Pscience5: Old home page entries

Date	Link	Description
28/05/2005	Lost & Found...	Managed to get hold of a copy of Meter - many thanks to everyone who responded. I'll publish a generic registration version of this program in the next few days...
27/05/2005	Lost & Found...	Added another program to the 'Looking for...' page under ‘Lost & Found’ - 'Meter' by Xilonen. If anyone has a copy of this previously shareware program I'd be greatful if they could get in touch - thanks!
26/05/2005	Lost & Found...	And another of Robert's programs - Solitaire. This is the classic peg version of Solitaire where you have to jump the pegs over each other and finish with the last peg in the centre hole. The program has a built in solution so you can see how to do it if you can't work it out yourself.
25/05/2005	Lost & Found...	Another of Robert's programs - DirPrint4 - uploaded to the ‘Lost & Found - Utilities’ page. DirPrint4 - 'Directory Print v4' - will give you a complete listing, sorted by date last accessed, which means it is also useful for finding that file you were working on just recently.
24/05/2005	Lost & Found...	Robert Longbottom has kindly given permission for his software to be hosted on the Pscience5 site (with his keygens as appropriate) - so I'll be uploading these programs over the next week or two. Starting off today with Tickle which I've uploaded to the ‘Lost & Found - PIM & DataBases’ page:- Tickle is a list ticking program which allows you to make lists and have multiple columns in which to place ticks when you have started, finished, given up on, or whatever with each item in the list.
21/05/2005	Lost & Found...	Uploaded PNPlus to the ‘Lost & Found - Utilities’ page. It was designed as an add-on utility for Purplesoft's Navigator program allowing control over the remote link as well as providing information on the battery status, power status, memory, etc. Written by Mark Riley as Freeware in 1998.
20/05/2005	Lost & Found...	Uploaded JavaSweep to the ‘Lost & Found - Utilities’ page. JavaSweep is a small utility (really aimed at programmers - it runs on the command line interface from /System/Programs/) for closing rogue Java programs that haven't properly quit. Freeware from Symbian, it's still available on their site but is fairly obscure. My thanks to Mark Franklin for suggesting it.
19/05/2005	Pan Galactic Guide	My thanks to Austin who pointed out that the link on my PGG page for downloading my Psion version of PGG wasn't working. It is now I'm pleased to report.
17/05/2005	Lost & Found...	Uploaded 'VGASuite' to the ‘Lost & Found - Utilities’ page. This is the driver software that was developed for use with the "Voyager VGA PCMCIA Bus Super VGA Adapter" - as manufactured by the Colorgraphic Communications Corp.
15/05/2005	Lost & Found...	My thanks to: Matthew, Jon, Kees, Volker, Ivan, and Henk who sent me the files I was looking for on my ‘Lost & Found - Looking for...’ page. These will be uploaded to the site during the week. I've added a couple more requests to the page - hopefully they'll prove slightly more challenging than the previous set! ;¬)
14/05/2005	PDATotaal Meeting	Kees van der Straten asked me to mention that PDATotaal in the Netherlands are holding a meet-and-greet get together for Symbian/EPOC users: "Zaterdag 14 mei 2005 organiseren we een Meet & Greet in Ede. De toegang is gratis en alle PDA's zijn vertegenwoordigd. Het is er altijd erg gezellig en u kunt er met al uw vragen terecht. Hopelijk mogen we u ook ontmoeten." which translates as: "On Saturday May 14th, 2005 we are organising a 'Meet & Greet' in Ede, The Netherlands. Entrance is free and all OS systems will be represented. It's always very informal and you'll be able to ask all your questions. Hopefully we can meet you there."
13/05/2005	Lost & Found...	I've added a couple of files I'm looking for to the ‘Lost & Found - Looking for’ page...
11/05/2005	Lost & Found...	Uploaded a Reference File for the MC218 to the ‘Lost & Found - Documents’ section. This was a file (well, a small book!) produced by Ericsson in 1999 but has since gone from their web site.
05/05/2005	Lost & Found...	Uploaded Maze3D to the ‘Lost & Found - Games’ page. Written by James L. Dean in 1998, Maze3D is a freeware game for the Psion Series 5/mx that lets you generate and solve mazes in 3 dimensions. Game also runs on S7/nB in 'letterbox mode'. The OPL source code is included - so it could be adapted for colour and larger screens if someone wants to play with it...
05/05/2005	Lost & Found...	Steve Godfrey confirmed he was happy for me to have his freeware software on the site and so I've also uploaded copies of the additional files/add-ins to the ‘Lost & Found - Comms’ page and a copy of the PC emulator version of PhoneManPro to the ‘Lost & Found - Wins’ page.
03/05/2005	Lost & Found...	If you've been a close watcher of the Psion pscene this past weekend you may have seen this already. I hadn't but Richard van Stappershoef kindly dropped me a note to let me know. ZingMagic (the new owners of Purple Software's EPOC programs) have made many of Purple's EPOC games free on their website (http://zingmagic.com/). So I've now zipped them up and uploaded all 10 of them (plus official colour patches for the S7/nB as available) to my ‘Lost & Found - Games’ page. These are 4InALine (aka. Connect4), Backgammon, Checkers (aka. Draughts), Chess, Chiness Chess, Enigma (aka. Mastermind), Gomoku (similar to Go - but not the same!), HomeRun (card game), Theole (aka. Reversi, and Yacht (aka. Yahtzee). It's a shame that they've not included Purple's version of 'Go' or some of the other software (e.g. PowerBase) but this is still excellent news for all Psion owners!
27/04/2005	Lost & Found...	Following on from yesterday, I've uploaded PGP for EPOC to the ‘Lost & Found - Apps’ page. PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a PC-based program originally written by Phil Zimmerman for encrypting and digitally signing data - often for the purposes of emailing. Steve Godfrey ported the program (actually PGP version 2.6.3ia) to EPOC and released it as freeware. I have added a PDF version of the FAQ on his former website to the zip file also. Update: Thomas Ullrich (of PsionWelt fame) has just let me know that Steve Godfrey's site is back up and redirecting to a new URL where all the old apps can once again be found! Oh well, I'll keep these ones here for now and check with Steve if it's okay...
26/04/2005	Lost & Found...	It looks like ZenoByte's website has gone offline so I've uploaded a copy of the (now freeware) PhoneManPro to the ‘Lost & Found - Comms’ page. PhoneManPro allows you to send and receive SMS and edit the phonebook on your mobile phone using a computer running the EPOC operating system. It supports both infrared and serial connections to your phone. You can also send email messages via SMS. Additional features, supported by some phones, include allowing you to edit operator logos, set up the ringing pattern on the phone and compose your own melody for the phone’s ring. Melodies can be saved, and Ring profiles allow you to quickly set the phone to a saved ring setup.
20/04/2005	Lost & Found...	There were some problems with the files I uploaded yesterday and I'm travelling on business in the US right now so didn't take the time to check the upload - stupid me! Anyway, I've now fixed the problem and re-uploaded the files and all should be well. My thanks to Kees van der Straten for pointing the issues out.
19/04/2005	Lost & Found...	Colin Messer has very kindly generated some replacement colour icons for Berlitz Phrase Book when running on a netBook/Series7/netpad/etc together with replacement text icons for Phrase to help it run on a revo more easily. I've uploaded both to the ‘Lost & Found - Travel’ page (i.e. next to the Berlitz Phrase download) as well as a copy of the colour icons to the Colour Icons page (sensibly enough!). Thanks for all your efforts Colin!
16/04/2005	Lost & Found...	Uploaded XChange to the ‘Lost & Found - Utilities’ page. XChange is a universal currency converter for the Psion Series 5. Published by Paul Law of LHC Software as freeware in September 1997. Compatible with 5, 5mx, and MC218; it will also work on a Series 7/netBook in 'letterbox' mode but won't work properly on a revo/revo+/mako.
15/04/2005	Lost & Found...	Sadly I've had to remove Calligrapher from the ‘Lost & Found’ pages. Atelier asked me to remove it and of course it's their software so I've complied. Sorry people - them's the rules!
14/04/2005	Lost & Found...	Uploaded DriveMap5 to the ‘Lost & Found - Utilities’ page. DriveMap5 is a small EPOC/32 utility that adds Windows style Drive Mapping to your Psion. The program can be activated from the Extras bar and allows you to map or unmap drives H to Y. Similar in function to YFH Subst below, it was published by Graham Crichton of Medialinx Software in 1999 as freeware.
13/04/2005	Lost & Found...	Uploaded YFHSubst to the ‘Lost & Found - Utilities’ page. YFHSubst - released in 2000 by YFH Software - is a directory substitutor for EPOC. In other words, YFHSubst can be used to map directories to an EPOC drive (c:, d:, etc.). For example, using YFH Subst the directory 'Documents' can be mapped to drive 'M'. The advantage of this is that in the list of drives in the System-screen (visible when you tap the button saying 'C' or 'D' in the corner of your screen on the Task-bar) an extra drive appears (in this case drive 'M'). If this drive is selected, you will automatically jump to the directory mapped to that drive (in this case 'Documents'). This way, you can browse through you folder a lot quicker. This is of particular advantage when browsing large CF disks on d: or e: as it can be significantly faster than using the System screen. YFH Software don't appear to be around any more so I've added the program here.
12/04/2005	Colour Icons...	Thanks to the efforts again of both Kees van der Straten and Fritz Waechter, I've updated the Colour Icons page again with new icons and patches added. This is a collection of replacement Extras bar icons (aif files) for you to download and use to replace icons on your machine. New icons added were: AOClassify, DigHandler, Encrypt, HtmlConv (icon + patch), HtmlEdit (Icon + patch), MonthMgr, MultiContacts, Navigator (4 icons), Phrase, PostIt, Remapper, TubeRoute, Whist, and Xtras. This brings the total up to something like 404 replacement colour icons (aif files) and 136 colour patches for programs.
09/04/2005	Overlays...	Andrew Moorhouse has very kindly contributed an enormous collection of 768 seperate overlays Route for the UK & Ireland. Uploaded to the Overlays page.
08/04/2005	Lost & Found...	I've uploaded MacConnect to the ‘Lost & Found - Apps’ page. MacConnect was the PsiWin of its time for Mac users but hasn't been commercially available for years as far as I know. This is version 1.0 as far as I know so be sure and pick up the appropriate upgrades for your OS version from the ‘Lost & Found - Psion, EPOC’ page too. Also fixed a slight zip file problem with the osgMacroSuite202.zip collection of macros reported by Richard Corfield - thanks Richard.
06/04/2005	Software...	ebc has been upgraded to v1.10. The program now returns to the main menu after single icon colouring instead of quitting. This makes it much easier to colour multiple icons without using the 'colour all' option. ebc is designed to make Jason Kneen's excellent ExtraBars program work in colour on colour machines!
05/04/2005	Lost & Found...	Uploaded No Mans Land to the ‘Lost & Found - Games’ page. No Mans Land is a real time strategy game. It pits you and your army against the computer opponent. Your army must fight for control of the valuable oil fields spread across the various scenarios. You need to balance the effort put into searching and drilling for new oil, attacking your opponents territory and oil fields whilst also building up and maintaining your own defences. No Mans Land was shareware/commercial until recently when its author - Steve Townsend - made it freeware for the EPOC platform whilst developing it further for UIQ phones. He has also kindly given permission for it to be hosted here. See his site: Great Ape Software for further details.
04/04/2005	Lost & Found...	Volker Elbel at Psionwelt pointed out to me that in fact Frank Fiedler's web site hasn't disappeared - it's just moved! You can find his site at http://www.frankfiedler.de/psion/index.htm. My apologies to all for not checking properly! And thanks to Volker for correcting me of course. As a token of acclamation, I've also uploaded Frank's other utility - AgnPrint - to the same ‘Lost & Found - Utilities’ section (although of course neither app. is lost; just found! <grin>). AgnPrint is a tool for printing ranges within Agenda files. Ranges specified by specific symbols in entries, entry type, date ranges, or specific text searches. All searches can be done by exclusion also.
02/04/2005	Lost & Found...	Added AgnClean to the ‘Lost & Found - Utilities’ page. AgnClean by Frank Fiedler is a tool for cleaning up and removing entries in Agenda files. Entries specified by specific symbols in entries, date ranges, or specific text searches. All searches can be done by exclusion also.
01/04/2005	Lost & Found...	EMCC (http://www.emccsoft.com) used to write SiBO and EPOC software and published a book called Programming Psion Computers. They now offer a PDF version of the book for free on their site. I've uploaded a copy to the ‘Lost & Found - Documents’ section.
31/03/2005	Lost & Found...	I've added another Psion files section to the ‘Lost & Found’ page - this one for files that don't fit into the EPOC or SiBO section categories. I've uploaded files for the Psion Travel Modem to this section.
30/03/2005	Lost & Found...	Somsak Chayapong very kindly scanned in a copy of the User Manual for Psion's Presentation Maker. I've uploaded it (in zipped PDF format) to the ‘Lost & Found - Documents’ section (and elsewhere). Many thanks to Somsak for his efforts!
29/03/2005	Lost & Found...	I've uploaded a collection of replacement OPX files for use in WINS (emulator) to the ‘Lost & Found - Wins’ section. These have been sent in by various people and/or gathered from various sources. If you have any more that you'd like to contribute please email them to me and I'll add them to the file. These files can be used to replace the standard OPX and associated files sometimes installed by OPL applications to allow them to run on the PC emulator.
25/03/2005	Overlays...	I've done a little work on some of the Data files contained in the zip I uploaded yesterday from Keith. Some of the countries (Germany, France, Italy) country data was split over separate files. I've now merged these so that each individual country has just one Data file. Be warned however that some of them are pretty large - France is 3.3Mb for example! It might make sense to get the country/countries you want and then zip the files as individual zip files for opening as and when you want them. You can get a pretty good compression ratio (˜70%) on these already-compressed Data files I've found.
24/03/2005	Overlays...	Keith Giles has kindly donated a collection of Data files for all the continental European CityMaps (i.e. excluding UK). It identifies all the continental European towns (over 329,000 of them) by country and then details which of the sis files the town is contained in. Basically it helps you figure out which file to load for the town you're looking for. Uploaded to the Overlays page - many thanks for all your hard work Keith!
23/03/2005	Lost & Found...	Written by David Sharp, Goby was the first Gameboy emulator for EPOC. Originally market and sold by David before being sold by Proporta, he has now decided to make the registration key generator available so that anyone can use Goby freely. He has kindly also agreed to let it be hosted here at Pscience5 so I have uploaded a copy of it and the key-gen to the ‘Lost & Found - Games’ section. Thanks David!
22/03/2005	Lost & Found...	Vitek Semenec kindly sent me the Hol5 files (Sheet and Word template) that I've had up on my ‘Lost & Found - Looking for’ page for a while. So these 'Birthday Manager' files (to help convert text data exported from Contacts to Hol5 format) have been added to the ‘Lost & Found - PIM & Database’ page and removed from the ‘Lost & Found - Looking for’ page. Thanks Vitek.
21/03/2005	Lost & Found...	Back again after my hols! I've got a fair bit of email to read that's been sent this last week so please bear with me for the next few days whilst I get around to replying to everyone. Markus Gruendel kindly sent more SiBO apps which I've now added to the ‘Lost & Found’ - SiBO section:- Backgammon, Battleships, FaxIt v1.4, FaxIt v2.4, and PsiSMS have all been uploaded.
12/03/2005		Pscience5 will be taking a break for the next 10 days or so - as indeed will I - on a weeks holiday to the Lake District in Cumbria, England. My apologies to those who have sent me files to upload recently and that I haven't gotten around to yet but the good news for everyone else is that there are some bumper uploads due when I get back!
09/03/2005		I've finally sent out a newsletter/updates email to all the Pscience5 subscribers! Ahem - sorry for the long delay since the last one!
08/03/2005	Lost & Found...	Added Reversi to the ‘Lost & Found’ - Games page. Reversi from EpocWare in 2000 was given away for free as a demo/taster for their Logic & Card Games Pack. I haven't been able to locate their other games (but then they weren't free anyway!) but this one plays a decent game of Reversi/Othello. Kindly donated by same anonymous user as yesterday...
07/03/2005	Lost & Found...	Added a file containing all the alarm sounds that used to be available from Psion at www.5mx.com before it disappeared. 34 sound files in total. Uploaded to the ‘Lost & Found’ - Documents section. Kindly donated by an anonymous Psion user...
05/03/2005	Software...	Kees van der Straten has sent more dummy apps. for adding to the RemoveApps collection (see below). Specifically he's added Word, eSetup, Sheet, Jotter, Calc, and a greyscale version of Sheet. I've updated the zip file on the Software page. Thanks Kees.
04/03/2005	Lost & Found...	Added AppLink to the ‘Lost & Found’ - Utilities section. AppLink is a program to produce files which link to EPOC applications, similar to shortcuts in Windows or aliases on the Macintosh. An AppLink file has the same icon as the application to which it is linked, and is very small (only 16 bytes). Tapping on the AppLink icon launches the application. Unlike other shortcut programs for the Psion, you do not need to have AppLink running in the background (or even installed) for AppLinks to work – they are handled by EPOC itself. Like PsiTrex yesterday, it was published as un-crippled shareware by KuDaTa in 2002 but their website has disappeared so I'm counting it as abandoned now also. Some other general website maintenancy stuff going on today too...
03/03/2005	Lost & Found...	Added PsiTrex to the ‘Lost & Found’ - Travel section. PsiTrex is a program to interface with the Garmin eTrex range of GPS (Global Positioning System) receivers. It was designed with the eTrex Summit model in mind, but is believed to work with the eMap and others in the eTrex range. PsiTrex allows waypoints, routes and tracks to be downloaded from the GPS and saved as text files on the Psion. These files can be modified in a standard text editor, and uploaded back to the GPS. PsiTrex also allows waypoints and routes to be typed in on the Psion, and uploaded directly to the GPS – much easier than using the buttons on the eTrex. It was published as un-crippled shareware by KuDaTa in 2002 but their website has disappeared so I guess it's abandoned now.
02/03/2005	Lost & Found...	Larry Mortlock asked me recently if I had copies of the Java documentation that was supplied on PsiWin CD's. I've uploaded a zip file containing a couple of documents to the ‘Lost & Found’ - Documents section.
01/03/2005	Software...	Kees van der Straten has very kindly made and contributed some dummy apps. that remove any combination of Data, Record, Sketch, and/or Spell from the Extras bar (although of course the applications are still installed and available for use). Since these are something new rather than old or 'lost' software, I've put them onto the Software page - many thanks Kees.
28/02/2005	Lost & Found...	Added MailArc to the ‘Lost & Found’ - 'Communications' section. MailArc is a message archiver for the Psion ER5 Email program. It enables received and sent emails and SMS messages to be stored in plain text files, for archiving or for subsequent import into the Psion Data application. It was published as un-crippled shareware by KuDaTa in 2002 but their website has disappeared so I guess it's abandoned now. My thanks to Lewis Barton for sending it to me.
26/02/2005	Lost & Found...	Many thanks to Andrew Moorhouse, Jon Baker, and Jonas Bark who sent me the apps. I asked about yesterday - I've now removed them from the 'Looking for...' section. Thanks guys. I'll upload these in a few days time. Today however, I've uploaded a set of instructions for making your own revo from scratch (!). ;¬) These were published by Psion USA I believe when the revo was first announced and was in short supply... Thanks to Volker Elbel for sending it in! I've also started a new 'Documents' page in the ‘Lost & Found’ section for puting things like this in.
25/02/2005	Lost & Found...	As promised a week or two ago, I've uploaded CalliGrapher to the 'Utilities' page in the ‘Lost & Found’ section. I've also uploaded an updater for the app. which takes it to it's final v1.1 version. CalliGrapher from Atelier was originally published commercially in 1998 and was the handwriting recognition software for EPOC. Even by today's standards, its accuracy is quite remarkable. However, Atelier stopped selling EPOC software 3 or 4 years ago and quit the PDA market entirely a couple of years ago as far as I can tell - hence its inclusion here as 'Abandonware' now. I've been meaning to write more here by way of a blogging update in recent weeks and months but never seemed to find the time. There's a few things I've been meaning to cover such as:- 1) the recent arrival of my 1Gb Ultra II SanDisk CF card. Whilst with judicious formatting its speeded up my d: drive access slightly, the main benefit is simply the extra capacity. Essentially it means plenty more space on my netBook for storing all the Pscience5 site and files! 2) The conversion to broadband at Guthrie towers a few months ago. That combined with setting up a 'proper' WiFi network has made my WiFi-enabled netBook an incredibly useful tool. It's truly become the 'connected' net Book that Psion originally envisioned. As and when there's more time, I plan to write a concluding section to my WiFi articles. 3) 'The Psion Nuclear Winter'. A subject that Lewis Barton and I have been knocking back and forth for a few weeks and another potential article as and when time permits... Oh and one other thing - I've added a couple of programs to the 'Looking for...' page in the ‘Lost & Found’ section: PsiTrex and AppLink. If anyone can help track those down for me I'd be very grateful.
24/02/2005	Lost & Found...	And here's Markus's second donated app: Phrase for SiBO. Now uploaded to the SiBO page of the ‘Lost & Found’ section.
23/02/2005	Lost & Found...	Markus Gruendel has kindly sent in a couple of SiBO apps. and I've uploaded the first of these - Berlitz - to the SiBO page of the ‘Lost & Found’ section. Thanks Markus.
21/02/2005	Lost & Found...	When Psion released the revo/revo+, one of the criticisms of it was that thay'd removed the Sketch app. from ROM. So Psion released a copy for users to install themselves if they wished. I've now uploaded this to the 'Applications' page of the ‘Lost & Found’ section.
20/02/2005	Lost & Found...	I've added a ‘Psion Files: SiBO’ page to the ‘Lost & Found’ section. Basically an upload of all the SiBO/Series 3 stuff available on Psion's download site.
19/02/2005	Lost & Found...	Back from Cannes - very tiring but worthwhile. So I'll be updating the website more regularly again. Added Empower to the ‘Lost & Found’ - PIM & Data section. Empower - written by Ian Leake in 1999 - is an integrated contact management suite offering contacts, task, and expense management.
15/02/2005	Lost & Found...	Added 5Pic to the ‘Lost & Found’ Utilities section. 5Pic is a Series 3.x pic file viewer for EPOC (originally for the Series 5). It'll let you view and print the images - as well as save them in EPOC mbm format. My apologies in advance if entries this week are slightly sporadic. I'm attending the 3GSM exhibition in Cannes and - ironically - my connectivity is somewhat limited. Normal service back next week!
13/02/2005	Lost & Found...	Added the support documents written by Psion (Ethernet User Guide, GPRS User Guide, ISDN User Guide, and ispWriter) for the netBook to the Psion EPOC section of the ‘Lost & Found’ pages.
12/02/2005	Lost & Found...	Added VReader5 to the ‘Lost & Found’ pages - Apps. VReader5 (by Jean Luc Damnet) is a vertical reader application - i.e. an eBook reader - and worthy competition for Simon Quinn's EBook application (also available as freeware from Simon's website). It allows you to display textual information, stored in eText (electronic text) files, in different orientations, in different font styles, to find and remember places in the text using bookmarks, use selected portions of the text into another application, much like you would do with a real book. VReader5 also works in conjunction with Peter Csutora's Encrypt-it! to enable access to encrypted files, and provides an automatic scrolling mode (autocue) for speakers. Supports TXT, TCR, and Palm Doc (PRC) formats. Was always published as freeware but Jean Luc's website has long disappeared.
11/02/2005	Lost & Found...	Added copies of the netBook OS IMG files to the Psion files section of the ‘Lost & Found’ pages. UK, US, French, German, and Spanish versions available together with optional component files for French, German, and Spanish.
10/02/2005	Lost & Found...	Frank Galenzowski also sent me two instruction/installation manuals for 2ConnectU in German. I've added this file (containing both pdf files) to the appropriate pages of the ‘Lost & Found’ pages.
