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Clie Hints & Tips

14/04/2002

Bolaji Ayorinde has sent in the following tip explaining how to access Hotmail on your Clie:-
Problem 1-Most of the commonly available palm OS browsers will not open the hotmail site. This includes browsers like Blazer,Eudora e.tc This is because the hotmail site relies on scripts which these browsers do not support. The notable exception I am aware of is the new Tapliner browser, but this loads the whole page which is unwieldy,slow and not the ideal method for a PalmOS based device IMHO. Solution-You need a website which will collect the mail from the hotmail server and then make it available to your palm OS device. The best site out there for doing this is www.gopherking.com You need to register, but there is a free 30 day trial. After this, a years' subscription costs $24.95 via Paypal only. 6 months trial is $14.95 Gopherking will trawl all the your email servers and collect all your email from all your registered email accounts (not just hotmail) into one place. Problem 2-How do you get the email on to your Palm device? Solution-There are two ways to do this. Online and offline. Online-You use any of the available Palm browsers (I use the Eudora browser [www.eudora.com]) to connect your palm to the net via an infra-red or land modem. You then access the gopherking website and once you log in your emails are all there. You can write,delete or forward emails from all of your registered email accounts while you are online. This includes web based ones like hotmail and POP3 accounts like BT internet. Gopherking will not delete the emails from the server which means you can still download them to your PC whenever you want. Offline-This requires a PC and Avantgo. You make a customised gopherking channel at Avantgo (www.avantgo.com) and then hotsync your device. You then fill in your gopherking user name and password and hotsync again. The device will then download your emails from the gopherking server during the 2nd hotsync. You can reply, forward and delete emails. These are submitted as forms and sent to the server at the next hotsync. The trial version restricts you to just 2 hotsyncs per day. I have used this method for about 3 weeks now to check four email accounts and it works everytime without a hitch. Well worth the regn fee IMHO.

14/04/2002

Alberto Cajigas, Jr. explains how to use Audio Player 2.2 (NR series) on a T series Clie:-

To install the audioplayer 2.2 do the following:
If you have any AudioPlayer version already installed.
1) Install the two new files into the Memory Stick ONLY.
2) Using McFile or Filez uncheck the Read-Only property of the old AudioPlayer.prc file that is in your handheld memory.
3) Copy the two new files from the memory stick to the handheld. Just overwrite the old files.
4) You are ready to enjoy it.
If you don't the AudioPlayer installed:
1) Install the AudioPlayer that came with your MP3 adaptor.
2) Play a song using the AudioPlayer.
3) Install the two new files into the Memory Stick ONLY.
4) Using McFile or Filez uncheck the Read-Only property of the old AudioPlayer.prc file that is in your handheld memory.
5) Copy the two new files from the memory stick to the handheld. Just overwrite the old files.
6) You are ready to enjoy it.

25/02/2002

The following is a list of websites that all CLIE users should have in their favorites folder. This is a personal collections of site I visit frequently, sites I visit less frequently and sites that everyone should be familiar with. For software junkies, particularly freeware, these many of these sites offer a plethora of apps for the taking. I know that several already appear on your website.
I am sure most of the visitors to www.clieworld.co.uk are familiar with most of these sites, but if they pick one up they find useful, that would be great. Some of the sites are other discussion groups and are included as additional resources and not intended to detract from your forum - CLIE World.
Hopefully others can add to this list and make it the most comprehensive on the web!
Visit Frequently - Although the banter in these discussion groups, at times, is quite sophomoric (i.e. Why does Sony Suck?, What games rock?, I-didn't-bother-to-read-the-manual-and-I-want-to-know-how-to-delete-a-progra m?) they offer the best information out there about the CLIE. Many offer a files section with the newest software.
Yahoo Groups - http://groups.yahoo.com/ CLIE Users Group - Sign up online nXt's CLIE Club - Sign up online
PDA Buzz - http://www.pdabuzz.com
CLIE World - http://www.clieworld.co.uk
Version Tracker - http://www.versiontracker.com/palmos
Visit Less Frequently - Lots of good information and software available from these sites. Even though some are not updated frequently, newbies may find the existing sites helpful.
FreewarePalm - http://freewarepalm.com
Palm Open Source.com - http://www.palmopensource.com
CLIE Source - http://www.cliesource.com/cgi-bin/main.cgi
MemoWare - http://www.memoware.com/index.html
ZDNet Palm OS Downloads - http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/pilotsoftware/
Palm Boulevard - http://www.palmblvd.com/
Handheld Media Group - https://www.hhmgroup.com/
Everyone Should Visit At Least Once - Try it, you might like it?.
Cute & Funky DAs - http://member.nifty.ne.jp/yamakado/da/
Handmark - http://www.mobilegeneration.com/
Palm Gadget - http://palmgadget.com/
The Gadeteer - http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/palmos.html
Palm Spot - http://www.palmspot.com/whatsnew/
PalmStation.com - http://www.palmstation.com/
PDA Geek - http://www.geek.com/pdageek/pdamain.htm
Discovering CLIE in Japan, China, Thailand, etc.
You can spend hours following links to websites devoted to the CLIE and Palm OS throughout the Far East. Lots of fun!! These sites range from serious to just plain silly. Personal homepage links are interesting. Call up Babel Fish Translation and enter one of the following sites.
AltaVista Babelfish Translation Site - http://babelfish.altavista.com/
Conversely, you can visit Excite Japan and enter a Japanese website that will also translate into English. This method sometimes provides better more understandable results.
Excite Japan - http://www.excite.co.jp/world/url/
Enter Japanese URL in provided area, click second choice under URL, and then click box to the right of URL to launch CLIE Man - http://netcity1.web.hinet.net/UserData/kenka/ Muchy's Palmware Review - http://muchy.com CLIE Café - http://www.cliecafe.com/ TW CLIE User Group - http://clie.idv.tw/ Benchmark Your CLIE Anyone experimenting with PDA testosterone would surely enjoy benchmarking their units. Here are links to three benchmarking utilities. VFS Mark 1.1 (available from nXt's CLIE Club) -
Measure the speed of access to your MS Benchmark -
http://www.quartus.net/products/benchmark/
PocketMark - http://web.tiscalinet.it/fcarello

17/02/2002 Cedric Lim sent me details about a fix he has found for loose Clie styluses. I have seen comments on various
forums re styluses falling out and getting lost- somehow Cedric discovered that there is a part inside a standard
disposable cigarette lighter that will fix the problem forever. Pure genius! Details here.

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11/02/2002 If you guys have been using NoahPro, you know that it creates a vfscache file which takes upto 1MB of your Clie's RAM....well, i found a little solution for it....first, put the database file into /PALM/LAUNCHER and put the NoahPRO in Clie's RAM...now, run NoahPRO...it will create vfscache and other necessary dbs...now, exit NoahPRO, run PowerRUN and move NoahPRO to MS...this way, you don't have to delete vfscache everytime as it is moved to MS and copied back to RAM whenever NoahPRO is ran....the only downside to it is that, PowerRUN will have to copy the vfscache files back to RAM....but it is sure faster than NoahPRO creating vfscache everytime....of course, if you leave the vfscache in the RAM (t615, s360 owners), then this tip is not worth at all for you! ;) Written by Punk in the Clie World Forum

24/01/2002 If you want to make your own skins for the excellent hi-res MegaLauncher (VIP) v3.2.2 you have come to the right place. Megasoft2000 have kindly allowed me to place the Templates on this site. Click here to download them and don't forget to send your finished article to Megasoft.

If you have a technical problem or are considering buying a Clie check out the 'Sony' forums at PDABuzz- you can be guaranteed of friendly, helpful advice from the likes of Punk, JeffL and nXt.

Are you running out of space because you have so many channels loaded into RAM? If so click here for a solution which will allow you to syncronise your channels and keep them on your Memory Stick. So far it has worked faultlessly on my Clie.

Here is an article which gives you detailed information on how to use MSMount with your external cards- although it says this works for the m500/m505 it should work which most of the new extended PDA's.