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Epoc Digest      Mon, 24 Mar 2003     Volume 01 : Number 210

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Sent to:  767 subscribers

In today's Epoc Digest 14 messages:

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- Re: Your message to the Epocdigest

- Music catalogue software / MP3 players

- Nokia cardphone

- Improving "Data". Colur screen for 5mx. EpocDigest as an island.

- Antony Booth responce, new web site, Powerbase wanted, a world of thanks.

- Nokia Cardphone, Wayback machine...

- RE : emulator and win XP

- Re: Re:  Emails on D  V1 # 187

- Re: Opera Browser

- Re: Oxford English Dictionary in MobiPocket format.

- Re: EPOC DIGEST V1 # 207

- RE: EPOC DIGEST

- POS repairs

- Re: Opera browser

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Date: 23 Mar 2003 21:04:31 +0000

From: Owen Morgan

Subject: Music catalogue software / MP3 players

Hi.

I've recently finished ripping my entire CD collection to MP3 files. The idea is to send my CD's home for safe keeping, buy a MP3 player (or MP3 CD walkman) and free up some much needed bookshelf space on the boat.

The next logical step is to make a catalogue of all my music on the Psion with the same information that's in the MP3 tags. I have WindoZe Mediaplayer and Musicmatch jukebox on the PC. Any ideas on how to get the playlists onto the Psion? I know there is an export function in Musicmatch, but it didn't look like it's configurable.

I probably want something a bit more advanced than Psion Data on the Psion end as I want to be able to do nested searches. I'm not looking for a way of playing the files on the Psion, I just want a searchable database.

On the topic of MP3 players, I can tell you I bought a Goodman MP3 CD-walkman at Maplins in Dublin yesterday and it's going right back. It makes a loud click at the start of every track and peculiar occasional plopping noises during playback. I've also looked at a JVC and a Sony. Both have good sound reproduction. The JVC was larger, but it was easier to navigate the CD and full volume was slightly louder than the Sony. The Sony is smaller, lighter and sexier. However, at 200 Euro for the JVC and around 270 (IIRC) for the Sony, we're getting dangerously close to the price of a 20gb harddisk-based MP3 player, partticularly as those can also be used as a portable harddrive and I can then sell my 16gig PCMCIA external harddisk. (Any takers?)

Owen

Thought for the day:

Freedom is doing what you like, happiness liking what you do.

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Owen H. Morgan, Yacht "Naomi J.", LD-53°20.87'N 6°14.83'W

Dublin City Moorings

http://home.no.net/naomij

Phone and SMS:

In Ireland: +353 (0)87 7474173

In Norway: +47 9205309

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Date: 23 Mar 2003 21:48:47 +0000

From: Mike McConnell

Subject: Nokia cardphone

To: Darryl Kempster

<<<Seem to keep getting same error message with whatever setting I try:-

18.16:23:062500 Tx:AT+CPMS=?

18.16:23:078125 Rx:

18.16:23:078125 Rx:     +CPMS: ("ME","SM"),("ME","SM"),("SM") OK

18.16:23:078125 Tx:AT+CPMS?

18.16:23:093750 Rx:

18.16:23:093750 Rx:     +CMS ERROR: 310 >>>

If you are using a "Mobile" setting in Control Panel / Modems, try changing to "Fixed line" which might prevent an AT command, which is getting an

ERROR response, from being sent.

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Regards,

Mike            [Dundee, Scotland] __________________________________________

Mobile Phone & SMS: +44 (0)7870 236984

Mobile Fax: +44 (0)7977 156138

Web: http://www.mikemcc.net

__________________________________________

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Date: 23 Mar 2003 21:51:15 +0000

From: "Stephane Sage"

Subject: Improving "Data". Colur screen for 5mx. EpocDigest as an island.

Dear Rolf (B),

Thanks for yr detailed explanation on how Data works. If I understand correctly, there is actually no hope, right ? I may try my hands on SmallBase, which is both Epoc 5 and 6 compatible (2 versions). This way, I should be able to migrate later on a 9210 or a P800.

