- Comparing Route & Street Planner with Tom Tom Mobile 5, more on Wi-Fi

- YData

- Ringtone

- My Psion does not work anymore... or does it?

- Re: quick launch program bar

- 5mx emulator

- 9500 Contacts search.

- quick launch program bar

- Re: Leap seconds!

- 4 week months

Date: 29 Oct 2005 22:44:45 +0700
From: Kevin Thorne <address truncated>
Subject: Comparing Route & Street Planner with Tom Tom Mobile 5, more on Wi-Fi

As I no longer tend to have my Psion S7 with me (my 9500 is now my constant companion) loaded with Palmtop's Route Planner and Street Planner 99 I am now toying with the idea of getting the modern version of these excellent route planning applications to use with my 9500.  Although I won't need GPS naviagtion very often it could be useful occasionally so I find I am looking at Tom Tom's Mobile 5 as an option.  So, on to a couple of questions:

1    I know it comes with a wireless GPS unit but can the application be used without this i.e. can you just plan a route from street to street without using the GPS, just like on Street Planner?

2    I believe the maps and app are pre-loaded onto a 128Mb MMC.  Presumably these can simply be copied onto a larger MMC to avoid hot-swapping cards every time you want to use the app?  Exactly how much space do all the maps and application take up?  Is it just one huge map of the UK or is it like Route Planner - having a long list of areas and the user chooses which ones to install?

I've now successfully connected my 9500 to a couple of public Wi-Fi networks and logged in (after setting up a username and password on the PC to set up an account with T-Mobile).  But I still have had no luck in connecting to my home Wi-Fi network.  I know why.  When it was originally set up the
installer set up my laptop to talk to the router via a WEP secured connection.  The 9500 can see this network and of course tells me it's WEP protected but I don't know the key (as posted on here previously).  Someone mentioned I could reset everything and then reconfigure with a known key, entering that info into the 9500 and then it should work.  I really don't want to do that unless I have to.  I can't remember now (may have asked this before) but is it at all possible to retrieve the WEP key on my own laptop?

Regards
Kevin Thorne

Date: 30 Oct 2005 07:02:32 +0700
From: Steve Litchfield <address truncated>
Subject: YData

<The next job was importing my data from comma-delimited text file. Now, this does work, as I can prove, but it should be noted that YData is fussy about any import files - all lines of text have to have the full complement of quoted fields.>

No, no, the point was that the fields all had to be there. They can still be empty.

E.g. "","","","","" is fine. 8-)

Still, Ydata *is* still a bit fussy and buggy generally. If you have problems, can I urge you to contact Yellow and complain. They were basically ignoring me at the Smartphone Show and seemed disinterested in consumers, concentrating on their new company stuff. 8-(

..........................
Steve Litchfield, 3-Lib, http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/, software and features for Psion/Symbian handhelds and smartphones. Journalism: sub-editor and/or senior contributor to: Palmtop User - http://www.palmtop.co.uk/ and PDA Essentials magazine in the UK. Also reviews editor for AllAboutSymbian - http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/

Date: 30 Oct 2005 09:50:21 +0700
From: Ian Chapple <address truncated>
Subject: Ringtone

I have been looking for just such a thing, and found a thread on this topic over at My-Symbian. The file (which sounds like an old telephone) is available from my website in MP3 and WAV formats; see

http://home.planet.nl/~ian.chapple/downloads/telephone.mp3

or

http://home.planet.nl/~ian.chapple/downloads/telephone.wav

Cheers, Ian.

Date: 30 Oct 2005 14:58:11 +0700
From: Joop Gerritse <address truncated>
Subject: My Psion does not work anymore... or does it?

Well my Psion gave up. It refuses to start up. I suspected the battery but even on mains power it won't start up. Rebooting (one or two holes) to no avail. So yes, the next suspect is the screen cable, but if I connect to it from the PC (My Psion) it gets back to life. And then it works for some time, on mains at least.

Any suggestions? advthanksance.

Date: 30 Oct 2005 15:48:26 +0700
From: Marcus von Cube <address truncated>
Subject: Re: quick launch program bar

Lorenzo,

>... the quick launch icon bar in the 5mx is not matching the programs >that are really launched, i.e. it will launch the programs that happened >to be in that position in the icon bar of the mc218.

You'll have to delete the file C:\System\Apps\Shell\Shell.ini.

Do a warmstart immediately after the deletion and your icons will work again. You will probably have to reenter some settings again.


Marcus

http://www.mvcsys.de

Date: 30 Oct 2005 15:51:20 +0700
From: Charles Davies <address truncated>
Subject: 5mx emulator

Suddenly had need of this and not being on this computer I tried
http://www.psionteklogix.com/ and low and behold getting "Page cannot
be displaye error".
Any ideas where I can get this emulator from now,(5mx in for repair
and need to access my CF card) most of the other sites seem to be
linked to the one above therefor getting same error message.
TIA
Charles Davies

Date: 30 Oct 2005 15:56:09 +0700
From: Charles Davies <address truncated>
Subject: 9500 Contacts search.

Many thanks to Rolf & Simon for helpful replies.
Thanks Rolf for speedy reply.
Found it although the menu is different(Rolf) in the English version
Contacts\Menu\Tools\Settings\Advanced
As I said the manual does not mention this, at least I was'n't able to
find it.
Regarding slower search this is to be expected although I find that
the 9500 seems to be slower in general than the 5mx.
Regards and thanks again
Charles Davies

Date: 30 Oct 2005 23:53:58 +0700
From: Jim Watson-Gove <address truncated>
Subject: quick launch program bar

From: Lorenzo Pognante <address truncated>
Subject: quick launch program bar

<<I have switched from a faulty ericsson mc218 (screen cable...) to a
still working psion 5mx, doing a backup/restore. >>

<<but the quick launch icon bar in the 5mx is not matching the programs
that are really launched, i.e. it will launch the programs that happened
to be in that position in the icon bar of the mc218.
Lorenzo,>>

Delete "Shell.ini" in System/Apps/Shell and then do a soft reset (it
will rebuild Shell.ini during the soft reset).  I do this when the bar
goes out of synch and it cures it.  I hope I have understood your
problem correctly.

jim - port townsend, wa, usa

Date: 31 Oct 2005 08:59:23 +0700
From: Chris S Handley
Subject: Re: Leap seconds!

On 27 Oct 2005, Phil Aypee wrote:
> As a matter of fact, there are are such things as ‘leap
> seconds’, needed to keep ‘standard’ time (regulated by an
> atomic clock) in sync with astronomical time.  The difference
> is minor to most of us but important to scientists (and
> astronomers are the ultimate scientists - believe me).

Believe it or not, there are suggestions that we do away with leap seconds - which would mean that our day would gradually get out-of-sync with actual daylight hours, over thousands of years!

*IIRC*, I read this recently in New Scientist, and it was being advocated by astronomers(!), who didn't like having to "un-leap" terrestrial time for their calculations...
---
Chris Handley

Visit the web page email.cshandley.co.uk for my address

Date: 31 Oct 2005 13:06:14 +0700
From: Ian Chapple <address truncated>
Subject: 4 week months

I just heard on my local (Dutch) radio station about the Julejaar, which is a year broken up into 13 4-week months; mind you, I'm not sure how they deal with the extra one or two days... It seems that the originators sold a couple of hundred diaries/calendars based on this idea last year, and hope to sell 1500 for 2006; see http://www.femtopia.nl/jaar for more information (Dutch only I'm afraid).

Cheers, Ian.