When we ran our recent ‘Got Tips’ contest, we got some excellent tips submitted by our readers – on a good range of different subjects. And now we’d like to to share those, so we can all enjoy and benefit from these.

From RAM drive startup shortcuts to locking your device with a hardware button and saving valuable Today screen space – read on for our (hopefully first of many) collection of Readers’ Quick Tips …

Making a RAM Drive Persistent (after soft resets) – submitted by tjchan

My tip is an addition to the tutorial listed at AximSite regarding RAM Drives.

http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showthread.php?t=133905

After you create the RAM drive, and set PIE to use that the RAM drive for cache, it’s a great thing to copy a create RAM drive shortcut to the startup folder at “WindowsStartUp”. I always keep a copy of “RamDisk-8192″ in my StartUp folder to create an 8MB RAM drive. This way when I do a soft reset, it automatically recreates the drive and makes it ready for more internet browsing / anything else with a temporary cache.

Adding New Feeds FAST in NewsBreak – submitted by kawc

When using NewsBreak, if you copy an RSS feed to the clipboard and select add RSS feed via URL, it already will have the RSS entry typed out for you. With a program like SOTI Pocket Controller you can add a feed in about 8 seconds. (Desktop clipboard is cloned to the PDA clipboard.) Then just click download default name to get the name of the feed. Click done and another feed has been added.

Lock Your Device with a Hardware Button – submitted by spmwinkel

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2…

The application released in this topic lets you lock the device with a hardware button – without using the Today Screen Plugin. That saves valuable space on the today screen! I find this program very useful!! It also adds a control panel applet with extra settings for this utility.

It was designed for and works on my HTC Wizard, but people with JAMin and Apache/Sprint 6700 and Prophet phones also posted they use it. So I think it works for all HTC ppc’s. I don’t know about other ppc’s. But since the HTC community is pretty large already I hope this tip is good enough.

Mort Player & Reducing Battery Drain – submitted by Ravi

Even if you stop playing and leave the app running, it drains out the battery. So, you need to close the app using the "X" button on the app or there is a setting in energy savings section to turn off after n number of minutes where you can set the n.

Fixing Up a Loose Stylus – submitted by Kelvin

Have a loose stylus? Thinly apply some super glue on side of stylus, let it FULLY DRY before inserting back to PPC. Thin layer of dried glue acts as an extra layer which make stylus fit better.

Got More Tips?

Have you got more clever tips that will help out other readers?  if so, keep sending them into us at tips AT justanothermobilemonday.com (replace AT with an @ symbol of course).  Whenever we next have a good batch of these, we’ll post ‘Volume 2′ of your great Readers’ Quick Tips.

Once again, thanks to all of our ‘tipsters’ for their superb contributions …

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