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The Digest Sun, 30 Oct 2005 Volume 02 : Number 833
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- Experiences withBT Keyboard& 9500
Date: 27 Oct 2005 07:42:45 +0700
From: Steve Litchfield <address truncated>
Subject: OPL
For Alan and others:
OPL isn't dead yet! Ewan Spence and I have been pushing hard for senior people at Symbian to help out with its development to work under Symbian OS 8 and 9 and, although I can't say anything official yet, things are looking promising. I'm sure Ewan will shout loudly when there's something to shout about.
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Steve Litchfield, 3-Lib, http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/
Software and features for Psion/Symbian handhelds and smartphones Journalism: sub-editor and/or senior contributor to:
Palmtop User - http://www.palmtop.co.uk/
PDA Essentials magazine (all good newsagents)
Reviews editor, AllAboutSymbian - http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/
Date: 27 Oct 2005 08:02:56 +0700
From: Rolf Vonau <address truncated>
Subject: Re: 9500 Contacts Search
Charles Davies <address truncated> wrote at 26 Oct 2005 08:10:51 +0700 in The Digest V1 # 832_10
> I believe I asked if it was possible to do a
> complete field search, as per Psion MX.
> Could someone enlighten me.
Hi Charles,
yes, you can do it.
Open Contacts, press Menu / Settings (or so, my 9500 shows the menu in German), open the 2nd tab = "Search" and the 3th tab = "Expanded search" and change the settings for all fields you want from No to Yes.
So you can search in all fields by entering the search string in the left bottom dialog field.
Note, that the search takes more time.
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BR
Rolf
Date: 27 Oct 2005 09:25:00 +0700
From: Peter Rand <address truncated>
Subject: ER5: curious error message
I was doing some wireless surfing the other day with my 7Book when it froze and required a subsequent hard reset and reinstallation of the OS image.
Since then, a soft reset of the 7Book consistently generates the following error message:
"Program Main
Reason code zExeDll-Stub
Reason number -1"
Any idea what might be causing this error, or better yet, how to fix it?
I've used the app 'zExe' for years, and haven't had any problems with it to date.
Thanks,
Peter
Date: 27 Oct 2005 09:40:49 +0700
From: Max Ozinsky <address truncated>
Subject: Experiences withBT Keyboard& 9500
Hello Psioneers and Nokians
Rolf Vonau wrote last week:
>I found the German company Mobiltec24 (www.mobiltec24.de), selling such a keyboard - the Chainpus Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard BK-600 - for abt. 79 Euro / 54 GBP / 82 $ + transport costs.>
...
> It's great, to work with this keyboard ! >
I checked out this website and it is exactly the same keyboard I bought, just badged under another name.
Like Rolf I am very happy with this product and use it all the time and my 5mx is back in the cupboard!
The following are a few more experiences with my Bluetooth keyboard and Nokia 9500. Perhaps Rolf and others would also like to comment.
1. I am generally very happy with the keyboard. Suddenly I have found myself using my 9500 so much more than I did without it. It is not quite perfect yet, but I hope to report my problems to freedomkeyboard.com and hopefully they can be sorted out.
2. There does not seem to be any page up, page down, home or end buttons or functionality.
3. Pressing the up arrow for a few seconds seems to send the cursor scrolling to the top of the document. Same for down arrow, but to bottom of document. This is not changed by the repeat rate settings.
4. Sometimes I seem to type too fast and this leads to repeat characters, even though I have set the repeat rate as very slow.
5. It is not possible to launch a menu from the BT keyboard.
6. Ctrl-B does not produce Bold, but Ctrl-S does Save.
But overall I am very happy with the keyboard. The issues listed above are minor, and I have worked out a few work arounds already. With the 9500 always in front of me I can always use its keyboard to do these functions.
