- Chris. Handley's eMail macro

- Nokia 9xxx and "standard " screen, keyboard...

- Traveling with Nokia 9xxx

- Re: The Digest V1 # 678

- Re: The Digest V1 # 676

- Looking for software

- Re: Compact Flash article

- P910i,

Date: 20 Jan 2005 20:44:47 +0000
From: Phil Aypee <address truncated>
Subject: Chris. Handley's eMail macro

Hi Folks,

Chris., I don't use your macro but that's definitely no criticism. I have tried it out and it does just what you say it will - and an awful lot of software doesn't. But as my approach to eMail is different your macro wouldn't help me.

So this idea is just an idea.

Would it be a good idea to have an option to just save and indent the highlighted text? Replying to a Digest post would usually mean only keeping the relevant post in the draft reply. I just copy the relevant text into this pre-prepared eMail from a SaveMail data file but I can see that there might be value in using your macro modified this way.

So, is it a good idea?

Happy days,
Phil.

"Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny."

http://www.philaypee.co.uk/

Date: 20 Jan 2005 21:21:58 +0000
From: Stιphane Sage <address truncated>
Subject: Nokia 9xxx and "standard " screen, keyboard...

Hello all!

Thanks for yr answer, Frank (Bothmann): as a matter of fact, the site you mentioned ( http://mobileways.de/M/0/)supplies remote control software for the whole of Symbian 60 and 80 phones (including the P910, Itamar...). Comments from users (only 2 by now) are enthusiastic.

Pity they don't have it available for the 5mx :-)

Best regards.

Stephane (Grenoble, France)

Date: 20 Jan 2005 21:33:33 +0000
From: Stιphane Sage <address truncated>
Subject: Traveling with Nokia 9xxx

Hi all (again)!

Itamar, I appreciate you will not want to carry a suppl keyboard and screen with yr Netbbok or even with yr 5mx: I meant that the screen and keyboard of the 9xxx series are so small that  when at home (not on travel),  I would soon get tired of continuous work on the 9500 (its screen is approx half the size of 5mx's and the latter's keyboard stays way ahead of its younger and more modern competitor).

Best regards

Stephane (Grenoble, France)

Date: 20 Jan 2005 21:48:18 +0000
From: Alan Morris <address truncated>
Subject: Re: The Digest V1 # 678

new Email Reply (indenting) macro

Chris S Handley wrote:-

>> I hope that this has not been changed by resending.

>> This text includes '>>' and '>' embedded within the text.
>> Put there by the software handling of the Digest or the
>> software used by it's sender.

> This left me puzzled for quite some time, since your
> example looked *perfectly fine* to me!

It was interesting that your direct reply was lined up OK, but the Digest reply was not.  Goes to show the nature of the problem!

I think that it has something to do with the difference, on a Psion, between an <Enter> and <Shift + Enter>, and other software's equivalent.

> Yes, it *would* be possible to detect ">" within text, and
> remove them, so that rewrapping worked better.  But I
> on-purposely decided to not do this, as it would also
> cause problems for other uses of ">" that have nothing to
> do with quoting/indenting.  e.g. when discussing HTML tags
.....
> I'm afraid that it isn't really possible to automatically
> detect the bad wrapping, without other text sometimes
> being wrongly wrapped as well.

That was also my thoughts.

> Frankly, the best solution
> is to prevent the replies being badly wrapped in the first
> place - either by keeping the original indended lines
> short (as my macro already does by default),

Agreed.

> But OPL isn't the ideal language for heavy text
> processing, and C++ could do it much much faster still.

In my days before Psion, I did all my programming in BASIC and ASM.  C and later C+ was never used as it gave no advantage over what I was already using.  Although C users would never agree with this, they were never able to give any valid reasons!

Now with a pile of Psions, having knowledge of C++ would be a big advantage, but probably too late in the day to start!

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

Date: 20 Jan 2005 22:13:04 +0000
From: J. Hamwee <address truncated>
Subject: Re: The Digest V1 # 676

Franco Cozzani wrote:

> you played with the Nokia 9500 and did not like it. I am thinking > seriously
> about getting one. What did you find that you did not like? In particular > how did you find the keyboard in respect to that of a Psion 5MX and/or
> Revo?
> Thanks for sharing your experience.

Franco,

Sorry for the delay in answering; I have been really busy travelling with a heavy schedule.

I cannot say that I did _not_ like the 9500 but it did not quite live up to my expectations. I was hoping that it would free me from having to travel with a notebook, but I now realise that for my particular purposes this would not be possible, and the combination of notebook and the 9500 is excessive. I therefore decided to stick to the combination of notebook - currently a Sony VAIO T series - plus
Palm Tungsten C plus Nokia Ericsson 610. This works really well for me and I cannot say that is places an excessive burden in volume or weight.

Also contrary to my expectations I found the 9500 surprisingly slow to open a Word document or a spreadsheet and painfully slow to draw PDF pages.

Personally I find the S5 keyboard superior to that of the 9500 but I can no longer tolerate the display of the S5mx. The display of the 9500
is really superb.

The 9500 is a very fine device and I am sure that it will satisfy many users. I have described my own experience as a personality mismatch.

I think that the technology is available to give us again a 'pc in our pocket' like the HP 95/100/200 was in its time, and in my view this is something worth waiting for. In the meantime as I write this in my hotel room on the VAIO, I am sure that I have made the right choice for me.

I hope this helps.

Regards

Joseph

Date: 21 Jan 2005 08:15:12 +0000
From: Martin Guthrie <address truncated>
Subject: Looking for software

Hi all,

I'm on the hunt for a specific couple of pieces of software to add to the 'Lost & Found' pages on my website that people have specifically asked for:

1) Birthday Manager. A freeware utility by 'Lord Lucan' (and indeed anything else by him).  His website is long gone.

2) Optimise Update.  A free update to Optimise (part of Essential Disk Utilities) that was made available by Atelier before they stopped making/selling EPOC software.

And of course any other software that people feel might be appropriate on the site.  :¬)  All inputs greatfully received by email please to: lostATpscience5DOTnet

Many thanks,
Martin Guthrie
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www.foxpop.co.uk

Date: 21 Jan 2005 08:15:17 +0000
From: Martin Guthrie <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Compact Flash article

Reply to Bernard Hill:

> Good article. You might just like to correct the statement
> that the price is UK50 pounds for a reader to "under 10
> pounds"! The multi-card readers are only about 15.

Ahah - good point.  Now fixed.  :¬)

Thanks,
Martin
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www.freepoc.org
www.foxpop.co.uk

Date: 22 Jan 2005 18:44:57 +0000
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: P910i,

Answer to: Excess Effects (no name ?)

Re.: P910i - http://my-symbian.com is a very good source to find programs and other information for and about your phone. There is a program called "Mobile SendFax" by Surerange (www,surerange.com) although that website does not show up and gives an error at the moment. The price shows as $ 9.99 and the file date is 12/03/03 so it might meanwhile have disappeared. You can buy it from the my-symbian website although I would first check with them whether the download comes from their own website or with a link to www.surerange.com in which case you might want to make sure they still exist. It sends the fax via TPC.INT network and not via a phoneline. Finally, you do need AppForge with it as well.

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK