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Epoc Digest Sat, 17 May 2003 Volume 01 : Number 253

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In today's Epoc Digest 07 messages:

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- Dixons out of the loop

- Moving from Psion to PC Issues

- Assistant1.99 and more (EPOC DIGEST V1 # 252)

- Connecting Psion to the web via Nokia 9210 PDA and various

- favourite app?

- SymLink

- Usage of EPOC Machine, favourite app

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Date: 17 May 2003 09:10:46 +0100

From: Dan Siegel

Subject: Dixons out of the loop

Dear all -

Passing through Heathrow on my way to Riga and I decide to look at toys. After looking around, I asked in Dixons in Terminal if they had any Psions for sale, hoping to find a spare 5 or 5mx or Netbook or at least some extra styli. The pimply teen behind the counter looked at me as if i had come from outer space rather than out of the country and told me they went bankrupt afew years ago. I showed him the stock quote in the FT and he told me it was a different company. Any Psion execs reading this? Is Dixons no longer sellling the Psion line or is there some truth to the kids statement?

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

www.skincancer.dermdex.net

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Date: 17 May 2003 09:55:09 +0100

From: Gary Jenkinson

Subject: Moving from Psion to PC Issues

Well after 6 years of using Psions, I've gone and done it! I've bit the

bullet and am waiting for my PC replacement to arrive (JVC MP-XP 7230).

http://www.jvc.co.uk/product.php?id=MP-XP

I wish I hadn't had to, but I feel compelled because of all the difficulties

(now and envisioned) that are associated with Psion/Teklogix's lack of

interest in developing their software, hardware, customer service provision

and repair facilities. I've always accepted that one day it was likely to be

necessary, and now seems to be as good a time as any, having recently

discovered about the JVC.

Instant on and even the sometimes unreliability of PsiWin to readily

transfer files/back up are amongst some of the features I will miss with my

netBook, but the two that I admired most about my Psion, i.e. size and

battery life have been overcome with my new machine as it is virtually the

same size and has a battery life of 9 hours use.

However, the main difficulty that I was increasingly coming up against of

compatibility issues with Micro$oft Office have been overcome as the JVC

runs WinXP Pro, the same as on my laptop. This and the similarity of the

form factor (size of screen & keyboard) helped make up my mind, especially

as it has a 30GB hard drive, Intel P3 933 mobile processor, 256MB RAM,

on-board WiFi and modem, port replicator, USB/Firewire, coupled with my

familiarity of the operating system. Unfortunately, all this comes at a

price, i.e. £1,600!!

I need a small form factor because I use my netBook/JVC replacement to take

down University lecture/seminar notes (reading BSc (Hons) Disaster Studies

at Coventry University), however, I can envisage my greatest difficulties

will come when I try to replace the PIM features that I otherwise used my

netBook for, i.e. Agenda and Contacts.

Do any of the digest subscribers that have gone down a similar route have

any (courteous!) suggestions/advice for me as to which PC software will

effectively replace these features? I know I have Outlook 2002 as part of

Office XP Pro, but this isn't a 'proper' PIM IMHO and doesn't have the same

ease of use. Someone on the Psion Place/netBook message board suggested I

use the PsiWin emulator on the JVC, the problem with this is I don't know

where to get it from and neither do I know how to install and run it. Some

time (years) ago I downloaded it from the Psion website and tried to use it,

but I gave up on it and uninstalled it as it was too complicated for my

computer/Psion illiterate brain at the time, some would say still! Any

clues/advice/tips about this too would be appreciated, although I think my

first option would be still to get some recommended, similar PC PIM

software.

As well, any advice on how to painlessly transfer my Agenda & Contacts to

the PC will be greatly appreciated too. I never taught myself how to

synchronise these features with Outlook because the times I tried it, it

never seemed to work. This was due to me never being able to get the correct

fields transferred across, if I remember correctly. Anyway, as Agenda, as

well as Data, then Contacts/DreamConnect were so much easier to use I just

used these facilities on my 5/5mx/netBook and never bothered with Outlook

and synchronising, especially as it doesn't transfer embedded objects. I may

have to reappraise this situation and learn how to do this, if it proves to

be my only option and is the only way I can get these features transferred

across. Any thoughts/advice please?

Finally, does anybody have any ideas how I can replicate the features of My

Pocket (Palmtop Software) with a PC based programme so that the transferring

of the latest version of a document/file happens whenever I link the two PC

machines together, in this case on a WiFi Ad Hoc network?

Please note I will be keeping my netBook as a backup machine, or at the very

least until I am satisfied and confident that I have fully replaced all the

features that I used, so please do not email me with offers to buy my Psion!

If, and it's a big if, I decide to sell my machine I will advertise it on

the Psion Place message boards.

Many thanks in advance,

Regards,

Gary Jenkinson

email: garyjenkinson

Tel/Fax/Ansaphone: +44 (0) 2476 361242

Mobile: +44 (0) 7771 635764

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Date: 17 May 2003 10:06:16 +0100

From: Vlad Kuzba

Subject: Assistant1.99 and more (EPOC DIGEST V1 # 252)

To Jack

Your signature says you use Assistant 1.99 The latest version I've found is 1.98. Is the difference worth looking for?

