Find out which version of the WebOS your Palm Pixi is running.

1. Swipe over to the screen where there Device Info app is located, then open it.

2. The Version will be at the bottom of the screen.

Free space on your Palm Pixi by deleting some of the videos you don’t watch anymore. Unfortunately, there is no way to do this on the handheld itself. You have to attach it to your computer.

1. Connect your phone to your computer.

2. On the Pixi, tap USB Drive.

3. The device will show up as a removable drive on your computer.

4. Navigate to the video on the removable drive, and delete it.

If you want to clear all data off your Palm Pixi and begin again with factory defaults, you can perform a hard reset on the smartphone.

1. Open Device Info.

2. Tap Reset Options.

3. Tap Full Erase two times.

Have you saved a file on your BlackBerry Storm2, but now you don’t know how to find it? Try these steps:

1. Open the Media app.

2. Press Menu.

3. Click Explore.

4. Navigate to the file you want.

Turn Wi-Fi on or off on your Palm Pixi.

1. Open the Wi-Fi app.

2. Switch the Wi-Fi switch to On or Off as desired.

If you want your SMS text messages separated from your email messages on your BlackBerry Storm2, you can split the applications.

1. Open the Messages app.

2. Press Menu.

3. Select Options.

4. Select Main Message List Settings.

4. Select Settings.

5. In the Other Message Types section, check the SMS box.

6. Press Menu and select Save.

Want to use your data service on your HTC Droid Eris while roaming? You have to enable it, because by default the setting for data roaming is disabled.

1. From the Home screen, press Menu.

2. Tap Settings.

3. Tap Wireless controls.

4. Tap Mobile network settings.

5. Check the Data roaming checkbox.

Careful with this setting though. You could incur some major charges if you’re in certain areas or your mobile plan is expensive when roaming.

If you want a ringtone to sound when a certain person calls, you can make this happen on the Motorola Droid by assigning a ringtone to a Contact. Here’s how.

1. Open the Contacts app.

2. Tap the contact that you wish to set a ringtone to.

3. Press Menu.

4. Tap Options.

5. Tap Ringtone.

6. Select a tone.

Do you have one of these bins?

This is a bin filled with my computer and gadget cables and peripherals from the past 15 years. It’s a tangled mess! I often thought about sorting this mess out, but was always deterred because untangling cables does take time and is difficult to do. Today I finally developed a system and tackled it. Here is the order that I followed to make the job easier.

Start with short, colored cables – Colored cables are easy to spot. If you can see that some of them are shorter than the others, you can easily yank these out of the pile.

Long colored cables – I had a ton of long network cables. Luckily these can be located in the pile easily because they have color. Pull these out second.

Short/fat dark cables – Once you’ve got all the colored cables out of the pile, you are left with a dark mess of cables that look similar. Start pulling cables out by thickness. The thicker ones are easier to trace and pull out. And as always, the shorter the better.

Long dark cables – Finish off the dark pile.

Super long cables – While you’re going through the cables, try to identify the ones that are super long. These should be left for last, regardless of color. After all the shorter cables are untangled from the pile it will just make it easier.

After all my cables were untangled, I tied them up with garbage bag ties. I then placed the cables in Ziplock bags, organized by types:

• Adapters
• Audio/Video
• Coaxial
• AC Adapters
• PC Peripheral Cables
• Video Games
• Misc

Of course, your organization types may be way different than mine. I then threw out cables that I know I will never use again. Here is the end result after 3 hours of work.

The bin is filled about a quarter of the way now, where before it was flowing over the top. Now I can find any cable or peripheral easily when I need it.

Change the sound your Motorola Droid makes when you receive a message in the Talk (Google Talk) application.

1. Open the Talk app.

2. In the view where you can see your friends list, press Menu.

3. Tap More.

4. Tap Settings.

5. Tap Select ringtone.

6. Choose a ringtone or Silent.

Instead of using a code or password to get into your Motorola Droid, you can secure the screen with an unlock pattern.

1. From the Home screen, press Menu.

2. Tap Settings.

3. Tap Security.

4. Tap Set unlock pattern.

5. Tap Next.

6. Tap Next again after reading the screen.

7. Draw a pattern on the screen. You can’t touch the same dots twice.

8. Tap Continue.

9. Draw the same pattern again.

10. Tap Confirm.

If you lower the screen lighting to a dimmer level on your BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone, you can save considerable battery power. Here’s how to adjust the setting.

1. From the home screen, press the Menu button.

2. Select Options.

3. Select Screen/Keyboard.

4. Change the Backlight Brightness setting to a desired level.

If you expected to use your Motorola Droid smartphone with Yahoo Mail, you might be shocked to find that you can’t. You’ll get an error about the username and password being incorrect.

The problem is with a limitation of the free email offered by Yahoo. They do not allow access by default. You have to purchase the Yahoo Mail Plus service, which runs $20 a year. It’s the only way to open up the POP3 features required by the Droid to work with Yahoo Mail. Once you purchase Yahoo Mail Plus, it should setup just fine.

And FYI, AT&T users get Yahoo Mail with their service and have this feature enabled already.

The notification sound my Motorola Droid was making every time I received an email message was annoying. I had to change the ringtone. Here’s how it’s done.

1. Open the Email or Gmail application. You may have to do these steps for both applications.

2. In the message list, press the Menu button.

3. Tap Account Settings.

4. Scroll down and tap Select ringtone.

5. Select a sound or select Silent. Then you can tap Vibrate on the previous screen if you like.

Perform a hard reset on your HTC Droid Eris. These steps will clear all data and settings off the device.

1. With the phone turned off, press and hold the Volume Down and Send buttons.

2. Press the Power button.

3. Follow the instructions to complete the hard reset.

I have never had to cut, copy or paste text on a phone, but it seems that many other people really value this feature on the Motorola Droid. Here’s how it’s done.

1. Tap and hold your finger on the text box you are copying text from for about 2 seconds.

2. A menu appears where you can select Select text.

3. Drag your finger across the text you wish to copy.

4. Hold your finger down on the text area again.

5. Select Copy or Cut.

6. Navigate to where you want to paste the text.

7. Press and hold the text field for 2 seconds.

8. Tap Paste.

If you want to perform a quick soft reset on your Motorola Droid using the keyboard, you can. Simply press CTRL + ALT + Delete at the same time just like with Windows. The CTRL key is the one with an arrow pointing at a line. Once you press these keys, the phone will reboot.

Q: How do you install APK files from other places outside of the traditional Android Market to the Motorola Droid?

A: Before performing these steps, be sure to enable your Droid to allow installation from third party sources.

1. Go to the Android Market on the phone and search for and download an app called ApkInstaller.

2. Attach your Droid to your computer. Swipe down the notification bar at the top screen and Mount the device. The device should show up as a drive.

3. Take the APK file you downloaded and copy it to anywhere on the SD Card drive.

4. Open the ApkInstaller app.

5. It will show the files on your SD Card. Tap the APK file to run the installer.

6. Tap Install.

If you want to increase or decrease the time that elapses before the Motorola Droid dims the screen automatically, you can change it.

1. From the home screen, press Menu.

2. Tap Settings.

3. Tap Sound & display.

4. Select a setting.

If you are trying to use a device like a BlackBerry or Droid with your iTunes music, there exists a challenge with compatibility. Some of the songs may be protected with DRM and cannot be played on any device other than an iPod or iPhone unless you remove the DRM out of the file. For those of us that can’t afford to do that or aren’t savvy to do it illegally, you might just want to simply learn which music files are protected and which aren’t. Here’s how you can tell.

1. Open iTunes.

2. Click View > View Options.

3. Check the Kind box and click OK.

4. Now you should now have a column named View. Each song will have something in this field. If it shows as Protected AAC audio file, the file is protected with DRM and most likely, can’t be played on devices not made by Apple. If it shows as MPEG audio file, Purchased AAC Audio File or pretty much anything else, the file is not protected with DRM and can be played freely on any device that supports the format.

It’s worth noting, that I can drag and drop the unprotected files directly from iTunes onto the SD Card drive of my Motorola Droid. It’s much easier than navigating to the iTunes folder on the hard drive and dragging them from there.