09/02/2005	Lost & Found...	PsiBio added to the ‘Lost & Found’ pages ('Apps.' and 'All'). PsiBio is a biorhythm program for your Psion. The author is no longer active and no longer supports his program but has kindly given permission for PsiBio to be hosted here. My thanks to Frank Galenzowski for sending this app. and for discussing with the author. Frank also sent me a 'Wins' (emulator) version of PsiBio. Since the number of emulator-specific versions of programs that I'm being sent is increasing, I've opened up a 'Wins' section on the ‘Lost & Found’ page. So feel free to send in Wins versions of programs as well!
08/02/2005	Lost & Found...	I finished uploading all the Psion downloads site files to the ‘Lost & Found’ section and realised (and had pointed out to me!) that there's an immense amount of duplication on the different pages. Hence I've now reorganised it under a single 'EPOC' Psion downloads page to save unnecessary site pages and make the whole thing simpler.
06/02/2005	Lost & Found...	Finished the 5mx page and started adding the Series 5 and Series 7 pages...
05/02/2005	Lost & Found...	Okay, no sooner than I predict the demise of Psion's website than of course it picks itself back up and gets back to normal! So their download pages are available again. Serves me right! <grin> However, I'm going to continue uploading copies of all the (English language at least) files here. Probably more of a background activity now but I should have most stuff up in the next few days. Finished the revo page today and I've done most of the 5mx page as well...
04/02/2005	Lost & Found...	It looks like Psion's homepage at www.psion.com may have finally bitten the dust. It's been up and down a few times these past few weeks and today I note that it now redirects to Teklogix's site. This means that their downloads support for the EPOC machines also seems to be gone (there doesn't seem to be anything new on the Teklogix site). It rang alarm bells in my head when it started getting eratic a few weeks ago and so I grabbed snapshots of everything (I think) when I had the chance. Hence, I'm planning to upload copies of it all here over the next few days. I've started off with the (majority of) the revo downloads added to the ‘Lost & Found’ section. More in the next few days - please bear with me however as some of these are large uploads!
03/02/2005	Lost & Found...	Added Remapper to the ‘Lost & found’ (Utilities) page. Remapper - by Richard Reeve - is a utility for letting you re-map your keyboard and/or silkscreen keys. Handy if you use a lot of non-basic keyboard keys - or just want to re-assign application silkscreen keys to other applications. Written in 1998 and released as Freeware under GNU public license, Richard's website has long since disappeared.
02/02/2005	Lost & Found...	I've added a SiBO Section to the ‘Lost & Found’ pages. Basically, a few people asked me if I'd also be prepared to host Lost & Found SiBO (i.e. Series 3, 3a, 3c, 3mx) programs. I am - although my own ancient 3a lies broken at the back of a dusty drawer somewhere. So I'm happy to host the files - but must rely totally on what people send me and tell me about what they send. That said, please feel free to send anything you feel qualifies here. :¬) The 1st entry is a SiBO version of Mille Bornes - kindly contributed by Kees van der Straten.
01/02/2005	Lost & Found...	I've replaced 'Spy5' which came from Steve Litchfield's pages with 'Spy' on the ‘Lost & Found’ (Utilities) page which appears to be a marginally more recently version of the same thing (and installs via a .sis file!). Essentially it's a task manager/browser/tool - probably for advanced users only however. This version kindly sent in by Fritz Waechter.
31/01/2005	Macros...	Jonas Bark kindly sent me in a new macro he's written. 'LED' is a macro for controlling the LED on your Psion (5, 5mx, or MC218 only I assume). It handles 3 languages (English, French, German) as well as having a Morse code function and sound handling too. Uploaded to the Macros page. Thanks Jonas!
30/01/2005	Lost & Found...	Ivan Liesse kindly sent me a copy of MyCar. MyCar is a fuel monitoring program giving data about your fuel consumption, distances travelled, costs (fixed and variable),etc. The info can be displayed in graphs as well as numerically. Freeware and written by Ad Bosch in 1998, it's no longer available from a home website - so I've added to both the Travel and PIM/Database ‘Lost & Found’ pages.
29/01/2005	Macros...	Jan Palenicek (a.k.a. OSG) has again upgraded his OSGMacroSuite - this time to v2.02 - and I've uploaded it to the Macros page. Apparently there were some errors in the v2.01 he sent previously (see below) - hence the quick upgrade. OSGMacroSuite is a collection of very 8 nice macros. Specifically: Localize, MacroBookmark, Alarm Timer, Open With, netBook OSD menu, Compute, CopyPath, and JavaToggle. Complete instructions are included for each macro in EPOC Word documents as well as all the necessary OPX files. I've also added a 'Looking for...' section to the ‘Lost & Found’ pages. It's a list of software that I'm actively looking for in order to add it to the ‘Lost & Found’ collection. Please have a look and let me know if you can contribute anything - thanks! Similarly, if you are looking for a particular program that might fall into my ‘Lost & Found’ definition, let me know and if I can't find it I'll add it to the list...
28/01/2005	Lost & Found...	Added Max Westen's freeware adaption of Jon Read's classic original SameGame (which was renamed Cascade and included by Psion in the revo's ROM!) to the ‘Lost & Found’ pages. Max coloured the program for use on the S7/nB and made more use of the screen-space. Max's website still exists but - try as I might - it doesn't seem possible to get to his Psion page any longer.
27/01/2005	Lost & Found...	With the fairly rapid increase of programs and files in the ‘Lost & Found’ section, I've decided to re-organise the page into multiple pages for ease of navigation. There's still the one big long list of files but there are also sections by category in case you're looking for something specific. It'll probably get prettier in a few days time - it's a little 'bare-boned' just now - please bear with me. :¬) OTOH, don't be afraid to let me know what you think - whether you like it or not...
26/01/2005	Lost & Found...	By agreement with Steve Litchfield - he of 3-Lib fame - I've taken over the EPOC section of his PsiFind page and transferred the programs/files that I didn't already have to my ‘Lost & Found’ collection. Hence I've now added: AstroPlan, Clip5Art, MBMView (Emulator version), ParishFinder5, Spy5, TimeLog, and TimePlan to the ‘Lost & Found’ page and added OPLX32.zip to the Databases collection. Thanks Steve.
25/01/2005	Lost & Found...	Atelier released an update to Optimize (part of Essential Disk Utilities). I've now uploaded this upgrade to the ‘Lost & Found’ page - more details there.
24/01/2005	Lost & Found...	Gideon Jones-Davies kindly sent me in a copy of the Widget Leisure Pack designed for the revo/+. Must admit I don't think I realised that one had existed! Anyway, I've now added it alongside its bigger sibling on the ‘Lost & Found’ page. Thanks Gideon!
23/01/2005	Lost & Found...	Ooops! Volker Elbel at PsionWelt let me know that in fact Reto Beeler's Hol5 home page hasn't in fact disappeared but just moved! It's now at http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/beelerfamily/de/psion.htm I'll leave Hol5 on the Pscience5 site anyhow as the program gives permission for it to be hosted anywhere. However, I've certainly added the link to my Links page...
22/01/2005	Lost & Found...	Hol5 uploaded to the ‘Lost & Found’ page. Written by Jean Luc Damnet and Reto Beeler, Hol5 is a program for calculating holidays (e.g. national holidays) or other recurring events and for writing them to an EPOC agenda. The program was released in 1999 as freeware but the home site has long since disappeared. I notice that the site has just passed the ¼ million visitors mark since it was launched over 6 years ago. I'm also pleased to note that there's been an increase in the average number of daily and weekly visitors in recent months. So I guess I'm doing something right!
21/01/2005	Lost & Found...	Mark Needham - the MD at Widget and founder of Widget Software - has kindly given permission for the Widget Leisure Pack to be added to the site. This suite of games includes Bandit (a slot machine simulator), Castle (an interactive text adventure), Chomper (PacMan game), Palmtris (Tetris game), Poker, Solo (Solitaire), and Reversi (Othello game). It's been added to the ‘Lost & Found’ page. Thanks Mark!
20/01/2005	Macros...	Jan Palenicek (a.k.a. OSG) has upgraded his OSGMacroSuite to v2.01 and I've uploaded it to the Macros page. OSGMacroSuite is a collection of very 8 nice macros. Specifically: Localize, MacroBookmark, Alarm Timer, Open With, netBook OSD menu, Compute, CopyPath, and JavaToggle. Complete instructions are included for each macro in EPOC Word documents as well as all the necessary OPX files. Thanks Jan!
