- Nokia 9500

- RE: 9500 screen size / Dell X50v

- Re: P910i USB connection problems, Treo 600 & P910

- WIFi on a Netbook....again.

- RE: Tube Route

- "New" EPOC 16 OPL programs published

- Monster5 - recursive algorithms for generating self-similar objects

- Tube Route,

Date: 31 Mar 2005 06:59:44 +0000
From: Steve Litchfield <address truncated>
Subject: Re: The Digest V1 # 720

Well, as an illustration of its potential, I have taken the 9500 away with me this week as my only gadget, and have been using it for everythings, including keeping up with 30 emails a day and writing a 2000 word article.

The screen's 40 pixels shallower than the S5, which affects how much you can show at once in most apps. In this email editor, with the right hand buttons on, I can see eight lines of around 12 words at a time.

Yes, the 9500 is worse than the S5's, but then it's quite a bit smaller. On the S5, I used to get 40 wpm, on the 9500 it's more like 25 to 30 wpm. But the HUGE advantages of integration, display clarity and portability outweigh the slowdown, for me at least.

On the 9500, I type with four fingers at most, but then I only use six on a full PC! 8-)
---------------
Steve Litchfield
(Sent from mobile device, apologies for brevity)

>>replacement and/or complement, which I truly regret.
Could someone using the 9500 please comment on the functionality of its keyboard, even if only for 2 finger typing, in doing 'serious' work, and, just as important,  the adequacy of its screen? For example, how many lines appear on average <<

Date: 31 Mar 2005 07:14:24 +0000
From: K. Liebmann <address truncated>
Subject: RE: 9500 screen size / Dell X50v

Moshe,

I had a good look at the Dell's too. So far my 5mx is still ok, but I was thinking of going the Dell route when he acts up again. Can you tell why you truly regret?

> ... and will possibly sell then my brand new Dell x50v, which I purchased
> as a possible replacement and/or complement, which I truly regret. ...

Karsten.

Date: 31 Mar 2005 07:26:28 +0000
From: Ian Chapple <address truncated>
Subject: Re: P910i USB connection problems, Treo 600 & P910

Alan,

>>I posted some URLs concerning P910i USB connection problems recently but unfortunately, these only worked for forum members. If you want to look at the threads and you are not a member, just go to http://my-symbian.com and search for "serestarter"<<

I've this happen once or twice, and found that unchecking and then rechecking the USB connection in the list of connections solved the problem.

Itamar,

>>Did you compare the thumbboards of the Treo 600 with the SE910 ? If these are more or less the same, why could you not manage with a 910 ?<<

While not having used a Treo 600, I have seen them being used. The main differences with the thumboard seem to be: its size and the size of the keys, the fact that it is flat with respect to the screen, rather than protruding at an angle, and probably most important of all, the weight distribution of the whole device. At the end of the day, the thumboard for the 910 is an "add-on", with the Treo 600 it is an integral part of the device; in fact, if I recall correctly, it is the only way of controlling the device, along with the the directional pad, as Graffiti is not supported.

Cheers, Ian.

Date: 31 Mar 2005 11:04:17 +0000
From: Peter Julian & Associates <address truncated>
Subject: WIFi on a Netbook....again.

Hello again,

Looking around for a NBook friendly WiFi card, I see that the Buffalo
Airport card suits the NB very well and comes recommended by the Psion
community; suitable Lucent-Hermes chipset/form factor/power etc.

Expansys are still selling them, but there seems to be a small confusion
with the product no. Can someone please confirm that the model Expansys
are selling currently is the one that suits the NB, thank you.

Buffalo Airport PCMCIA card no: WLI-CB-G54A price: £26.75inc

A similar card is recommended on http://www.pscience5.net/WiFi-2.htm but
is referred to on the Buffalo web page as WLI-PCM-L11GP.

kind regards

Peter

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6-8 Tiverton Street, London, SE1 6NZ, UK.
Tel: +44 (0) 20 72 34 01 12
Fax: +44 (0) 87 00 55 78 12

Date: 31 Mar 2005 13:31:44 +0000
From: Chris S Handley
Subject: RE: Tube Route

On 29 Mar 2005, Bob wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> I have your Tube Route on my Psions and it's a nice program.
> Do  you have such a thing for Series 60 phones yet or do you
> plan to???

Hello Bob,

There is already a freeware tube/metro program for the Series 60 (plus P800, Palm, and PocketPC) called Metro.  Metro's home page is:
http://www.nanika.net/Metro
http://chotto.free.fr/tatami/Metro/MetroA-en.html

The Series 60 version is currently a beta version, and can be found here:
http://frank.vancaenegem.free.fr/Metro/screenshot_for_symbian_s60.htm

It is worth noting that they do NOT plan a version for the Nokia Communicators, nor the Nokia 7710...


If (or perhaps when) I own a Symbian device, and so port TubeRoute to it, it would most likely be for the Nokia Communicators (and/or the Nokia 7710), since they are closest to our current Psions, and therefore are easiest to port to.  Porting to the Series 60 or UIQ phones would be rather harder, not least because the interface might need a complete redesign to fit in their cramped display.

As they the authors of Metro aren't planning to produce a version for the Communicators/etc, I would hopefully be able to avoid directly competing with them - assuming that I did port TubeRoute to a Symbian device.

I hope that clears things up?
---
Chris Handley
Visit the web page email.cshandley.co.uk for my address

Date: 31 Mar 2005 22:24:31 +0000
From: U Hornstein <address truncated>
Subject: "New" EPOC 16 OPL programs published

Hello EPOC16 fans,

this lengthy mail goes primarily to users of the old EPOC16 computers - for the famous Psion 3a / 3c / 3mx machines.

Peter M. W. Navé programmed a few fine programs for the Psion 3a/3c/3mx series. They used to be on an English ftp site, where I discovered them many years ago, but they have disappeared from there since long. A few weeks ago I got in contact with the author again. Now they have a new home on my page http://psion.uh-lab.de/ps_3c_programs.htm.

Size of the whole package is 212 kB. 

I have ported / expanded some of these programs to EPOC32 (Psion 5mx series); as soon as they are published, I'll inform you here.

The EPOC16 package contains the following programs:

AccuTime
AccuTime operates up to nine simultaneous timers. Each call toggles the state of the timer between ON and OFF. The last 9 lines of the timer files are displayed by showing date and time of the start, the increments of elapsed time and the accumulated elapsed time. If the  timer is stopped the last accumulated time is also shown as hours and hundredths of hours.

Calcon
A package with source codes of a date conversion program for the PSION series 3c.

CredCard
checks CredCard numbers.

DMMtr (recommended by U. Hornstein)
Using the PSION 3C as a data display and recorder for a VOLTCRAFT  digital multimeter. Other instruments with a serial interface may  be used after making the appropriate changes in the transfer protocol.

Connect the multimeter to the PSION 3c by means of the serial cable  and an easy-to-make adapter. Instructions for making the adapter are contained as a HELP-window in the code. PLEASE NOTE: any electrical hook-up of the PSION with an external device are your own responsibility. I decline any liability whatsoever, as I have no control over the circumstances under which these manipulations are done.

The programme was thoroughly tested with the multimeter VOLTCRAFT  M3850D.

The system VOLTCRAFT + PSION 3C + Software is characterised best as a  small lightweight data recording system for slowly varying processes.  Because of its low power consumption it is particularly suited for  observations in the field of processes which are slow, have long  (even years!) duration and for which electrically readable sensors  are available.

DumpFile for PSION 3c
DumpFile.opl is the source code of a file viewing (not editing) utility.

Fieldmill
The field mill is a parametric amplifier. Let the slots of the two horizontal disks of a field mill be aligned and connected by a resistor R.  Because of the external field E the two plates exchange charges Q until their field cancels the external field between them: Q/C = E D where C is the capacitance of the device and D the plate separation. As one plate moves with respect to the other, the motor has to overcome the electrostatic attraction between the sectors. Simultaneously, C decreases and so do the charges because Q/C strives to cancel to the externally applied potential diference. Hence the attraction between the approaching sectors is less than the attraction between the separating sectors. The motor must supply net power to turn the disks. This power is consumed in the resistor R and any measuring device attached to it.

IconDraw
contains a utility for creating icons or other small images in the PSION-S3 .PIC format.
IconDraw is really quite self-explaining and needs no further comments. The source is laced with comments which should make reading it easy. IconDraw can import pixel images. See the folder Manipic for help with this task.

ManiPic
is a collection of routines for manipulating bitmaps of the EPOC PIC format.

