- Using PsiWin to Synchronise Outlook on Two Laptops

- 5MX battery cover

- GMail Anyone

- P910 contacts & Outlook,

- Seeking Psion Series 3a 3c Plastic Shell Spares

- Nokia 9500 & 9300

- Re: GMail Anyone?, Seeking ... Plastic Shell Spares

- CF Cards

- Printing via 9500

- Re: Seeking Psion Series 3a 3c Plastic Shell Spares

- Psion Spares and the Legacy of a User Community

Date: 3 Aug 2005 07:36:07 +0700
From: Gary Jenkinson <address truncated>
Subject: Using PsiWin to Synchronise Outlook on Two Laptops

Hi All,



For some time now I've been synchronising the Outlook files on my two laptops via export/import of the .pst files. This works, but is very clunky and very slow.



A though occurred to me, is it possible to use PsiWin to synchronise Outlook between the two machines? If I have the same machine (5mx) set up on both machines I'm assuming that if I set the Psion to only accept changes from the master laptop, i.e. the laptop have precedence and vice versa with the second (slave) laptop, i.e. the Psion to have precedence, will this work????



Has anybody done this successfully please and care to feedback, or is there another method used by the Digestees to synchronise Outlook on two Windows based machines, e.g. between work and home, etc. I have a successfully configured and fully working ad-hoc WiFi network between the two laptops as the means of communicating between the two.



I'd really appreciate some help on this guys as I've been scratching around for a solution for a long time. I've tried using the briefcase facility and bought two software synchronising programmes, all to no avail and great expense.



Many thanks,

Gary Jenkinson
email:  <mailto:<address truncated> garyjenkinson AT email DOT com Tel/Fax/Ansaphone: +44 (0) 2476 361242
Mobile: +44 (0) 7771 635764

Date: 3 Aug 2005 07:59:27 +0700
From: Steve Richardson <address truncated>
Subject: 5MX battery cover

My cover "latch" snapped off last night.. the result of NiMH batteries
being just a fraction to large...

glues not holding... so if anyone has a junked Psion 5,5mx that they'd
be prepared to let me have the battery cover from...I'll gladly pay
postage and a beer!

--
Cheers
   Steve

Date: 3 Aug 2005 10:50:52 +0700
From: Nicole Carbonara <address truncated>
Subject: GMail Anyone

Reply to: Jim Watson-Gove <address truncated> Subject: GMail Anyone?

>> Looking over some preliminary info on Google's proposed free Email with 1 gig storage, I see that it will work with POP mail. What are the thoughts about the new offering? <<

I have been on gmail (2GB free storage) for almost one year now and I am very happy with it.  Yes, it works very well with POP mail.



nic

Date: 3 Aug 2005 13:53:20 +0700
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: P910 contacts & Outlook,

Answer to: Arabbitte

Re.: P910 contacts & Outlook - I think I found a different way (don't want to call it better). I choose on the P910 "Photo clients" only and than exported the folder via email. This way you get a file with only these addresses. On the PC I opened it in Excel and sorted the file by hand to prepare it to do a mailmerge to print labels. It took about half an hour of work [I copied the file to Lotus 123 and did it in Lotus as I am more experienced with Lotus 123 and can write little macros to automate the work]. Having done all this, WORD refuses to open the excel file to do a mailmerge so I am still struggling, but that is outside the scope of the digest and more into MS software.

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 3 Aug 2005 14:28:14 +0700
From: Richard Corfield <address truncated>
Subject: Seeking Psion Series 3a 3c Plastic Shell Spares

Stephen said:

> Unfortunately, it seems
> that the remaining plastic contact surface at the break is just too > brittle
> and minimal to provide strength to adequately resist the pressure of the > battery spring clip. There is no harm in continuing to try; but, I need to > be realistic and see if I can effect some parts replacement repairs on my > Psions.
>
> Anyone have a Series 3a with a good battery holder or a Series 3c with
> good
> hinges that they would like to sell please?  Non working units would be
> fine.



Richard replies:

I don't know the mechanics of the repairs you need to carry out, but might you be able to use some sellotape and glue together as a sort of splint (except it would be used to strengthen something under tension - rather
than compression).

From reading that the you need to "resist the pressure of the battery
spring clip", makes me think that you have plastic under tension, which is why sellotape for strength and glue for adhesion, might possibly work. Maybe.  Perhaps.

(Also, could you in any way weaken or cut the battery spring so that it is applying less pressure to the weakened area?)


Richard

Good luck!

Date: 3 Aug 2005 16:10:02 +0700
From: Franco Cozzani <address truncated>
Subject: Nokia 9500 & 9300

On the Digest 780, Mike Dyer wrote:

"... I still miss my Revo+ and would like a colour clamshell, but it needs to be
a competant phone as well and sadly Nokia aren't getting this right at the moment."

I cannot agree more.

I played a bit with a real 9300 of a friend during my island vacation.
At the garden restaurant, I could appreciate the very good build quality, the excellent screen, the not-so-bad-after-all thumb board (of course, one does need not thinking about a machine called 5MX strange people used in long past years).
My wife (who could not distinguish Symbian from sun-tanned, just like the proud owner of the 9300) saying "nice, why don't you buy one?"
Then, being already night, I could not see any single key, since the keyboard of the 9300 is not lighted up.
Mmmmh.
And my wife: "when will Nokia market a better model?" 


