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Epoc Digest Fri, 16 Aug 2002 Volume 01 : Number 052
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In today's Epoc Digest 21 messages:
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- Deletion from the list of subscribers
- Netbook Networking HELP
- Rolf/Palmtop User
- Re: Dream app: predictive text-generator
- S7 screen callibration
- wireless working
- Treo 90
- NETPAD
- Mako Battery Report
- IR modem, In-fax, Free ISP,
- netBook connection to POP3 and Webmail
- Saving web pages in Web
- Re: Bluetooth driver
- Route Planner and Street Planner
- Oxford/Grolier for Tomeraider?
- Palmtop Magazine
- Psion Unique ID
- Ericsson R-520 and Faxing
- Roaming ISP
- New Phoneman Pro
- OsariS SERIAL #
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Date: 16 Aug 2002
From: Itamar Engelsman
Subject : Deletion from the subscribers list
Message to: Ignacio Andres Llorente
Since digest no. 42 your email address gives "Route to host unknown" and we had no other option but to delete you from the list of subscribers. We hope you will read this and resubscribe with a different address.
Bye,
Itamar Engelsman
London, United Kingdom
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Date: 15 Aug 2002 13:43:10 +0000
From: Dan Siegel
Subject: Netbook Networking HELP
Dear all -
Love my recently purchased Netbook but cannot get the 56k/10mb Dacom card to communicate with any part of my network. Have alpha network drivers and OS 156. Any help appreciated. Private responsesto avoid list clutter if desired.
Thanks.
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Daniel Mark Siegel MD, MS (Management and Policy)
Phone 631-751- MOHS / 631-751-6647
Office Fax 631-751-6644 / 631-980-3893
PERSONAL FAX(in USA): 586 283 0510 via eFax (in UK) 44 87 07 63 00 82 via PumaOne
www.skincancer.dermdex.net
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Date: 15 Aug 2002 13:46:00 +0000
From: slitchfield
(Steve Litchfield)
Subject: Rolf/Palmtop User
>>Palmtop Magazine and the launch of the new Palmtop User. Any subscriber who disagrees with the change of magazine has the right to cancel his/her subscription and claim the money for issues of Palmtop Magazine that won't appear.
Just to note that, of course, any subscriber who genuinely feels hard done by has only to contact Palmtop Pubs. and complain, to receive a refund of outstanding monies - although I believe that out of tens of thousands of readers, only about a dozen have actually done this. This very low complaint rate, plus the HUGE number of positive comments (see the web
site) lead us to believe that we've done the right thing at the right time.
Steve Litchfield, pp. Palmtop User, http://www.palmtop.co.uk/
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Date: 15 Aug 2002 13:53:27 +0000
From: "Huub Linthorst"
Subject: Re: Dream app: predictive text-generator
Chris Cooper wrote:
>Subject: Dream app: predictive text-generator for S5
>Good as the 5/5mx's keyboard is, anything that can push up typing speeds would be very valuable for someone like me who uses it for a lot of writing. One piece of software that I'd love to see would be a program to generate text predictively. (That is, after typing a few characters of a word, the program would offer a choice of word-completions.)
>
Hi Chris,
Have you tried my program ExAb. It expands the set of shortcuts that you define yourself "on the fly". You still need a hotkey though, I'm afraid it won't be easy under EPOC to have a program listening in the background to series of keytaps all the time.
You can find ExAb at the below website. Although shareware, you can try a virtually unlimited version indefinitely (I know, I'm too good..;-)
Huub
Registering ExAb will motivate me to continue support of my programs. ___________________________________
Huub Linthorshttp://website.leidenuniv.nl/~linthorsthjm/exabetal/
ExAb, CodeSafe, S5mboles, SpellX and more
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Date: 15 Aug 2002 14:54:53 +0000
From: andybeale
(Andy Beale)
Subject: S7 screen callibration
Hi All!
Been enjoying the new look digest - thanks for continuing it.
Anyone know why I need to keep recallibrating my S7 screen for pen input? I started having to do this a few months ago, and now it seems I'm having to do it every day. The pen can be wildly off screen location (by as much as 1 - 1.5cm).
The backup battery is reported as 'good', and the main battery is charged. I hope it's not a sign of impending screen cable failure ON THE 7!!
Top uses:
1. Agenda (memory)
2. Data (phone numbers/addresses)
3. Crontab (alarms)
4. Word (letters/notes)
5. Sheet (general number crunching)
Andy.
