- Re: Laptops

- re: laptop

- RE: alternate Agenda for E61?

- When did you start with psion (and stop)

- E61 database ?data replacement

- Re: CF Data Security

- Anniversary

- RE: T-Mobile Vario II

- Re: Laptops

- Re: When did you start using your first Psion

- upgrading, Psion instant on/off, New T-Mobile Vario II,

- Nokia E61 as Infrared Modem on netBook?

- 3a/3c emulator

- Nokia E61 as Infrared Modem on netBook? - Some more info

- Re: maximizing battery life

Date: 12 Nov 2006 10:23:33 +0100
From: Steve Hodgson <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Laptops

On 12/11/06 at 07:53 Ian Chapple wrote:

>even using all 3 of the Apple browsers (Safari, Internet Explorer and
>Firefox) sometimes does not work

Couldn't let this pass without comment because one of the great strength of OS X is its versatility. Without even looking sites such as Versiontracker I can list Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Camino, Opera, Omniweb, Opera, Shiira, Mozilla Suite & Sea Monkey. I realise that one or two of these are variations on a Gecko theme but then I have excluded all the text browsers such as Lynx and also the Windows and X11 browsers that can be run on an OS X machine using the built-in X11 or applications such as Crossover Mac.

I guess it *may* even be possible to run PsiWin under Crossover Mac.

Regards,

Steve

Date: 12 Nov 2006 10:42:41 +0100
From: ealasaidandsimon <address truncated>
Subject: re: laptop

> It will certainly be interesting to see what effect larger Flash > memory "drives" have on PC design and usability. Perhaps one day > we'll see a laptop with the power of a Windows/Mac PC but the speed > and responsiveness of a Psion (Hmmm, netbook form factor, touch > screen, 20GB Flash RAM for the OS and programs, 100GB hard drive > for the data, music, photos etc., 8 hour battery life)....

Ian - have you looked at www.laptop.org

Simon

Date: 12 Nov 2006 17:57:42 +0100
From: William Fuggle
Subject: RE: alternate Agenda for E61?

Chris, and others that have asked. There are 2 alternatives to Agenda available. Papyrus will let you set repeats for day, week, month by day or date and year by day or date. For all of these you can enter a repeat interval eg every 6th week.

>My current test is if I can enter an entry that >will repeat on the 5th Saturday of the month. >So far, no one has passed ... the E61 can >barely handle repeating.

Papyrus can't do this as far as I can tell.

I think there is a genuine reason why PDA PIM functions are simpler on modern devices and this is well explained by Steve Litchfield in his article on the AAS website about lack of software for smartphones. Basically in the PDA explosion, which was just starting its decline about 4-5 years ago, your diary revolved around your PDA, if you owned one. Syncronisation between your pda and a computer was variable (palm good, epoch problematic).

For the vast majority now your diary revolves around your computer (whatever variety) and your smartphone (if you use it with diary like this) is used to look up and be reminded of appointments. You may occasionally enter appointments.

Now this is probably not true of many people here but most of those at work I remember using PDAs do not use them now. They stopped because as they used their computer diary more they got fed up with duplicate and corrupt entries due to their synching with clever PDAs. Now with the simple PIMs I don't get these problem on my Macbook and neither does my colleague with an E61 on his Dell Laptop. He was just saying to me how smooth and easy the sync is compared to his Toshiba windows pda that has lain unused in a drawer for several years now.

The entry functionality of this part of PIM has decreased over the years but other functionality has dramatically increased (email, web, video, podcasts, satnav etc). This is particularly true of latest Blackberry, Sony Ericsson, Nokia and HTC TyTN machines. If you need to enter a complicated schedule it is much easier to do this on a computer and sync it over to the smartphone as simple appointments. Simple appointments can be entered on either device. The result, in our experience, is no duplicates or other oddities.
Just my opinion and certainly SE phones still have better calendar options than E61, but although I do think m600i is a georgeous smartphone when I had it for a week, but latest SE phones won't PIM sync with Mac so they are out of equation for me.

regards

Bill Fuggle

Date: 12 Nov 2006 18:23:03 +0100
From: William Fuggle
Subject: When did you start with psion (and stop)

Just a variation on a theme. I jumped from Cambridge Z88 (briiliant in part, flawed in other, typical of Sir Clive Sinclair's inventions) about 1990 to Psion Organiser CM followed by ?XP2. Diary and contacts use mainly. I stopped with psion (revo) when I couldn't get hold of MacConnect to sync with my new iMac in 2000 (out of stock for 4 months!) I swapped to palm and stuck with it when MacConnect turned up because Mac had moved onto Mac OSX and because there was very good genealogy prog for palm and nothing for psion. It's a great regret to me that there is still no genealogy prog for symbian devices.

regrds
Bill Fuggle

Date: 12 Nov 2006 20:10:14 +0100
From: William Fuggle
Subject: E61 database ?data replacement

This is meant to work on all S60 3rd edition devices: quodDB. Looks like similar structure to dbase etc. Some work needed to set up fields etc. Configurable.

regards

Bill Fuggle

Date: 12 Nov 2006 20:20:15 +0100
From: Jean Guillonneau <address truncated>
Subject: Re: CF Data Security

David Ferguson wrote:

> So my question is this : what does everyone else use to protect their CF data?

