New Favorite Games.

New Favorite Games.

I have 2 new favorite games and they are from the same developer.

Toyspring

1. Arcade Reality
This game uses your camera to give backdrop to an alien invasion. As you move your treo around in 3d space you find enemies to kill. Its s great new way to look at such a classic video game style.

2 3d Mine
I have always wanted to play mine sweep, but never really cared to learn. Well this version got my attention. They took the regular mind sweep game and wrapped it around 3d objects. I AM HOOKED!
I absolutely love playing this game and the challenges of thinging in 3d.

So hopefully if you are looking for some new games and something a little different, you will check out one of these great options.

8Gb upgrade

8Gb upgrade

I added an 8 Gb SDHC card to my treo 650 this week. Of course this required hacking the rom to replace the old fatfs with the new fat32fs files. I ran into a few issues the first time I tried, but because I had backup up my rom first was able to replace and try again. After a second try everything works mostly fine.

a couple of issues I expected and have noticed. speed issues when accessing this much space. A programs seek function or loading a program from card can be significantly slower. Not sure if this is fixable yet, or if it will just be a cost of the added space?

I have noticed the access time a glitches when accessing music in ptunes and files from the card has gotten better. Music streams very very well.

I love the added space. I have jammed it with music, maps, movies, samples for music making. pics and I still have over half the space left.

For the less than $60 I spent this was a GREAT upgrade.

More info to come as I work out the kinks.

Favorite Apps

Favorite Apps

As a tweaker there are several VERY crucial apps that I need.

Resco Backup
- The key to tweaking is being able to FIX it when you DO ... and you WILL mess it up. I keep 5 days of full system backups on my SD card and have it auto backup before I even wake up. Most important I keep a working backup, which is a backup of a cleanly installed system with apps I know work and play well together (like the ones mentioned here). So if something happens and my system starts acting wierd I just restore one of my backups.

Uninstall Manager:
It takes a bit to get used to and for impatient tweakers like me it takes self control, but if used correctly it will save you a ton of time and frustration by removing everything installed and uncompressed by an application.

Rlock
I found this after using preference doctor, which later became reset dostor. It will lock up to 4MB worth of applications on your device. Why is this important? Simply because newer palm os systems with VSFS especially the treo 650's at highly susepible to resets from bad apps and then loose their system preferences. Rlock will help possibly problematic apps NOT reset your device. Since using this app I have had a lot fewer resets.

Reset Doctor
This used to be preference doctor and has several parts. I peronally found that the pref dr version caused most of my crashes. however it might be better now. It does however have a handy utility that will backup your system preferences in case you DO have a crash that causes the loss of your application preferences. VERY HANDY.

Basically the combination of these apps have made my Treo 650 98 percent crash free. IF I do screw it up and can quickly get back on track, without a computer!