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Epoc Digest      Tue, 06 May 2003     Volume 01 : Number 243

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Sent to:  783 subscribers

In today's Epoc Digest 23 messages: ==============================

- Re: S7 Preferred Apps

- Re: Dic. from ER5; Re Left keys 4 apps

- 9210 email storage

- 9210 direct printing, PGP

- Farewell - well nearly

- Re: RealMaps

- Re: Synchronising Agenda

- Re: Netbook screen calibration issue V1 # 241 (559)

- Re:  nokia6100 gprs settings

- Psion Travelmodem,

- Re: OS X Backup

- Re:  Phone for a Series 7

- Re: IR is Showing Strange Behavior

- RE: reducing photo size

- RE: Reducing photo size

- RE: reducing photo size

- Rolf B. - Software licences

- Contacts problem

- Begging Your Indulgence!

- S7 preferred apps

- EPOC Digest Dates

- Re: S7 Preferred Apps

- Re: Netbook screen calibration issue

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Date:  4 May 2003 20:23:07 +0000

From: Keith Giles

Subject: Re: S7 Preferred Apps

Kevin Collins wrote:

> what four apps have you preferred to store on the 4 numbered >

> left-side silk keys?

I have a Malaysian netBook. 1 is Bombs (I don't play games); 2 is nFTP (only connect via my PC); 3 is Color Magic (once I've gotten what I want in my Scheme, hardly ever use it); and, 4 is Comms (see 2).

As you can see, I'm using those silk keys to hide what I don't use because I like to see the colored icons of those I do use, in the regular Extras section. I use NoMore on my 5s and Mako to do the hiding, but, if you remember, my netBook does *not* like the NoMore app. I did start out putting some frequently used apps on those 4 silk keys, but didn't like not being able to see the pretty colors just to save 1 click. :-)

Happy Cycling,

Keith

Sunnyvale, CA

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

Thought For The Day: No husband has ever been shot while doing the dishes.

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

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Date:  4 May 2003 21:06:13 +0000

From: Jack

Subject: Re: Dic. from ER5; Re Left keys 4 apps

Gianluca wrote : >>

>>........how to copy the italian dictionary+thesaurus from the 5mx to

>>the netBook<<<

RE

Ctl+Tab ; to select Z disk;

copy from system/data :  Iitf9540.dat  &  Rittc400.dat

paste them to C or D or E/system/Data

Uncheck if "Read only" in Properties

Launch spellX

To Kevin Collins  Subject:  apps stored on the 4 numbered left-side silk keys?  RE for me:

1 Navigator OR WinEpoc (for its look)

2 nConvert

3 PhoneMan works quite well with  SEt68i

4 Assistant (a must), with Mystartup (thanks Sergio) as macro at its *Closing*

Jack

--

Msg merrily mailed through Cable ISP x Mocha, Psion netBookUK158 EpocEmail2.00 + ReplyEveryMail2.38 and Quote macros launched by Assistant1.99 (+ colo(u)r_icons).

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Date:  4 May 2003 22:15:16 +0000

From: Kevin Thorne

Subject: 9210 email storage

I've never tried loading up my 9210 with hundreds of emails (as I have done in the past on my old 5mx) but there used to be problems when the index file had to cope with so many individual files - the Email application would gradually slow down to a crawl.  Applications such as the excellent SaveMail solved this problem by clearing out the Email application but no such software exists for the 9210.  Has anyone tried storing a large amount of emails on their 9210, if so, any problems?

Regards

Kevin Thorne

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Date:  4 May 2003 22:15:20 +0000

From: Kevin Thorne

Subject: 9210 direct printing, PGP

9210 DIRECT PRINTING

Can anyone share their experiences of printing directly from a 9210 to a printer via IR?  I've tried doing this to a Canon BJ-10 (which is in the built-in drivers list) with very poor results.  Unfortunately, unlike the poor ER5 drivers which can be upgraded by using Andrew Johnson's 3rd party ones to significantly improve printing, there are no such improved drivers available for ER6.

