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Students and alumni can get Windows 7 Professional for only $29!

http://www.microsoft.com/student/discounts/theultimatesteal-us/default.aspx

Then to make a ISO DVD from the downloaded files, see this link

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/10/23/how-to-create-and-make-bootable-windows-7-iso-from-exe-plus-setup1-box-and-setup2-box-files/

BUT watch out for this issue - it worked for me after copying string below to notepad

For those having issues (particularly when already running Win7), make sure that the command you are copying and pasting has only plain text. To do that, open Notepad and paste – you will see rectangles where there are weird characters (which the dashes seem to be). Replace any of those dashes with just a plain text dash (-) and try again. It worked for me on Win 7 Ultimate Eval. Below is the output:

C:\Users\me>oscdimg.exe -bC:\expandedSetup\boot\etfsboot.com -u2 -h -m -lWIN7 C:\expandedSetup\ C:\Win7.iso

OSCDIMG 2.54 CD-ROM and DVD-ROM Premastering Utility
Copyright (C) Microsoft, 1993-2007. All rights reserved.
Licensed only for producing Microsoft authorized content.

Scanning source tree (500 files in 48 directories)
Scanning source tree complete (874 files in 201 directories)
Computing directory information complete
Image file is 2520809472 bytes
Writing 874 files in 201 directories to C:\Win7.iso
100% complete
Final image file is 2523011072 bytes
Done.
C:\Users\me>

Palm Pre Tips List:

A. Battery Life
-set email to check every 6 hrs instead of more often
-screen brightness to lowest setting
-turn OFF GPS under location services when possible
-Use WI-FI if available, otherwise turn it off. (Saves power by using
WiFi instead of 3G when possible)
-Battery life does seem to improve with use (Conditioning phenomenom).
-Turn OFF Google Talk or AIM by clicking on Green round circle and picking Sign OFF from the messaging application when possible.

B. In General
-if screen goes dead everytime you use phone, might be something interfering iwth the proximity sensor (special sensor that turns off screen when holidng up to ear). IN my case, it was the dumb plastic screen cover it ships with....just remove it and use the velvety pouch it comes with instead (or get a real screen protector).

Overall - I'm loving it!!

The Pre supports cut, copy, and paste, but I don't think the mechanism for doing this is intuitive, so I've put together a quick guide.
http://forum.brighthand.com/showthread.php?p=1765693

To select text, hold down the Shift key and drag your finger over the text you want. This takes some practice, as the Pre tends to stop selecting text before I get to the end of the word. A hint: Drag way past where you think you think you should have to.

To copy the text you've selected, you can use the drop-down box, but a faster way is to tap and hold on the gesture area* and then hit the C key. To paste, you hold down on the gesture area and hit the V key, while cutting is the same with the X key.

You can use these functions in some applications, but not all. You can't use CCP in the web browser, for example.

Also helpful for installing epocreates:

http://palmdoc.net/?p=2384

I can confirm Epocrates is up and running on classic using the setup.prc. Run it in classic and it will sync up with epocrates server and download it!
You download this from get.epocrates.com while on a palm device. OR
by gtrickingh the server into thinking you are on a palm device.
From a pretty old post in another forum: instructions for firefox (on your computer):
type in about:config in the title bar.
right click, select new/string. enter :
'general.useragent.override' for the preference, and 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; PalmSource/Palm-TunX; Blazer/4.3) 16;320x448' as the value.

this fools the server into thinking that youfre connecting from a palm device.
navigate to get.epocrates.com
click ginstall nowh
save to your location of choice, and move setup.prc to your classicapps folder on your pre.
Run classic on your pre and self-explanatory from here on.

This one was frustrating - how to install Classic Apps in the new Palm Pre Phone? After all, that's the reason I bought it.

Turns out after webOS 1.03 something happens where you have to follow these instructions posted HERE:

Here is a brief summary:

Well, this trick has worked for so far. First, after updating to WebOS 1.0.3, and having ClassicApp recreate the new folders seen under USB, I reloaded ClassicApp ROM updater in the ClassicApp/Palm/Launcher folder. I unmounted the USB Pre drive and restarted Classic. After a couple BSODs, Classic started just fine and I ran the ClassicApp ROM updater fron the internal card. After making sure Classic would run again, I went back to Pre in USB mode. The new folder structure was the ClassicApp/Intsall folder (which really doesn't seem to do anything), and a revised ClassicApp/Launcher/Install folder. Make sure to delete all read Me files under either of these USB folders. Then to add new prc or pdb file, I put them in the ClassicApp/Palm/Launcher/Install folder. When I unmounted the Pre from USB and restarted Classic, I immediately ran the Import app under Classic, and lo and behold, IT WORKED! I could now install prcs and pdbs and have them run in Classic again.

Apparently, when files are installed this way it imports the files from the Internal (virtual) Card and puts them in Phone under Classic. The Internal Card becomes empty, and in Classic, the prc can see the appropriate pdb file and the app runs as designed. This took a lot of fiddling with various combos, but this version worked for me. YMMV.