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RE: Epoc Emulator

Some apps just won't run on the emulator, I'm afraid. You can get some WinOPX's but my experience is that eg. Money, Collins, DCLFuel, most RMR Software and MANY others won't run unless you get a special copy for the emulator (Phoneman for example). BTW I can send you the WinOPX file off digest. They are free, no piracy.

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RE: PsionPlace Forums

> I can heartily recommend the PDAStreet/PsionPlace forums.

So can I. A great place! Still, this one is MUCH better :-D

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RE: vCal Problems

I seem to have had a similar problem with Route. I just crashed when I tried to enter the Preferences menu. The cure was to reinstall some OPX files, namely the Syst* ones.

Have a nice day

Vlad

Vladimir KuTranslations & Interpreting, Czech for foreigners

Czech OS/2 Users Group

http://www.os2cz/czos2/

ICQ: 99588132

Written on so 17 V 2Using Psion 5mx with Ericsson R520.

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Date: 17 May 2003 12:26:41 +0100

From: Kevin Thorne

Subject: Connecting Psion to the web via Nokia 9210 PDA and various

Reply to Mike Woodward:

Subject: Connecting Psion to the web via Nokia 9210 PDA

<Does anyone know the Psion modem settings to allow it to connect to the

Internet via a Nokia 9210. I can connect via a Nokia 8210 but the settings won't work with the 9210.>

Mike, I had this problem when I first got my 9210, yet I knew from other users the settings were the same as my old 8210. But unlike the 8210, the 9210's modem has to be activated from within Extras (i.e. not just by activating IR alone). Just go into the "Fax Modem" app, activate it on the toolbar and your existing 8210 settings should work fine.

<Files that don't require conversion such as MBM & JPEG images can be beamed

directly between the Psion & Nokia if you install the PLbeam software on the

Psion, the Nokia places these files in the 'In' box.>

Where can I find "PLbeam"? It sounds just what I'm looking for.

Reply to Christopher Marwood:

Subject: Bluetooth CF Cards

Yes, there is one other rather important stumbling block - the lack of any EPOC Bluetooth drivers. Which is a real shame.

Regards

Kevin Thorne

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Date: 17 May 2003 17:03:44 +0100

From: Mike Dyer

Subject: favourite app?

Jack Wrote:

"To all : Which is your most favourite app, the one you would "never" delete?

For me it's Assistant"

My favourite app is Rmrnews, it lets me keep up with Usenet anywhere with my Revo+ & P7389 mobile phone.

Mike Dyer.

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Date: 17 May 2003 17:20:56 +0100

From: Philip S. Adkins Potter

Subject: SymLink

Hi,

I'm trying to contact a Mr Forrest who wrote the Psion application SymLink which I would like to evaluate and possibly buy. I need to reach him because my evaluation copy of SymLink tells me it expired on 28/03/1999 (about two years *before* I bought my 5mx new from Clove - this I don't understand). The software might well suit my purposes but until I can try it I won't know for sure.

The website apparently no longer exists, eMails sent to the address are returned and the registration company has no further details and so has dropped his custom. I am not much of a programmer, certainly nowhere near this level, even at my best and I shan't be there for a while yet anyway.

So if anyone knows Mr Forrest, please tell him and give him my address. I don't want support (he has probably left the Psion/EPOC platform anyway) but I would like at least to try this software.

Thanks,

Phil.

"Nature and Nature's Laws lay hid in Night.

God said, Let Newton be! and all was Light."

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Date: 17 May 2003 18:14:25 +0100

From: Kevin Thorne

Subject: Usage of EPOC Machine, favourite app

Reply to Manuel Campos Galvan:

As a voice file. Very low tech too - just place S7 near answering machine and press record! I do this because I need to store my messages for future reference - my BT machine can only hold 6 minutes of digital recording, my S7 on the other hand has a 1Gb Microdrive in its D drive :-)

Reply to Itamar Englesman replying to Martin Guthrie:

I found this too. I did use a 5mx with my S7 for a while. The S7 stayed at home, the 5mx went out on the road with me. Although EpocSync is quite good, if one changes BOTH files before the next sync then information will be lost in the older file if one forgets to make a separate copy. I found this a bit too much trouble. Nowadays, the S7 still stays at home and my Nokia 9210 comes out on the road with me. Unfortunately it cannot be synced with the S7 :-(

<Re. Usage of EPOC machine - Don't you find the S7 very slow for surfing the web ? I tried it a few times but can't get used to waiting that long for pages to complete.>

Well, I don't find it *too* bad but it could be faster, admittedly. But then, I don't have a PC so it's my only browser (unless you include the 9210). I usually switch off "load all images" as this slows it down considerably.

Reply to Jack:

<Favourite app?

To all :

Which is your most favourite app, the one you would "never" delete?>

I would never delete Palmtop Money - it's just too useful to be without and resides at number 1 position on my user defined apps on the S7.