- RE: The Digest V1 # 955

- REinstalling map Routeplanner

- Re: Replace All at the 9500?

- How I use my Psions

- Re: Replace All at the 9500?

Date: 17 Jul 2006 22:20:29 +0100
From: Elizabeth Baker <address truncated>
Subject: RE: The Digest V1 # 955

Subject: Another Psion Psaga

To: All
Regarding Keith's Psion Psaga, I had a similar experience while traveling
in Europe a few weeks ago. Woke up one day to find my Series 5mx screen a
mass of horizontal black lines! Everything was backed up to a CF card, but
I couldn't access anything!

In desperation I telephoned a fellow Psion user in Spain whose number I had
written on a scrap of paper, having recently visited her (moral: when
traveling, never clean out your pockets); I asked her for the phone number
of the Psion repair place in Toronto I knew she had used recently, with
good results; when I told them I was headed for London, they referred me to
POS Ltd. in the UK, no longer located in London, but on the main road
between London and Gatwick. A wonderful man there, name of Paul, told me
when I phoned them that I could bring the machine in and they could
probably fix it while I waited; but when I explained the problem, he said
it was the screen cable problem, that my files were intact, and that if I
opened the machine only a tiny bit, enough to get some light into the
crevice between keyboard and screen, I would be able to read something.

And sure enough -- I was able to consult my addresses, using the arrow keys
to scroll up & down; being able to see just a couple of lines at a time, I
managed to continue my business trip and find all the people I needed to
see. Three cheers for POS!! They were brilliantly helpful! I am now back in
New York and preparing to ship them (rather than hand-deliver) the broken
machine. (Their phone number, address & lots of good info can be found at
POS Ltd.'s web site, via Google [sorry, I don't have the exact web address
at hand].)

Regards to all, and thanks to all for keeping the very useful Digest going!
Betsy Baker

Date: 17 Jul 2006 22:51:17 +0100
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: REinstalling map Routeplanner

To: Jon Welford and David & Lewis
Re.: Reinstalling map Routeplanner - Thanks for the message. I'll try and do
that this week whe I'll be back in the office again.
Lewis, I did delete the map totally from the S7 but it still did not work,
so I suppose Jon and David were right this time.
Bas has the solution to delete the MAP.sis file which I indeed di not try so
that is another option.

Thanks to all of you,

Itamar

Date: 19 Jul 2006 10:32:54 +0100
From: Eric de Bruijn <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Replace All at the 9500?

Hi Folks,

Answer to Rolf Vonau <address truncated> Re: Replace All at the 9500? I don't have a 9500, but use other programs that lack a "Replace all." (Windoze notepad, for one.) Mij workaround is to use "Find next" and "Paste" repetitiously. Works good enough for me in most cases, though manually. Needs a bit of getting used to it, too, but now I hardly ever use Replace all even when it is available. I've found that it too often replaces more than I intended. :-(

Eric de Bruijn
Rotterdam

Quote: Short cuts make long delays.

Date: 20 Jul 2006 08:46:33 +0100
From: Phil Aypee <address truncated>
Subject: How I use my Psions

Hi Folks,

Like most of us I value my Psions greatly.

Although I’m permanently on the sicklist I do use my Psions all the time. In fact I probably wouldn’t use them so much if I were fitter.

I have seven Psions - a couple of 3as, a couple of 3cs , a 3mx and two 5mxs. I use (at the moment) one 3c and this 5mx. I thought of getting a Siena, but as it wouldn’t really be useful I saved the cash (and a Revo/Mako would be even less useful - I wouldn’t even want a free one as it would be nearly useless to me).

The 3c keeps my alarms, my diary, my diabetes records, my address book and my ‘high street’ shopping list. It keeps my petty cash accounts and has a couple of games on it. I use it as a PDA most of the time.

This 5mx does a whole lot more!

It keeps the 3c backup (and is backed up in turn to a PC). It does all my eMail, my ‘supermarket’ shopping list, it keeps my film database (VHS and DVD), my CD database and my book database. I write my website on it (http://uk.geocities.com/philadkinsp/index.html) and I use it to ‘cruise’ the web. I have a number of eBooks on it and some games.

I’ve got the big Tomeraider IMDB file as well as Halliwell’s on it (both out-of-date - but so am I). I prefer Solun to Procyon on both SiBO and ER5. I use ZVR for eBooks on the 3c and EBook on the 5mx. The latest MobiPocket Reader (now free too) will read those eBooks with HTML, or HTML-style, formatting and this version allows ‘portrait’ format reading.

I occasionally mess about with PowerBase and PsiDat, trying to write a single database for all my books, DVDs and CDs (and VHSs pro tem). It’s not important, it’s just for fun (and I’m a bit of a film/jazz/sci-fi buff).

I’ve written a few ER5 macros to make my life easier. I run them under Macro5 and Merlin, both very useful programs. Particularly I’ve written a number for HTML tags, some fairly ‘intelligent’ but most really very simple. I use Colin Shearing’s HTML Designer and these macros add to it rather than replace built-in functions.

The advantages of a dedicated program are in the built-in functions, the default file extensions and the default path. But it’s not really necessary as HTML files are actually text files with an htm(l) extension.

I also use PsiLoc+ PRO, a brilliant utility and I recently started using ExtraBars. Good though that is I don’t really need it and so I might ditch it.

Sometime I’ll write a program for a ‘Farleyfile’ but I’m not up to it yet. Before that I’ll write a simple program to generate ‘Langton’s Ants’, a mathematical recreation with a serious point.

So though I do use this 5mx as a PDA I use it for a lot of things others use ‘proper’ computers for.

I’ve also written some SiBO macros to run under MacSys. They’re mostly for text formatting and program running/switching.

I’d like someone cleverer than me to write an equivalent to StickyKeys for SiBO as that makes life much easier for me on this 5mx (my stroke means I’m effectively one-handed). Also if anyone could ‘hack’ a registration for Christian Prinzinger’s Double Data (an OPL program) I’d be grateful as I can’t locate Herr Prinzinger at all - and I really have tried. He used to be somewhere in Vienna. I’ve pretty well given up on trying to register Barry Childress’ Reader (again for SiBO). It’s a pity as his TCR format is portable - but he effectively vanished many years ago.

Oddly (or perhaps not) I value my older Psions more than the 5mxs. Perhaps it’s because they’re both lighter and more robust. Certainly the batteries seem to last *_for_ever_*. Apart from web work (which my desktop will do) they can do all I actually want - and everything I almost need.

I just hope at least one outlasts me!

Happy days,
Phil.

“If it be true that good wine needs no bush,
’tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.”

http://uk.geocities.com/philadkinsp/index.html

Date: 20 Jul 2006 19:42:50 +0100
From: Rolf Vonau <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Replace All at the 9500?

"Eric de Bruijn" <address truncated> wrote at 19.07.2006 (> ):

> Answer to Rolf Vonau <address truncated>
> Re: Replace All at the 9500?
> I don't have a 9500, but use
> other programs that lack a "Replace all." (Windoze
> notepad, for one.) Mij workaround is to use "Find
> next" and "Paste" repetitiously.

Hi Eric,
you are right, if you bear in mind the "normal" Office applications, including the Psion doc editor. But at the 9500 this procedure means: copy the new string in the clipboard by Ct+C, find the old string by Ct+F (ever from the top of document, not from the cursor !!), press ESC and then Ct+V, and so on. This is annoying.
I hope, someone will find a better solution.

--
BR
Rolf