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Add 100 New Apps to Your Palm Pre

August 10th, 2009 @ 5:00 am

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Categories: General, Gizmos and Gadgets, Software

Tags: PC, Palm Inc., App, Palm Pre, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dave Johnson

If you’ve got a Palm Pre — or are on the fence about getting one — and have been frustrated by the paucity of apps in the official App Catalog (31, if I counted correctly), you’ll want to configure your Pre for “homebrew” apps. In just a few minutes, you can have access to almost 100 cool new programs (and counting).

Getting to the Pre’s homebrew collection isn’t like jailbreaking an iPhone. It’s easy to do and doesn’t void any warranties. Follow my step-by-step instructions, and you can get almost instant access to a podcast player, scientific RPN calculator, foreign phrase translator, and a lot more.

Step 1: Put Your Pre in Developer Mode

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