- no subject

- Psion 5mx: Personal output socket for MP3s

- Re: Screen protectors

- RE: The end of an era...

- Death & rebirth of a 5mx

- For Kevin: Ogg Vorbis

- Screen protectors, netbook Pro digest,

- Psion Series 7 and Psion Dacom Gold Card,

- Re: Music on the 9500 (Kevin Thorne)

- Monopoly colour / full-screen patch

Date: 6 Jun 2005 14:49:00 +0700
From: Jim Watson-Gove <address truncated>
Subject: no subject

Copied from another elist I subscribe to.  The topic was email etiquete.

<<I'm on a PC and use a free email program called Pegasus-->>

<<-- plus viruses can't use Pegasus to send email because they are designed to work with Microsoft products -- an extra protection just
in case something slips by Norton.>>

Does this ring true???  I've always thought an email app was an overlay onto the operating system and therefore as subject to viruses as the operating system.  Comments???

jim - port townsend, wa, usa

Date: 6 Jun 2005 16:16:54 +0700
From: Larch <address truncated>
Subject: Psion 5mx: Personal output socket for MP3s

Hi everyone,
Has anyone modified or adapted their Psion 5mx to provide personal output to earpieces/earphones to listen to MP3 tracks? If so, please explain how it can be done Thanks
Larch

Date: 6 Jun 2005 22:22:35 +0700
From: Korbinian Demmel <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Screen protectors

Hi Ed,

> Having just bought an "as new" MC218 from Ebay, I'm anxious to keep it that way. Therefore, I'm trying tofind screen protectors, although I note from the archive that not everyone uses them.

I've used some foil for a long time. Starting with the old 5er classic, where it was really important. But with the 5mx I realized some day that the screen surface got really much more resistant against scratches and removed the protector. No problems so far!

The contrast is really the biggest downside! I had never problems with remaining glue or anything else and the surface was good for writing as well.

At our psion meeting in Munich somebody had a really brilliant idea to protect the display:
He simply cut the transparent cover/film of some briefcase/folder (how you ever call it)!
Doing this he had a protector without any glue and he was able to remove and install it whenever he wants!

Hope that helps!

regards
Korbinian

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http://korbinian.imap.cc/email.html

Date: 7 Jun 2005 11:16:15 +0700
From: "Thomas Ullrich, PW" <address truncated>
Subject: RE: The end of an era...

Hallo Trygve!


Maybe our PsionWelt link page will help with more than 500 checked Psion and Symbian links :-)
http://www.psionwelt.de/kontakt/links.htm


Ciao
Thomas
p|s|i|o|n|w|e|l|t

Date: 7 Jun 2005 11:34:33 +0700
From: Chris Malcolm <address truncated>
Subject: Death & rebirth of a 5mx

After 4 years of good service, usually being used (and opened and closed) several times a day, my Psion5mx died a few days ago. It requested new batteries, I closed it, put them in, and since then have been unable to bring the screen to life.

Fortunately I install all my extra software from the D drive, and keep all my files on it. In some cases I run working copies from C for speed, but in those cases I always make a regular backup to D.

So it didn't take me long to plug the D card into my spare new 5mx, and have everything up and running again. I had to do a few re-installations, and re-enter a few authorising passwords.

I see no immediate prospect of anyone producing a better machine anytime soon, so I'm sticking with my 5mx. What I want is a very portable general purpose computer with a good general office suite, programmability, good 3rd party extra software, a good enough keyboard to write a lot on, and enough battery life to last at least a heavy working weekend.

No, I haven't the slightest interest in being compatible with anything produced by Micros**t. Open public standards are good enough for
me. and I morally object to the Gates Gang trying to commandeer the public commons of computing for their own private profit.

So now I have a somewhat tattered 5mx in need of repair to keep me going when this one cracks up. Who now does repairs with the best refurbishment of wearable items to an as-new spec? Does that now include an improved less fragile screen cable? The one I'm running with now was one of those Clove made up in a special production run (from spares?) about six months ago.

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Chris Malcolm  <address truncated> +44 (0)131 651 3445  Room 2107B IPAB, Informatics, James Clerk Maxwell Building, King's Buildings Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK.      [http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]

Date: 7 Jun 2005 12:06:00 +0700
From: Steve Litchfield <address truncated>
Subject: For Kevin: Ogg Vorbis

Kevin, make sure you're not converting WMA or MP3 to Ogg Vorbis. Always encode from an uncompressed source such as a CD. Otherwise the quality will be degraded as you're encoding artefacts from the other compression scheme! 8-)

..........................
Steve Litchfield, 3-Lib, http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/
Software and features for Psion/Symbian handhelds and smartphones
Also PocketInfo, useful files - http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/pocketinfo Journalism: sub-editor and/or senior contributor to:
Palmtop User - http://www.palmtop.co.uk/
PDA Essentials - http://www.paragon.co.uk/mags/pdaessentials.html
PC Basics - http://www.paragon.co.uk/mags/pcbasics.html
Reviews editor, AllAboutSymbian - http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/

Date: 7 Jun 2005 17:04:52 +0700
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Screen protectors, netbook Pro digest,

Answer to: Ed Kaneen

Re.: Screen protectors - I don't use them as I never had a scratched screen before. I use only plastic stylists I bought from Proporta a long time ago.

Answer to: Dave Thomas

Re.: netbook Pro digest - The netbook Pro runs on Windows software and is totally different from the EPOC / Symbian machines. Accordingly it is not covered in this digest and I don't think there is a digest for the netBook Pro.

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 7 Jun 2005 17:04:52 +0700
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Psion Series 7 and Psion Dacom Gold Card,

Answer to: Gareth J M Saunders

Re.: Psion Series 7 and Psion Dacom Gold Card - I use for initialisation just "AT&F" and it works very well with my mBook (and before with my S7), although now I use my Wifi card with my Broadband line.

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 7 Jun 2005 18:59:53 +0700
From: Chris Fox <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Music on the 9500 (Kevin Thorne)

Hi Folks

Kevin wrote "Does anyone know if there are any high quality bluetooth stereo headphones available yet for the 9500?"

Nokia are set to release the HS-12W wireless stereo headset in Q3 this year, see http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,73229,00.html

Its got a built in RDS radio and it's looking good!

Cheers

Chris Fox
Cheshire
UK

Date: 7 Jun 2005 20:55:24 +0700
From: Martin Guthrie <address truncated>
Subject: Monopoly colour / full-screen patch

Since I know this subject has been discussed here in the past, I thought I should post this here too...

I'm very pleased to be able to announce the first public release of a new upgrade for Psion/SGSoftware's Monopoly. This patch upgrades Monopoly to run in colour and full-screen on your Psion Series 7 or netBook. It is based on Steve Godfrey's own (much fabled) upgrade patch but also includes extra colour files from Lewis Barton and myself - e.g. colour toolbar icons, colour program file on the Extras bar, coloured player pieces, better colour dice rendering, some improved board icons, etc. As such, Lewis and I have been referring to this as the Monopoly 'uber-patch'!

Obviously you need the original commercial version of Monopoly in order to use this patch and I understand that it's still available from this page at Handango: http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=1&jid=74C56F3F2EX72E35EBCC19CDA4X29EF3&platformId=4&productType=2&catalog=0&sectionId=0&productId=19689

The patch is available on my website at www.pscience5.net.

Enjoy!
Martin

Best regards,
Martin Guthrie
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