- Re: Handy Databank on P910, connection to PC

- Symbian OS ramblings and responses

- Moving a file to Mako, disabling Switchoff, TomeRaider

- Jotter/Sketch app with a good system of alarms?[Scanned]

- Handy Databank on P910, Connection Conundrum, Disabling the "Switch off after x

- Qs for Steve Townsend

- RE: Safeplace.dat file - The Digest V1 # 691 (4)

- Psiwin on XP

- Gmail on a Psion

- Re: Have used a 9300 !!!

- Mbook CF Tray

- RFM & Gmail

- Re: Jotter/Sketch app with a good system of alarms?

- Re: EDU

- Re: Connection Conundrum

- Re: Safeplace.dat file

- Re: Jotter/Sketch app with a good system of alarms?

- Re: Web crashing on Ericsson MC218 (Solution)

Date: 10 Feb 2005 11:22:25 +0100
From: Ian Chapple <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Handy Databank on P910, connection to PC

>>I've just created a couple of databases with Handy Databank, but something weird has happened. After backing up my phone, the two database files are no longer recognised by Handy Databank; the files are still present, but the program will not open them. Does anybody have any idea what's going on? Is this something that I can expect to have happen every time I do a backup and/or switch off the phone?<<

This problem was solved by switching the phone off and back on; not sure why it happened though. The only thing that I can imagine is that when the phone restarts after a backup, some information is lost...

On a different note, does anyone have experience of connecting their P800/P900/P910 to a PC via Bluetooth? More importantly, is this quicker than the cable connection, which is incredibly slow? I was attempting to copy some MP3 files to my 512MB memory stick, but found that I was unable to copy & paste folders, only files. This, combined with the pathetic transfer speed and the inability to create folders on the phone directly from the PC, makes copying MP3s which are already organised in folders (by Artist and Album) somewhat tedious.

On the plus side, I have discovered that my P910 is not as fragile as I thought it would be, having had it successfully escape from a badly designed inside jacket pocket; just a few minor scratches on the casing....

Cheers, Ian.

Date: 10 Feb 2005 11:48:31 +0100
From: Arabbitte <address truncated>
Subject: Symbian OS ramblings and responses

Symbian OS version 9 announced:
It's week-old news at this point. The new version targets smartphones for the mass market. Read more at http://www.symbian.com/press-office/2005/pr050202.html

To: Itamar Engelsman
Thanks for the Smartmovie report. It sounds impressive. A few questions:

- what size card do you need to accomodate a regular length film
- what does it do to the battery - I'm assuming you can get your 2-3 hours movie viewing from a fresh charge, but is there anything left afterwards?

To: Jan Walker
You may have seen my initial impressions on the 9300 a few digests back. I'd say you will be impressed; I was, and I have a similar long-term Psion record to yourself. Please let us know how you get on!

To: Kevin Collins
Nice to hear from you again. I also saw my Psion's gradually die and decided that spending €200 for regular screen repairs was getting a little silly. As you may have read in previous digests, I now have a P910 and am - especially now that I only today got my corporate email to work over GPRS on the P910 - delighted. I have used the 9500 and 9300 Nokias and was also impressed with these.

My advice (not that you asked for it!): ditch the Dell and go for one of the above 1 box solutions - you'll be a happy man.

Can't help on the safeplace query but would be surprised if there was no export option ???

All the best
Alan Rabbitte
Dublin Ireland (although originally from Cork ;-))

Date: 10 Feb 2005 12:33:22 +0100
From: Trygve Henriksen <address truncated>
Subject: Moving a file to Mako, disabling Switchoff, TomeRaider

Greetings!


Jakfish wrote:
> Tragedy: Mako spontaneously resets, e-mail NOT available, so how do I
get
> a SIS file of C-Beam to a Mako (that now has no third-party apps) to
> enable a full restore?

>Or is possible to use the IR Modem for some kind of file transfer
between the two machines?
> Or somehow use the Mako Docking Station (but without oTerm)?

You could try the IR modem and the COMMS application if the other
machine has a Terminal emulator, too.

If they don't want to talk to each other, you could connect them
together sing the mako's docking station, whatever came with the other
machine and a null-modem cable.
---
Richard Corfield asked:
> Does anyone know of an app that quickly & easily disables the "Switch
off after x minutes"
> setting in Control panel when Psions are connected to the desktop via
the RS232?

Well, you could just set it to not switch off as long as it has external
power, then plug it in at the same time as you connect the PsiWin cable.
(That's what I do)
---
Got a mail from Proporta recently...
There's a new version of TomeRaider(V3) out.

Of course I mailed them and asked about a new version for the Psion...
(Not really expecting a reply)

They REPLIED!
There will be a new EPOC version...
(Don't know when, though)

:-)
Trygve

Date: 10 Feb 2005 13:13:37 +0100
From: Mike Woodward <address truncated>
Subject: Jotter/Sketch app with a good system of alarms?[Scanned]

Peter

Suggest that you try Notepad it has all the facilities you require and
it is now available free from www.pscience5.net.

You may also wish to try SymLink which enables you to link any file to
another file, so you can for instance insert an appointment & link it to
the Agenda which can have a link to the previous minutes, think Symlink
is also available from Martin's web site.

Mike

Date: 10 Feb 2005 14:14:35 +0100
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Handy Databank on P910, Connection Conundrum, Disabling the "Switch off after x

Answer to: Ian Chapple

Re.: Handy Databank on P910 - That is strange. I use Handy Databank and have 7 data files which all open and close while I do a back-up at least twice a week. Do the files have the .hb extension ?  Are you sure the files were properly converted before opening them ? I can't think of ideas why this would happen, did you try technical support ?  Maybe you canb try to re-install the program ?

Answer to: Jakfish

Re.: Connection Conundrum - If you have got the correct cable with you, try via a PC ?  If not, wait until you are home. It was always the weak link of the Revo / Mako not to have an outside disk port.

Answer to: Richard Corfield

Re.: Disabling the "Switch off after x minutes"  - I would strongly advise you not to try this. It could be disastrous if you connect the Psion to the PC, forget about it, go into a meeting that takes longer, etc., and you come back to a Psion without battery life !  If for one of the reason the back-up battery is weak or does not make proper contact (does happen), all data are lost. Invest in a third party power adaptor and connect your Psion to the electricity. Set your power setting to "if no external power" and all is set.

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 10 Feb 2005 14:14:36 +0100
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Qs for Steve Townsend

I received 3 questions which have now been passed on to him. Please note that Steve agreed for a limited time only and if you do have further questions, please send them now.

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 10 Feb 2005 14:25:38 +0100
From: "Huub Linthorst" <address truncated>
Subject: RE: Safeplace.dat file - The Digest V1 # 691 (4)

> Date:  9 Feb 2005 17:02:26 +0100
> From: Kevin Collins <address truncated>
> Subject: Safeplace.dat file
> ..............If I could unencrypt and get at the > data, I could convert to contacts and transfer to PC via Outlook.

Sorry Kevin, as far as I know that's not possible. You should've used CodeSafe instead. It CAN unencrypt its data to comma-delimited format for import in other databases.

Huub
___________________________________
Huub Linthorst -<address truncated>BR>http://website.leidenuniv.nl/~linthorsthjm/exabetal/
ExAb, CodeSafe, S5mboles, SpellX and more

Date: 10 Feb 2005 19:45:25 +0100
From: Prar <address truncated>
Subject: Psiwin on XP

Guys

I'm about 20 digests behind so apologies for the tardiness of this. I have summarised my current understanding of the Psiwin/XP solutions.

