Monthly Archives: September 2009

Solutions For Palm Prē “Signed Out of Palm Profile” Endless Loop

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 – 11:34 am
Yesterday, a wonderful person who goes by the handle of pzil on the Palm Prē forums gave me a solution to my “You are signed out, there is no escape” woes. You can read pzil’s solution as posted on the Palm forum, but just in case, I’m also reproducing the meat of it here, in [...]
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A Chat With Palm Tech Support

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 – 3:25 pm

We’ll see if anything useful comes of this… I wasn’t too happy with the rep’s cluefulness at 2:55, I must admit.
2:50 PM Connecting to Rescue Gateway: control.app51.logmeinrescue.com…
2:50 PM Connected to Rescue Gateway. A support representative will be with you shortly.
2:51 PM Support session established with Kade.
2:51 PM Kade: Hello.
2:51 PM Kagan MacTane: Hi.
2:51 PM Kade: [...]

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A webOS 1.2 Upgrade Experience That Couldn’t Be Much Worse

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 – 11:42 am

The following is a copy of what I just posted on the Palm Prē forums:
I woke up this morning to find that the webOS 1.2 upgrade had been pushed to my Prē automatically. I was happy, until the reboot finished and I saw:
Signed Out
You are no longer signed in to your Palm Profile on this [...]

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What Characters Are Allowed in Twitter Usernames

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 – 2:12 pm

A while back, when I was writing Hummingbird, I needed to look for Twitter usernames in various strings. More recently, I’m doing some work that involves Twitter at my new job. Once again, I need to find and match on Twitter usernames.
Luckily, this time, Twitter seems to have updated its signup page with some nice [...]

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