- Humor

- Tomeraider and Mobireader on 9500 + SDictionary and SlovoEd

- Pulster Psion, Preferred Networks,

- Humour

- Bluetooth browser on Mac

- Spellchecker for 93/9500

- Mac/Nokia parameters for ADSL

- Descriptions how to send and receive email

- Rép : MochaPPP

- HardlyCrypt / Text twirler added to my ROT13 Macro

- RE: German Humor

- Re: The Digest V1 # 893

- Re: Instructions

- P990i/P910i

Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006
From: Digest administrator
Subject: Humor

Your remarks were noted and appreciated, would however prefer not to discuss it further. Just thought it wise to put in the remark and good that all have taken the original humor the right way.

With best regards
Itamar Engelsman
The Digest Team

Date: 26 Feb 2006 09:45:10 +0000
From: Martin O'Neill (IOL) <address truncated>
Subject: Tomeraider and Mobireader on 9500 + SDictionary and SlovoEd

Timothy H.D. Williams wrote:
>I must say I find Mobireader very frustrating. >There is no single shortcut for a string search.

I use Ctrl+F all the time, though I do seem to recall that I did have some problems with the search on the free version, until I upgraded to the pro version.  However, I would agree that the searches on TomeRaider are much faster (both on the 5mx and the 9500)

>Each file - in my  case, dictionaries - seems to have a
>different menu command - and no  keyboard shortcut.

I don't use dictionaries very much as most of my MobiReader content is generated from my TreePad files on my PC and so cannot comment.  I tend to use hyperlinking quite a lot in the TreePad files and the loss of this on the 9500 version of TomeRaider is a real pain. This is why I have now changed a lot of my content to MobiReader.  Another reason for me changing is that TR does not allow me to copy any of the content on the PDA.  This is silly when using self generated files or even when using public domain files downloaded from MemoWare.  It does not seem likely that there will be any upgrades to the 9500 version of TomeRaider.

Both SDictionary and SlovoEd look like other possibilities, particularly if they would introduce hyperlinking.

Regards,
Martin O'Neill

Date: 26 Feb 2006 10:28:33 +0000
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Pulster Psion, Preferred Networks,

Answer to: Chris Pulster

Re.: Pulster Psion - Maybe someone from this digest will be prepared to help you translate for you to make your website more accessible to English speaking people ?  Anyone with some time on his/her hands ?

Answer to: Prar

Re.: Preferred Networks - The answer is of course, save yourself omeny, close your own connection and use your neighbour's if they are so stupid enough to leave it open for all to use <G>. I have no idea how you can set th enetPad to only use your own, sorry. Oh, and welcome back !

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 26 Feb 2006 12:26:54 +0000
From: Ian Chapple <address truncated>
Subject: Humour

A lot of my German colleagues find it amusing that many non-Germans think that they have no sense of humour, which rather implies that they do...

Cheers, Ian.

Date: 26 Feb 2006 17:06:08 +0000
From: Timothy H.D. Williams <address truncated>
Subject: Bluetooth browser on Mac

The bluetooth browser on the Mac is probably the fast way for me to 
sort out how and where I want my files on the Nokia 9500. However it 
doesn't allow access to the system files. Would anybody know of a 
work around for this ?

Many thanks

Tim

Date: 26 Feb 2006 17:07:30 +0000
From: Timothy H.D. Williams <address truncated>
Subject: Spellchecker for 93/9500

The spell.sis file for Communicators is available from the German 
Nokia site and the reference files the app uses are identical to 
those on the ER5 machines. Yet it seems fairly clear that there is no 
spellchecker of any sort for the 9300/9500.

I think it is Steve Litchfield who suggests that the problem is one 
of copyright. If this is the case, it would clearly stymie commercial 
alternatives. However, is it really beyond programme writers to do a 
small, self-contained app just like the ER5's Spell, using the 
lens9522.dat (that we have all paid for), which would allow checking 
via copy and paste on the Nokia?

Personally, I use my spelling dictionaries a lot and without them on 
my 9300, I see myself sticking to the Revo until it gives up the ghost.

Best

Tim

Date: 26 Feb 2006 18:16:24 +0000
From: Timothy H.D. Williams <address truncated>
Subject: Mac/Nokia parameters for ADSL

Can anybody please tell me how to connect the 9300 to the Mac, 
allowing the Nokia to use the Mac's internet connection? I have the 
Bluetooth up and running. I don't understand which sharing parameters 
on the Mac I should be using.

Many thanks

T

Date: 26 Feb 2006 19:43:50 +0000
From: "Michael Nield" <address truncated>
Subject: Descriptions how to send and receive email

I for one would be very pleased to see thisMichael
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 01:29:32 -0000, The Digest V1 # 893 wrote:> As an aside, I have now written down detailed descriptions for how to 
> send and receive email on a Psion using both a conventional dialup ISP 
> account
> and a broadband account - mainly so that if I ever lose the settings I 
> won't have to re-invent them.  Would anyone wish me to post these 
> instructions to > The Digest, for general information?

Date: 26 Feb 2006 22:17:40 +0000
From: Jean Guillonneau <address truncated>
Subject: Rép : MochaPPP

I use sometimes DsLink to get directly my emails through the PC, or even to go to the internet.
I think DsLink and MochaPPP have exactly the same purpose. Does somebody knows if one overcomes the other ?

Jean Guillonneau

Date: 26 Feb 2006 23:07:36 +0000
From: U Hornstein <address truncated>
Subject: HardlyCrypt / Text twirler added to my ROT13 Macro

Hello list,

a few days ago I reported about my small macro that allows to ROT13 code text. It has now gone into V1.1 :
HardlyCrypt (or Text Twirler (reading scrambled words) or Textzwirbler) has been added. Most of you will have heard of that www blog that was supposed to be discovered by "an english university":

Scine the cpoy-and-psate faweromrk from V 1.0 araeldy exseitd, it was esay to add in vserion 1.1 the HadrylpCyrt  metohd: the leettrs of eervy text wrod are miglend, olny the 1st and lsat ltteer keep thier psiotoin. Oblvsiouy you can stlil raed it wlel! Wrkos wtih all lgeanagus that are srtppoeud by the EOPC ctchaerar set. (This text is coded with my macro ROT13, selection HardlyCrypt)

It is ready for download on http://psion.uh-lab.de
--
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: 26 Feb 2006 23:28:10 +0000
From: Alan Morris <address truncated>
Subject: RE: German Humor

Itamar (Digest administrator) wrote:-

||> While I did not want to censor the digest in light of past
||> experiences I would like the writers kindly to withhold general
||> statements like "they don't have humor". I think it is unkind and
||> unnecessary in our digest.

I then wrote:-

||> Germans don't have a sense of humour.  But I think you are correct
||> Peter.

Then Chris Pulster <address truncated> wrote:-

||> Germans have no humour by law :) - the PuPsi Edition is a picture of

||> a prototype. I already got some serious orders. I will call later
||> Sir Potter for proposing him the launch of this gadget.

||> Christoph

Then Rolf Vonau <address truncated> wrote:-

||> The Germans havn't humour!
||>
||> I think, Pupsi's Psion is an joke for the 1st of April.

||> Rolf


I don’t think it is unkind and unnecessary, in fact the opposite.

The other two who responded were from Germany.  I interact regularly
with Germans and their sense of humour is different from the English
sense of humour.

I exchange e-mails daily with Germany.  My Land Rover, although made in
England, was sold through a German franchised handler (dealer) as I
wanted a LHD 130 (A German favourite).  It's also got a Tischer body,
made last year in Germany.  I visited Germany three times last year and
many times in previous years.

With many UK Land Rover clubs to chose from, I joined the Deutscher Land
Rover Club.  I recon that I must have some German blood in my veins!

So like the other two posters, we all agree about German humour.  Uk v
De:  1 : 2.  So the Germans win!  Note, like Itamar, I use the German
spelling in the Subject line.  So if 'humor' is in the German
vocabulary, then they must have some - but not a lot!

A little humour to ponder over below....

I can now answer the next two e-mails from .de addresses and I'll end
this with my usual ending.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Alan Morris

Here it is "The latest news from EU Parlement"
News media has received this bulletin fresh from Brussels.

The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been
reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European
communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As
part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Goverment conceded that English
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five -year
phased plan for what will be known as Euro-English.

In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly,
sivil servants will resive this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will
be replaced with "k".  Not only will this klear up konfusion, but
typewriters kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the
troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f".  This will make words like
'fotograf' 20 per sent shorter.

In third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Goverments
will ankorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a
deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horiblemes of
silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing
"th" by "z" and "w" by "v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining
"ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of
leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no
mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it esi tu understand ech
ozer.

Ze drem vil finali kum tru.

Date: 27 Feb 2006 11:28:14 +0000
From: Peter McCafferty <address truncated>
Subject: Re: The Digest V1 # 893

Itamar,

Thank you for your commment. A little light heartedness should not go amiss on this Digest. After all, we all must have a sense of humour, having tolerated all the travails the EPOC platform has gone through recently.

Without wanting this to become a thread of philosophical/social/cultural weight and magnitude (as has happened previously), if you look at the response my email received (thank you Christoph, Alan, Rolf and Keith), even the German correspondent got the joke, and that is a major step forward in Scots-Germanic relations. (Brussels would be proud!)

As for Anglo-Scot relations...... 18-12. Get in!

Christoph, I wish your venture well. I only thought that the image had been mocked up in Photoshop or something, hence my candour.

Happy Monday all.

kind regards

Peter

--
Peter McCafferty, Peter Julian & Associates, Architects
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: 1 Mar 2006 05:52:24 +0000
From: Melvin Woody <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Instructions

I, too would be glad to have a look at those instructions:

> As an aside, I have now written down detailed descriptions for how to send > and receive email on a Psion using both a conventional dialup ISP account > and a broadband account - mainly so that if I ever lose the settings I won't > have to re-invent them.  Would anyone wish me to post these instructions to > The Digest, for general information?  The headings are:
>
> C. Mobile Connections to Email accounts
> Broadband Account
> Set up e-mail account
> Retrieving e-mail
> Sending e-mail
> Dialup Account
> Set up e-mail account
> Retrieving e-mail
> Sending e-mail

Date: 28 Feb 2006 19:01:36 +0000
From: Daniel Meyer <address truncated>
Subject: P990i/P910i

Hello gang,

I am a very long time lurker but now would like some advice.

I am rather taken with the new SE P990i. One of the things that attracts me is the possibility of using it for GPS in the car.

I wondered whether any users of P910 might be able to answer my rather basic questions.

I presume the GPS software comes on a Memory stick, is there only one card slot?
Does this mean that you cannot save music/photo files to the same memory stick?
Will this mean that if I purchase the device I will either have to choose between using it for GPS or music/video/photo files or be continually swapping cards?
Is card swapping a chore or very easy?

I would be also interested in learning if your GPS experience has been positive.

Many thanks in advance,

Daniel

Daniel Meyer
Twickenham
UK