PS: I know I have been unduly harsh on Nokia over the 9500 & 9300 on these pages.
Actually, i find that both machines have a lot going for them and I do undestand the folks who buy them.
But it is the "silly" defects they have like fixed opening angle on the 9500, no illuminated keys, no vibrating alert on the 9300 etc. which I find unexplainable and irritating.

Limping along on a Palm - not too bad, actually.

Franco COZZANI
Brussels

Date: 4 Aug 2005 10:02:53 +0700
From: Chris S Handley
Subject: Re: GMail Anyone?, Seeking ... Plastic Shell Spares

Subject: GMail Anyone?
On  1 Aug 2005, Jim Watson-Gove wrote:
> Looking over some preliminary info on Google's proposed free
> Email with 1 gig storage, I see that it will work with POP
> mail.
>
> What are the thoughts about the new offering?

Having just got a GMail account, but not used it in anger yet, it seems to be as well done as everything else that Google set their minds to.  Oh, and it's currently 2Gig space, although that's being increased all the time!  (If I measured correctly, it's increasing at about 8MB per day!)

However, as the POP access has to be accessible to everyone on the internet, this makes it incredibly vulnerable to crackers - so Google is using very high security for both POP & SMTP - which basically means your Psion has no chance in hell of using their service :-(

But since they can also forward emails to another address, this isn't such a problem.  Oh, and their web-based access has an automatic Basic HTML mode, which *should* mean it's accessible using Opera (and perhaps even Web) on our Psions.
---
Chris Handley

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Subject: Seeking Psion Series 3a 3c Plastic Shell Spares
On  2 Aug 2005, Stephen Stone wrote:
> Where are all of the spares for SIBO and EPOC units from
> Psion production?

I think that POS got them all from Psion, when they transfered their repair business to them...
---
Chris Handley

Date: 4 Aug 2005 15:35:50 +0700
From: Phil Aypee <address truncated>
Subject: CF Cards

Hi Folks,

Just so’s you’ll know, I bought a 2 GB CF card from Clove, a Kingston Electronics Elite Pro 50x, and it works in both my 5mxs.

Whoopee!

Happy days,
Phil.

“Those who would give up essential liberty
to purchase a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

http://www.philaypee.co.uk/index.html

Date: 4 Aug 2005 16:40:48 +0700
From: Charles Davies <address truncated>
Subject: Printing via 9500

Is there a practical means of printing (like Psions 3,5,5mx) from a
Nokia 9500 ?
There does not seem to be any form of so called "modern" PDAs which
have a simple printing operation.
I am completely fed up with my Sony Ericsson P800.  Lousy design and
software.  Have not yet been able to set up to receive emails via
Vodaphone.  They sent me an email with a list of some 40 yes Forty
steps to set it up.   Never had the time.
Have an iPaq 5550 that again is a problem software wise, cannot do a
database search on two or three fields.  Have to switch between
Company Name or Individual's Name.  Could be done in Contact in
Outlook but that defeats the whole idea of a PDA.   Frankly I don't
know where some of the software programmers come from these days.
Thanks for letting me unload my grouches - feel better already.
TIA
Regards
CDavies

Date: 4 Aug 2005 23:09:36 +0700
From: Alan Morris <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Seeking Psion Series 3a 3c Plastic Shell Spares

Stephen Stone <address truncated> wrote:-

> Where are all of the spares for SIBO and EPOC units from Psion production?

Stephen the EPOC spares possibly went to Clove, as they sell new Psions.  I recently bought a 5mxPRO.

Alan Morris

Date: 5 Aug 2005 03:18:01 +0700
From: Stephen Stone <address truncated>
Subject: Psion Spares and the Legacy of a User Community

Special thanks to a number of digesters who responded to me off digest with offers of plastic components to repair my "classic" Series 3a. I'm also indebted to Rolf and others who gave wise advice about bonding the plastic bits of a Psion . . . . and when to let go.

I wonder if I could morph the topic of keeping old computers going over to a discussion of what a user community means to me and, perhaps, to you.  Having been a computer user since 1982, I've been a member of a number of such communities related to a few of my computer devotions in hardware and software.  While I'm not a hardware engineer or programmer, I have the utmost respect for both professions, as well as the dedicated users who help each other get things done with computers and software.  I'm trained as a clinical social worker.  This is hardly an area I'd dreamt I'd find myself so engaged in when I finished my professional training.  Yet, I now have correspondent friends around the world as a result of my computer work and hobbies.

One local friend, whose death last week I'm now mourning, was Al Paarman.  Al was a Delco/GM hardware engineer who could write the tightest 8 bit code imaginable.  He wrote the most amazingly elegant small
programs for Kaypro computers.  He also used his computer knowledge to help people.  In the early 1990's , I was a medical and hospice social worker. I'd often call upon Al to help when I saw a patient whose physical challenges might be alleviated by some technology.  If I could dream it, Al could make it work.  He helped so many people with what, I'm sure, they assumed was technology which came from some big company, when, in fact, it was cooked up in Al's garage the night before it was delivered to the patient.  Al used his creativity to give people more comfortable days.  By the time I had moved into using Psions, Al had stopped tinkering with computers and software and had started self-publishing books. Wish he had gotten into my favorite Psion computers -- what he could have done!  I miss him.

It is the ideas and the sharing, not the bits and hardware that are meaningful.

You are all still here, for that I'm grateful.

/Stephen Stone
Santa Barbara, California


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