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Date: 15 Aug 2002 14:56:11 +0000
From: Toby Butler
Subject: wireless working
Dear all
I wonder if you can help me with this little quandry. I live on a houseboat where I have a PC, very old laptop and a Psion or two. There isn't much space, so I have started to rent a shed on the nearby island. This has electricity but no phone line. The shed is about 150 metres from my boat, and I would like to put my PC in there, out of the way, but I am trying to figure out a way of getting internet connection from there to keep software up to date etc. I could run a telephone cable through the trees to the shed, but this seems a bit dramatic. I can use my land line digital DECT cordless phone in the shed OK - is there any way of using a normal modem with it? I wonder if anyone sells those old acoustic modems? Would that work over a cordless phone? Another option might be some new wireless technology - what about this bluetooth thing? Is it cost effective for a little home computer? A final thought might be running a network cable between the two. If anyone has any suggestions, I would love to hear them.
Toby
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Date: 15 Aug 2002 15:54:01 +0000
From: Jim Watson-Gove
Subject: Treo 90
Gary,
<<Your choice could be the Treo 90 instead of the 270. The Treo 90 has a small (tiny?) keyboard and costs just a bit more than the Diamond Mako/Revo Plus.>>
I saw that in PalmTop. But I see nothing to indicate that the 90 can be connected to a modem, No mention of a browser or e-mail capability. I suspect all that went away when the phone capability was removed.
jim - oakland
Gary
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Date: 15 Aug 2002 16:59:39 +0000
From: Peter Keene
Subject: NETPAD
Hi Guys,
Psionet have very kindly given me access to a netpad for a few days. I'll give it a thourough test drive and then post my impressions, probably next week.
Regards,
Peter
Cape Town
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Date: 15 Aug 2002 17:06:51 +0000
From: Keith Giles
Subject: Mako Battery Report
Before leaving on my Canadian bicycle trip I backed up my Mako, let it run down, charged it all night, removed the charger in the morning just before departing. Sixteen days later I returned to find the Mako dead. Plugged in the charger, hit the Esc key and got a hard reset. After a full charge I did a restore.
I took my trusty 5ive with me on the trip, using it many times each day to enter info on my photos, diary, banking, bike app, and automatically copied a zipped C drive to the D drive during each night. At the end of 16 days I still showed about 50% usage left on the replaceable alkaline batteries.
Some will say I could have brought the Mako charger with me. But I don't want to have to carry any "extra" items with me on a bike. Every extra ounce must be carried up each and every mountain.
I like the Mako but it sure has a shitty battery system.
Happy Cycling,
Keith
Sunnyvale, CA
http://home.attbi.com/~ohsix827/
Thought For The Day: A loving husband is one who remembers his wife's birthday, but forgets which one.
All my outgoing e-mails have been checked by Norton Anti-virus.
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Date: 15 Aug 2002 17:38:00 +0000
From: Itamar Engelsman
Subject: IR modem, In-fax, Free ISP,
Answer to: Kevin Thorne
Re. IR modem - I don't understand it either, I only inform you what my experiences are. If the desk / tabel is shiny, put something dark underneath the Psion and modem.
REMINDER : When sending a message for the operator and not for general reading (Roman Frotz) please put the word ADMIN in the subject field. We do not read each message and the messages are automatically entered into the digest from the list of incoming emails. Thank you.
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Answer to : Jack
Re. In-fax - I don't like to receive SMS's too much (oldfashioned). I set my fax mailer to send the incoming faxes to my email inbox which I check several times a day. That's enough for me.
Answer to: Owen H.Morgan
Re. Free ISP - Freeserve have a free account and can definitely be contacted with GSM. Once you have settled for the winter, let us UK / Ireland people know where and who knows who might pass by.
Bye,
Itamar Engelsman
London, United Kingdom
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Date: 15 Aug 2002 18:13:55 +0000
From: David McCorquodale
Subject: netBook connection to POP3 and Webmail
Greetings All
I'm a 'new' psioneerer (armed with a netBook (build 158)) and I would like to retrieve my mail from Hotmail (MSN) and also the new Mac Mail (pronounced dot Mac) which as a web mail facility I thoroughly recommend.
I've managed to sort myself out with my BTinternet POP3 account and can send and retrieve from that but so far, I can't manage to retrieve from either my hotmail or .mac IMAP accounts.
Can anyone explain what settings I need for those to work?
Secondly, I have a Nokia 6210 and although I can (if patient) retrieve email from btinternet via IR link, I can't manage to send or retrieve SMS. Is there a good reason for this or is it simple that I'm doing something wrong?