As regards colour screen on 5mx, I do realise autonomy will definitely run low, but am also confident that new colour screen technologies,  since the Sharp Mobilon was on sale (where...?), such as OLED, recently introduced by Kodak on their latest digicam, should be less power hungry. Things have changed since for instance the time when 1 TFT screen out of 3 had to be discarded right

at production level...

As you wrote, EpocDigest looks very much like a kind of spared island and should remain so, especially as I feel like "boiling" on the Irak subject like, I suspect, many of us.

Kind regards

Stephane Sage (Grenoble)

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Date: 23 Mar 2003 21:58:08 +0000

From: Will Green

Subject: Antony Booth responce, new web site, Powerbase wanted, a world of thanks.

Dear All,

-----Antony Booth and how to spot an impostorae-----

re Antony Booth's question of how to spot a real netBook from a S7;

The netBook has a black leather external wrap and the S7 has a blue one.

-----New web site----

I've launched my own very, very small Psion site where you can find my latest Sherlock Holmes database (in EPOC data format).

I will also post a few other bits and pieces including a Powerbase business system/database (invoicing, quotation, stock control, contact manager etc..) and a complete Tony Hancock radio and TV show guide (both Powerbase and Hancock files will be there by the end of the month)

You can find this little gem at www.carryoncabling.co.uk/psion

PS. By the way I write and update this site with a combination of HTMLEdit and nFTP, both excellent pieces of software. The crude nature of the site however is totally down to my own poor HTML knowledge.

-----Powerbase wanted-----

Now that Purple Software seem to have folded, if anyone has a genuine copy of Powerbase they would like to sell I'd be very interested.

-----A world of thanks-----

I'm embarrassed not to have written this thanks before.

I gave up my World Survey project after Itamar published his much more ambitious and excellent results.

However my own little project in the end amassed over 100 results (so stick that in your pipe and smoke it Itamar (only joking :o) )) and I had many interesting replies from around the world and even the odd poem or two!

I would like to thank everyone who responded and raise a glass to our EPOC communitie's good will.

Cheers!

Will.

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Date: 23 Mar 2003 22:45:48 +0000

From: Trygve Henriksen

Subject: Nokia Cardphone, Wayback machine...

Greetings!

Darryl Kempster wrote:

> In my quest for a fax modem for my netBook I have just acquired

> a secondhand Nokia Cardphone Type RPM-1Q high speed data

> GSM 900/1800. Nothing with it but for £20 thought it was worth a shot!

>There have been reports on the digest (by Trygve I think?) of using a

> Nokia Cardphone II, but only when placed in the PCMCIA-pod meant

> to be used with the S3c/S3mx/S5/S5mx machines. However I think

> this is an earlier version.

It certainly sounds like an earlier version...

As for why it gives the 'no response' message...

> 18.16:23:062500 Tx:AT+CPMS=?

> 18.16:23:078125 Rx:

> 18.16:23:078125 Rx: +CPMS: ("ME","SM"),("ME","SM"),("SM") OK

> 18.16:23:078125 Tx:AT+CPMS?

> 18.16:23:093750 Rx:

> 18.16:23:093750 Rx: +CMS ERROR: 310

AT+CPMS has to do with  'SMS Preferred storage' and is only important if you're trying to send/receive SMS messages.

A more pressing question is the SIM chip you're using...

You ARE using one, right?

The 'CMS ERROR: 310' is listed as 'SIM not inserted' in another Nokia manual.

Other popular error codes are:

311: SIM PIN Necessary

312: PH-SIM PIN Necessary

313: SIM Failure

I think there is a command to send a PIN code to a SIM card(It is AT+CPIN="xxxx" on the Option FirstFone), but that doesn't work on a Psion...

(It unlocks the phone allright, but then, later on in the initialisation it resets the phone, thereby locking it again... )

If the SIM has a pIN code, remove it before using the Cardphone...

Other than that, select 'Fixed Line' instead of 'Mobile' and it should stop messing with the SMS functions...

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Itamar Engelsman wrote:

> Re. The Wayback Machine (www.archive.org IIRC). - This archive

> is unknown to us and we have no idea who runs it and who has put

> the digest in that archive.

I think it's run by some Americans...

(Librarians or something)

Anyway, it's an automated system that periodically crawls the net and copies whatever it finds in the vain hope of archiving the net on one server...

It is quite fun to search it, though...

Just type in the URL of a long-lost site and VOILA, you get hold of the contents again... (But usually no pictures or downloadables)

Note: It will not delete old pages when a new one is found; instead it lists both with the dates they were found.

:-)

Trygve

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Date: 24 Mar 2003 00:21:36 +0000

From: "YaouanK"

Subject: RE : emulator and win XP

Hi Julie !

It seems that the way to run the emulator under windows xp is to use the subst command before.

Type something such as "subst c:\emulepoc\ k:" before (where c:\emulepoc is where the emulator is installed) and launch the emulator from the "k" drive (or whatever letter you like)

YaouanK

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Date: 24 Mar 2003 01:21:49 +0000

From: Mark DEPPE

Subject: Re: Re:  Emails on D  V1 # 187

<<<I fully agree with Mark. Keep the e-mail folder on C:, use Backup sw to make a daily copy to D: and PsiWin to make a weekly backup of D:.  Jan G Stockholm, Sweden>>>

Thanks for the email Jan of your posting to the digest in reply to mine, its a good idea I had not thought of, allowing me to reply direct to you or to the digest easily.

I do not have a pc so never use Psiwin and from my brief experience never would as it takes ages (I would use a CF reader to backup the CF to a pc), and is a hassle.  I put another CF in the E drive of my Netbook and backup the Drive that way (sometimes using RMRZip for the whole drive) CF are very reasonably priced now..

Kind Regards

Mark Deppe

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Date: 24 Mar 2003 01:25:42 +0000

From: Keith Giles

Subject: Re: Opera Browser

Saj Jumaani wrote:

> Is someone in here using the Opera browser on a pc/laptop? How is it compared to > MS IE or Netscape? Is it really faster (given the same factors)?

I'm using Opera 7.03 on my WindowsXP. Perhaps because of

familiarity, I like its features better than IE or Netscape. I can't

say that IE is appreciably slower (I use it on the *rare* occasion),

but I think it would have to be appreciable slower before I took any

notice of it.

An Opera forum, news://news.opera.no/opera.general, will give you an

idea of various problems users have. I must say it's a bit technical

for me, and don't know half of what those folks are complaining

about. I'm just a Mister Joe Average user and completely satisfied

with it. :-)

Happy Cycling,

Keith

Sunnyvale, CA

http://home.attbi.com/~ohsix827/

Thought For The Day:

All my outgoing e-mails have been checked by Norton Anti-virus.

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Date: 24 Mar 2003 03:03:14 +0000

From: Owen Morgan

Subject: Re: Oxford English Dictionary in MobiPocket format.

Howdy!

Jaan Sass wrote (> ):

> Mobipocket.com also has a version of the Oxford

> dictionary for its ebook reader. Not only the

> Oxford dictionary but also other Oxford Reference

> books.

How does Mobipocket compare to TomeRaider in price, usability, compactness of files and available selection of files? The one thing I dislike about TomeRaider is that it is no longer possible to copy text from the database to paste to other documents. The old version of TomeRaider had this feature, but it disappeared when Tome 2 came out. I have asked repeatedly for it to be resurrected, but have been ignored. Was I the only one who found this feature useful? Maybe they'll react if they get a lot of e-mails about it?

Owen

Thought for the day:

Nihilism should commence with oneself.

--

Dublin City Moorings

Owen H. Morgan, Yacht "Naomi J.", LD-9311

c/o Idrettsveien 6, 3188 HORTEN, Norway