View from the Potting Shed

Chris Cooper has launched a new wiki for Psion enthusiasts/users. It’s called PsionWiki.
For those who don’t know, a wiki is a website that you can join, login to and create/edit the information on it.
If you’re a Psion user and want to contribute, then get over to http://psionwiki.wikidot.com/ and get involved.

I spotted this on I Want One Of Those. It’s the Scotty Pro solar charger from German company Solarc.
Pop this little solar charging beauty in direct sunlight for a few hours and it will charge up its rechargeable AA batteries enabling it to power up your mobile phone, games console, MP3 player, digital camera or […]

Ah, yes. Here’s my favourite user-unfriendly Windows dialog.
This is what you get when you try to synchronize Microsoft Outlook with a Psion 5mx using Psion’s very own PsiWin 2.3.3 and have deleted quite a few of the entries before synchronization:

For those of you who can’t read tiny, compressed images of text, it says:
Synchronizer
The […]

Over the last couple of months, whenever I have taken out my Psion Series 5mx in public there has always been someone who oohs and ahhs over it and asks if this will be the next big thing. They’re often quite surprised when I say that it was manufactured over seven years ago in […]

Here’s the question that I know you’ve all be asking yourselves: will PsiWin 2.3.3 synchronize with Microsoft Outlook 2007?
Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 expires in nine days time on Friday 2 February so I thought it was high time that I checked to see if the fairly ancient Psion software of PsiWin 2.3.3 — released […]

Good news
This morning I took delivery of my Psion Series 7Book, returning as it did from POS Ltd in London almost two months after I sent it for repair. It seems traditional in some quarters at such times as these to complain bitterly about such poor service and vow never to use them again. But […]

When I typed the word “slow” into stock.xchng this is what I got: an image of fast cars travelling at night!
At last things are improving at Saunders HQ, certainly in terms of my health. My dizziness has almost completely gone and yet I still seem to have about a month’s worth of anti-dizzy pills left, […]