I have the following setup
o  Windows XP Home edition
o  Service Pack 2 installed
o  Clove USB - Serial converter
o  Psiwin 2.3.3
o  Original psion lead
o  5mx (or netpad or netbook)
o  128Mb 40x CF Card

My experiences are:

1 The SP2 upgrade has NOT adversely influenced Psiwin (or any other software I use) to a measurable degree.
2 The SP2 upgrade fixes the "back up everything twice a year when the clocks change" bug. (My guess is that Psiwin tries to identify files to back up by comparing timestamps and Windows incorrectly reports the timestamp when daylight saving is in force. Perhaps moving closer to the equator is also a fix for this bug!)
3 If you plug the Psion into the PC before booting up the PC picks the Psion up as a MOUSE during boot up. This causes no end of problems trying to operate the PC...
4 It is quite possible to crash Psiwin despite taking good care. Under these circumstances rebooting the PC is the best option for getting going again. Fiddling around with Ctrl-Alt-Del can work but generally does not.
5 If you are backing up the Psion then try to start with strong batteries, the serial port draws quite a high current and this can cause the battery voltage to drop triggering a shut down.
6 When you get a 128Mb CF card (or larger) you should also get a CF reader for the PC.
7 Renaming a CF card (or not naming a CF card when upgrading) will trigger a full back up.
8 CF cards in adaptors work great in the RHS of netbooks, but the netbook fails to recognise when they are unplugged.
9 Smartmedia to CF adaptors generally won't work with a netbook.
10 If you have a high mega pixel digital camera, the psion will quite happilly read your CF cards but will baulk at displaying a 3Mb jpeg (regardless of whether you use Web, Opera or Imaging).

Posts the the Digest (passim ad nauseum) suggest:

1 SP2 is not necessarily suitable for all users.
2 The Belkin USB/Serial adaptor doesn't work properly.
3 Large fast CF cards can be used with Psions, and if you can partition them correctly you can have multiple disks on one card.
4 Digital cameras are often able to resurect cards that Psions fail to recognise.

HTH

PRAR

Still seeking a proper replacement for a 5mx...

Date: 10 Feb 2005 20:42:45 +0100
From: Nicole Carbonara <address truncated>
Subject: Gmail on a Psion

To Peter Rand

>> I have a gmail account, and it works just fine on my Palm Tungsten T using Snappermail, which is a POP3 mail client.<<

How do you deal with the fact that gmail requires SSL?  I have a gmail account but can not take my email with the mail appli in my Sony Clie UX-50 (Palm OS).

Nicole

Date: 10 Feb 2005 21:55:24 +0100
From: Rolf Brunsting <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Have used a 9300 !!!

Dear Alan,

<< As I said in a previous email on the 9500, it also has - what I would consider to be - proper multitasking >>

Please, don't introduce a characteristic the Nokia 9300 and 9500 are supposed to have and the SonyEricsson P910 not. There's the real risk that this gets a life of its own, similar to the so-called "battery problem" of the Revo. Some people are now convinced that Psion could have solved the problem by changing the Revo's NiMH batteries for LiIon ones while the problem has absolutely nothing to do with the batteries.

Regarding multitasking, simple fact is that there's no difference between the EPOC based Psions and the Symbian OS based Nokias and SonyEricssons. They all support pre-emptive multitasking and multithreading. In other words, you can download a file from a web site while checking your diary or writing a note. The download isn't interrupted or cancelled the moment you switch to the diary.

Doesn't mean that there are no differences between the SonyEricsson Pxxx models on the one hand and the Psions and Nokia Communicators on the other. One is that when you edit a note in Jotter on the Pxxx the note is closed when you switch to another application while the note remains open on a Psion. This is a behaviour SonyEricsson developers built into Jotter for the Pxxx. Switch to another application and Jotter gets the signal from the operating system that it's now a background task. Jotter for the Pxxx uses this as the trigger to close the note and save it to disk. Which has the advantage that the note is much less susceptible to data loss and/or corruption in case something goes wrong than when the note is left open.

A second difference is that when a Pxxx runs out of resources, like memory, it automatically closes down an application to release resources while you get an error message on a Psion. Which is also a behaviour SonyEricsson developers but into the Pxxx and has the advantage that you don't have to worry about which application you need to close manually in order to release sufficient resources for the other application. The Pxxx takes care of that.

The behaviour of the Pxxx is SonyEricsson's answer to "What if ..." questions Nokia and Psion answered in a different fashion. Whether you prefer the one form of behaviour over the other is down to personal preference and/or what's familiar to you. But it has absolutely nothing to do with a P910's multitasking capabilities when compared to a Nokia 9500 or Psion Series 5mx. So, please, don' talk about "proper multitasking" as you're making a muddle of a well define computer term. People who aren't technology orientated can easily interpret your words as there being something wrong with the multitasking of the SonyEricsson Pxxx models. And that it's not a good idea to buy one because of this.

---
Kind Regards,
Rolf Brunsting - Darp - Netherlands

Date: 12 Feb 2005 05:50:48 +0100
From: Keith Giles <address truncated>
Subject: Mbook CF Tray

The plastic portion of the pull-out metal CF card tray on my Mbook just fell off. I can put it back but it doesn't seem to "clip" into the metal. I've looked around my desk to see if any tiny plastic part had broken off, but can't find anything. The plastic stays in place when I close the tray, but tends to keep falling off when I open it.

Has this happened to anyone else? What's the solution - Scotch tape, duct tape.......???? Or just live with it?

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

Thought For The Day: One of the advantages of a clean life is that you can distinguish between flu and a hangover.

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

Date: 12 Feb 2005 09:23:37 +0100
From: Phil Aypee <address truncated>
Subject: RFM & Gmail

Hi Folks,

Stephen (Stone), Trygve knows far better than most, including me. If you can run the emulator, do it. The emulator is very powerful and if you can run it (it may not run under your version of Windoze) then most of your problems may well be solved.

Trygve, I may have RFM for you but please PM me if you want it. I've not tried it with my 5mx (I've been Macced for a long time) but under DOS with my 3a it was a joy. But it was not part of RCOM.

As regards Gmail, Peter (Rand), I'm sorry, I misunderstood you.

Nevertheless my comments seem to be fair. For most of us Gmail is an irrelevance unless we *need* it - 1 gigabyte of free eMail storage at commercial levels is pretty good. And Andrew Flegg's offer is wonderful!

Happy days,
Phil.

"Death is better,
a milder fate than tyranny."

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

Date: 12 Feb 2005 15:30:37 +0100
From: Rolf Brunsting <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Jotter/Sketch app with a good system of alarms?

Dear Peter,

<< I'm looking for a good app to keep a simple overview of tasks that require repeating alarms and timers ... >>

You can use Agenda's to-do functions for this as you can define:
a) Multiple to-do (or task) groups so that you can keep related tasks together in one group list,
b) Set a repeat for each task,
c) Set an alarm for each task.
As you can attach a Word Document, Sheet spreadsheet or Sketch drawing to a task you can record notes, calculations and (doodled) drawings for each individual task. What Agenda doesn't allow you to do is to set more than one alarm per task. However, you can always split a task up so that you have, for example, a task called "Monthly Budget - Early warning" and "Monthly Budget - Late warning" with alarms to match. The one item Agenda doesn't supply are (countdown) timers. Solution for this is to create a kind of scratchpad task group you use to create temporary tasks with an alarm date and time equivalent to a (say) 1.5 hour countdown.

  ---
Kind Regards,
Rolf Brunsting - Darp - Netherlands

Date: 12 Feb 2005 15:44:47 +0100
From: Rolf Brunsting <address truncated>
Subject: Re: EDU

Dear Phil,

<< Philip (Carlisle), the C drive doesn't really need defragmenting under EDU as it's volatile RAM. A memory defragmenter (I think there's a macro as well as a program for it) is all that's necessary >>

There's no benefit in defragmenting the C drive (internal memory) as the time difference between reading a file from a single memory block compared to reading one from several memory blocks will only be a few milliseconds. Besides, as internal memory is used for storage as well as running applications the defragmentation will have a very short life because of the dynamics of memory use.

---
Kind Regards,
Rolf Brunsting - Darp - Netherlands

Date: 12 Feb 2005 15:54:52 +0100
From: Rolf Brunsting <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Connection Conundrum

Dear Jake,

<< Tragedy: Mako spontaneously resets, e-mail NOT available, so how do I get a SIS file of C-Beam to a Mako (that now has no third-party apps) to enable a full restore? >>

Quite simple - the old fashioned way using a cable and a terminal emulator. In other words:
- The Mako is placed in its cradle,
- The cradle is connected via a null-modem adaptor and gender changer to the serial cable of the Jornada,
- The Comms terminal emulator is launched on the Mako,
- An equivalent terminal emulator is launched on the Jornada,
- The communication parameters of the terminal emulators are set to match,
- The .SIS file is transferred using the X-modem or Y-modem file transfer protocol.

---
Kind Regards,
Rolf Brunsting - Darp - Netherlands

Date: 12 Feb 2005 16:12:07 +0100
From: U Hornstein <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Safeplace.dat file

Reference is made to the mail in the The Digest V1 # 691 (3) : Kevin Collins <address truncated> wrote on 9 Feb 2005 17:02:26  (> ):
> Anyway, in my S7, in the Safeplace app., are stored all
> my passwords, registration codes etc., well over 200
> entries, encrypted in the safeplace.dat file.  Does
> anyone know if it is possible to transfer these entries
> to an ordinary data file, please? (Probably it's not, or
> it wouldn't be such a "safe place" <g> ).  If I could
> unencrypt and get at the data, I could convert to
> contacts and transfer to PC via Outlook.

My recommendation is to use Crypto from Philip Salvisberg. It can encrypt ANY file. You could use Data for your p*sswords, and encrypt it afterwards. Later just just doublletap on tthe encrypted file, enter the master PW, and tthe data file is opened. When closing, the memory used gets overwritten by Crypto. Perfect, IMHO.
--
With greetings from Germany to Ireland
Ulrich Hornstein
http://psion.uh-lab.de
For spam protection: Please NEVER type my mail address into a www page ("send to a friend" or similar).
Sent by MC218 (EPOC palmtop)

Date: 12 Feb 2005 16:12:17 +0100
From: U Hornstein <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Jotter/Sketch app with a good system of alarms?

Reference is made to the mail in the The Digest V1 # 691 (3) : Peter Rand wrote on 8 Feb 2005 12:41:24  (> ):
> I'm looking for a good app to keep a simple overview of
> tasks that require repeating alarms and timers,
> something along the lines of 'DiddleBug or BugMe' for
> the Palm platform. This should basically be a
> combination Jotter/Sketch app with a variety of alarms.

I do not know your palm apps, but try Notepad, available from Martin's site. Much more than a simple jotter, but has its own alarms. Very recommendable app IMHO, because the notes can be structurised, and, most important, other files can be linked to the notes. Well worth to try.
PS: your mail address wasn't there/valid- so I can't send a copy as PM.
--
With greetings from Germany
Ulrich Hornstein
For spam protection: Please NEVER type my mail address into a www page ('send to a friend' or similar)!
Sent by MC218 (EPOC palmtop)

Date: 14 Feb 2005 08:39:31 +0100
From: Peter Rand
Subject: Re: Web crashing on Ericsson MC218 (Solution)

JFYI, I discovered how to stop Web from crashing when downloading files: instead of double tapping the link (causing an instant crash), simply tap the link once to select it and then press "Ctrl+Shift+D" followed by Enter to initiate the download process. Web then downloads the file without crashing.

Peter


> Recently I got an Ericsson MC218 to replace my ailing RevoPlus, and have been having problems with the Web application (called "Internet" on my German OS version) which is included in the ROM. Surfing with Web is no problem, but when I try to download files from the Internet, Web always crashes with the message: >
> Error code: user
> Error number: 23
>
> Is there a known cure for this problem?