View from the Potting Shed

Here’s a top tip for you: if you are going to leave your Velux (roof) window open overnight in your study while there is a torrential storm raging outside don’t leave your Psion Series 7 sitting beneath it on your desk because by the morning it will have stopped working properly.
It’s also not a great […]

I’ve been meaning to blog this for ages; someone on one of the Psion groups pointed me to it.
It’s a small application that I now use when synchronizing my Psion Series 5mx (or Psion Series 7) with Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 called Express ClickYes.
Longtime Psion users will remember that synchronizing their Agenda and Contacts with […]

“Our landlord Earth” from the 3D True Gallery.
A few minutes ago I checked my email. Not a very remarkable thing to do on a Wednesday evening, I check my email quite often. However, this evening I got this email in my Outlook Inbox:
On Sunday I googled “Psion 3c” for tips on how to […]

Spot the difference: The difference between the Lucent Orinoco WiFi card and the Buffalo AirStation cards in a Psion 7Book.
This evening I installed a new (to me) WiFi card in my Psion 7Book. Out went the Lucent Orinoco Gold (above left); in went the Buffalo AirStation WLI-PCM-L11GP (above right).
The main difference, as you can […]

Ah! the irony! So many people email me about their problems with PsiWin, the connection and synchronization software for the Psion range of handheld computers, it was about time that I had problems too!
My problem: for some reason during the last synchronization PsiWin copied all my contacts twice, so that I had two entries […]

Who says that clergy don’t have interesting and varied days? Not me, for one.
Mine began, as usual, waking up to the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4. When I got up, boy was I sore from weights and cycling the last two days. Having read something the other night in a small […]

The Psion Series 7 as featured in PC Plus magazine, November 2005.
The Good News: The Psion Series 7 appeared in this month’s PC Plus magazine.
The Bad News: It was in an article entitled “Tech Misses”. It came in at number 48 out of 50. Here’s what they had to say:
PSION’S FINAL HOUR
Psion Series […]