Palm Pre (Plastic) Scratched Up

Dear Blog,

After playing some volleyball and using my phone, I realized sand + my thumb = deep scratches on my phone. Now when I use my phone, I could feel the scratches and it made me cringe...

Well I decided to buy some plastic repair off ebay called Novus plastic scratch repair kit. It came in 1, 2, 3 bottles, where 1 was just a polish, 2 was a shallow scractch repair, and 3 was the heavy duty scratch repair.

I picked up my phone, did number 2 like 2 - 3 times, and I finished off with a number 1. Looked much better, but the scratches are still there if you look at it in the right light. But the "feeling" is completely smooth. Soo happy I did this! If you have a scracthed pre, or anything that's plastic. Try this out. I think it was about $10 after shipping. Worth it, for me!

- ET

Setting up a torrent

Here's a quick, no frills, text-only tutorial on setting up your own torrent (and personal tracker), for family photos, family movies, etc (using uTorrent)...

1. Get your external IP address (or dyndns address)
2. Get your uTorrent listening port (by Options > Speed Guide)
3. Forward that port on router (sorry non-tech savvy peepz)
4. Enable Tracker (Options > Preferences > Advanced > bt.enable.tracker = true)
5. Create Torrent!
   1. File > Create New Torrent...
   2. Select files you want to server
   3. Trackers = http://yourExternalIP:yourForwardedPort/announce
   4. Check Start Seedings and Private Torrent
   5. Click Create and Save As... to make torrent file (then wait)
   6. If you see the torrent in your list, a green arrow, and everything is seeding, you are doing swell! If not, check your port and check it with the built-in Speed test in Options > Speed Guide
6. Give that torrent to all your friends and ensure tracker is always up (because of private torrent option).

Good luck all, and to all a good night!

- E.T.