0.1 [8k] {S} Sound alarm at regular intervals
- Meditation Timer 1.3.1 [15k] Beeps/vibrates at regular intervals (1 minute to 99 hours). Stops after 1-999 stages or counts forever.
- PocketDoan 3.4.1 [100k] Single and multi-stage meditation timer with audio, vibration, and LED alerts.
- Chimester 1.8 [22k] Can be set to play a MIDI/WAV file, vibrate, or activate the LED on the hour or any 15 minute increment thereof. Find in Prefs > Other after installation.
/palm | Nov 06, 2011
Migrate Palm Desktop calendar to iCal or Outlook #dba2ics converts Windows Palm Desktop calendars (.dba/.dat/.mdb) to .ics, which can be easily imported into iCal, Outlook, etc.
While there is initially a GUI, it disappears while converting (a process which gobbles up all available CPU time). The conversion took about 10 minutes for a 1.5MB dba file.
Mac Palm Desktop users can simply export all datebook items by opening the calendar, selecting File > Export, and choosing "All Datebook items" and "vCal".
/palm | Feb 24, 2011
Two newly-listed Palm OS apps #- chmod v2.1 [8k] Calculates octal notation of *nix file system permissions
- DiddleBug 2.90.7 [155k] {S} Sticky notes / sketch pad app with built-in alarm
/palm | Jan 23, 2010
Missing Sync for Palm OS won't launch #After installing Missing Sync for Palm OS 6.0.4 on Tiger 10.4.11, the application refused to launch. Its icon would simply bounce in the Dock for 20 seconds or so before crashing completely. The Console revealed this error:
Missing Sync for Palm OS[335] An uncaught exception was raised Missing Sync for Palm OS[335] *** -[NSPlaceholderString initWithString:]: nil argumentfseventer did not turn up any clues as to where it might be hanging, so we made a new OS X user account; sure enough, Missing Sync worked fine there. We moved the old user data to the new user account, and everything worked beautifully. For a while.
After another hour or two worth of installs, data migration, etc, the same error returned. It took a nontrivial amount of time to finally isolate the culprit: the new user's Movies folder had been moved to an external hard drive and that drive was unmounted. When Missing Sync launched, it would crash if it could not find the Movies folder (even though syncing movies had been disabled earlier).
One final problem was with the Mark/Space Notebook: the categories imported just fine, but none of the memos. These instructions did the trick: Overwrite your desktop data with the handheld device. The process makes iSync (which normally doesn't offer an option for the handheld to overwrite the desktop) see all of the memos on the Palm as newer than those in Mark/Space Notebook, which it overwrites.
/palm | May 05, 2009
Newly-listed Palm app: AsciiChart #AsciiChart 2.0.4 [17k] ASCII chart which displays decimal, octal and hexadecimal values for characters as well as their height and width.
/palm | Apr 12, 2009
Change Palm user name #Palm has instructions (for now) on how to Change or delete your device's User Name. They recommend using Tools > Users > Rename inside of Palm Desktop for changing the user name. If you don't have access to Palm Desktop, you can change the Palm OS username on the device directly with Collin Mulliner's ChangeName.
/palm | Feb 16, 2009
iPhone vs. Palm Treo 750p #| Feature | iPhone | Palm Treo 750p |
| Cut/Copy/Paste | No | Yes |
| System-wide find (within calendar items, etc) | No | Yes |
| Tethering | No | Yes |
| Replaceable battery | No | Yes |
| Keyboard | No | Yes |
| Video recording | No | Yes |
| Expansion slot | No | Yes |
| Must pay for the privilege of developing applications and then beg for inclusion in exclusive store | Yes | No |
| Vendor maintains remote kill switch to keep users in line | Yes | No |
| Network | AT&T | Verizon |
/palm | Jan 25, 2009
Delete autocomplete entries in Palm OS #If you have mistyped a city, state, country, company, or title in Palm OS and find the misspelled autocomplete entry annoying, there is a fix (thank God): simply delete AddressCitiesDB, AddressStatesDB, AddressCountriesDB, AddressCompaniesDB, or AddressTitlesDB with a file manager like Filez. (Many thanks to Steve T for his forum post.)
/palm | Oct 30, 2008
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