newtontalk-digest V2 #853"dvvr\TEXTR*ch.^ϴ^Subject: newtontalk-digest V2 #853 Date: 4/8/1999 5:10 AM Received: 4/8/1999 12:04 PM From: newtontalk-digest, owner-newtontalk-digest@esosoft.com Reply-To: newtontalk@esosoft.com To: newtontalk-digest@esosoft.com Questions about the list? Send email to . The NewtonTalk website is http://www.newtontalk.com. ***** This month of NewtonTalk is sponsored by: Steve Weyer -- author of Newt's Cape (web browser and book creator), NewtDevEnv (Newton-based app development), Sloup (text/data transfer), and more: http://members.bellatlantic.net/~sweyer/newton/index.htm. newtontalk-digest Thursday, April 8 1999 Volume 02 : Number 853 Ntlk Re: Doonsbury cartoons [Jim Witte ] Ntlk Re: Synchronization/Now Up To Date - Contact ["paul moshay" ] Ntlk Re: HTHG screen format [Jim Witte ] Ntlk URGENT! ASSISTANCE NEEDED! [Kiran Wagle ] Re: Ntlk Re: Doonsbury cartoons [Bill Davis ] Re: Ntlk Re: Hitchhikers' Guide ["Ted Mills" ] Ntlk Re: Hitchhikers Guide ["Sean Sackett" ] RE: Ntlk Re: Synchronization [Carmelo Manganaro ] Ntlk Pocket Call [roberto ferrucci ] Ntlk Cleaning the lint-free cloth... [Jim Witte ] RE: Ntlk Re: Doonsbury cartoons [brian.tiplady@acru.gb.astra.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 02:27:44 -0400 From: Jim Witte Subject: Ntlk Re: Doonsbury cartoons How many of them are in the ROMs as Easter Eggs? Jim ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 23:29:38 +0100 From: "paul moshay" Subject: Ntlk Re: Synchronization/Now Up To Date - Contact > Unfortunately, I also don't expect such a program to be written. My marketing hint ot the moment would be that a huge opportunity exsists in the Mac PIM world with the void left by Now Up to Date/Now Contact being gobbled up by Qualcomm (who is now being digested by Ericsson). I have tried demo's of almost everything out there. Imho and and a few of my mac tech support ppl's, everything else out there now for the mac is awful and looks hideous. Now UTD/C really was one of the initial reasons I grativated to the Mac. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 02:39:02 -0400 From: Jim Witte Subject: Ntlk Re: Hitchhikers' Guide Hi, I found a package called "Don't Panic" (I think that was the original title of HGTG) somewhere, I'll put it on my web site tomorrow if anybody want's it. It said it was mp2k only, but I don't know if that's just because it's big, or if there were other problems... Jim http://www.denison.edu/~witte_j/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 02:54:59 -0400 From: Jim Witte Subject: Ntlk Re: HTHG screen format Hi, *Now* I see why it says MP2K (that's what I get for responding before reading all the posts..) Is there a way to "decomile" a book package and re-compile it for a smaller screen? Jim ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 02:54:11 -0400 From: Kiran Wagle Subject: Ntlk URGENT! ASSISTANCE NEEDED! >From: Chris Georges > >Is there a way to insert a memory card and _not_ have its packages load, >yet still selectively delete items from it? First, remove the card. Struggle with the OS till all the things that claim to "need" it are finished with it. Curse the people who didn't put an "unmount" command in the Card manager. Then, hold the pen down along the left edge of the display--about a half-inch in from the edge of the screen. Insert the card. When you see a dialog asking if you want to activate its packages, choose "no". (This works for the whole system if you do it when you reboot--you're asked about the internal packages as well as the ones on cards.) ~ Kiran - -- 1628 5th St NW Wash DC 20001 (202) 483-3373 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 01:59:10 -0500 From: Bill Davis Subject: Re: Ntlk Re: Doonsbury cartoons >How many of them are in the ROMs as Easter Eggs? > >Jim None. BUT....Gary Trudeau apparently did a special cartoon for certain specific Newton models (I think only the 130 and perhaps the 2000; my 2100 doesn't have it). It does look at lot like the last frame of one of the original cartoons, though. As I recall, the egg is found by writing "Egg Freckles" in the Notes application and then tapping the "Assist" icon. Someone (Avi Drissman?) did a special package that added this cartoon to Newtons that don't have it, or perhaps re-enabled the easter egg...can't recall for sure though; it's late, I'm going to bed. I'm sure someone else here remembers where it is and will chime in with the answer. 'Nite all! - Bill Davis Visit my new Newton web site, NewtInTouch at http://george.ecity.net/~newton/ or my nifty new, easier-to-remember address: http://surf.to/NewtInTouch/ It's new, so there are still some raw edges. Let me know what you think ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 16:04:10 +0900 From: "Ted Mills" Subject: Re: Ntlk Re: Hitchhikers' Guide > Hi, > > I found a package called "Don't Panic" (I think that was the original > title of HGTG) somewhere, I'll put it on my web site tomorrow if anybody > want's it. Yes, please!! - -- Ted Mills ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 02:18:39 -0600 From: "Sean Sackett" Subject: Ntlk Re: Hitchhikers Guide > On Thursday, April 8, 1999 7:50:08 AM, someone claiming to be Paul > Nuernberger wrote in a