View from the Potting Shed

I’m trying to determine if I can post to my blog from my Psion 7Book. It appears that I can’t from within Opera 5.14, I’m now trying the Psion Web application. Poor show if I can’t … It appears that I can post from Web, I can edit previous posts, but I can’t […]

When my PC went down a couple of weeks ago my trusty Wi-Fi-ed Psion Series 7Book came to the rescue for instant-on web access, email and even MSN.
That was my great discovery the week before I trashed my hard drive, and just in time too. MSN2Go is “the world’s first free web-based MSN client […]

I will need to update this blog to WordPress 1.5 sooner rather than later. I’ve just discovered that for some unknown reason I can’t post to this blog from my WiFi-ed Psion 7Book (did I tell about that?!). WP1.5 works fine, however.

At last, I now have WiFi working on my Psion 7Book! Ian Robertson from The Wireless Store sent me a couple of WiFi cards to try, in exchange for the one that didn’t work, a BreezeNET and another Lucent Orinoco Gold, and the latter did the trick.
I now have full WiFi internet access on […]

The Proxim Orinoco Gold 802.11b PC Card that I ordered on eBay arrived this morning. How excited was I, as I tore open the packaging? I fired up my browser, added the MAC address of the card to my WiFi security access panel, popped the card into the Psion 7Book’s PCMCIA slot and […]

A couple of nights ago I found on eBay a Psion Series 7 ROM upgrade chip for the bargain price of £45 + P&P.

This piece of silicon magic instantly upgrades the Psion Series 7 to a Psion netBook, giving more memory, unlocking a faster processor speed (upped from 132.71 MHz to 191.692 MHz), and allowing […]

Nigel left this comment on my site: “I’ve also managed to get another Psion Series 7 (I missed the old one) so any news on your own experiences would be appreciated!”
On 3 June I took delivery of this second-hand Psion Series 7. A month later, how am I getting on?

Well, close followers of my […]