PGP

I recently emailed Psiloc regarding registration of some of their products, explaining that I don't have easy access to a secure browser (and Opera seems to fail when I try).  They replied as follows:

"You can order required products from our internet shop (http://shop.psiloc.com) and select "Wire transfer" payment method 2) You can send your credit card details to us via email (secure using PGP)."

I do have PGP installed on my S7 but have never used it.  There isn't a help file as such but it does come with a couple of long documents about PGP in general.  I know very little about using PGP anyway and it seems a shame there isn't a quick start help guide for beginners.  Can anyone explain how to use PGP for sending my card details to them in nice and simple jargon?

Regards

Kevin Thorne

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Date:  4 May 2003 22:26:51 +0000

From: Andy Hayes

Subject: Farewell - well nearly

Hi All

My days of EPOCness are coming to an end. I have finally bitten the bullet and given up my job in IT support in the newspaper industry. Trying to do the work of four people (seriously) whilst training someone else became unfunny. The plan was to go and live on Shetland in September, but there seems no time like the present. I will be arriving on the island without a job, home or car. Exciting times ahead I imagine, or reckless times as I am sure some of my soon to be ex-colleagues are thinking. Never mind!

Its time to sell the last of the EPOC stuff in my house as the money from this and other stuff is what will be needed to put a roof over my head and food in my stomach in the first few weeks. I have either suffered an unfair amount of time wasters or their emails have not got through, so some of this stuff will have been previously advertised. Anyway, it is all dead cheap now and still only available to those in the UK.

First the free stuff. All for Psion3 series handhelds. Personal Accounts and Expenses on SSD. PsiMail Internet on floppy. Symantec Act! on SSD. Data Deluxe on SSD. Psion 3a parallel printer interface. One per person. Send me an envelope with £1.50 in stamps in it and I will return the software as soon as possible.

Now the expensive (!) stuff.

Navigator (floppy), copy of original black and white version as well as the colour replacement floppy from Purplesoft. £20

Powerbase (floppies) RDBMS. £20

En Route (CD) plus Route Planner Millennium Upgrade CD. £20

Street Planner 99 (CD) plus Street Planner Millennium Upgrade CD. £20

Berlitz Phrase Book (floppy) common translations between Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portugese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. £20

CoBuild English Dictionary. £20

All of the above are in their original boxes and have manuals where supplied.

Psion parallel printer link for Siena/3c/3mx/5/5mx/mc218/7/netBook. In original box £10.

Chris Archer manufactured Psion serial lead. £10

In car holder for Psion 5/5mx/MC218. Steel construction with flexible shaft. £20

Pegasus 3 (v90) modem with PC and Psion leads and instructions, boxed with UK plug convertor. £20

Psion UK power supply unit for the 7/netBook. £15

Now the non-Psion stuff.

Adobe Photoshop 5 LIMITED EDITION CD. Still sealed. £10

Linux 7.2 Pro, CDs, DVD, manuals, box, HEAVY. £30

Star Office 5.2 CD, manual, box £20

Mandrake Linux 7.0 CD, floppy, manual, box £15

Corel Gallery Magic - 65,000 vector clipart images and photos plus fonts and web theme sets on 2 CDs still sealed (presumably in Corel's picture format). £15

Nokia 6210e unlocked from Orange and now runs T-Mobile and Orange sims, although the sim convertor is not part of the sale. The phone is about 15 months old but has a battery that is either 1 year or 9 months old. I have mixed them up! The phone is always kept in a case and is in very good condition. It will come in its original box with all of the original paperwork and the software CD, as well as the manual and psu. The phone will be shipped to you on 2 June 2003 at the latest. I will want to have the money up front though to avoid time wasters. £45 including special delivery.

If you are interested in any of the above, please text me (please don't ring me) on 0795 1187228. Make sure that you leave your mobile number if your phone doesn't send it out. If I dont contact you back it means that the item has been sold. I will let the list know what is still available.

