- Re: Transfer Agenda to iPod

- USB CF card reader / new case for a netBook

- RE: CF - USB Plug ? (Re: The Digest V1 # 885_9)

- RE: CF USB Plug Franco/ Martin

- netBook OS.IMG,

Date: 11 Feb 2006 18:16:03 +0700
From: Steve Hodgson <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Transfer Agenda to iPod

On 11/2/06 at 15:34 The Digest wrote:

>2. Any Macintosh folks out there who have tried to get their Psion
>Agenda calendar onto their iPOD?  That would be handy.

It might be worth checking out the link at <http://www-np.unimaas.nl/maas/s5/> to see if any of the stuff on synchronisation listed there is of use. Once you manage to get the data in the OS X (it is OS X is it?) Address Book application, the rest should be relatively trivial.

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Regards,

Steve Hodgson                        <mailto:<address truncated>

Date: 11 Feb 2006 23:36:21 +0700
From: Thomas F. van der Zijden <address truncated>
Subject: USB CF card reader / new case for a netBook

Hello everybody,

I too bought a CF USB card reader. This was a small piece of plastic with on the one side a slot for a CF card and on the other side a USB plug. Ideal to transfer files from the Psion to the PC. The thing came with an extension cord and a floppy disk with drivers for Win 95,98 for only 2 euros.

It survived 6 months...
One day I put the CF card in, connected it to my PC and suddenly smoke came out. I pulled out the CF card, which was not damaged, but the reader was definitely total loss. It showed that some pins were bent.

It will always be a risk to insert expensive equipment in stuff that only costs 2 euros...

By the way: has anyone noticed the Body Glove DVD Player and Accessories Case by Fellowes ? It was available at the local Mediamarkt and costed 35 euros. A truly magnificent way to transport the netBook ! The bag itself can be separated in 2, but even if you take only half of it with you you have enough space to store your cards, connectors and so on.
Expensive, but definitively a good alternative to the Proporta/Palm-Tec bag and the Palm-Case hard case (which cost even more by the way).

Hint to Christoph Pulster: you might want to take this one in your collection. ;-)
It is often overlooked, as it is advertised as DVD Player case, but it is the right size for a netBook + some space next to the netBook for some cables.

I just noticed by googling (http://www.fellowes.com/fellowes/resourcecenter/products/ProductDetails.aspx?Id=75576) that it is discontinued depuis 31/12/2005, but perhaps you can get your
hands on it anyway.

Yours sincerely,

Thomas VAN DER ZIJDEN

Date: 11 Feb 2006 23:46:14 +0700
From: Alan Morris <address truncated>
Subject: RE: CF - USB Plug ? (Re: The Digest V1 # 885_9)

Giorgio <address truncated> wrote:-

||> Dear Martin Maxwell (and Franco Cozzani..) ||> are you talking about something like this: ||>
http://www.hamletcom.com/ProductDetails.aspx?sid=4abb3535c6204f749b4dbe9 302f3f8e6&ProductId=3309

That looks like a high capacity USB Flash Drive in a larger than normal case.

||> As it's declared "Plug and Play" it should NOT need any driver if ||> used on Win XP...

Sounds about correct.

||> Please let me know if I got it right and if you think it should
||> properly work on Psion5mx/MC218

Psions don't have USB ports, so it can't work with a Psion, unless the 'CF USB plug' reported in other posts, is an adaptor' like I've mentioned in my previous posting.

Alan Morris

Date: 11 Feb 2006 23:46:14 +0700
From: Alan Morris <address truncated>
Subject: RE: CF USB Plug Franco/ Martin

Larch <address truncated> wrote:-

||> Can I just add that I have a similar plug and it is great. ||> Don't want to "plug" any supplier over another but I got ||> mine from www.crucial.com. It's an all in one USB plug.

What is a USB plug?  To me a USB plug is a Type A or B plug at one end of a cable.

Also is a CF USB plug, a CF card without it's normal drive, replaced by a cable with a USB plug at the other end?  Otherwise called a CF card to USB adaptor.  If such a device actually existed, then it would could be used to connect a Psion into a windows computer.  But the serial/USB adaptors already do that, so can't see any advantage in such a device.

Now if there was a CF USB socket, being a USB Host device then that could be very useful.

Alan Morris.

Date: 12 Feb 2006 02:38:22 +0700
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: netBook OS.IMG,

Answer to: Clare Shepherd

Re.: netBook OS.IMG - No problem at all. I meant don't put it in any folder, just on the CF card itself. Go to the CF card (D drive) and don't enter any folders, just copy it on to there.

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK