- Migrating from Epoc

- Nokia 5210 & SMS

- Reflections on moving to Palm

- Re: News from eXpansys..

- OPL from EPOC to Symbian

- Tomtom Maps, Copying Contacts, Handy Day 2005 review,

- Re: Tomtom Maps # 493

- Pocket Dvd Studio - p800

- Re: PsiWin - XP - Belkin USB + New 5mx & PPC

- netBook ROM image (Re: Steve Litchfield -- Digest #641)

Date: 18 Nov 2004 02:51:03 +0700
From: g y reyes <address truncated>
Subject: Migrating from Epoc

>                Date: 16 Nov 2004 21:58:48 +0700 >                From:
Steve Hodgson <stev<address truncated>>                Subject: Reflections
on moving to Palm
>
>After 10+ years of Psion use and a couple of years of >prevarication I've finally jumped ship! I must admit that I feel that I >have been partly
pushed there by Psion and would _never_ have switched if >Psion had
continued to develop and support their handhelds.

Steve,

I had to do the same when my trusty and well-appreciated S5 then Revo Plus failed on me after years of service.

I have been using a Palm OS device for about a year but am now considering going to a Pocket PC device.  I miss the ability to manipulate files that
we could do so easily on the Symbian/Epoc OS and the connection on SMS and
on email.  The Palm is terrible in this area and I understand the Windows Mobile 2003 is better at this.

Gary

Date: 18 Nov 2004 06:52:08 +0700
From: Dave Thomas <address truncated>
Subject: Nokia 5210 & SMS

Hi guys

Is  it possible to use the Nokia 5210 to do SMS with the 5MX.  I tried
the  built  in  application  on  the machine and phoneman without luck.
Does anyone have any suggestions?


--
Kind Regards

Dave Thomas
Product Manager
Psionet

Tel +27 21 683 1192
Fax +27 21 683 1196

Web: www.psion.co.za

Date: 18 Nov 2004 11:36:26 +0700
From: J. Hamwee <address truncated>
Subject: Reflections on moving to Palm

Steve Hodgson wrote that the experience of moving to a Tungsten T5 has been pretty positive. Having 'been there, done that' I share his views. FWIW
these are the programs I use all the time on my Palm Tungsten C.

- Launcher X
- Wordsmith - for viewing Word files; I find it more user friendly that
Docs to Go, and I do not use the Palm for viewing spreadsheets.
- Repligo for viewing PDF files - excellent and for me essential
- Datebk5 - an excellent replacement for EPOC Agenda especially with its
list view.
- ListPro - I selected this after trying out other data bases including
jFile (which I found too complex) and SmartList to Go (excellent on the
Palm, poor on the PC). ListPro easily imports comma delimited files (*.csv), has a very good PC  program (sold as
a package), excellent views on the PC and excellent printing features (including the note pane) . It has a filtering facility  but unlike EPOC
Data it will not filter on a string in all the fields; I find this to be
the only shortcoming in an otherwise excellent program.
- Teal backup for incremental backups to an SD card. I have tested it by successfully restoring after a hard reset, and it removes all excuses for
not backing up regularly. It also removes orphan files from the card.
Remember to remove the card from the Palm!

I hope this helps.

Regards

Joseph

Date: 18 Nov 2004 16:28:05 +0700
From: Bramley, Charlie <address truncated>
Subject: Re: News from eXpansys..

So who is going to take the plunge and be the first to obtain a Nokia 9500 ?.

I would be interested in any ex-5mx/EPOC users opinion of this "PDA"  (OK,
OK  - SmartPhone)

Thanks

Charlie J. Bramley
Leeds/UK  - wishing he had the money and justification. Maybe Santa's
reading !!!

Date: 18 Nov 2004 17:30:04 +0700
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: OPL from EPOC to Symbian

If you have a program written in OPL for an EPOC machine, is it possible to use such a program on a Symbian if you translate it from .opl to .opo on
the Symbian machine or not ? If not, what is needed to convert one OPL file
to the other OPL file to make it work ?

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 18 Nov 2004 17:30:05 +0700
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Tomtom Maps, Copying Contacts, Handy Day 2005 review,

Answer to: U Hornstein

Re.: Tomtom Maps - Just rename the folder into the name of the town you
want to remember and it will show as that name in the program as well. I've done it several times.

Answer to: Chris S Handley

Re.: Copying Contacts - Ok, I tried to add labels, but on the mBook it does not allow you to add free text fields, but only from a an existing list of fields.

Re. Handy Day 2005 review - Thanks for the details. It was interesting, although it did not mention what was clearly written on their website about this matter. Anyhow, let's stop about it, I think I have voiced my opinion "loud and clear" and everybody can judge for themselves.

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 18 Nov 2004 17:45:52 +0700
From: Keith Giles <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Tomtom Maps # 493

Ulrich Hornstein quoted:

>> 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...

I have 121 CityMaps installed. That took a bit of time (I copied each sis
file to my D drive via a card reader).

Ulrich also wrote:

> It was very difficult if not impossible to indentify all files on
> the PC that are needed to cover the entire area. Does anybodyknow a >
way how to solve this problem?

This may not help you, but this is what Mister Low-Tech did. After I had installed some CityMaps, I zoomed out as far as possible. I could then see
a small map with little detail of the current selected map, plus gray rectangles of the other maps installed (each gray area had the name of it's "master" city).

I then looked at road maps or an atlas to find the name of some city
between the gray areas, got the sis file for that city (often was actually
in another city's sis file), closed Street, installed that sis file, opened Street, looked for another non-gray area and repeated the process. It took
a bit of time, but was easy to do.

I do agree that it would be much easier if there were a master map. I've looked through the files on the CD but find no apparent answer.

Vlad A wrote:

> There's also a free overlay with regional info, telling you the name >
of the maps you need. Might be it's called (land)SE and (land)SW -
> countries are divided into two areas.

Is this for the old StreetPlanner cities or the new CityMaps cities?
Whichever it is, neither TomTom's web site nor Martin Guthrie's excellent site, seem to have it. I think it would be one hell of a job to create an overlay showing each "master" city for CityMaps, but I would like one.  :-)

Happy Cycling,
Keith
Sunnyvale, CA
http://ohsix827.home.comcast.net

Thought For The Day: Nostalgia's not what it used to be.

All my outgoing e-mails have been checked by Norton Anti-virus.

Date: 18 Nov 2004 21:35:02 +0700
From: Mike Dyer <address truncated>
Subject: Pocket Dvd Studio - p800

Hi all,

I don't want to steal his thunder - Steve Litchfield over at www.allaboutsymbian.com posted about a program called Pocket Dvd Studio
from www.pqdvd.com

His article suggested coverting Dvds to Nokia 9210i movie files but I've discovered that with Smartmovie player for UIQ from Lonely Cat Games you
can play commercial Dvds with no additional encoding.

Astonishing!.

Regards,
Mike Dyer.

Date: 18 Nov 2004 23:05:12 +0700
From: Alan Morris <address truncated>
Subject: Re: PsiWin - XP - Belkin USB + New 5mx & PPC

Keith Giles <ohsi<address truncated>wrote:-

> Alan Morris asks about using a Belkin USB - I assume he
> means a USB/Serial cable. I could never get a Belkin to work,
> but I bought a USB/Serial cable from Clove and it works just
> fine. Label on one side says "USB Converter". On the other
> side, "Model U232-P9" - no company name given.

Thanks for your comments Keith.  The reason for having a final try with my Belkin F5U103 was that I was about to place an order with Clove for a new
5mx and at the same time ordered 1 x USB Converter (PS5-USBC).  Hope that
it works.  It's possibly the one you recommend.

Incidentally my posting got corrupted, the half in over 2? days was changed
to 2? days.  I've also noticed other postings that have had ? substituted
for 'special chars'.

I thought that the Digest was all done on Psions, so what has changed?

Itamar (a photographer) may be interested in my other (computer)
purchase.  I've also bought a Fujitsu-Siemens LOOX-720.  I need a small portable screen to display photos taken on a digital camera without lugging around my laptop.

I chose this one because it has full VGA 640x480 resolution, but still only half the screen surface area as a 5mx.  It has a CF Type II slot plus one
other flash card and has a USB host connection as well as the normal sync
USB slave connection - two connectors.

-- Alan R Morris, G4ENS.
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK.
Using a Psion netBook & Nokia 6210e.

(Hi Alan, yes, all digests are prepared on Psions, in my case S7, using
Rolf Vonau's digest program. However, lately I have trouble sending from my Psion so I copy relevant files and send from my laptop. Rolf and I are
working on fixing the line feed problems. Sorry for any inconvenience. Regards, Dick Chatjaval)

Date: 19 Nov 2004 01:10:08 +0700
From: Marek Oswiecimski <address truncated>
Subject: netBook ROM image (Re: Steve Litchfield -- Digest #641)

>> I'm after the URL for the latest netBook ROM image and I'm blowed if I
can find it on the Psion Teklogix site! Anyone got a URL or have it up
their own server somewhere? <<

Hi Steve,

please,
try

http://www.psionteklogix.com/teknet/pdk/netbook-pdk/downloads.htm

I think that's the URL. Been there tonight and the links seemed to work.
The UK version of OS.img is 6.4 MB (zipped). Hope that helps. (If not,
please, let me know, and I will try to e-mail you the file next week.)

Best regards

Marek Oswiecimski