message entitled: re: Ntlk Re: Hitchhikers Guide: > >> This a newtonbook formatted version of Douglas Adams' hilarious book (of same > name), and was last available through Newton Versions www.dnug.dk/versions/ > , although it may be >> available elsewhere. >> > I checked the Newton versions website but unable to find the Hitchhikers > guide. Any other URLs? I have what I believe you are looking for. If anyone wants it, it will be available at my web page: http://home.earthlink.net/~cyberleader The page is very bare right now, just put it together with earthlinks cheezy click&build thing... gotta get a good webpage editor.. - --Sean _____________________________________________________ From the Wicked PowerBook G3 300 of: Sean M. Sackett sacketts@colorado.edu Undergrad in Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder _____________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 15:52:53 +0100 From: Carmelo Manganaro Subject: RE: Ntlk Re: Synchronization >On a similar note, does anyone know how Lookout (which I >use, for which I got the reg for free, which nobody else >seems to have been able to do) does its thing? It synchs >just fine, after all... Of course, only Dates and Names, but >still, that's a huge help for my PC desktop integration, ya >know? Does anybody know where to download Lookout from? Regards Carmelo )|( (o o) - -----------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo---- Carmelo Manganaro 126 Garfield Road Wimbledon London SW19 8SB United Kingdom Tel./Fax: 0181-540 1052 Pager: 07654-573 826 Home Page: www.manganaro.freeserve.co.uk Do you know that there is a London Macintosh User Group in London? Point your Browser at: www.lmug.org.uk - ----------------------------ooO-----Ooo----- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 11:03:15 +0200 From: Marco Mailand Subject: Re: Ntlk Other - liquid under casing At 21:00 07.04.99 +0200, you wrote: >If I were you I'd put the MP into the (oven? Where you put your turkey in >at christmas) and "bake" it at 50 degrees celsius or so for a couple of >hours. >That temperature shouldn't harm the machine, but maybe convince the liquid >to get lost. Another remark from me is: Do never use your MP if you see a few pixel rows or columns disappearing from the display or if you feel they loose contrast. Switch it off. It might be that the LCD driver circuits get blown-up by the additional current they have to feed through the mostly conducting liquid. A good means to remove the liquid is the paper from a newspaper or Kleenex. It goes many cm's into the gap and takes out a lot of the liquid. With best regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen Marco Mailand Paul Scherrer Institute, http://www.psi.ch Swiss Light Source, http://www.psi.ch/SLS My page: http://slsbd.psi.ch/~mmailand ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 11:08:28 +0200 From: Marco Mailand Subject: Re: Ntlk Other - liquid under casing At 22:17 07.04.99 +0200, you wrote: >was what I wanted to know, that the screen and the top >part of the housing can't be separated. For the MP2k I would suspect that the display can be unmounted from the top part of the case. As I opened my MP2k1 last week I had a look for how to dismantle everything and found that one must really unmount everything in order to unscrew the top half of the case. I was close to that point and had the top case fixed at only one or two screws. In order to release those I would have to remove the RAM module, which was the only reason for me to stop at this point (w/o recent backup as usual...). With best regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen Marco Mailand Paul Scherrer Institute, http://www.psi.ch Swiss Light Source, http://www.psi.ch/SLS My page: http://slsbd.psi.ch/~mmailand ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 11:18:02 +0200 From: roberto ferrucci Subject: Ntlk Pocket Call Is there anyone using pocket call? Please let me know, thanks, Roberto Ferrucci ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 11:19:44 +0200 From: roberto ferrucci Subject: Ntlk Pocket Call Is there anyone using pocket call? Please let me know, thanks, Roberto Ferrucci ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 05:22:03 +0000 From: Jim Witte Subject: Ntlk Cleaning the lint-free cloth... How does one clean a lint-free camera cloth? Will water be okay on it. Mine's accumlated dist and such from a year and a half of being on various shelves... Jim ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 11:34:18 +0200 From: brian.tiplady@acru.gb.astra.com Subject: RE: Ntlk Re: Doonsbury cartoons > As I recall, the egg is found by writing "Egg Freckles" in the Notes > application and then tapping the "Assist" icon. > You have to select the "Egg Freckles" text before tapping Assist ------------------------------ End of newtontalk-digest V2 #853 ******************************** Questions about the list? Send email to . The NewtonTalk website is http://www.newtontalk.com. ***** This month of NewtonTalk is sponsored by: Steve Weyer -- author of Newt's Cape (web browser and book creator), NewtDevEnv (Newton-based app development), Sloup (text/data transfer), and more: http://members.bellatlantic.net/~sweyer/newton/index.htm.