- Number of Subscribers

- No. 1,000 has arrived

- Over and out, science

- CHARITY

- Congratulations

- RE: netBook screen problem

- Re Netbook screen problem/loose circuitboard components

- Digest subscriber number over time

- Re: Re: Treo 650

- Route program without investment

- Best settings for Opera on MalyBook, E61 User's view part 3, Symbian,

- Best settings for Opera on MalyBook

- Latest version of Psiwin

Date: 9 Oct 2006 13:14:27 +0700
From: Rolf Vonau <address truncated>
Subject: Number of Subscribers

Hi all,
our subscriber Armin Podtschaske made a table showing the increasing of subscriber numbers from the #1 up to the #998.
You can see the curve at

www.psioneering.co.uk/digests/subscribers.jpg

Thank you Armin.

Best Regards

Rolf

Date: 10 Oct 2006 12:50:48 +0700
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: No. 1,000 has arrived

Happy birthday Digest with the 1,000th appearance.

Thanks to all that make it a success, from the operators to the subscribers to the contributors. And up to no. 2,000 !


Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 9 Oct 2006 06:06:40 +0700
From: Axel Moberg <address truncated>
Subject: Over and out, science

Dear friends,

This is it. Already last spring I said I would retire from the club. And then I promised myself I would do it before we reached #1000.

One good reason is that My MC218 met with a sad fate last spring (http://www.larsfinster.de/psion/friedhof/fh-022.htm), so I haven't got a Psion any more. (Well, almost. I have ordered one, mainly for nostalgic reasons.)

The best reason is that I hardly have time to read the messages. I am normally lagging a month or so behind. Which makes it difficult to follow discussions, and certainly to make any comments.

So, thank you all for two years and eight months with lots of interesting reading and discussions. Some of it highly relevant to Psion, Epoc and Symbian (even if much of it was far beyond me.) Some of it less so, but still often interesting, like the treatise on electrical chocks two years ago.

Good Luck

Axel Moberg
Bromma, Sweden

PS

To Phil.
"If it can't be expressed in figures,
it is not science; it is opinion

So, what you are saying just an unscientific opinion? 

Date: 9 Oct 2006 11:12:53 +0700
From: Nigel Elbourne <address truncated>
Subject: CHARITY

Thank you for the suggestion - and many congratulations, to us all, on this
milestone!

I have donated £50 to a young friend who is setting out to India on a
gap-year project teaching English in an Indian orphanage.

Nigel Elbourne

Date: 9 Oct 2006 11:51:21 +0700
From: Kevin Collins <address truncated>
Subject: Congratulations

Congratulations to all involved on the millenial Digest!

Best regards,
Kevin (Cork, Ireland)

Date: 9 Oct 2006 12:08:18 +0700
From: Trygve Henriksen <address truncated>
Subject: RE: netBook screen problem

Ian Colvin wrote:

> I'll assume from the silence on my last question that no-one else on
the list recognises this problem of losing a
>component from their netbook/7book's circuit board.

Can't say I've heard about it before, no...

If you could have it photographed, I might be able to tell what it is...
(you'd need a pretty good camera, though)
And if you could take a snapshot of the otherboard and mark the area
where you believe it came from it may be possible to understand what it
was for.

> But I still wonder if others who have had these coloured jailbars
> on the lower half of the screen might not have had a similar
experience. The component is so small
> it would be easily missed.

I would suspect a problem with the ICs in the screen assembly itself..
You see, the picture is transferred serially(kind of) from the
motherboard to the screen, where several small Ics along the lefthand
and bottom edges is used to control the individual pixels.
These ICs typically control 80 lines or 80columns, depending on where
they are located, and fault patterns therefore tends to follow
'boundaries' of 80 pixels.('Lower half of the screen' indcates a problem
with the lower three chips on the lefthand side. )
Unfortunately, those chips cannot be replaced, so if any of them are
failing, you'll need a new LCD...

It can also be the conductive rubber that the glass is restong on, too,
but that usually only gives a few black lines here and there. No
repeating patterns, and may often disappear if you press very carefully
on the edge of the screen. (NOT a recommended fault-finding technique...
)

:-)
Trygve

Date: 9 Oct 2006 21:25:57 +0700
From: Jon Welford <address truncated>
Subject: Re Netbook screen problem/loose circuitboard components

Ian,

The colored bars mean the screen cable is oxidising. It happened to mine several years ago and is happening again.It needs cleaning, I used brasso. The connecter wedge is rather delicate and I broke mine and had to make a bodge to keep it working but it has lasted till now. Funnily enough my series 7 had a loose screw in it when I took it apart, why I have no idea but it did not affect the operation.

Hope this helps,

Jon Welford

Date: 9 Oct 2006 22:43:19 +0700
From: Armin Podtschaske <address truncated>
Subject: Digest subscriber number over time

To: all
Concgratulations for the Digest no 1000.
Since december 2002 I am updating an Epoc sheet file with the number of digest subscribers. I started it out of pure curiosity and it is a nice graphic. If there is enough demand for it, it can possibly be placed an the digest homepage together with a screenshot. (Or I can send it to anybody who likes it). For the time beeing I made a sort of ASCII "screenshot" that is best viewed if you read the mail in a fixed spaced font like courier:

                 *******
               **       *****     **
             **              *****  **************
           **                                     ****
          *                                         *
         *                                          *
         *
        *
        *
       *
       *
       *
      *
      *
      *
      *
      *
The highest number was 810 on the 21st of August 2003.
It all begun with 220 members in digest # 6 on the 26th of May 2002.
Psee you,

Armin Podtschaske
Munich, Germany

Date: 10 Oct 2006 06:25:34 +0700
From: g y reyes <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Re: Treo 650

Michael,

On my part, I started out with the Series 3a, went to the 5 when it was released then the Revo Plus because I like the smaller form factor.

When the Revo conked out, and Psion stopped producing palmtops, I went to the Treo for a while but found the file handling very cumbersome - it was difficult accessing individual files outside of the application that created the file.

I went to a Windows Mobile device - an iPaq - and am quite happy with it.  But I still miss the clamshell design of the Psions and their reliability and file handling.

Gary



At 06:17 PM 10/9/2006 +0800, you wrote:
>Date:  8 Oct 2006 19:55:38 +0700
>From: Steve Hodgson <address truncated>
>Subject: Re: Treo 650
>
>On 8/10/06 at 16:26 Michael wrote:
>
>>I've had a Psion 3a, then Revo and am still using a Revo plus (Diamond >>Mako.)  I've been following the Treo line with great interest since >>before the 600 but my decision to leap keeps getting trumped by a >>combination of either a new Treo (650, 700,) other new alternatives
>>(SE M600i, Nokia E61, M50, etc.) and the price/availability reality >>here in Israel.
>>
>>I feel the Treo is a very mature and well-thought-out platform and >>what you wrote about your 600 supports this, but I am uneasy about the >>lack of multi-tasking, reported volume/call quality problems, >>spontaneous reset and OS end-of-life issues and size/weight.
>>
>>Then, there are the new alternatives, each of which seems attractive >>in its own right.
>>
>>I'm a fan of what I would call the Treo synergy - the elegance of the >>melding of the software and hardware - but the physical elegance and >>smaller size/weight of some of the alternatives also appeal to me >>greatly.
>
>My advice at the moment would be to hold on for slightly longer before >you consider the Jump to a Treo. The Treo 650,
>
>as you mention, is pretty much at the end of its life, is no longer >imported into the UK (due to ROHS compliance) and
>
>new machines are about to appear.
>
>Rumour has it that there will be an announcement from Palm fairly soon >on new machines. The 700 (Windows) is now
>
>available for pre-order but I would favour the Palm OS. My experience >is that Palm OS makes it easier to do things
>
>than the equivalent Windows Mobile software.
>
>I switched from a netBook to a Tungesten T5 then a Treo and have not >regretted it. The machines do not multitask, as
>
>you say, and the software is less powerful. The major advantages for >someone who uses their phone a lot are the fact
>
>that the device includes everything you need. Forget about the >built-in apps and use Datebk6 or Agendus (I favour the
>
>former) for your scheduling - that way you can combine appointments >and tasks in a single view in the way that
>
>Psionistas know and love.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Steve Hodgson

