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Epoc Digest Tue, 06 Apr 2004 Volume 01 : Number 494

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In today's Epoc Digest 10 messages:

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- Re: Add/Remove Icon

- Bluetooth Adapter | Reply to Sig comments

- Tomtom Maps # 493

- RE: Orange SPV & Psion compatibility

- Sigs & # 493

- PsiWin 2.3.3 Problem(s)

- Re: Add/Remove Icon

- MC218 CD

- Invair Filewalker

- GPRS cards in NetBook

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Date: 5 Apr 2004 22:40:28 -0500

From: Keith Giles

Subject: Re: Add/Remove Icon

Itamar wrote:

> On my mBook it appears in colour. Maybe this is because I use the > program "Color Magic" ?

I do use Color Magic, so that's not the answer.

Anyone else have any idea how I can get a color Add/Remove icon? Neither soft nor hard resets do anything about it.

Happy Cycling,

Keith

Sunnyvale, CA

http://ohsix827.home.comcast.net

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Date: 5 Apr 2004 22:49:12 -0500

From: Antony Booth

Subject: Bluetooth Adapter | Reply to Sig comments

To: Arent

>[BL-521]... Never heard of that one ! ...<

I went to the hyperlink you entered and that was the model number of the

Bluetooth serial device. Thanks for the useful info though.

To: Itamar Engelsman

>Bluetooth Adapter - It might be my ignorance but why should you use

MochaPPP with Bluetooth<

If it could be used as a serial device connection to your PC, surely it

could work as a wireless connection to the web via your PC / Server via

Mocha PPP? As S5s/MXs have no PC Card slots to utilise Wifi cards, this

could be an alternative?

> Re. Signatures - Surely the discussion about this subject has taken a

lot mor space than thousands of peoples signatures ?<

I am certain that the discussion about signatures is using more bytes

than the signatures have taken up, but that is not the issue. I

responded to a posting by Owen who stated he had put much thought into

his signature and all the content of his signature had merit. I found

this hard to believe and tried to explain why. I was not specifically

commenting about the size, rather the content, but made reference to the

size when Owen implied the content was no more or less than necessary to

provide the information he wished to; this not being the case if some of

the information was in fact unnecessary.

Surely the subject of elaborate signatures being acceptable has more

merit than a signature of dubious content? If so, why complain about the

debate instead of complaining about the signatures?

I am quite content for there to be a totally unrestricted signature on

the digest as I have a text stereogram signature I have been waiting to

use and with no objections, will be my standard signature beginning with

my next post? It may be large, but there seems to be little objection to

that sort of thing apparently? Especially as it is an optical illusion

and therefore light entertainment and nothing harmful, thereby

warranting as much merit as a "thought for the day" or a witty quote at

least? :-)

To: francisco.vegas

> ... I don´t find Owens sigs anyway annoying, quite the reverse ... <

I am pleased for you. Your opinion is as valid as anyone else's,

including mine. The fact is, however, our opinions differ on this issue.

>Anyway Antony, think of the place you occupied by describing your

thoughts

concerning Owen`s sigs ...<

I refer you to the answer I gave to Itamar Engelsman

Antony Booth

My small signature ... for now :-)

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Date: 5 Apr 2004 23:59:45 -0500

From: vlad a

Subject: Tomtom Maps # 493

&wrote on 5.4.2004 23:25 Uhr:

> to Vlad, ....install them from a PC, than zip them up and store them on a > CF card. ...

Thanks, i remember that as well. But installing 40-odd MB of data (various cities in my region, W and E Europe) takes about a day or two, and the map data contain several software components, therefore the process is rather boring...

best,

vlad a

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Date: 6 Apr 2004 00:25:26 -0500

From: Richard

Subject: RE: Orange SPV & Psion compatibility

Itamar said:

Re.: Orange SPV - Until now I have resisted the phone/PDA combination. I would advise you to get the PDA you really want adn get a good deal on your phone rates with another "cool" phone that is smaller and easier to use. But it is not what you wanted to hear I suppose ..... ?

I reply:

On the surface, it's not what I wanted to hear - but - it has made me realise something. Orange *will* subsidise my SPV phone, unfortunately no-one will subsidise me simply buying a PDA(!).

One thing - the SPV has an excellent (and fast) tool in the Contacts list. You start typing someone's name using T9 (predictive), and it treats the stored names, surnames and telephone numbers in the contacts list as the available dictionary. As you type each letter, the available options narrow down. Just like T9 for writing SMSs, it's a huge improvement over multitap.

Anyway, I decided to go with the SPV E200 and:

A much better screen than my T68i

A much better keyboard than my T68i (the SPV keys need less pressure - this makes texting and everything easier)

A more responsive O/S. (The T68i's annoying lag to do anything was very... annoying.)

An email app

MP3 player

Reliable and fast calendar/email/contacts syncing.

Camera & video (fun gimmick)

Vastly reduced battery life (Doh!)

Paying more money (Doh!)

Neil said:

I have some bad news for you I think. I had an SPV for 12 months and was never able to get it to talk to my Psions, using both the Psion provided links and tools provided by 3rd parties.

I'm sure you'll not want to hear this either but I have just gone back to a Nokia 6310i because the SPV, while great at accessing the internet and email, was just useless as a phone. I personally need something reliable when making calls - the original SPV just wasn't.

Sorry to be so negative but I just tell it like it is.

I reply:

Thanks for this - thankfully I don't think your negativity applies so much to my phone! You must have had the original SPV. Since then Orange & Micro$oft have released the SPV E100(?) and my version, the SPV E200. At both stages, siginficant improvements have been made. I have no complaints about the phone-only features. (That said, for me SMSing, emailing and MP3 are as important as the phone aspect.)

It's frustrating that Psions and SPVs don't chirrup to each other directly. Instead I'll need to keep both of them synced to Outlook.

Cheers,

Richard

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Date: 5 Apr 2004 23:59:45 -0500

From: vlad a

Subject: Sigs & # 493

> Antony Booth wrote on 5.4.2004 23:25 Uhr:

> Your post makes little sense. ......

> Pointless, but revealing.

Indeed. I am glad my pointless message managed to make sense to you (jic it didn't: I meant I just wish you left Owen and his sigs in peace, please).

Incidentally, your post *was* entertaining and I am amazed and envious that you can produce text at the rate you mentioned. Must be quite annoying at times, though ;-)

best,

vlad a.

PS: BTW; Owen, where do you get that stuff? I mean the sigs: do you collect them or do yyou have a DB?

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Date: 6 Apr 2004 08:41:32 -0500

From: Charles H. Davies

Subject: PsiWin 2.3.3 Problem(s)

After effecting the installation of PsiWin 2.3.3 on a new hard disk I

find I have two problems.

1. In spite of the fact that I get the wiggly line on the system tray

it does not wiggle nor does the system connect.

2. On trying to uninstall (to put on an earlier verson of PsiWin) I

find that I get the message "Windows is using psconsv.exe close the

program and try again" or words to that effect.

I can see no way of closing this program down.

Suggestions please.

Regards

CDavies

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Date: 6 Apr 2004 09:26:03 -0500

From: Martin Guthrie

Subject: Re: Add/Remove Icon

Reply to: Keith Giles

> The Add/Remove icon in my Mbook's Control Panel is B&W. How > can I get it to be colored like the rest of the icons there?

Hi Keith,

The reason that your Add/remove icon has 'gone mono' is because another application has added it's own Add/remove program (aka. InstApp) to your machine - presumably when something was installed from a PC - and this version of InstApp has a monochrome icon.

The solution is simple. Goto c:\System\Controls and delete the InstApp.aif and InstApp.Ctl files. Both these files are already in your machine's ROM so they don't need to be on your c: drive - and the version in your ROM is in colour. Now opening your Control Panel will automagically reveal Add/remove is in colour again! :¬)

Best regards,

Martin Guthrie

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Date: 6 Apr 2004 14:18:59 -0500

From: Andy Hayes

Subject: MC218 CD

I have just realised that my 2nd hand MC218 didn't come with its CD.

Can some kind soul from the list (preferably in the UK) send me a copy? I will send you a CD or just pay for the one that you burn, plus of course your postage and packaging costs.

Thanks

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Date: 6 Apr 2004 18:21:00 -0500

From: Peter Rand

Subject: Invair Filewalker

> From: Arent Kits van Heijningen

> At the moment the Invair Filewalker and BlueGiga WRAP are the

> best choice

I've been reading press releases about the Invair Filewalker for two years now - but I have yet to find a single user evaluation. Please tell us your impression if you're able to get your hands on one of these mysterious machines ... I'd like to know more about it.

Peter

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Date: 6 Apr 2004 18:58:53 -0500

From: Philip Crookes

Subject: GPRS cards in NetBook

I recall reading about using Vodafone GPRS cards in a NetBook. What sort of card should I ask Vodafone to supply? Which ones are known to work, and which not - seeing this is going to cost around €200! What other software should I install?