Here’s a list of hacks, utilities and other small additions that I’ve found useful for my Palm.
Brightcam: Measures the light conditions with the integration camera and adjusts the brightness of the screen to match it (lower brightness for darker situations). Can also increase alarm sound volume when in dark (ie. in a pocket) or in a noisy situation.
KeyCaps600: Provides alternate ways to enter capital letters and special characters, by double-clicking or by long presses of keys. I actually use my own modification that makes it easy to enter Scandinavian letters (ä and ö). The modification was easy to make since the software was under GPL. FREEWARE!
Qset: Allows you to adjust the JPEG quality of the camera application, so you can choose between better quality and smaller pictures. The default quality value is 60, which is pretty low, and raising it does improve the situation. FREEWARE!
SysTool: Allows you to remove entries from the system preferences database. Removing entries left by removed applications is a breeze. FREEWARE!
ZLauncher: A very advanced and customizable application launcher. A very cool bonus is the capability to move applications and their databases to the SD card and leave a shortcut in main memory, so you can launch the apps without any trouble but save on main memory.
Butler: A collection of nice features, like extra functionality for the volume keys, control over the flashing led, improved alarm handling, alarm clock, an alternative keyguard, keyboard combination for shortcuts and stuff like that.
TreoHelper: Can turn the radio on or off at predefined times for each weekday, turn off the radio when out of range (thus saving battery power) and also attempting to reconnect at suitable intervals, add triggers to received SMSs and so on. FREEWARE!
Phone Technician: Allows you to customize phone and SMS alarm sounds and turn off the screen during calls (to save battery) and also turn the radio on or off at predefined times (not as good as TreoHelper on this feature).
TreoNaviText: Allows you to navigate text with the 5-way rocker. So less need to pick up the stylus! FREEWARE!
FieldPlus: Allows you to select, copy and paste text with the 5-key rocker, without the stylus. FREEWARE!
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