- Susan's questions and Itamars new keyboard

- Re: Planning and task management

- GMail Anyone

- Re: Grand Rapid browser

- Printing via 9500

- Cyrillic support for ER5

- Grand Rapid Browser

- Palmtop Mag CD's and GMail Update

- GMail Update

Date: 12 Aug 2005 15:18:00 +0700
From: Arabbitte <address truncated>
Subject: Susan's questions and Itamars new keyboard

> Many thanks.  Can you recommend an emulator? 
The emulator (aka SDK) was previously available for download from Psion's site. I've just looked and it's no longer there, nor can it be found in Techlogic's or Symbians site (why?). IIRC, it was a large (20MB) download. I used it in the past for situations like yours - keep me going when my Psion was in for repair.


>And how do I contact the APB author?
Your ABP question is easier to answer - if your Psion was still working (;-)), you could get the authors contact details from the Tools->About screen: His email address is<address truncated> I seem to recall there are a few parameters with the export function you could play around with.


<The next bit is nothing to do with Symbian - skip if not interested>
On a completely different note entirely, I downloaded Google Earth earlier and I've been having a bit of a play (quite day ...). It's quite an amazing application - and it's free. One really nice feature is that you can enter addresses in it and it will "bring" you to that place. It's really quite extraordinary and is very educational: kids will love it, never mind the adults. Why am I telling you about this? Well, it works best with American addresses and your's was to hand! Go to http://earth.google.com/ for more details <and now back to Symbian stuff>


To: (tamar Engelsman (The man formerly known as Itamar Engelsman)

Subject: V(ryusl Keybpard


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:-)

All the best from Dublin, Ireland
Alan Rabbitte

Date: 12 Aug 2005 15:27:02 +0700
From: Wong Koi Hin <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Planning and task management

Philip Carlisle <address truncated> wrote:

> May I congratulate Jean Guilllonneau for his thoughtful contribution. 
> It may have been a bit of a wish list, but it was perfectly relevant, > IMOH, to the purpose of this list - and your English, Jean, was greatly > better than those who refuse to use a spellcehcker!

Oh, the irony. :-))

I am glad to see this list is still active. I am still using my Mnetbook on a daily basis. Nothing (yet) comes close as a laptop replacement for me. After 3 years of usage, my battery still gives me more than 8 hours of usage, without the Wifi turned on.

I am also following the plodding progress on getting Linux to run on the
  Netbook. It works folks but not being able to turn off the machine and other issues means it is nowhere near field-use. Still, being able to
run Linux (and if they sort out some of the problems) means we may yet see more life and usage out of our beloved Psions.

My Revo gave up the ghost some time ago. It was a great little palmtop computer for its time and will be fondly remembered.

Warm wishes to all fellow Digestees,

Koi Hin

Date: 12 Aug 2005 17:28:53 +0700
From: nic <address truncated>
Subject: GMail Anyone

Reply to: Jim Watson-Gove

I also replied to: http://www.1-2-free-forums.com/mf/symbian-about3.html

>> Nic,  could you share your settings for your Sony UX.  <<

I don't have snappermail installed on my UX.  I have an extra small and light laptop and usually travel with it.  When I happen to travel only with my UX, I forward my gmail to another POP3 account (non SSL) before leaving.



nic

Date: 13 Aug 2005 05:33:02 +0700
From: Peter Rand <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Grand Rapid browser

David Steer \(Plus\) wrote:
Subject: Grand Rapid browser

> I have had the GrandRapid browser installed on my netBook ...  I will be trying it some more and seeing if I can read more sites and also see how it handles SSL and if its speed is good enough to make it a replacement for Opera.

David, I am not familiar with the Grand Rapid browser. Could you provide us with more details on where to download it, install and use it? Sounds like it could be interesting.

Thanks,

Peter

Date: 13 Aug 2005 06:32:17 +0700
From: Simon Jeffree <address truncated>
Subject: Printing via 9500

Answer to: Itamar Engelsman

<< Could one say that the incompatibillity of the
current PDA's with printers shows that these PDA / computers are as yet not
seen by their manufacturers as full usable computers, but more as a
stop/gap on the road device with the work and/or data prepared to be
transfered to the PC's (or Mac's) for further editing and printing ? >>

Absolutely!  You've hit the nail on the head!

