- Synchronising Agenda/5mx with Outlook/WinXP

- Re: Today is my anniversary

- Contact manager for E61

- When did you start using your first Psion? The Digest V1 # 1012

- Google mobile

- RE: change p910i to xda

- Psion SIBO SSDs

- Re : Today is my anniversary...

- Maximum number of To-do lists in Agenda

- "Free" cellphones

- RE: USB serial Link

- P910 synching problem, Today is my anniversary...,

Date: 4 Nov 2006 11:16:10 +0100
From: Gary Jenkinson <address truncated>
Subject: Synchronising Agenda/5mx with Outlook/WinXP

Hi,
Does anyone know of a simple step-by-step Idiot's Guide to Synchronising Agenda/5mx with Outlook/WinXP so I avoid all those duplicated and inaccurate entries that I got the last time I tried this??

Many thanks,

Gary Jenkinson
email: garyjenkinson AT email DOT com
Tel/Fax/Ansaphone: +44 (0) 2476 361242

Date: 4 Nov 2006 12:29:55 +0100
From: Steve Hodgson <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Today is my anniversary

On 4/11/06 at 10:28 David Steer wrote:

>When did you start using your first Psion?

5th April 1994, a note to add my God-Daughter's birthday to my Agenda. I bought my first Psion about 1989, a Psion II as a gift for my brother to use as an agenda. It was never used and now I have it back again in my collection of assorted Psionics.

I no longer have a Psion but still have that Agenda available for reference as an iSilo document on my Palm Treo.

Regards,

Steve

Date: 4 Nov 2006 12:58:41 +0100
From: Stéphane Sage <address truncated>
Subject: Contact manager for E61

Hello all

To: William Fuggle
Thanks for the answer, William. Would you or anyone else on Digest know where to find a contact manager software for E61 ?
Best regards

Stephane (Grenoble, France)

Date: 4 Nov 2006 15:59:09 +0100
From: Vlad A <address truncated>
Subject: When did you start using your first Psion? The Digest V1 # 1012

> David Steer wrote on 04.11.2006 11:28 Uhr:

> When did you start using your first Psion?

Hm... around 1999 2 clients, a sculptor and a photographer, had just got MXpro-s, which were well-advertised in the special mags they subscribed to. One used it to jot down sketches, which amused me, the other for a contact-db, which got me thinking, as Dynodex, a brilliant little Mac software-package, was working but lay fallow.

I was supporting their Macs and they thought the Psion can't be so different. Both had user-knowledge, forget about configuring y menos a recovery after changing all batteries at once etc.. I took one of the Psions home and found out they were perfectly right - it took a mere 48 hr reading, playing and surfing (it must be about the time I came upon this list).

The support-fee (although I did tell them _they_ deserved one for the eye-opener...) went toward an MXpro on eBay - they cost well above 1000 DM (ca 500 E) new - + 1 horrendously expensive 68 MB CF. In the meantime, theirs got stolen, fell down, cables broke, so I have 1 take-apart machine and a spare (with an unpleasantly hard-going keyboard), a Gold ISDN modem-card & adapter I only used once, an IR printer contraption which was never really useful; I diy-ed an X-modem adapter and cable for the eTrex (still in use) and intend to use the two MX-es for as long as possible (note-taking, calendar, alarm-clock and reminders, sketches, various databanks, PhoneMan, TR-reader, a few dictionaries when I am w-o web access or iBook, plus a few impressing gimmicks like Chess, Doodler, mindmapping, Photopal, Piano and some mapping apps I never quite got to using etc.).

Btw, I still haven't found an easy way to transfer addresses from Contacts and Data to the Mac Address Book, nor texts from Psion Word to AppleWorks or Word under OS X (for 9.1 there was this Mac2Five, quite ok if you only want text).

And, btw, thanks again for this list... :-)

best,

vlad a

Date: 4 Nov 2006 21:06:47 +0100
From: Jon Welford <address truncated>
Subject: Google mobile

Hi,

Anyone succeeded in installing Google maps mobile on a 9500? Mine crashes with a kern exec reason member 3. I have restarted and closed all progs but no success. I am not using gprs but wifi to my router at home and Wap away from home.

Cheers

Jon Welford

Date: 5 Nov 2006 11:51:10 +0100
From: William Fuggle
Subject: RE: change p910i to xda

Hi Itamar, you could always go for PAYG. All the contract phones in vodafone shops also have this option. I liked my p910 on contract on O2 (for 18 months) but not the data charges (expensive) which I had to argue about every month and get credit the following month. The main problem with PAYG on most networks (especially O2) is that you can only use WAP gateway for data so can't do POP or IMAP type email and some internet sites. But otherwise ask them to end contract and put sim on PAYG which is cheaper than their sim-only. T-mobile, vodafone etc do free PAYG sim cards on their websites which I used to check coverage for a few weeks before swapping network.

If you want to use new phone for much data traffic on contract I would seriously suggest you look at t-mobile flext with web'n'walk and PAC your old number across. You will save a lot of money. If you like windows mobile rather than symbian you should take a look at the vario II on t-mobile which will be available shortly replacing vario (=O2 xda mini-s). Compact, nice sliding keyboard and fast, 3g not the huge brick to hold to ear like xda etc. O2, orange etc will probably bring out a version as all these are made by HTC TyTN. NB vario II not on t-mobile website yet.

Each to his own and I hope you like the choice you make :-)

regards

Bill Fuggle

Date: 5 Nov 2006 22:01:51 +0100
From: Trygve Henriksen <address truncated>
Subject: Psion SIBO SSDs

Greetings!

Michael Timperley wrote:

> I have 2 Flash disks from my Psion Series 3 which contain business > addresses going back to 1993.  I would dearly like to recover these and > transfer them to a disk, but nobody I've contacted online will do it for > me.

I assume that the Psion is no longer 'available'? (If it was, I'd suggest getting a PsiWin cable from www.psionex.co.uk and do the conversion yourself)
I could do the transfer to PC and conversion to a usable format for you, but as I live in Norway, it'll cost you a bit to ship the SSDs...

They ARE FLASH SSDs, and not RAM SSDs? (RAM SSDs have a little battery which tends to fail when it really shouldn't.)

If oyu want me to help, please email me off list.

:-)
Trygve

Date: 5 Nov 2006 22:20:27 +0100
From: Jean Guillonneau <address truncated>
Subject: Re : Today is my anniversary...

To David Steer

I ordered my first Psion one or two months before it was sold in France: it was a Series 3 (classic). I don't remember the year, but it should be easy to retrieve the date.
I went to a shop (the FNAC in Paris) to buy a pocket computer. At that time, there was a nice little Atari PC computer which worked with MS-DOS. The salesman showed me another new machine. He told me it was in every respect more powerful than the Atari and that I should just wait a while to get it. So I did. And so began my relationship with Psion : 3, 3a, 3b, 3c, 5, 5mx... and 5 mx and 5mx ! Since that time remains Psion my main computer.

Jean

Date: 5 Nov 2006 22:20:40 +0100
From: Jean Guillonneau <address truncated>
Subject: Maximum number of To-do lists in Agenda

Answer to : Itamar

I don't know of a limitation of the number of lists in Agenda. Or ?
I think I had once more than thirty or fourty of lists without any problem.

Jean

Date: 6 Nov 2006 23:48:32 +0100
From: Alan Morris <address truncated>
Subject: "Free" cellphones

Itamar Engelsman <address truncated> wrote :-

} Funny that all the providers
} in the UK advertise their phones "for free" which is of } course a total misrepresentation because if you take a sim } card without phone from them you pay considerably less for } the contract per month so in fact you do pay for the phone, } only in a hidden way. Who said you cannot fool all people all } the time .... ?

But you forget Itamar that you are an intelligent thinking person.  The majority of buyers of cellphones aren't very intelligent and even more don't think.

The advert that I 'liked' was for a free broadband connection with no monthly fees.  But they omitted to tell you that you needed to pay for the line connection!

Also , "all telephone calls are free (or cheap)", with the small print that needed a magnifying glass to read, said only 01 and 02 calls.  But most business calls are now 0870 premium calls or 0845 low-cost calls and these all cost more than BT charge.

'Highway robbery' is the expression that comes to mind!

Alan Morris.

Date: 6 Nov 2006 23:48:32 +0100
From: Alan Morris <address truncated>
Subject: RE: USB serial Link

Nigel Elbourne <address truncated> wrote:-

} The only way can get my PC to recognise the link is by } waiting till PsiWin is trying to connect, then swithching the } Psion off and on again [Fn-Esc, Fn-Esc]. I sometimes have to } do it repeatedly, but it always works eventually! I'd love to } hear of a less haphazard way of doing it! Let me [us all]
} know how you get on. Nigel

I use the last version of PsiWin (2.3.3) on XP home.  Sometimes I find that linking with a 5mx, 5mxPRO, 7 nB or 3mx when clicking on the desktop 'My Psion' icon, will occasionally fail.  Even immediately after linking with another Psion.

However I have Copyany in my Taskbar and regularly link to use the joined Clip-boards.  This has never failed that I can recall, except when I've forgotten to plug in a Psion!

This is what you need in the shortcut icon.

"C:\Program Files\Psion\PsiWin\Copyany.exe"

Alan Morris

Date: 7 Nov 2006 08:54:17 +0100
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: P910 synching problem, Today is my anniversary...,

Answer to: Ian Chapple

Re.: P910 synching problem - Did you go to Sync station settings on your PC (All Programs - Sony Ericsson - P910i - Sync Station Settings) and change the setting to "Automatically resolve conflicts - keep items in computer, ovveride items in phone" and than also below it untick where you want the itmed deleted in the phone not to be deleted on the computer. This might do the trick for you.

Answer to: David Steer

Re.: Today is my anniversary... - I don't remember anymore but it was earlier than that. I started with the 3a after using a more simple Sony before that. The first revelation was to use ReadCIS to get my Compuserve emails and to follow the Compuserve Psion forum on the Psion. The diary was already great and the database very functional as well. The spreadsheet was too basic for real usage. From that I went to a 3C, 5, 5MX, S7, mBook and now a 2nd hand netBook. I also diverted to the P910i to use Symbian again but not sure whether or not I will continue using that. My netBook will stay in use until it breaks and I will not be able to get a repair or new one anymore. I still think it is a great small piece of equipment that functions very well for most jobs, but not for everything.

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK