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Epoc Digest Thu, 08 Jan 2004 Volume 01 : Number 420

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In today's Epoc Digest 13 messages:

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- New feature for you

- Revo Connection/Communication Problem

- RE: Multitasking

- re: digest 419 Dana,Netpad

- EpocSync & Phoneman Pro

- Re: Viewing html mails in browser

- OneTel & POP3 email?

- Re: Installing large files via Windows XP PC

- Re: Creating an MP3 collection database from MusicMatch

- psionjvm.sis

- Screen cable problemsEpoc Digest V1 # 418, nB unstable, Reading HTML,

- Synchronisation

- Time Logging / Management App

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Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004

From: Digest administrator

Subject: New feature for you

Hi all Epocdigest friends,

from now you can get the Epocdigest to one address (subscribed address) and send your distributions from an other address (second address). The Digest will automatically add your distributions, sent from both addresses.

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For setting up the second address, send us an email with ADMIN in the subject and inform us, which address should be the subscribed one and which the second one.

No other Digest from all over the World offers such a feature !!!

With best regards

Rolf Vonau

The Epoc Digest Team

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Date: 7 Jan 2004 10:29:36 +0100

From: Neil Ogden

Subject: Revo Connection/Communication Problem

*****Keith Giles wrote

Here's what I had to do (before I heard about the reg cleaner)after I had uninstalled PsiWin and it wouldn't reinstall:

1. Start/Run/regedit.

2. Select "My Computer".

3. File/Export - this'll put a copy of the registry on your desktop in case you screw up.

4. Edit/Find - enter psiwin in the box and click "Find next" button. 5. Click Delete, then OK.

6. Click F3 (this will find the next psiwin), click Delete, click OK. 7. Repeat step 6 about a zillion times until you get a message that it's been through the entire registry.

8. Reinstall PsiWin.

9. If everything works, you can then dump the registry icon on your desktop.

I was then able to reinstall PsiWin with no problem.

*********

I have had a look at the registry, and there are also registry entries under a folder called "psion". Are these to be removed as well.

I have tried the regcleaner and it's these that don't get removed, maybe the others do. I will have to have another go.

Do you think that taking this action will force the revo to completely set up all its communications again and thus solve the problem? If it doesn't I really don't know what I shall do.... I know the Revo is talking to the PC as I can see the signal coming through using Hyperteminal (a Windows

utility), they just can't connect.

Neil

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Date: 7 Jan 2004 10:58:27 +0100

From: Ing. Michael Asteriou

Subject: RE: Multitasking

Hi (Rick & Itamar)

I'm fully aware of what "Multitasking" means and I agree with you that it's actually not necessary to have all these apps open at the same time.

From time to time (not always, I have to admit) though it *is* necessary to have more than one application open at the same time, for instance when I try to enter a task into Logit and when I have to enter the time/date I have to check it against the agenda and the table where I store the amount driven on a specific day...

Maybe these new PALM-OS devices are *that* quick with opening and I'm totally wrong, but I can't imagine opening a program everytime I need it instead of just selecting it from the already open ones.

By the way: What *is* actually the time to open a spreadsheet or a wordprocessor program? Is the state of the document/application the same it was before closing the program (cursor position, etc...)?

Cheers from frosty and snowy Austria

Michael

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Date: 7 Jan 2004 12:00:04 +0100

From: Scott Lloyd

Subject: re: digest 419 Dana,Netpad

Hello my friends,

Well I've been reading allot in the digest about the palm Dana, so this morning I checked it out on the Internet. Wow, no wonder so many Psions like this machine, it has so many Psion like features and its cheap! I liked the large screen and the keyboard. Almost reminds me of a Psion? I do not know if there are smaller versions of this product but I will look into it.

I have a sony NZ-90 and it a beautiful machine, a bit on the pricy side but a geat pda for fun...movies,music,pictures,etc.

Sony has some of the best product designers in the world, I also own several of their DAT macines and they are very well designed. Question: has Psion stopped its PDA business completly? is their going to be a new Revo? does anybody have any knowledge of a new pro/netbook with symbian OS, last , I recently aquired a Psion Teklogix netpad, I love this machine, its built like a tank, but really nice design, if anybody has one of these machines I would like to hear from them, and get their feedback.....well time for more "bean"....then off to work.

god Bless my friends

scott

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Date: 7 Jan 2004 15:09:46 +0100

From: Peter Rand

Subject: EpocSync & Phoneman Pro

I would like to install Phoneman Pro (recently re-released as freeware) on a Revo and a Series 7.

Then, using EpocSync, I'd like to keep all the user data stored in Phoneman Pro synched between the two machines (ie, any change I make on one machine would be automatically duplicated on the second machine).

The problem is, I can't see where Phoneman Pro (v2.101F (build 451 - engine v068) stores this data on the Psion.

If someone could tell me the location and names of Phoneman Pro files which need to be synched to achieve this goal, I'd be grateful.

Peter

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Date: 7 Jan 2004 15:13:40 +0100

From: Daniele Squarci

Subject: Re: Viewing html mails in browser

Astrid Stappenbeck wrote:

>> the easiest way is to use 'View HTML mail' a macro by Niel Markwick which copies the text to a temporary .html file which is then loaded to the browser of your choice and displayed there. You can set the macro to delete the temp file afterwards. <<

Thanks for the tip, Astrid! I downloaded the macro and made the appropriate corrections, but then get a problem when translating: the procedure stops at the line

Include "macro.oph"

and gives an error message "Not Found". Same things happens with an unmodified version of the macro. Where am I going wrong?

Ciao

Daniele Squarci - Italy

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Date: 7 Jan 2004 16:59:56 +0100

From: robertsont

Subject: OneTel & POP3 email?

Dear all,

for some reason I am able to send pop3 email from my psion 7 using my lineone dial up but not using my onetel dial up. Is there a known reason for this? I change nothing but switch ISP in the 'to internet service' box.

please help!

many thanks,

Tom

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Date: 7 Jan 2004 20:15:00 +0100

From: Andrew Longdon

Subject: Re: Installing large files via Windows XP PC

Steve Hodgson wrote:

> Are you running the .sis file from the PC?

Yes.

> If so, try copy the file over then running the SIS file on the Psion.

Well, in the meantime I successfully installed the .SIS file from my old Win98 PC, but I'll try your suggestion next time. I'd forgotten that you could run .SIS files from the Psion...

Thanx,

/.ndy

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Date: 7 Jan 2004 21:02:05 +0100

From: Owen H. Morgan

Subject: Re: Creating an MP3 collection database from MusicMatch

Howdy!

I'm writing this at sea on my way from Las Palmas, Gran Canaria to Los Cristianos Tenerife, so apologies if my logic is a bit wavy... :o)

Joseph Hamwee wrote (> ):

> I have not found a way to export information from

> Musicmatch to a file and I have only been able to

> print hard copies of the listings.

There's an export function that seems to work OK, but your suggested Music Library software is probably a better bet. I can't go to the Internet café to download it right now, as there aren't any out here in the ocean... There's also a list function in Creative Playcenter which enables me to make a text file listing of what is on my MP3 player, but unfortunately it's very limited.

> I have easily converted my listing into an EPOC

> Data file which is quite suitable for my purposes.

> Like you, I also tried Powerbase but gave up.

> There are some other EPOC data base programs but I

> have not tried them.

> In my experience the most troublesome aspect of

> Musicmatch is to download information of music

> tags because their proprietary data base does not

> seem to be very comprehensive.

I haven't tried this as I don't connect the Toshiba to the Internet. I've tagged all my MP3 files either with the tag from filename option of MusicMatch or manually (those I've ripped myself and files that didn't have a useful filename).

> I have used its indispensable

> predecessor XTREE since the dawn of (DOS) history,

> and its successor ZTREE really shines when you

> have to change a large number of file names.

Do you have a URL for this? It might be useful for another unrelated problem. When I make my photographs into slideshows (with lower resolution than the originals) on the laptop, I want to rename all the files automagicaly so that for instance DSCF5432.jpg becomes 15432.jpg, DSCF5445.jpg becomes 15445.jpg etc. This would be easy to do in a macro on the Psion, but I haven't found a way of doing it on the PC.

I have found software that will rename DSCF5432.jpg to 00001.jph, DSCF5445.jpg to 00002.jpg etc, but this is not what I want. Retaining the origianal numerical part of the filename makes it easy for me to find the original file if I want to print the photo.

Gianluca Gallino wrote (> ):

> have you ever happened to try the (freeware)

> PSIdat relational database by Kevin Millican at

> www.millican.info ?

> Kevin's site was also written and is actually

> mantained through PSIdat html functionality.

I'll have a look at this.

Euan Mee wrote (> ):

> Why is Data too limited? All you've asked for is

> artist & album name, so far...

> Data'd be ideal for that sort of thing.