Thanks

Andy Haye

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Date:  4 May 2003 23:06:42 +0000

From: Alan Morris

Subject: Re: RealMaps

Owen Morgan wrote:-

<< I use .... RealMaps .... but I've never been able to get the chart indexing in RealMaps to work properly. >>

Are you referring to the indexing of map files for zooming or the registration of the Lat/Long of each chart?

I've found that the registration needs to be spot-on for the zoom out and back in, to return to the same map/chart.  The problem that I have is that I use OS land maps and RealMaps is only Lat/Long.  I need to rotate the scan, but can't get it perfect.

--

Alan R Morris, G4ENS.

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK.

Using a Psion & Nokia 6210e.

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Date:  4 May 2003 23:06:51 +0000

From: Alan Morris

Subject: Re: Synchronising Agenda

Owen Morgan wrote:-

<< I use EpocSync. However ....  That means you cannot make changes to the same file on both machines between synching. As long as you can live with this limitation, it works just fine and is a very useful tool. >>

You can rename files (01) and keep a copy of the replaced file, so if any changes have been made, you can copy/paste and not lose that info.

I do however find the limit of only three profiles a bit of a restriction.  But as Owen said, well worth having.

--

Alan R Morris, G4ENS.

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK.

Using a Psion & Nokia 6210e.

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Date:  5 May 2003 00:37:26 +0000

From: Mark Deppe

Subject: Re: Netbook screen calibration issue V1 # 241 (559)

Christopher Holly wrote:

<<<My Malay netbook screen does not seem to want to stay calibrated...... but I do not recall if there was a workaround.>>>

I have seen numerous posting on this and though I have not experienced it myself on either of the netbooks I have owned or a 7 and  have not had to recalibrate my current netbook since I bought it over 5 months ago (There was a suggestion that sharp knocks to the netbook could cause this recalibration problem, though I haven't tested it, regorously, other than casual tossing of it in a case and back pack and all has been well), I do not think there is a work around, I have a feeling that it was a hardware problem.  Sorry for that, hopefully someone else will say differently.

Kind regards

Mark

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Date:  5 May 2003 00:37:33 +0000

From: Mark Deppe

Subject: Re:  nokia6100 gprs settings

<<<Hello everyone, Just had my phone upgraded to 6100. does anyone in here know the settings for gprs settings? I have a Vodafone account. Can anyone provide me with settings for netbook and sony vaio laptop please. Thanks!>>>

Don't know about a Vaio but for a netbook leave the modem settings as usual then in the internet settings:

Name:  Whatever you like mine says nokia

Speed:  112500

connect via:   infrared

Fax class:   auto

Tab 2:  Options

Never

quiet

4

Tab3:  Initialisation.

Init reset string:  AT&F&K4

Data:  Blank

Fax:  Blank

Tab4: Advanced

Software: Software Xon/Xoff

Terminal detect:  Blank

carrier detect:  Blank

Modem type: Mobile

Moving on to Internet settings:

Current internert service: vodaphone GPRS  (you can callit whatever you want though) show connection dialog ticked if idle stay on line for 15 mins on exit stay online for 1 minute  (I usually manuall disconnect with "Ctrl U")

Tab1 Service

Name:  Whatever

Conection type: Dial Up

Use smart dialing:  Unchecked

Standard dial up number:  *99#

Other dial up numbers: Empty

Tab 2 Account:  Same for everyone

manual login:  Unchecked

Username:  web

password: web

confirm password:  web

tab3 Adresses (now this is important I think be sure to enter 0.0.0.0  in them all) Get ip from server: unchecked

IP adress:   0.0.0.0

GetDNS from server: unchecked

Primary DNS:   0.0.0.0

Secondary DNS:   0.0.0.0

Tab4 Login

use login script:  Blank

Tab5 Advanced

enable ppp extensions:  Blank

Allow plain text authenticatio:  Checked

use call back:  Unchecked

And thats it.  well almost.  that would get you connected and surfing but for email you have to go and set up and email account with them.  go to vodamail.  The in the email app on the psion create a voda account and use Outgoing email SMTP:   mail.vizzavi.co.uk

Incoming pop3 server: pop.vodafone.net

Then the usual password and username.