Regards
Max
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Max Ozinsky
Cape Town, South Africa
+27 82 4 147 147
Date: 27 Oct 2005 10:10:17 +0700
From: Jack <address truncated>
Subject: Summertime 2007 (and up)
To: Itamar,
^^^^ AFAIK summertime will start on the last Saturday night of March which will be March 31st.^^^^
Re I tought the "change" always (in EU) occurs on sunday at H: 02.00-03.00 that will be on:
2012 25 mar 28 oct
2011 27 mars 30 octobre
2010 28 mar 31 oct
2009 29 mar 25 oct
2008 30 mars 26 oct
2007 25 mar 28 oct
2006 26 mar 29 oct
2005 27 mar 30 oct
nb the FLWorld app (Er5 only?) does a good job in keeping on this times
Wishing you a long symbian life ;-)
Jack
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From 127.0.0.1 X love
Date: 27 Oct 2005 10:15:36 +0700
From: Lord Kimberley <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Summertime
You may be interested ...
USA Daylight Saving Time from 2007
*USA: *Starting March 11, 2007, daylight saving time will be extended by at least another four weeks, from the second *Sunday of March* to the *first Sunday of November*. The change was
introduced by the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
How other countries, especially Canada, will react
is not yet finalised.
We are developing a new website
Daylight-Saving-Time.com to
feature the changes.
USA state of Indiana changes in 2006
The Indiana state legislature voted to *begin
observing daylight-saving time in 2006*.
On Thursday, April 28, 2005, The Indiana
Legislature voted to approve Daylight Saving Time for Indiana and to petition
the US /Department of Transportation/ to hold hearings to determine the location of the dividing line between the Eastern and Central time zones, relative to Indiana.
Currently, the state is in the Eastern Time Zone.
More details on:
Daylight-Saving-Time.com
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Yours John.
Tel: +44 1763 289 732 e-mail: mailto:<address truncated>
Date: 27 Oct 2005 12:05:05 +0700
From: Phil Aypee <address truncated>
Subject: Leap seconds!
Hi Folks,
Chris. (Handley), the calendar *has* been altered several times in the past. It has been far more complicated than it is now.
Chris. (Cooper), why do you think the year should be divided into quarters? Thirteen months might be unlucky for some but it would make life a little less complicated for others.
All, in the film “Metropolis” the week was 10 days long (and a day 10 hours of 100 minutes each of, I assume, 100 seconds - decimal!) and I believe the idea was mooted by the French revolutionaries. There would then be (today) 36½ weeks in a ‘normal’ year, perhaps four months of 9 weeks and a day each. Eventually decimalisers would be happy when the year was 40 weeks long (400 days), four months of 10 weeks, each week 10 days long (a 1,000 day year is too far away). And what happens when the year’s length is a *prime* number of days long, 367 days, not so far away?
But most people are happy with the *status quo*. As someone once said, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.
As a matter of fact, there are are such things as ‘leap seconds’, needed to keep ‘standard’ time (regulated by an atomic clock) in sync with astronomical time. The difference is minor to most of us but important to scientists (and astronomers are the ultimate scientists - believe me).
Happy days,
Phil.
“If a thing is worth doing,
someone will screw it up.”
http:// http://aypee1.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/index.html
Date: 27 Oct 2005 12:25:51 +0700
From: Rolf Vonau <address truncated>
Subject: Re: BT Keyboard
Hi Max,
indeed, I have some comments:
2. and 3. this I don't like, too. Let me know, please, if you get an answer from freedomkeyboard.com.
5. For Menu press Ctrl + the button right of Ctrl.
This feature and others are described in the manual, named "User_Manual_Nokia_9500.pdf". May be, you don't have it. If not, I will send it to you.
6. I don't know, why, but besides Ctrl+B also Ctrl+G (jump to a subprocedure in a OPL file) doesn't work.
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Subject: BT Keyboard
Author: "Max Ozinsky" <address truncated>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:57:09 +0100
The following are a few more experiences with my Bluetooth keyboard and Nokia 9500. Perhaps Rolf and others would also like to comment.
2. There does not seem to be any page up, page down, home or end buttons or functionality.
3. Pressing the up arrow for a few seconds seems to send the cursor scrolling to the top of the document. Same for down arrow, but to bottom of document. This is not changed by the repeat rate settings.
4. Sometimes I seem to type too fast and this leads to repeat characters, even though I have set the repeat rate as very slow.
5. It is not possible to launch a menu from the BT keyboard.
6. Ctrl-B does not produce Bold, but Ctrl-S does Save.
Date: 27 Oct 2005 15:31:48 +0700
From: Simon Jeffree <address truncated>
Subject: 9500 Contacts Search
Answer to: Charles Davies
In the 'Settings...' dialog box in the 'Tools' menu, there are two tabs; 'Search' & 'Advanced search'. These allow you to select which fields are searched. I think they cover all the fields. But be careful, if you tick them all, then you're in for a very long search time. Personally, I value the usefulness of searching all fields above the extra time it takes, but I do find it bl**dy annoying! About 4-5 seconds on a couple of hundred contacts!
One thing I find useful is to use the 'Notes' field to enter tags (like in 'Flickr' or 'delic.io.us'). This can greatly help when finding contacts according to context or purpose, if you can't remember their name (provided you switch on the searching of the 'Notes' field).
BTW, the Psion was *so* much better with it's normal find function searching the name fields & Ctrl-F searching all fields - simple on the surface but with the full power only a shortcut away, slightly below the surface & no need for all those silly tick-boxes.
Anyway, I hope this helps you.
Regards,
Simon Jeffree
Reply to:<address truncated>
Date: 27 Oct 2005 16:42:32 +0700
From: Keith Giles <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Summer Time
FWIW, beginning in 2007 the US will extend Daylight Savings Time. It will start on the 2nd Sunday in March and end on the 1st Sunday in November. Not sure how this will affect the Psions in the US.
My guess is MS will send an update for US PC users; and the automatic time changes which now occur on my VHS recorder will be out of whack 4 times each year - I'll have to manually change the time on the 2nd Sunday in March, then change it again when the machine changes it on the 1st Sunday in April, then change it when the machine changes it on the last Sunday in Oct, and once more on the 1st Sunday in November. At least my 'atomic' wristwatch and clocks *should* make out OK. :-)
Happy Cycling,
Keith
Sunnyvale, CA
http://ohsix827.home.comcast.net
Thought For The Day:
Date: 27 Oct 2005 21:58:36 +0700
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Itamar's Q's on the P990,
Answer to: Arabbitte
Re.: Itamar's Q's on the P990 - Maybe the backlit keyboard and full multifunction would be worth the while to upgrade ?
Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK
Date: 27 Oct 2005 22:02:59 +0700
From: Lord Kimberley <address truncated>
Subject: Ringtomne for 9500
Hi,
Before I go gently crazy hunting for what I want on the web, can any digest reader point me at a site or file which has a ringtone for the 9500, which is actually a real "ring" - I keep missing calls, because the tune does not aler me to being my phone ringing.
Also is there any way to get my nice psion 5mx alarm tones on to the 9500? Trouble is that life is too busy to spend hours researching - got 130 NetApp Netcaches to support in far away places ...
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Yours John.
Tel: +44 1763 289 732 e-mail: mailto:<address truncated>
Date: 27 Oct 2005 22:33:38 +0700
From: Kevin Thorne <address truncated>
Subject: YData
I was having trouble trying to import my old Psion Data files into a copy of YData on my 9500. It appears that if all fields are not filled in on the Psion Data file then the field information will be incorrectly aligned in the resulting database in the 9500. To verify this I did a bit of research and found this text in a review of YData on the All About Symbian site:
<The next job was importing my data from comma-delimited text file. Now, this does work, as I can prove, but it should be noted that YData is fussy about any import files - all lines of text have to have the full complement of quoted fields.>
So, it looks as though the only way I can get all the fields to correctly line up is to fill in the blank ones in Psion Data with a character before importing the resulting comma-delimited text file into YData. Not a nice thought with a 1050 record/20 field database to do, plus many other smaller assorted databases! Is there any workaround to this, say a macro that can put a character in every blank field in the database for me? Or is there a better solution, other than using a different data product?
Regards
Kevin Thorne
Date: 27 Oct 2005 22:54:23 +0700
From: Prar <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Calendars
At 16:54 27/10/2005 +0800, Chris wrote:
>P.S. I am glad to hear that I was not the first person to suggest >rationalising our calenda, but saddened that it never happened. The >alternative of having different numbers of whole weeks per month, in a >pattern that repeats every 3 months, is ingenious, but I think it could be >more confusing than the current system of 30/31 days per month!
>
I did see a proposal once for a fixed 364 day repeating pattern for the year. The 365th day was called "World Day" as wasn't a day of the week. It was global holiday though. In Leap Years the additional day would be added at the end of June, and called "Leap Year Day". Leap Year Day was also a global holiday and not a day of the week. One of the benefits of this was that Christmas always fell on a weekend giving some people a four day holiday. I think they also took back the day that Augustus stole from February to make August 30 days and February 29.
For some reason it doesn't seem to have caught on though.
PRAR
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(Insert witty comment here.)
Date: 28 Oct 2005 00:45:59 +0700
From: Alan Morris <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Summertime 2007
Karl Wagner <address truncated> wrote:-
> Out of curiousity, what happens in March 2007, when Saturday is March 31, and Sunday April 1. Does summertime start on this, or the previous weekend?
The rule is the _last Sunday_
An April fool point: Sunday April 1 is not in March.
But then our governments had the new millennium start a year too early, so anything could happen.
Millennium = 1000 and not millennium = 999. Or did we have a negative leap year!
Alan
Date: 28 Oct 2005 11:36:47 +0700
From: Lord Kimberley <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Ringtomne for 9500 (via bigfoot)
Rolf,
That *is* very helpful. Thanks.
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Rolf Vonau wrote:
> Hi John,
> - on the S5mx open the file manager by pressing Ctrl + Tab > - find the ring tones in the ROM Z:\System\Alarms\ (i.e. Church bell, Fanfare and Soft bell) > - copy them in the root folder C:\
> - at the PC open PsiWin, copy the files to any folder and allow to convert them into WAV files > - copy the WAV files to the 9500 in the folder you use for the soundclips
>
> That's all.
> You can copy any WAV files to the 9500. They will work.
>
> BR
>
> Rolf
>
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> Subject: Ringtomne for 9500
> Author: "Lord Kimberley" <address truncated>
> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:02:59 +0100
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> Also is there any way to get my nice psion 5mx alarm tones on to the 9500? Trouble is that life is too busy to spend hours researching - got 130 NetApp Netcaches to support in far away places ... >
>
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Yours John.
Tel: +44 1763 289 732 e-mail: mailto:<address truncated>
Date: 28 Oct 2005 11:59:11 +0700
From: Rolf Vonau <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Ringtomne for 9500
Hi John,
- on the S5mx open the file manager by pressing Ctrl + Tab
- find the ring tones in the ROM Z:\System\Alarms\ (i.e. Church bell, Fanfare and Soft bell)
- copy them in the root folder C:\
- at the PC open PsiWin, copy the files to any folder and allow to convert them into WAV files
- copy the WAV files to the 9500 in the folder you use for the soundclips
That's all.
You can copy any WAV files to the 9500. They will work.
BR
Rolf
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Subject: Ringtomne for 9500
Author: "Lord Kimberley" <address truncated>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:02:59 +0100
Also is there any way to get my nice psion 5mx alarm tones on to the 9500? Trouble is that life is too busy to spend hours researching - got 130 NetApp Netcaches to support in far away places ...
Date: 29 Oct 2005 02:18:20 +0700
From: Jim Watson-Gove <address truncated>
Subject: Earthlink Changes
Two days ago my PDA pop3 access to Earthlink stopped working - MBook,
5mx and Palm Tungsten (with SnapperMail). Shades and memories of the
Compuserve script wars.
Anyone on the list using Earthlink as an ISP with their Psion toys?
If so has your connection stopped working? Have you figured out a
fix? Anyone using a Palm/Snapper combination? Same two questions.
TIA,
jim - Port Townsend, WA, usa using Goodlemail on a Compaq
Date: 29 Oct 2005 07:04:30 +0700
From: Lorenzo Pognante <address truncated>
Subject: quick launch program bar
I have switched from a faulty ericsson mc218 (screen cable...) to a still working psion 5mx, doing a backup/restore. Everything is working ok (after reinstalling the programs that rely on serial number to work) but the quick launch icon bar in the 5mx is not matching the programs that are really launched, i.e. it will launch the programs that happened to be in that position in the icon bar of the mc218. Anybody knows how to change the configuration?
Thanks
Lorenzo