Contents of the ZIP file:
- ManiPic.txt ........ this text;
- Pic2tif.opl ........ source code for the PSION 3c for converting PIC files into the TIFF format.
- Pic2Tif1.pas ....... source code for converting the first bitmap of a PIC file into a bi-level TIFF file.
- Pic2Tif1.exe ....... the executable code of the above.
- Pic2Tif2.pas ....... source code for converting the first two bitmaps of a PIC file into a three-level TIFF file.
- Pic2Tif2.exe ....... the executable code of the above.
- PicRead.m .......... a Matlab-5 script for reading PIC files.
- Picslice.pas ....... for slicing a gray value image into two gray levels.
- Picslice.exe ....... the executable file.
- Picwrite.pas ....... for converting images in the RAW-format  into the PIC-format.
- Picwrite.exe ....... the executable file.

Marsland
A derivative for the PSION 3C of the well-known moon landing programs.
The program is based on realistic physical parameters and relations, which are explained in comments in the source code.

MasterMind
copied with minor changes from the book:
Mike Shaw: useful programs for the Psion series 3a & 3c
Capall Bann Publishing, 1995, ISBN 1898307-47-4
Find the hidden 4-figure code.

Monster
Source file for producing selfsimilar objects such as von Koch's  snowflake, dragons, ferns and trees. Details are given in help dialogs and inside the source code.

PegSoli
is a classical peg board solitaire game adapted to the PSION 3C.

SegClock
Downloaded from http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk
ic = Imperial College London
Full screen digital clock. The characters consist of 5 by 7 square pixels whose sides are pix screen pixels long.
Substantially modified by P.N., 1997-7-2.

ShowFont
ShowFont is a utility for giving an overview over the fonts installed on a PSION 3C.

Soko-Ban
A solitaire board game. Full information is supplied in the form of help tableaus in the source code.

Sparrow
A solitaire game modelled after a game called Mah-Jongg which comes with the desktop KDE for the Linux operating system by S.u.S.E.

Stereographs
Two small programs to produce (auto)stereographs.

Tab2Vect
Tab2Vect converts a table with two columns into a graph which can be imported into other applications, e.g. into WORD-97 by Microsoft. The file with the table is a text file. It may contain data for several curves. Each group of data starts with a head line which is ignored by Tab2Vect. In each following line there are two numbers, the first being an abscissa value, the second one the ordinate value. All characters CHR(i) with i < 33 are legal separators; commas, semicolons etc. are not. Both decimal points and decimal commas are accepted.
The resulting graphs are either in the alphanumeric CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile) format, extension .CGM; or in the HPGL (Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language) format, extension .PLT; or in Lotus 1-2-3 PIC. Only a few PC-based applications can read the alphanumeric version of CGM, the more widespread CGM format being the binary one which Tab2Vect cannot produce. The success of importing any of the formats into a given application depends mostly on the graphic filter being used. Such filters vary widely; therefore there exists, unfortunately, no general assurance of success. Those applications which convert the input graphic files into a vector format, e.g. WORD which stores the graphic file in the Windows Metafile Format, allow postprocessing the graphic in order to correct or improve its appearance, see Tab2Vect.RTF for examples. Others, like PaintShop Pro, store the graphic as a bitmap which can hardly be altered, except for changes in size.

Windchill
Wind Chill Factor according to US National Weather


Thats the package. "Old" 3c users, I know there are still a few of you out there. Have fun with this well programmed software.
--
With greetings from Germany
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: 31 Mar 2005 22:24:40 +0000
From: U Hornstein <address truncated>
Subject: Monster5 - recursive algorithms for generating self-similar objects

Hi EPOC List,

this is the first of the programs from P. M. W. Navé that I have ported (and somewhat expanded) to EPOC32.

Find it here: http://psion.uh-lab.de

MONSTER5 is a demo program of various recursive algorithms for generating self-similar objects. You can select between Recursive Trees, Snowflake, Dragons, Frond of Fern and the Tower of Hanoi. Pertinent Keywords are: Fractal, Chaos, Self-similarity. The package is delivered with the OPL code and a mbm graphic, so that you can experiment with it. You are encouraged to alter the fractal values in the opl code.
Programmed by P. M. W. Navé, ported to ER5 by myself.
Works for Psion 5mx, Revo, Netbook, MC218 etc.

Have fun with this software.

--
With greetings from Germany
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: 1 Apr 2005 00:40:55 +0000
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Tube Route,

Answer to: Bob

Re.: Tube Route - There exists a program called Metro that works on Symbian phones and does more or less the same as Tube Route.

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK