PrefsPlus is an easy to use utility that gives you more preferences. With PrefsPlus you can:
-Stop your Palm from auto-offing
-Automatically lock your palm
-Make the menu drop-down when you tap on the title of an application
-The ability to use Graffiti when the keyboard is active
-The ability to remove the dotted lines in text fields
-The ability to invert the backlight
-To tap Ok in popups, with a Graffiti stroke
-Make dots appear over the Graffiti area to help find it at night
-The ability to have a clicking sound played when you write a Graffiti character
-The ability to replace the Low Battery alert with a flashing message
PrefsPlus combines this into a small hack that takes up about 7k of memory.
NOTE: If you use Beanup please disable PrefsPlus before running it. After running Beanup you can reenable PrefsPlus. You will suffer a fatal error if you do not disable PrefsPlus before running Beanup!
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Supported operating systems:
Palm OS 3.x, Palm OS 4.x, Palm OS 5.x
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