- A Psion Psaga

- Re: Backups

- Banking

- In-car bluetooth in UK

- Psion 2, PC 1

- Vreader5, Guttenberg and U of Virginia

Date: 10 Jul 2006 04:17:01 +0100
From: Keith Giles <address truncated>
Subject: A Psion Psaga

I always take my 5mx when I travel. I was one week into a 6-week European trip and was in northern Germany. Went to start my Psion and there was the dreaded screen/cable display - a series of black horizontal lines.

I was in a panic - all my contacts (addresses/phone numbers) were gone! How do I arrange to visit all the folks I know all over Europe?

But I did have a backup - using Ralph Sprenger's "Backup" nightly. I remembered the names of two Digestees/PDAStreeters and the town names in the Netherlands where they lived - Jaap Lameris and Kees van der Straten. I went to the Netherlands and found Jaap.

First we put my CF into Jaap's nB - but his machine would only open his Contacts. With Kees' help, we then moved Jaap's Contacts to his CF, put my CF into his machine, copied my Contacts backup to his C drive. Then my Contacts list opened and we printed a copy. I'm no longer at sea! Jaap then deleted my Contacts on his C drive and returned his own list.

Jaap and Kees put me in contact with Pieter Plaatsman in northern Netherlands. I went to him and in less than 1/2-hour he had dissembled my 5mx, installed a new cable/screen/keyboard, reassembled it, and tested everything. I was back in business.  Three cheers for the Dutch.

The moral of this Psaga: In the future I shall carry that old-fashioned pocket address book, with handwritten entries, as a backup!

Happy Cycling,
Keith
Sunnyvale, CA

http://ohsix827.home.comcast.net

Thought For The Day: Taxes could be worse - suppose we had to pay on what we think we're worth.

Date: 10 Jul 2006 04:27:35 +0100
From: Keith Giles <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Backups

Having gone through the Digest archives to see what I missed while on vacation, I note some discussion about long backup times. I keep very little on my C drive, so a PsiWin backup to my PC is quite quick.

For my D drive, I use a CF card reader and a very good backup program (BackupPlatinum). Once you've done a complete backup the first time, from then on it's incremental backups - very fast.

I've tried several backup programs but find the others result in a single file so you can't identify any particular folder/file. BackupPlatinum results look exactly like Explorer so it's easy to find a particular folder/file to drag to the card reader if necessary.

Happy Cycling,
Keith
Sunnyvale, CA

Date: 10 Jul 2006 04:34:37 +0100
From: Keith Giles <address truncated>
Subject: Banking

I always keep track of my spending when on vacation with a banking app on my 5mx. I then export the file and import into Quicken on my PC.

Quicken 2006 no longer allows you to import a QIF file into a Credit Card or Bank account.

Has anyone come up with a workaround?

Happy Cycling,
Keith
Sunnyvale, CA

Date: 10 Jul 2006 05:41:58 +0100
From: nic
Subject: In-car bluetooth in UK

Reply to Itamar

No need for that.  I use a Bluetooth headset with my XDA Exec, in the car &
anywhere else.

nic
N 45°27.693’
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Alt 1818m
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UTM 5036255

Date: 10 Jul 2006 10:27:38 +0100
From: Philip Carlisle <address truncated>
Subject: Psion 2, PC 1

Dear All

I have 2 Psion topics and one (forgive me) off this thread, but which I hope someone may be able to help with.

For the first time in some 10 years, I accidentally deleted a piece of work off my Psion.  For future reference, is there any way to recover a deleted document, or must I install a type of recycle bin (which I seem to remember being made for Psions as freeware or shareware).

In answer to the request for applications used, I make most use of my 5mx for working when commuting and then upload onto my PC using PsiWin.  Therefore, Word and Sheet, together with Agenda, are the most used.  I keep track of personal finances (such as they are) with ABP, and I am steadily building a cassette/CD list as a database.  Gradually, because I have recorded many hours from the radio, and to list all the tracks means listening to them all.  Great fun for spending hours at rest!

I confess to also playing some games, principally P-Plus Bridge, TeamPsion, Quad and Montana 7.
Although I have little astronomical knowledge, I do enjoy playing with Procyon X. 

Both Route and Street come in handy, and I use Stationery Pad for documents and SafePlace for passwords etc.

CleanIt, Reclaim and Essential Disk Utilities and ResetPlus are employed from time to time.

My PC point is as follows.  I have registered Innovation PJ Killer at work and at home.  On changing the PC at home, I appear to have lost the registration.  I still have the code, but it no longer seems to work.  Innovation seems to have disappeared, or at least the website has, and there is no reply to e-mails.
My question is, where might I find the registration file on my works PC to copy, along with the application, and load into my home PC?

Kindest regards to all

Philip Carlisle

London

Date: 10 Jul 2006 22:14:04 +0100
From: Jim Watson-Gove <address truncated>
Subject: Vreader5, Guttenberg and U of Virginia

I currently am a happy user of Vreader5 on my 5mx and when CompuServe was dismantling the Psion connection. downloaded all of the TCRed books on the website.  So far so good.

I am now using the U of Virginia website for free books for my Tungsten.  They have he option of a Palm or a Windows download.

Is there a way of doing a download from U of V. or Guttenberg and read them on the Psion with Vreader5?

TIA,

jim - port townsend, wa, usa