That should do it, let me know how you get on.  I have used the psion wap browser well with the phone also but not got it to work with GPRS  and I understand it is not possible.

Kind regards

Mark

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Date:  5 May 2003 01:24:57 +0000

From: Itamar Engelsman

Subject: Psion Travelmodem,

Answer to: Bernard Olij

Re.: Psion Travelmodem - I don't think the problem is the modem. did you try a soft reset on your Psion ? Well worth a try.

Best regards,

Itamar Engelsman

London, UK

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Date:  5 May 2003 02:02:46 +0000

From: Greg Crayford

Subject: Re: OS X Backup

Hi again,

Thanks to Itamar and to Simon who reminded me there are other ways to make a backup. I already have a large enough CF card and a 6 in 1 card reader so as I type my Psion is in the process of backing up.

I used to have a strict weekly regime under OS9 but must admit I've been using my Psion far less than I used to in the past and this seems to have extended to my backup sessions (for my Psion that is - all my Macs are being backed up regularly). I wonder if this is because I know its days of usefulness are now numbered. There still doesn't seem to be a replacement solution in sight - at least for me. I may have to jump ship and go to Palm. But no keyboard? I dunno about that. As has been pointed out by Rolf you need pretty consistent handwriting to make that work.

And now that all our devices are converging (pda/laptop/phone/desktop/mp3player/camera/video/fridge/etc) I'd really like something which I can synch with my Macs rather than merely backup to them. There are four iBooks and an iMac in the house all connected via Airport on a broadband connection ("Honey, email the kids and tell them dinner's ready"). We have three iPods (not just an MP3 player, Owen). We have external firewire/usb drives for video, music, backup, file transfer plus the card reader mentioned above and we share a printer via a wireless connection. It'd be just great if a Psion replacement could slot into that lot somehow, still with a touch-typeable keyboard and small enough to fit into my wee bag.

I guess I'll keep hoping and waiting.

Thanks again, Itamar and Simon.

Cheers

Greg in NZ

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Date:  5 May 2003 08:00:39 +0000

From: U Hornstein

Subject: Re:  Phone for a Series 7

Reference is made to the mail in the EPOC DIGEST V1 # 240 (555) : Derek Clark wrote at  2003 00:22:41 -0600 (> ):

>

> Thanks for the help Rolf.

> I had looked at the old digests and come up with the

> Siemens ME45 but

> only found one place actually selling it sims free for

> £140.

> T Mobile are offering me a Siemens S45 at £100. What do

> digest members

> think?

> model, and  I am

> only giving it up because it has been in the sea.

The ME45 is supposed to be waterproof, so this could help if the depth is diveable ;)

> The main requirement is that the phone works with my

> Psion 7.

Here I cannot help. But both phones were described to me to work with a 5mx or a MC218. I have been advised mainly from German Psion users to the ME45, which I am expecting to arrive soon.

The S45i i supposed to be electrically the same and looks better IMHO, but I prefered the better ruggedness of the ME 45.

So far my 1ct.

--

With greetings from Germany

Ulrich Hornstein

sent by MC218 (EPOC palmtop)

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Date:  5 May 2003 11:56:34 +0000

From: KL

Subject: Re: IR is Showing Strange Behavior

Hi Rolf,

I should have mentioned that I have set the auto-switch-off to 03:00 min. if no external power.

Karsten.

>>From: Rolf Brunsting

>>Subject: Re: IR is Showing Strange Behavior

>>

>>Dear Karsten,

>>

>><< ... when I try to make a backup or synchronize with Win98 via IR.

