A lot of carriers now offer the ability to track your kid’s cellphones to track where they are.  Well,you can do that on the Palm Pre too.

Here’s how you can setup a “website” on your Palm Pre and secretly track your Palm Pre, whereever it is in “real-time”.

First, you will have to setup SSH and dynamic DNS on your phone so you can setup a simple HTML page that will show you the exact location of your Palm Pre via Google Maps.

Next, do steps 1, steps 5 through 8 on my previous post on how to install/run a Wordpress blog on your Palm Pre.  These steps will install Lighttpd, which is basically needed for serving web pages on your Palm Pre.  Since you don’t need MySQL database, you can skip the other  steps.

Now, browse to your web root directory typing the cd command below:

cd /opt/share/www/

Next, use the following command to enable writing on your Palm Pre linux filesystem:

sudo mount -o remount,rw /

Next, let’s create a new file called track.php by typing the command below:

sudo vi track.php

We are almost done, simply copy and paste the code below by hitting “i” and Shift-Ins inside the VI editor:

Click here for the code

Hit Esc key and “wq!” to save the file and exit.

Now, browse to your Palm Pre website on your computer browser by typing the following where my.blogdns.com is the dynamic DNS you setup earlier.

http://my.blogdns.com:9999/track.php

You should see your location pop up via GoogleMaps like this:

And anytime you need to find the location of your Palm Pre, simply browse to the above URL.

This can come in very handy anytime you lose your Palm or it gets stolen. And yes, you can secretly install this on your kid’s Palm Pre and track where they are at.

Next hack, I will show you how to “tweet” your GPS location to Twitter so you can also track your Palm Pre via Twitter.

(Thanks to WebOS-Internals.Org for the hack!)