19/01/2005	Lost & Found...	ZXSpectrum emulator uploaded to ‘Lost & Found’ page - another former freeware offering from Palmtop (nowadays known as TomTom). Palmtop/TomTom no longer offer any EPOC software so hence its addition.
18/01/2005	Lost & Found...	EDU uploaded to the ‘Lost & Found’ page. Essential Disk Utilities from Atelier was effectively the 'Norton Utilities' of its time for EPOC. Atelier stopped selling EPOC software 3 or 4 years ago and quit the PDA market entirely a couple of years ago as far as I can tell. My emails to them have gone unanswered. Hence - and after considerable encouragement by various members of the EPOC community (and some soul-searching on my part) - I have decided to call it 'Abandoned' and offer it for download. I will probably upload Calligrapher similarly later this week. However, I don't imagine that I'll be able to do this with SimCity because of course Electronic Arts own some of the rights over the program.
17/01/2005	Palette...	Palette upgraded to v1.01! Cor van Avesaath kindly pointed out to me that Palette only worked properly on English OS machines. It now works on both English and German OS machines. If anyone wants it on other languages, please drop me an email - it's an easy change to make.
12/01/2005	Macros...	A few new or updated macros uploaded from Phil Aypee, Chris Handley, OSG, and even one from myself. All marked for ease of finding.
10/01/2005	Lost & Found...	Ulrich Hornstein has kindly sent in the original NotePad manual in Pdf together with some NotePad example files - neither of which I had previously. I've added these to the NotePad zip file on the ‘Lost & Found’ page. Many thanks Ulrich.
09/01/2005	Overlays...	More than 11Mb uploaded today! Keith Giles has been exceptionally busy and generated 18 different sets of overlay files for RoutePlanner to show where all the CityMaps are located in the following countries/regions: Austria, Benelux, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Scandinavia, Spain, and Switzerland. These augment the files previously sent in by David Steer for the UK. As with the UK files, Keith has generated both MS Excel spreadsheets and also EPOC Sheet files which list all the cities in each country/region together with which "master" CityMaps .sis file whould be extracted to see each city. These have all been added to the Overlays page - many thanks for all your hard work Keith!
06/01/2005	Colour Icons...	Yet further colour icons/patches kindly sent in by Tim Sneller, Matthew Walters, Fritz Waechter - and a large collection from Kees van der Straten. Many thanks gentlemen. The new icons/patches are: AgnPrint (alternative icon), BackUp, CodeSafe, D, Defrag5 (alternative icon), EasySwitch (alternative icon), EpocSync (alternative icon+patch), ExAb, Fonts (alternative icon), Groups, IconBOXX, InstCtrl, JB5Utils (alternative icon), Link.On, Macro5 (alternative icon), MagicKeys (alternative icon), MbmUtils, Menus5, MyCar, MyNotes, nCnvMIMEUI, nConvert, OPLError (alternative icon), PdbRead (alternative icon), plOpen (alternative icon), Procyon, Psolly (icon + patch), QuoteMyMail, ReDate (alternative icon), Restart, RMRFile (alternative icon+patch), RMRUtils (icon+patch), RMRZip (alternative icon+patch), Signature, Sink2, T5mdb (icon + patch), TasMan (alternative icon), VReader5 (alternative icon), WinMail This brings the total up to something like 387 replacement colour icons (aif files) and 134 colour patches for programs.
04/01/2005	Lost & Found...	Added Psion's Berlitz Phrase Book to the ‘Lost & Found’ page. Phrase Book was a commercial application that was originally released for the Psion Series 5/mx, but is also compatible with a Series 7 or Netbook (not sure about the revo - haven't checked, sorry). It no longer appears to be commercially available anywhere (including Psion's own site via Expansys) and so I'm making it available here - although I have seen it offered elsewhere as well. As its name suggests, its a phrase book - in this case for translating typical or common scenario phrases between 13 different languages.
21/12/2004	Compact Flash...	Stephan Richardson has sent in two large spreadsheets (one in MS Excel format, the other in EPOC Sheet) with his CF card measurements on his Series 5, 5mx, and Series 7. He's measured speeds on the following on each machine:- Internal memory, 10Mb CF, 32Mb CF, 48Mb CF, 64Mb CF, 96Mb CF, 128Mb CF, 320Mb CF, 512Mb CF, 340Mb IBM MicroDisk, 1Gb IBM MicroDisk. He's also included graphs comparing their performance and given complete formatting details. Both are now available for download on my Compact Flash page. Thanks Stephan!
20/12/2004	Articles...	A new article uploaded to the Articles section: 'Thinking of buying a PDA?'. A guest article by Jon Baker where he explores the options and choices available as well as the decisions to be made by a potential PDA/Smartphone buyer. Available for download in EPOC Word and MS Word formats for reading offline as well. Many thanks Jon!
17/12/2004	Lost & Found...	Procyon Pro updated and made freeware! Procyon X, Procyon XL, and ProcyonR for the 5/mx, 7/nB, and revo respectively are the astronomy programs from John Sussenbach and Pedro van Can. Previously John had released 'Light' versions of the 3 programs which could be updated to 'Pro' versions by the purchase of a shareware software key and adding extra files. He has now decided to make everything freeware however. Also, he has made some improvements to Procyon X and Procyon XL but - due to an issue with his ISP - he's been unable to update his website with any of this. I have repackaged the SIS installation files so that they now install the full 'Pro' version together with the appropriate key in one process. I have also included Pdf captures of John's website to help explain what the programs can do. My thanks go to Kees van der Straten for 'negotiating' this with John - and of course to John himself for agreeing to make these excellent programs free!
14/12/2004	Lost & Found...	Martin Maxwell's dpLatin program was recently made freeware and he suggested that I might like to host a copy here on Pscience5 - which of course I'm delighted to do! dpLatin is a searchable guide with more than 2000 common Latin terms and maxims in business, law, medicine, art and technology. It also contains commonly used quotes and maxims, most of which are of classic Roman and Greek origin. Also - because they contain multpile zip files - a number of the Colour Icon zip files were found to contain the WinZip v9.0 compatibility issue described yesterday. Hence the Colour Icon files for A-C, F, G-J, K-L, P, and Q-R have all been 'fixed' and re-uploaded. My thanks to Joost van der Hall for pointing out one of the files at fault.
13/12/2004	Lost & Found...	Finally got to the bottom of a problem that's been vexing me for a few weeks. I've had an increasing number of reports recently from various people about some of the zip files on Pscience5 being corrupt. I've been investigating and finally found the problem: all the files showing problems had been generated using RMRZip with the 'Archive type' accidentally set to 'Zip with icon' instead of 'Standard Zip'. I've tended to try and avoid this setting because of fears of possible incompatibility issues - and some of those fears have in fact now been realised. I'd not noticed any problems before because I'd been running WinZip v8.1 which didn't have a problem with either zip file setting. However, it turns out that WinZip v9.0 can't cope with the 'Zip with icon' type of file and reports it as corrupt (although apparently EPOC Navigator doesn't like it either). I guess that's the price of progress! Anyway, I've now upgraded to v9.0 of WinZip on all my PCs and been through a recent backup of all my zip files to check them. I've uploaded 'fixed' versions of: ConvertPro, Lifeplan, Master, and the 3 language versions of WAP on the ‘Lost & Found’ page as well as EasyDoc, Email_Reply, ExAb, FlMailList, JBBL, Look4It, Merger, NDcode, PlaySound, ShowMBM, SpellOK, TinyTime, WebTools, and Wendat on the Macros page. I think that's it - although I may have missed one or two - so please do let me know if you find any more zip files that appear to be corrupt.
09/12/2004		Minor site update - added a Colour Icons button above as another shortcut. One other piece of news - the Pscience5 site was nearing the 50Mb limit on its server. I discovered however that for a minimal charge I could get this increased to 800Mb! Hence I'm pleased to report that there is now plenty of space for storing all the contributions and suggestions that people might like to send in. <hint, hint>
08/12/2004	Lost & Found...	ResCodes (short for Resistor Codes) added to ‘Lost & Found’ page. Written by Gareth Clarke, it is a small program for working out the values of resistors and tolerances from their colour codes. Some other general site updates and maintenance today.
07/12/2004	Lost & Found...	My thanks to Fredrik Johansson who suggested this program for ‘Lost & Found’: 2ConnectU 2ConnectU was - as far as I can recall (or find out) - the commercial derivative sold by 2K systems of X-Soft's XConverter. Xconverter is/was a file conversion utility for EPOC - similar in function to nConvert from Neuon. 2K systems took this and added platform-independent connectivity with desktops using TCP/IP over the cable and using your desktop machine's web browser! Both 2K systems and X-Soft's websites appear to have gone offline in early 2002 and certainly all the emails I've sent to them recently have bounced. Hence 2ConnectU would appear to be 'abandonware'.
06/12/2004	Lost & Found...	Not so much ‘Lost & Found’ as ‘Not previously published’ (at least on the web)! Rolf Vonau is probably best know for being the author of 'DigestHandler' - a variant of which is used for the daily handling and publishing of The Digest (an EPOC / Symbian email digest - recommended if you've not seen it before). 'Groups' is a similar type of program for sending 'blind' email lists from your EPOC device. Rolf has kindly agreed for it to be published here.
04/12/2004	IconPatcher...	Jon Baker spotted that the version of IconPatcher that was actually v1.1 - instead of the v1.2 advertised on the IconPatcher page! I've now uploaded the correct version. Sorry about that - and thanks for letting me know Jon!
03/12/2004		I've added some more buttons at the top of this main home page to help ease the navigation process. So now there's direct click access to the Lost & Found, Macros, and Overlays pages.
03/12/2004	Lost & Found...	I've added Makeover.zip to the ‘Lost & Found’ and Overlays pages. Not to be confused with Richard Gee's MakeOver for EPOC program, this is a DOS command-line program for generating overlay files from text files and visa-versa. Originally published by PalmTop as freeware in 1997, the program seems to have long since disappeared.
02/12/2004	Overlays...	More than 20 new overlay files uploaded - for various countries and cities in Europe - again marked with a . These were kindly donated by Itamar Engelsman.
01/12/2004	Lost & Found...	Added a version of Mbornes for the revo to the ‘Lost & Found’ page. This was kindly sent in by Kees van der Straten - I hadn't even realised that there was a version for the revo!
30/11/2004	Overlays...	A few more overlay files - this time for London - marked with a . These ones kindly donated by David Steer. I still have quite a number of donated overlay files, icons, etc. in my inbox from various people and will try to get these up on the site as soon as possible - sorry for the delay!
29/11/2004	Lost & Found...	Henk de Koning tipped me off that there was a problem with the PowerPoint converters installation files for Presentation Maker. I've checked and some of the files were indeed missing - now fixed for download. Thanks Henk!
26/11/2004	Lost & Found...	Added Psion's Presentation Maker to the ‘Lost & Found’ page. Presentation Maker was a commercial application that was originally released for the Psion Series 5/mx, but is also compatible with a Series 7 or Netbook. It no longer appears to be commercially available anywhere (including Psion's own site via Expansys) and so I'm making it available here. Includes the necessary PsiWin converters and the original monochrome Clipart in English, Dutch, French, and German.
25/11/2004	Macros...	Itamar Engelsman has kindly sent in some macros that weren't in my current list. These have been added to the macros page and I've marked them with a icon to make them easier to find!
24/11/2004	Overlays...	Simon Dare kindly converted the Excel spreadsheet sent in yesterday to an EPOC Data file - I've added this to the Overlays page also.
23/11/2004	Overlays...	David Steer has kindly donated an Excel spreadsheet for all the UK CityMaps. It identifies all the UK towns (over 27,700 of them) and then details which of the sis files (108 of them) the town is in. Basically it helps you figure out which file to load for the town you're looking for. He's also sent in an overlay file to name all the CityMaps on Route. Both are on the Overlays page.
22/11/2004	Previous home page entries...	This main Pscience5 index page was beginning to overflow with entries so in order to try and manage this better, I've created an 'previous entries' page that can be accessed at the bottom of the page (or clicking on the link to the left here).
15/11/2004	Overlays...	Finished off the TomTom Overlays page - added overlays for Sweden, Switzerland, UK, and USA. Now totals more than 200 different overlays.
12/11/2004	Overlays...	More overlays added today: rest of Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, and Spain. More next week...
11/11/2004	Overlays...	If you've been following any of the discussion at PDAStreet about TomTom's overlay files for RoutePlanner/CityMaps/etc. then you'll know that I've now got all of these files. I've added an 'Overlays' page to the site (see the Software section) and have started uploading them. Overlays for Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, and some of Germany have been added so far...
10/11/2004	Software...	Phil Aypee has kindly sent a file of quotes which I've added to the Databases page. Some other minor site updates.
08/11/2004	Software...	And yet more colour icons/patches (kindly sent in by Fritz Waechter). I have also split some of the zip files again as some were getting too large for easy download. The new icons/patches are: BatGauge (icon + patch), Compass (icon + patch), DCalc (icon x2 + patch x2), Dcustom (icon), HtmlDesigner (icon + patch), iBattery (icon), Navigator (another icon), Ocean (icons + patches for 5/mx and S7/nB versions), OpmMbm (colour patches for scroll bars), Px (icon), Quiz (icon), SafePlace (another icon + patch), SaveMail (icon), Scuba (icon), SunStar (icon + patch), TripPlus (icon), VRule (icon + patch). This brings the total up to something like 352 replacement colour icons (aif files) and 128 colour patches for programs. He's also kindly supplied a set of replacement clipart/maps for use with Presentation - in colour of course. These are provided as a separate download.
05/11/2004	Software...	I've upload iBattery - by Ken Emmanuel - to the ‘Lost & Found’ page. It's a battery monitor for the netBook and Series 7 machines. It monitors your main battery, analyses how you use your Psion over time, and provides a range of statistics which are missing in the standard Psion power information dialog - as well as providing a graphical view. The program was originally shareware but I've been unable to contact its author and his website appears to be abandoned so I believe this is now 'Abandonware'.
03/11/2004	Software...	More colour icons/patches kindly sent in by Simon Dare, Markus Heinermann, Matthew Walters, and Fritz Waechter). And there are more in my inbox for sorting and uploading so expect to see more in a few days - I may need to split some of the zip files again as some are getting quite large. Anyway, the new icons/patches are: Agenda+ (icon + patch), BridgePro (patch), BusyView (patch), BusyView (alternative patch), ChemTools (icon + patch), EpocDos (icon), FinCalc (alternative icon + patch), FinCalc5 (icon), Gen5 (icon + patch), iContacts (patch), iContacts (alternative patch), KMBuch5 (icon + patch + screenshots), Kylom (patch - for use in Kylom apps. such as Porfolio), Logit (icon + patch), MoonClock (2 versions of patch - to colour the moon!), Phrase (alternative icon), PsiTris (icon + patch), Psolly (patch), RMRMonth (icon + patch), SolitaireDX (alternative icon + patch). This brings the total up to something like 334 replacement colour icons (aif files) and 114 colour patches for programs.
01/11/2004	Software...	Added M5Logger - a mileage logging program - to the ‘Lost & Found’ page. Minor updates to the Links page also.
29/10/2004	Software...	Added DstEdit and DCustom to the ‘Lost & Found’ page - both programs from Makesure Services again.
28/10/2004	Software...	Added DsLink to the ‘Lost & Found’ page. DsLink is a Windows program that allows your Psion to use your PC's internet connection (broadband, dial-up, etc,).
27/10/2004	Software...	Added Psion/Symbian's (text) Editor program to the ‘Lost & Found’ page. Not really lost - but thought it'd be useful to have a copy handy...
25/10/2004	Software...	I've now finished uploading, cataloguing, and sorting the bulk of the macros for the macros collection page - by macro name and author. There are now more than 150 macros available for use. I'm still actively looking for more/new macros to add to the collection so please feel free to let me know where there are more and/or to send them.
21/10/2004	Software...	Doubled the number of macros in the Macro Collection to over 80 - more to follow. Added a few more links to the Links page...
20/10/2004	Software...	As mentioned yesterday, I've started uploading macros harvested from Pascal Nicolas's site and others. I've added a new 'Macros' page in the software section of the site. I'm only about a third of the way through them so far and they're not sorted yet - but at least there's something there to look at and download...
19/10/2004	Links...	More than a dozen new links added to the Links page. This brings the total up to more than 150 validated Psion links. I note - with some sadness - that Pascal Nicolas's site has gone offline (I've left the link for the time being in case it's just temporary). Fortunately, I grabbed all the macros from it a few weeks ago and I'll be building a replacement macros page here at Pscience5 over the coming days/weeks - stay tuned... Also, I'm looking for beta testers for the revo version of Macro5. It's early days yet and this beta only fixes the 'small' view and the task switcher so that they're both visible (the latter still needs to be re-sized better for the revo screen) - but at least the program is now usable on the revo. If you'd like a copy, please send an email to macro5 AT pscience5 DOT net (replacing the AT and DOT appropriately of course).
18/10/2004	Software...	Added Lifeplan to the ‘Lost & Found’ page. "Lifeplan is an advanced personal information manager (PIM). It allows tasks to be sorted and filtered in up to 40 user-specified views. Tasks can cascade in an outline-like structure..." So said the blurb from Lexden Computer Services before they moved websites and lost all previous references to Lifeplan. However, they were offering it with a free registration code latterly and have kindly given permission for me to offer it here again with that same registration code.
17/10/2004	Software...	Added the latest/last versions of 'Web' optimised for the S7/netBook and revo/mako to the ‘Lost & Found’ page. Slight update to the Links page - a few new links added.
15/10/2004	Software...	Added the latest version of the Psion WAPBrowser to the ‘Lost & Found’ page. Installations for English, French, and German.
14/10/2004	Software...	Added ConvertPro to the ‘Lost & Found’ page. ConvertPro - by Purple Software - is an extensible conversions program for all EPOC machines. It handles conversions for Acceleration, Area, Circles, Currency, Dates, Density, Energy, General Constants, Illuminance, Length, Mass, Multiples, Permutations, Power, Pressure, Temperatures, VAT Calculations, Velocity, and Volumes as standard. I've also included a importable category covering WeightWatchers Points. It was originally a commercial product but was given away for free by Purple after a while - hence why I've included it here. If anyone has any additional categories of their own, please feel free to send them to me and I'll include them in this download file.
07/10/2004	Hints & Tips...	Some minor additions to the Hints & Tips and Links pages today...
05/10/2004	Software...	Mark Whiskin kindly pointed out that the registration code supplied for Invasion on my ‘Lost & Found’ page didn't work. I've uploaded a revised version which does (I've checked this time!). Sorry for any inconvenience - and thanks again to Mark.
30/09/2004	Software...	Uploaded MasterMind to ‘Lost & Found’ page. MasterMind was written and released as freeware by the late Lieuwe de Vries in 1997. It is the classic Mastermind game using letters - 4, 6, or 8 different letters - to represent the different possible colour combinations (it was written prior to colour EPOC machines). In re-releasing it here, all I have done is re-package his original manual installation into a SIS file for ease of use and added the option of installing colour icon files (kindly supplied by Fritz Waechter). NB: The colour toolbar icons don't appear properly on colour machines as Lieuwe did not use masking when he wrote the program originally - it wasn't necessary on a monochrome machine. The program was written for the Psion Series 5 but will also work on a 5mx, Ericsson MC218, and netPad. It will also work on a Series 7 or netBook in 'letterbox' mode. It won't work on a revo/mako as it won't correctly fit the screen.
28/09/2004	Software...	Thanks largely to the efforts of Phil Aypee, I'm pleased say that contact's been made with the family of the late Lieuwe de Vries - and they've kindly consented to his programs being released freely to the EPOC community in his memory. Hence my earlier release of MBMView is now legitimate and I've just uploaded a copy of his BusyView program + reg. code to the ‘Lost & Found’ page. BusyView gives 4 additional views for your Agenda file(s): Busy view, Calendar view, List view, and Horizontal view.
25/09/2004	Software...	Uploaded the IMAP4 patch from Psion to the ‘Lost & Found’ page. It lets you use IMAP4 email with your ER5 email program.
21/09/2004	Articles...	I wrote a review back in March of this year of DreamConnect - the Contacts replacement program. It was intended to be published around that time as a comparative review alongside Craig Murphy's review of iContacts at Foxpop. Due to Foxpop going offline at that time, it was never published. Here it is - slightly updated.
20/09/2004	Software...	I've released an unsupported beta of a little utility. APDialer (or more fully 'Airport Dialer') is an early beta of a Java utility that I've written a basic EPOC front-end for. It provides dial-up control of an Apple Airport WiFi Access Point when using its 56K modem. I wrote this months ago intending to improve it for a proper release. However, with the impending arrival of ADSL at Guthrie Towers, that's not likely to happen. Rather than condemn it to unpublished hell, here it is - somewhat clunky and fairly unsupported for anyone that wants it.
17/09/2004	Software...	Links for two versions of nZip added to the ‘Lost & Found’ page today. Also minor additions made to the Links page.
16/09/2004	Software...	Two more programs added to the ‘Lost & Found’ page: Mbornes5 and Mbornes7 - for Series 5 and Series 7 type machines respectively. Also, the 'M' colour icons file I uploaded yesterday was corrupt - my apologies. I've uploaded a new one. Thanks to Toni Woodward for pointing this out.
15/09/2004	Software...	More colour icons/patches from Fritz Waechter. I've also split the zip files down further to make downloading easier - there are now 8 individual download zips instead of the original 4. Anyway, the new icons/patches are: CronTab (alternative version), DriveMap, Feiertag, Fonts, Invaders, Julian (alternative version), LineCount, MakeLink, MyEpoc (alternative version), Problem, Puzzle, ReDate, Regedit, RevTran, RuR (+ patch), Shortcut, SolitaireDX (+ patch), VoiceMan5 (alternative version), Webcol.
10/09/2004	Articles...	I've written a new article: Using PsiDat to run your website. It describes how it's possible to use Kevin Millican's excellent (and free) PsiDat application to create and maintain a website from your EPOC machine.
09/09/2004	Software...	ebc has been upgraded to v1.09. I've increased the number of installed programs that ebc can handle from 200 to 500. I discovered that the program would crash if you had more than 200 programs installed and you selected the 'Single Application' button.
08/09/2004	Software...	Another program added to the ‘Lost & Found’ page: FixIt. Purple Software's freeware phone number update program. Originally released to coincide with the UK's 'Big Number' change in 2000, FixIt is designed to update phone numbers stored in your Data or Contacts database to reflect changes to area dialling codes.
07/09/2004	Software...	Two new files added to the ‘Lost & Found’ page: 1) The beta (well, alpha really...) Ethernet drivers originally released by Psion for the Series 7 - reported to work on the mBook also. 2) The TCP/IP updates released by Psion to fix the 'Port 135' issue that could sometimes lock up Opera, etc. Also includes the IrLAN drivers.
06/09/2004	Software...	Fritz Waechter has been busy again and tweaked his colour patch for 'Invasion' again. So for all you die-hard Invasion fans, this has now replaced the file in the Colour Icons file and on the ‘Lost & Found’ page. :¬)
03/09/2004	Software...	Prar kindly pointed out that there were problems on the Clock5 download page (like - perhaps - actually being able to download the programs for example!). Now all fixed I think. My apologies to anyone that also had problems with this. Also a minor update to the Links page.
02/09/2004	Software...	Fritz Waechter has been extremely busy recently and sent me a collection of more than 80 colour icons and more than 25 colour patches to add to the Colour Icons collection. I've now done this and uploaded them. The files are getting pretty large so I'll probably reorganise them later this week. Anyway, this now brings the collection up to some 303 replacement colour icons (aif files) and 94 colour patches for programs. Thanks Fritz!
01/09/2004	Software...	Two more programs from PelicanSoft added to the ‘Lost & Found’ page: Charmap is a freeware utility similar to Character Map in Windows and Logit - kindly sent in by Andrew Moorhouse - is a client/customer time logging and management program.
28/08/2004	Articles...	I've written and uploaded a brief article called 'GPS on a netBook'. It describes my recent experiences of using a CF GPS card on my netBook. Downloadable in zipped EPOC Word format.
27/08/2004	Software...	Added 'NotePad' and a set of NotePad plugins to the ‘Lost & Found’ page.
26/08/2004	Software...	Fritz Waechter has very kindly generated a replacement colour icon and graphics patch for Invasion (see the ‘Lost & Found’ page). I've added this to the appropriate downloadable colour icon/graphics file as well - but at 296Kb for that file, I thought people might like an individual download too!
25/08/2004	Links...	A couple more links added to the Links page - one of which is for the new @FOXPOP website, the re-incarnation of FoxPop. Well worth a visit and I'll be contributing more articles there myself over the coming weeks and months.
23/08/2004		Back from my hols - to a deluge of email! Even after I've filtered all the spam and viral email, I've got over 60 emails to read and/or respond to. Please bear with me for a few days whilst I get that done... Thanks, MG.
06/08/2004		Please note that I'm now on vacation until 22nd August. I probably won't be checking my email during this period and there certanily won't be any site updates. I will be taking my trusty netBook with me however as I've got plenty EPOC stuff to be getting on with whilst I'm away! :¬)
03/08/2004	Links...	A couple more links added to the Links page...
30/07/2004	Software...	Another program added to the ‘Lost & Found’ page: Invasion by Thomas Ashton.
28/07/2004	Software...	Added a couple more programs to the ‘Lost & Found’ site: Encore and SafePlace - both ex. freeware from Palmtop (now TomTom). Also a few new links added to the Links page.
27/07/2004	Software...	One thing I forgot to mention yesterday was that Space Invader5 has been updated slightly - it now plays in colour on Series7, netBook, etc.! I haven't gone bug hunting in the code yet so there are still a few 'funnies' going on - but it does look a lot better on the big screen. And (at long last!) the final piece of site maintenance: the VoiceMan5 and Wallpaper pages have been ported over to the new PsiDat format. That means that the whole site is now maintained on - and from - my netBook. It's uploaded (wirelessly over WiFi of course!) direct to my website - doesn't even get a whiff of a PC! ;¬) A few people have asked me to write an article describing how this is done (i.e. how you can use PsiDat to do this) and this is something I'm planning on doing quite soon. In any case, I can now concentrate on some more interesting stuff over the next few weeks...
26/07/2004	Software...	Ewan Spence has kindly donated some more colour icons (.aif files) for brightening up our colour ER5 machines: Defrag5, Mappergb, OplError, Orga, and Tactile. These've been added to the files on the Colour Icons pages. And more site maintenance: the Palette, Space Invader5, and Toggle! pages have been ported over to the new format.
23/07/2004	Software...	More site maintenance: the IconPatcher, MCI, and psAddle pages have all been ported over to the new format.
22/07/2004	Software...	More programs added to the ‘Lost & Found’ page: MBMView, SoundTrans, and Symlink - all with generic registration codes. To find out why and for further details, see the page.
20/07/2004	Software...	More site maintenance: the Clock5, Clock6, and Project Galactic Guide pages have all been ported over to the new format.
19/07/2004	Software...	As promised a few weeks ago, I've added a new page for collecting old or forgotten EPOC programs. Hence, 'Lost & Found' is: "A collection of EPOC software that was at risk of evaporating into the ether without trace. If you're looking for a specific program and can't find it, have a look here. Alternatively make a suggestion for appropriate candidates to be added to the collection. It'd be a shame for all those hard-developed bits & bytes to go to waste...!" To start the collection off in a non-controvercial fashion (that may change soon enough!), 'Clueless' by Damien Lewis is a freeware crossword program capable of importing and running standard crossword format files...
15/07/2004	Articles...	My article on Digital Cameras has been updated and ported to the new format (as has my Hardware & Software page). A few new links added to the Links page also.
13/07/2004	Software...	... and now the Colour Icons page has been ported over to the new format too. Fed up with a drab looking Extras bar on what's supposed to be an all-singing, all-dancing colour machine? Would you like to replace all the grayscale icons on the Extras bar of your Psion Series 7 / netBook / netPad with colour ones? Here's a collection of icons to let you do just that! Also separate colour patches available for Atelier's SimCity, Psion Monopoly, and EPOC Email synchronisation.
12/07/2004	Articles...	The Compact Flash page has now been ported over to the new site format. Want to know how to double the usable formatted capacity of your 16Mb CF card? Or how to double the speed of your 96Mb card? This page describes in some detail the different ways of formatting CF cards and the techniques for optimising the capacity of smaller cards and the speed of larger cards.
08/07/2004	Software...	I've updated the Database page (on the Software page) to the new style and added a number of new useful databases. The page is also now dedicated to the memory of Darryl Kempster who was brutally murdered in South Africa in June 2004. Darry was a long-time Psion user and contributed a number of the files on the page. Also transitioned all the Infrared pages (on the Articles page) over to the new format.
01/07/2004	Articles...	Another article that I wrote for FoxPop about a year ago. This one describing Simon Quinn's EBook program and exploring the slightly clandestine topic of illicit eBooks!
29/06/2004	Links...	Quite a bit of website activity continuing in the background just now. Nothing to announce just yet - apart from a few more links added to the Links page in the past few days... :¬)
25/06/2004		I've now replaced the drop-down navigation menu at the top of all the new Pscience5 pages with some nice (and easier to use) animated buttons.
24/06/2004	Articles...	I've converted a number of the old pages over to the new format (e.g. 'Why Write Freeware?', 'Hints & Tips', and the 'Newsletter' page) and also added a couple of things that I originally published on the FoxPop website last year. The first of these is my article on why I returned to using EPOC (entitled 'Back to the Future with a netBook') and secondly a series of articles about using WiFi on a netBook. See the 'Articles' page for more details.
21/06/2004	Links...	Finally finished re-qualifying and updating everything on the Links page - whew! Added a few new links too. I've removed the old 'Commercial Links' page since there weren't that many companies that it still applied to and added those that were still relevant into the main Links page. Also removed the old 'Link to Pscience5' page and added appropriate details to the bottom of the new Links page. However the upshot of this - as planned - is that it's now much easier to maintain it, add new links, etc. So send your EPOC/Psion link on down to me now! ;¬)
17/06/2004	Links...	Started sorting through all the old links (and links images) that I had on the old site today. Sad to see so many of the former once-great Psion web sites that simply no longer exist (e.g. 5-Alive, PlanetEpoc, PlanetRevo, PsionKing, RevoAtHome, StartAtEpoc, etc., etc.). Made me realise how important it is therefore to a) capture those that are still around, and b) save some of the software (especially freeware) that's fading into the ether... To that end I'm a) in the process of re-qualifying my EPOC links page and switching it over to the new 'PsiDat' format, and b) starting to collect 'lost but not forgotten' EPOC software with a view to starting a page to host these programs on. Bear with me while the Links page gets re-built over the next few days - you can browse it as a 'work in progress' now.
15/06/2004	Software...	Pscience5 is back - and with a new look! I've switched from generating the Pscience5 pages using M$ FrontPage on a PC to Kevin Millican's quite excellent PsiDat on my netBook (at last, ahem - I've been talking with him about doing it for almost a year!). The upshot of this is that there'll be a lot more regular updates than there have been recently. The list of my software has moved to a new Programs page and my articles have gone to an Articles page - things will just be generally better organised. :¬) Use the Quick Navigation Menu above to jump to the various sections until I get some nicer buttons organised. This home page will become more newsy and bloggy in style. The other pages on the site will also gradually transition over to the new style in the coming days and weeks in preparation for some new content so my apologies if it looks a little 'lean' just now but it will start to grow very, very soon... :¬)
15/06/2004	Macro5...	As many of you may have noticed from the FreEPOC web site, I've updated Pascal Nicolas's Macro5 program to v2.45 in order to support colour and the netBook/Series 7/etc. larger screens. I'm working on revo compatibility and a few other things now...
15/06/2004	ebc...	Again, as you may have seen from the FreEPOC site, ebc has been upgraded to v1.08 to reflect the new Macro5 icon from the updated version of Macro5 (above).