Why not SecureDrive ? Whole folders can be encrypted. I used it a lot and didn't experience any loss of data. Reading and writing on the disk is just a little slower.

Any ZIp program can also do the job. There is a Neuon program which compresses files automatically, but I don't remember if it allows encrypting.

Itamar Engelsman wrote :
>It is best to keep programs on the CF card and data on the internal disk.

Of course. But you need sometimes a bit more storage as just the internal disk !

Jean

Date: 12 Nov 2006 20:40:26 +0100
From: K.I. van der Straten <address truncated>
Subject: Anniversary

I bought myself first a Psion round nine years ago and after that a PC. The PC was / is and will be in service of my Psions.
The first Psion was a secondhand 3C with a workspace of 1MB. On my work at the hospital, I saw them frequently and I thought to my self: "Is this something for me?"
Now I know better. The PC's on my work where running on DOS, so I leaned very much from the Psions. After the 3C, I bought a 3MX. In 2001 Psion was still on the market, the 5MX came into my possession. I worked 4 years with backlight screens, but I couldn't forget the bright screen of the 3C. There was a solution for that problem the Revo, but a Revo and a 5MX isn't a good combination to use. The S7 and the Revo is a better combination. Now I use the netBook and the Revo every day. The Revo for on the move and the nB for my
work and at home. With the nB I do everything without the Internet. I handle almost all my mail with the nB and the excellent e-mail reply program REM by Rolf Vonau. The nB is my laptop, it's a standalone computer and I do all the backups on several CF-cards. I hope that I can work for a long time with the ER5 equipment.

Regards,
Kees.

Date: 12 Nov 2006 21:02:19 +0100
From: Bob <address truncated>
Subject: RE: T-Mobile Vario II

I have my current PDA Essentials here in the States and it has the Vario on the Front Cover "Rated the best Camera Smartphone.  I think that might be the one you are talking about.

Thanks,
Bobby

Date: 12 Nov 2006 23:24:05 +0100
From: Chris Handley
Subject: Re: Laptops

Hello Ian,

> While I am generally quite impressed with Macs > and Mac OSX, we have had one or two problems. The main one is badly > designed websites which let you enter all of your details only to fail at > the last step; even using all 3 of the Apple browsers (Safari, Internet
> Explorer and Firefox) sometimes does not work, meaning that you *have*/_ to > use a Windows machine to complete your transaction.

Bad (?) news I'm afraid:  The new Internet Explorer 7 (which is basically mandatory) is unlikely to be much better than Firefox, because IE7 is now designed to be "standards compliant" too.  And when those sites are fixed to work with IE7, then they'll likely work with Firefox too.  So a Mac should now be as good as a Windows machine, for web browsing...

> Mac OSX and Macs in general, I'm not convinced that
> they are as superior to Windows PCs as the evangelists would have you
> believe. Apple are currently promoting the fact that there are 140,000
> Windows viruses while there are none for Mac OSX; apart from the obvious
> problems with the security of Windows, IE etc. Windows has been a victim
> of its own success. If and/or when Apple gain a greater share of the
> market, they will inevitably become the target of the ******* (insert
> favourite word here) who write viruses.

Mac OS X *is* better than Windows XP for security - you need only look at the massive changes that Microsoft have made in Windows Vista, to see how poor XP was.  Whether Vista is better/worse than OS X for security is debatable, but Vista has a hell of a lot more annoying "security requesters" (for example in the preview version of Vista I tried, renaming (or was it creating?) a folder required answering *four* security requesters!!!  They better fix that in the release version).

Regards,
Chris Handley

Date: 13 Nov 2006 02:41:20 +0100
From: Keith Giles <address truncated>
Subject: Re: When did you start using your first Psion

I'm a late bloomer. I bought my 5ive on 7 Mar 1999. I had been going to Europe each year to cycle. I used pen and paper to write my daily log, keep track of my expenses, and the what/where of photos I took.

In 1998 I visited a Brit friend in London after doing the End-to-End. He had to go to the bank and while there, he pulled out this little device and did something with it. I asked what it was and all he said was that it was a Psion computer - turned out to be one of the 3 models.

I didn't pay much attention, but when I got home, I found that my handwriting had deteriorated so much that I had a hard time reading my log. Decided I had to get some sort of handheld thing. I remembered the word Psion. So I searched online and found a Series 5 - ordering it sight unseen.

It took me a bit of time to learn how to use it, but soon discovered all the freeware available. Wow! Fantastic! Later I upgraded to a 5mx, then got in on those really cheap Malay books. I later upgraded it to a netBook.

I have another 5mx, a 5mxPro (in English), and the original 5ive sitting in a drawer waiting to be used when my 5mx bites the dust.

Happy Cycling,
Keith
Sunnyvale, CA

http://ohsix827.home.comcast.net

Thought For The Day: The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

Date: 14 Nov 2006 00:07:52 +0100
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: upgrading, Psion instant on/off, New T-Mobile Vario II,

Answer to: Ian Chapple

Re.: upgrading - It is not only the investment this time but the feeling that in a few years time with the next upgrade the same thing will happen again. The screen of my P910 is now scratched and the thumbboard a little broken and it is in need of a replacement. I could of course try and get another one on something like eBay but I would like to move on with thime and not to stand still.

Answer to: Franco.Cozzani

Re.: Psion instant on/off - The difference is of course that even if a MAC laptop does fire up as fast or faster than a 5MX, you don't put it in your pocket ... or carry it around as easy as a netBook. I still find the netBook great for taking notes in meetings, you can switch it on and off as many times as you like and just continue taking noteseven if the meeting is severl hours long without needing a mains point. And than people always ask where I got it from and whether it is still available ...... !

Answer to: M. Garrett

Re.: New T-Mobile Vario II - The policy has been that as the Psion has been discontinued we will allow messages about alternative PDA's as it is of general interest to the readers of the digest who sooner or later will have to change their equipment to other makes. I think that although this is a phone and not a Symbian one, it is also a full fledged PDA and therefore have no objection to your messages on this subject. I think most readers will feel likewise.

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 15 Nov 2006 00:29:45 +0100
From: Marcus von Cube <address truncated>
Subject: Nokia E61 as Infrared Modem on netBook?

Has anybody ever succeeded in connecting a Nokia E61 to the netBook or 5mx acting as a modem?

I can see several dialling attempts in C:\Logs\ETEL but nothing that would tell me what's going wrong here. C:\logs\netdial is empty.

The settings in control panel/modems are those of a standard infrared modem. Setting the phone type to landline instead of mobile crashes the ETEL server. I have to reboot my netBook to reactivate it.

Marcus

http://www.mvcsys.de

Date: 15 Nov 2006 00:47:43 +0100
From: Chris Kantarjiev <address truncated>
Subject: 3a/3c emulator

Can someone point me to a *working* link for an emulator that will run in a DOS window? I lost my 3c while coming home from the airport last night (I've notified all the lost & found
agencies) but in the meantime I really need a way to read my agenda ... from backup. It's only a couple of weeks old :-0

Help?

THanks,
chris

Date: 15 Nov 2006 10:06:47 +0100
From: Marcus von Cube <address truncated>
Subject: Nokia E61 as Infrared Modem on netBook? - Some more info

This is a follow-up to my last post regarding Nokia E61 as modem. I did a test with the E61 and my old 6310i. Here are the ETEL-Logs from the point were the differ:

Nokia E61
=========

10.39:59:140625 Tx: AT+CNMI=?

10.39:59:281250 Rx:
ERROR

10.39:59:281250 Tx: AT+CNMI=1,1,0,0,0

10.39:59:421875 Rx:
ERROR

10.39:59:421875 Tx: AT+CPMS=?

10.39:59:562500 Rx:
+CPMS: (),(),()

OK

10.39:59:562500 Tx: AT+CPMS?

10.39:59:703125 Rx:
+CPMS: ,,,,,,,,

OK

Here the Cycle restarts.

An example of a working configuration follows:

Nokia 6310i:
============

10.34:18:843750 Tx: AT+CNMI=?

10.34:18:968750 Rx:
+CNMI: (0-2),(0-3),(0,2,3),(0-2),(0,1)

OK

10.34:18:968750 Tx: AT+CNMI=1,1,0,0,0

10.34:19:093750 Rx:
OK

10.34:19:093750 Tx: AT+CPMS=?

10.34:19:218750 Rx:
+CPMS: ("ME","SM"),("ME","SM"),("MT")

OK

10.34:19:218750 Tx: AT+CPMS?

10.34:19:468750 Rx:
+CPMS: "SM",12,12,"SM",12,12,"MT",20,162

OK

Connection continues with some more commands.

Are there any GSM specialists who can provide some help?

Marcus

http://www.mvcsys.de

Date: 15 Nov 2006 18:42:48 +0100
From: Chris Holly <address truncated>
Subject: Re: maximizing battery life

Nick, i am hardly an expert but I have a few batteries around me including a hefty Li-Ion on my electrified bicycle. My understanding is the Li-Ion batteries don't have the memory effect that others do and prefer not to be "totally" discharged. Rather, they like to be topped off and will last longer than if they are repeatedly run out all the way and recharged. Ni-cads have the memory effect and have to be discharged periodically and recharged fully.

Chris Holly