>>The Psion has reset

>> spontaneously a couple of times and the connection is sometimes difficult ... >>

>>

>>There's a strange bug that results in Psions resetting themselves when

>>(a) automatic

>> switch-off is set to a time longer than 30 minutes and (b) infrared communication is used.

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Date:  5 May 2003 12:47:09 +0000

From: Daniele Squarci

Subject: RE: reducing photo size

Itamar Engelsman wrote:

>>- I don't know what camera you use but are you not able to reduce the

>>size of the image when taking the picture ? My camera has a hig,

>>medium and low setting, the low one specifically meant for emailing

>>images.<<

I can do this too, but I take lots of photos, and only later select the ones good enough for e-mailing to others.

Ciao

Daniele Squarci

Italy

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Date:  5 May 2003 12:52:05 +0000

From: Daniele Squarci

Subject: RE: Reducing photo size

Rolf Brunsting wrote:

>> I have, using the same MBMView you refer to. ...MBMView doesn't use

>> smart resizing, like bicubic resampling, so that the resuling photo

>> won't be as good as the original.<<

I've tried this, it works, but the result indeed leaves a lot to be desired....

Ciao

Daniele Squarci

Italy

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Date:  5 May 2003 13:29:59 +0000

From: Daniele Squarci

Subject: RE: reducing photo size

Simon-S wrote:

>> nConvert does this. Use it all the time. Great JPEG quality and

>> compression.<<

This seems the way to go in photo resizing, but I've not managed to make it work. I keep getting out of memory errors, or Nconvert just hangs. I tried putting the photos on D (32 MB free) and getting Nconvert to save the converted output to D as well. No joy. I can convert JPG to BMP and BMP back to JPG, but as soon as I try to modify the picture size (either from JPG or BMP), I get errors.

I CAN resize smaller images (JPGs up to about 150k), but my digicam photos are generally 650-700k, so it must be a working memory issue.

What original pic size do you work on, and how much memory do you have free?

Ciao

Daniele Squarci

Italy

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Date:  5 May 2003 14:31:40 +0000

From: Philip S.  Adkins Potter

Subject: Rolf B. - Software licences

Hi Rolf (et al),

The usual reason for shareware licences being "non-transferable" is not to stop people selling them along but to stop people *just* selling licences and still keeping/using them. To do this requires the kind of restriction often seen but if the licensers are asked they will probably say there is no objection.

It is indeed better to tell the original licensers anyway but in the UK there is no requirement other than courtesy. Few software vendors will ask for an extra fee and the "non-transferability" is probably not supported by law. Understandable though.

Take care,

Phil.

"Mythology is just gossip grown old."

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Date:  5 May 2003 18:03:21 +0000

From: Brian Dooks

Subject: Contacts problem

Hello everyone. I would appreciate some help please.

I have a Revo (8mb) which is used almost exclusively in Agenda and Contacts modes. Apart from occasional battery problems, I have used it for about two years and I am well satisfied with it. The Revo now has about 1,300 contacts stored - mainly name, address, home phone, business phone, mobile phone, e-mail address and occasionally some notes in 'Other'.

Suddenly, it has developed the following problem: Contacts refuses to open. None of the items in Extras responds. If I go into System and try to switch the cable link to 'on' it comes up with the message 'Information not found' and invites me to continue.

Agenda works as normal, Phone works as normal, Time works as normal, Calc works as normal and Jotter also works as normal. E-mail does not respond.

Memory is showing 41 per cent used.

I am hoping that it is me that has done something stupid rather than a failure on the Revo. Please can anyone help?

Many thanks.

Brian.

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Date:  5 May 2003 18:19:00 +0000

From: Andrew Longdon

Subject: Begging Your Indulgence!

If anyone here from the UK is willing to help me with a survey regarding the cost of Council Tax please contact me directly. The more people who respond the more accurate my conclusion will be.

BTW, this is for my own personal interest.

TIA,