> It'd duplicate artist & album names true, but the

> relational psuedotables might well gobble up the

> same memory, or worse, C: drive memory.

What I want is a database of every single MP3 track I have. There are 4819 tracks on my MP3 player at the moment and 2-3000 more on my Hd and on CD's. I want to be able to quickly look up what tracks I have with a particular artist whether they're on one of that artist's albums, on a compilation of various artists or an "orphaned" MP3 file (one that I don't know where came from).

I also want to be able to look up which versions of a particular track I have, for instance, If I look up "What A Wonderful World", it should show me Louis Armstrong's version as well as the one by Eva Cassidy.

There are also instances where artists with individual careers have made albums together, like the great "Riding With The King" album with Eric Clapton and BB King or cases where they have released a single track as a duet, like the famous occasion when Elton John walked in on George Michael singing "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me".

I'm pretty sure a relational database will make it easier to manage this information. There would be one list of Artists / band names, one of Albums and one of the tracks all linked together in a hopefully logical pattern.

Of course, just getting the albums, tracks and artists into an Epoc Data file would be helpful, but a relational database would be *more* helpful.

> If you stick a page on the Symbian/Epoc Wiki

> http://html.dnsalias.net:1122

> with what you actually want to do with it, then

> I'll help you think it through.

> I might even help you write it, if it looks like

> forcing me to learn something useful! :-)

Thanks for the offer. I'll have to look up the page at an Internet Café when I get to Los Cristianos. The wind is a bit light at the moment, but I hope to get there some time late tonight, or I may stop for the night in Porto Blanco on the S. coast of Gran Canaria if the wind goes light in the evening.

Andy Hayes wrote (> ):

> Have you considered the instructions in

> Relatabase?

This looks very interesting.

> Personally I think that this guy is a real star to

> have come up with something like this. Could it be

> modified to what you want?

My brain isn't quite up to figuring it out in one reading. I'll have to read through it again or even set up a sample database to figure out what is going on tomorrow when I don't have to consentrate on navigating at the same time.

Owen

Thought for the day:

The probability of a young man meeting a desirable and receptive young female increases by pyramidal progression when he is already in the company of:

1. a date,

2. his wife,

3. a better looking and richer male friend.

Owen H. Morgan, Yacht "Naomi J.", LD-928°07.85'N 15°25.66'W

Las Palmas, Gran Canaria

http://home.no.net/naomij

Phone and SMS:

In Spain: +34 620520079

In Norway: +47 92053097

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Date: 8 Jan 2004 05:41:16 +0100

From: Michael Kosarin

Subject: psionjvm.sis

Hi. Anyone have a copy of psionjvm.sis they can send me? I know it was included on the PsiWin disk, but I threw that away, as I use an Apple Mac machine. Much appreciated.

M Kosa

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Date: 8 Jan 2004 15:23:33 +0100

From: Itamar Engelsman

Subject: Screen cable problemsEpoc Digest V1 # 418, nB unstable, Reading HTML,

Re. Screen cable problems - I've had a S5, S5MX and now the S7 for abt. 1-1/2 years. I never had a screen cable problem (as yet <G>) with any of the machines. Am I just lucky or could it have something to do with the environment you keep and/or use it, how you keep and/or use it ?

Answer to: Neil Thompson

Re.: Epoc Digest V1 # 418 - Well, if he is the only one writing in messages, that's the way it is.

Answer to: Alan Morris

Re. nB unstable - Have any others experienced similar problem(s) ?

Answer to: Jim Watson-Gove

Re. Reading HTML - If you use the Editor instead of WORD you can save yourself the step of saving the file again as text file.

Best regards,

Itamar Engelsman

London, UK

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Date: 8 Jan 2004 15:23:34 +0100

From: Itamar Engelsman

Subject: Synchronisation

I am trying to synchronise a data file on my Psion with a data file in Outlook, but cannot find the file in Outlook. I use Windows XP Professional and the file is in the folder Outlook Today and is called Global, sitting just above my Inbox. My PC is connected to a sever and it is all on the server of course.

Can anyone enlighten me how to find the folder ?

Best regards,

Itamar Engelsman

London, UK

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Date: 8 Jan 2004 18:12:30 +0100

From: Andy Hayes

Subject: Time Logging / Management App

Hi All

I need to be able to show how I split my time between 3 or 4 departments and be able to produce written proof if necessary of the hours I spend with each. I have just downloaded 5Time, but have yet to test it. Is anyone in a similar position who can recommend some software?