And I think this mindset came about because of several factors:

Earlier handhelds, especially the palms, were not powerful enough to act as standalone computers

The Palm has always had very good syncing software.  This made this usage pattern (PDA as portable extension of main PC) very successful, particularly in the USA, where the Palms were most popular & where the Psions (which were just about the only palmtops cabable being a proper standalone computer) were least popular.  At the same time the Psion's syncing software has always been rather flaky. 

I think USB is designed sothat one end has to be the master & the other, the perpheral.  When connected to a PC, the PDA is the peripheral.  This makes it more difficult for it to then become the controlling device when connecting to other peripherals.

For most people, a PC is the centre of their computing world, whether at home or at work, & if for work, then most people have no choice about this), it makes sense therefore for a PDA to integrate into this scenario, rather than compete with the PC full on, as a replacement computer.

I hope you excuse my ramblings

Re: 9500

<< Well, first I read "The *!REALLY!* unforgivable problem is not
with the keyboard, but the lack of a vibrator" and than "What do business
people do a lot of, where they need to be discrete? Yes, you guessed it"
and I would almost think something entirely different ....... <BG> >>

Mmm, yes, I see what you mean.  I think I really must read each post back to myself before sending it.

BTW, apparently someone out there has written a Java program which switches on the vibrate mode on a smartphone to use it as a 'stimulation device'.

Regards,
Simon Jeffree

Date: 13 Aug 2005 17:59:07 +0700
From: Peter Rand <address truncated>
Subject: Cyrillic support for ER5

Is there a relatively easy way to display Cyrillic characters on a Psion?

Peter

Date: 13 Aug 2005 20:21:14 +0700
From: Jim Watson-Gove <address truncated>
Subject: Grand Rapid Browser

David Steer.

I read your posting about the Grand Rapid browser and am very
interested in it for my MBook and my 5mx's.

I did a Google search on "Grand Rapid Browser") and came up with a few
messages from those testing - they seem to think it's limited to
Windows machines - but nothing about who makes it, availability, etc.

Do you have a URL?

TIA,

jim - Port Townsend, WA, USA

Date: 13 Aug 2005 23:09:33 +0700
From: Jim Watson-Gove <address truncated>
Subject: Palmtop Mag CD's and GMail Update

Over the years I have diligently saved the CD disks from Palmtop sent
with subscription renewals - always saying "when I get a round tuit"
I'll check them out.  I found my "round tuit" today and tried to read
the latest CD.

I am running Acrobat Reader 3.0 (which may be the problem).

I see 10 folders of the CD - PTU01 through PTU10.

I select and click (all 10 the same) and get the following message:

"There was an error processing a page.  A font contains a bad C/Map/encoding.

I tell it to continue and I get the following message:

"This file contains information not understood by the viewer.
Suppress further errors?

I select Yes, and go to a white screen (blank).

I select No (a fresh attempt) and go to a white screen.

Suggestions anyone???

And an update on my adventures with GMail:

Cannot get POP to work with SnapperMail on my Tungsten C (let alone
the Psion), but have got forwarding to work.  As I am juggling three
email accounts, the forwarding option is probably better (for me) than
POP.

I just found a major flaw (for me).  I do a lot of cutting from text
files and pasting to word files.  I can select all or select sections
of text in an email but it won't allow a copy function.  I can save to
text file, and get only the title of the file as inner text, with the
message text missing.  I can save to a web file and cannot open it.  I
am currently using the forwarded email for further processing on the
Psion.

Haven't shaken down its functionality with word attachments yet but
fear the worse.

Surprising enough, I am excited with the basic concept (it's strong
suite is as a storage system), and I remind myself that it is in beta
test mode.  I suspect they will comb out the "flaws" as they go
forward.  As long as I integrate it into my earthlink mail process and
remain willing to use work-around, it works well for me.  As a
stand-alone, trying to handle my small press activities would drive me
bonkers.

jim - port townsend, wa, usa

Date: 13 Aug 2005 23:21:47 +0700
From: Jim Watson-Gove <address truncated>
Subject: GMail Update

Good news first.  Someone recently alluded to not being happy with
members who ignore spell checking.  The spell checker in GMail is
equal to the best.Convenient and easy to use - better that the Psion
(IMO) as much as I like the Psion (Earthlink's stinks and Palm's is
non-existent).

My experience with attachments is as feared.  You can read and print
but I have not successfully copied and pasted or saved to and be able
to read.  Just like the email message itself.  It's as if they assume
that you will do all of your work on line on the machine you are
accessing with.

This is the first online email system I've played with, and maybe this
is typical - but I think not and assume these are modules that haven't
been written and moved into beta yet.

jim -