This is the first time that I have used the EpocDigest so would really appreciate someone taking the trouble to give me the benefit of their greater email/communication knowledge and
experience.
VMT
Da
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Date: 15 Aug 2002 20:57:50 +0000
From: Thomas F.VAN DER ZIJDEN
Subject: Saving web pages in Web
Hello group,
Not only is Web not very good in saving web pages a long with their accompanying pictures, it also has another problem, at least on my Psion. When I want to save a page, it needs to reload the page from the Internet! i would imagine it has the page in its cache! This provokes two problems:
1. If it is a big page it costs me a lot of download time, not only with the mobile phone, but also with the Travel Modem.
2. It needs to load the directory structure of my CF card to present the 'Save as' dialogue. This costs time. As you know from my previous posts, this provokes the TM to disconnect. If I want to save the page, I have to reconnect, which costs a lot (first minute costs EUR 0,11 , the others cost EUR 0,02).
Do I miss something here? Why can't it save the page from its cache?
Yours truly,
Thomas van der Zijden
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Date: 15 Aug 2002 20:58:02 +0000
From: Rolf Brunsting
Subject: Re: Bluetooth driver
Dear Darryl,
<< If I remember correctly the next Revo model (odin?) Psion was developing with Motorola was to have been Bluetooth >>
Memory fails you, I'm afraid. The Odin joint development project with Motorola would have resulted in model to take the place of Series 5mx. Psion itself was working on a Revo with Bluetooth but the project was stopped when Psion decided to withdraw from the consumer market.
<< Anyone know anyone at Psion to contact re getting hold of the drivers, as presumably they were already written. Unless of course it was to have run ER6 and not ER5 >>
There's the possibility that the 'Bluetooth Revo' would have run Symbian OS 6 as it would ensure compatibility with the 'Odin' model. But when the driver would have been for EPOC Release 5 there's still the problem that it's a driver for internal hardware. Not for external Bluetooth adapters in CF or PC-Card format. Meaning that the driver needs to be supplied as source code for an interested developer to work on. Note that licensing issues could be a complicating factor.
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Kind Regards,
Rolf Brunsting - Darp - Netherlands
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Date: 15 Aug 2002 21:13:21 +0000
From: Kevin Thorne
Subject: Route Planner and Street Planner
I've just sold my 5mx which had both Route Planner and Street Planner 99 installed. I've never bothered re-installing them on my S7 but now, with no access to using these programs anymore due to no longer owning the 5mx, I'm thinking of doing so. I know these old programs were later updated a bit with a "Millenium" tag attached to the name but I'm curious to know the following:
1 Do either the old original versions or the "Millenium" equivelants run in colour and full screen mode on the S7? If so, what is the use of colour like?
2 What are the differences between the old and newer versions of the program?
3 Presumably even the newer "Millenium" version has to be installed directly from the CD-ROM or does it actually exist as a SIS file for easy on-board installation directly on the Psion?
Someone on the digest mentioned recently it did but I thought that all Palmtop BV (aka Tom Tom) software required the installation to be carried out from the CD-ROM only.
Regards
Kevin Thorne
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Date: 16 Aug 2002 00:16:26 +0000
From: David Lir
Subject: Oxford/Grolier for Tomeraider?
Hi all,
I seem to recall that an Oxford dictionary of some sort and, if I remember correctly, also a Grolier encyclopedia were once available online in Tomeraider format. Does anyone know if these are still available for download somewhere? Were they freeware? If so, and if it's not too much trouble, could someone please email the files to me? If they're available as shareware or commercially please provide an URL!
Thanks...
--------------------------------
David Lir\\:>{o> (Me, sideways!)
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Date: 16 Aug 2002 04:50:34 +0000
From: "Caspar Lam"
Subject: Palmtop Magazine
Hello all.
I received my first Palmtop User Mag. in the mail. Since I didn't subscribe to it, I was a bit surprised but I found out that they sent it to me free because the cover was slightly bent and therefore "damaged."
But anyways, I have been reading both sides of the discussion about this "new" magazine. First and foremost, I agree that there is just not enough EPOC/Symbian material. For every one mention of Psion, there were 50 mentions of Windows and Palm. (OK, maybe I'm exagerrating, but that was the impression I got)
I agree with Steve that we all should look at other platforms with an open mind. However, as a devout Psion user, I was utterly dismayed by the lack of EPOC material. If I wasn't looking for Psion in the magazine, I wouldn't have found it. Yes, I do admit, reading about Sony's new Clie was interesting, but I do also admit that reading countless pages about Palm and PocketPC programs was not interesting. In fact, it was quite boring- reading something that had no revelance to me. I even skipped over the programs for the Nokia communicator and S5, since I own a Revo.
But, this is just my 10 cents worth, and thanks to all you at palmtop user who sent me a "damaged" copy for free.
Sincerely,
Caspar
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Date: 16 Aug 2002 05:38:20 +0000
From: "Gary Y Reyes"
Subject: Psion Unique ID
>Date: 14 Aug 2002 14:14:20 +0000
>From: Thomas F.VAN DER ZIJDEN >
>Re: registration tied to the Psion.
>
>I have two questions on this.
>1. Why did Psion include this unique ID in every Psion? Was it meant for = >registration purposes for shareware?
>
>Yours truly,
>
>Thomas van der Zijden
Thomas,
One use that I know of is for protecting customized programs. There is a developer in Singapore who wrote a life insurance program for agents. To prevent an insurance company from buying one set then copying the program onto many Psions, he ties in the unique ID on each machine to a specific copy of the program.
He sells the program on a memory disk (an SSD card for the old S3 and the CF card for the S5). When you initially load it into a Psion, the program searches for the unique ID, tags the program with the ID. When you try to use the memory card to copy the program onto a different Psion, it will not execute.
Gary
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Date: 16 Aug 2002 05:51:42 +0000
From: "Gary Y Reyes"
Subject: Ericsson R-520 and Faxing
>Date: 14 Aug 2002 04:28:38 +0000
>From: Darryl Kempster >
>Subject: FAXING ON GSM / 7210
>
I bought my R520 off line cos I was told it = >was fax and data enabled - but not with a Psion it turns out! An expensive = >mistake I am keen not to repeat.
>
>Darryl
Darryl,
I checked the SonyEricsson website (try Asia Pacific site) and the Technical Data section of the User's Manual does state that the R520 is IrDa capable and is fax capable - both Class 1 and 2, Group III (9600 kbps).
Could it be a software issue with your program on the Psion?
The very old Ericsson phones - even those that used the DI-27 IrDa module - could talk to the Psion so it seems quite odd if the newer phones do not.
Hope this helps.
Gary
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Date: 16 Aug 2002 05:53:09 +0000
From: "Gary Y Reyes"
Subject: Roaming ISP
>Date: 14 Aug 2002 18:46:36 +0000
>From: Owen H.Morgan
>
>Subject: Arriving in UK soon, need Psion.net / LineOne dialup number
Owen,
For people who do a lot of travelling and want to use and access only one email account, there is the Gric network. If your ISP is a member of Gric, you register your account. Then you are given a whole database of local numbers in the major cities in each country. Your access to the internet then becomes a local call with usage billed to your single account.
In Norway, the member ISP is Multinet AS.
You might want to check out their website at www.gric.com. There are over 300 ISP's in this network all over the world.
Gary
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Date: 16 Aug 2002 05:59:54 +0000
From: "Gary Y Reyes"
Subject: New Phoneman Pro
>Date: 14 Aug 2002 14:14:20 +0000
>From: Thomas F.VAN DER ZIJDEN >
>Subject: Update on SMS
>
>Hi group,
>
>When will they finally fix it for my 7110? I guess never, because it is now = >an 'old' phone.
There is a new version of Phoneman Pro on their website - "PhoneMan298F". This one incorporates the beta plug-ins and now allows reading from and writing to the extended phonebooks of Nokia phones.
The plug-in I used for my 8310 before this new release was identified as "Nokia71xx111F". The website says this has now been integrated into "PhoneMan298F". So it seems like you can now use the new release for your 7110.
I am now using 298F and it is working very, very well. No problems.
Gary
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Date: 16 Aug 2002 14:24:32 +0000
From: "Arent Kits Van Heijningen [106016.3614]"
Subject: OsariS SERIAL #
On 14 Aug 2002 14:14:20 +0000
Thomas F.VAN DER ZIJDEN wrote about :
<quote>
2. Arent, could you confirm that the unique ID of your Osaris is 12 times 0, or something general like that? It seems that Oregon did not bother to give unique numbers to their machines. A big advantage for Osaris owners who change their machines! ;-)
</quote>
Yup , mine reads 0000-0000-0000-0000
Os version is 1.02 (209)
(Meanwhile ,I had to close down comms ,the xmodem transfer of a 1.9 MOct pdf stalled )
k
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