Date: 10 Oct 2006 12:50:48 +0700
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Route program without investment

Recently I found by chance a mention of a webiste from google called www.google.com/... which is really an amazing website. It allows you to connect on your mobile and to enter two addresses to find out the route between them basically in most parts of the world. I tried it for the route from my office to my home and it was accurate. Without owning a full route program or GPS this can be a life safer if you are in a strange place and need to know how to get from A to B. It will give route instructions as wellbut I am not sure whether or not it will work with a GPS and how much the connection to the internet would cost on a moblie per minute.

Have a look at it, I think you will be surprised at what is possible these days !

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 10 Oct 2006 12:50:49 +0700
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Best settings for Opera on MalyBook, E61 User's view part 3, Symbian,

Answer to: Chris Cooper

Re.: Best settings for Opera on MalyBook - In general when that happens you have run out of memory. You can try to close all other programs and run only Opera, but if you don't have enough disk space / memory (which are interchangeable in EPOC) it will not help you much. If you have a CF card try and put as much as possible on the CF card to create more space on the internal disk. Success.

Answer to: William Fuggle

Re.: E61 User's view part 3 - If there is no touch screen how do you move the cursor around the screen ? Does this not make entering of data a lot slower specially to find the right time in the diary for example ? In the calendar, how do you move to different days, weeks or months ?

Answer to: Mike Dyer.

Re.: Symbian - I think you are right with your criticism that Symbian have (yet again) made the next generation incompatible with the last one. However, we are used to that by now from Psion as well (S3 to S5 to Symbian etc.). It is I suppose one of the strengths of Windows, both pocket and main. I still use a program on my WindowsXP that was written in DOS back in the 1980's !! Also, there are several PocketPC machines out with great screens and thumbboards on which it is possible to view a spreadsheet with more than 2 columns at one time or see a WORD file. I am sticking with my P910i for now but I am actually annoyed (too) that UIQ 3.0 would force me to purchase all the software I invested in from scratch again.

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 10 Oct 2006 20:58:43 +0700
From: K.I. van der Straten <address truncated>
Subject: Best settings for Opera on MalyBook

*Date:  6 Oct 2006 09:30:24 +0700
*From: Chris Cooper
*Subject: Best settings for Opera on MalyBook

*Opera v 5.14 on my MalayBook is driving me nuts, burning up RAM memory *and crashing frequently. (At last that's what I assume is happening - *I get  a message talking about a KERN-EXEC problem, Reason no. 3 ... )

*Can anyone give me / point me to advice on optimum settings for Opera *on our machines? I find the Help file useless, and much of the jargon *in the menu options is meaningless to me.


Hello Chris,

look here and you find all the information you need about
Opera
www.mobileopera.com

Regards,
Kees.

Date: 10 Oct 2006 22:48:19 +0700
From: Bob <address truncated>
Subject: Latest version of Psiwin

When I first got my N-gage QD a couple years ago and installed PC Suite, PC Suite had a conflict or I read some where but I think it actually said they can't work together on the same laptop or PC.  Anyway, I have had a 9300 for quite awhile now and have removed all the other PC Suite older files off my laptop.  I still have my Netbook and like its portability and it's still a great machine for writing documents and email and that kind of stuff.  The problem that I have is if I write a document on my Netbook and want to transfer it to my laptop I can still do it by using my Micro drive or CFD. But without Pwin installed my Laptop won't read my Psion Word file as a Microsoft Word file as there are no converters to do that.  I am now told with the new PC Suite that it and Pswin can co-exist and work on the same machine.  This is a long way to ask is that true can they co-exist so that I can transfer my files more efficiently then I am doing now.  

Also if they can co-exist does any one know what the latest version of Psiwin is and where I can get it if I don't still have mine available please????

Thanks,
Bobby