Re: Postal address in Contacts?
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 14:55 -0600, Mark wrote: You are confusing convenience with flexibility. Syncing can be a whole lot more *convenient*, once you have it properly set up (which can be a real bear), but it is in no way as flexible or powerful as import/export. True. However, the flexibility that you value so much comes at the expense of a lot more manual work each time you do an import/export. CSV has the same problem: it's kind of okay when you manually define your fields *and* teach your apps what you mean with these fields, but it is unsuitable for automated data exchange without this upfront configuration. You remarked that SyncEvolution is too hard to use because there is no GUI and one has to edit configuration files. Someone has written a GUI (Genesis; implemented in Python, so it might run on Maemo, although I haven't tried that) and in 0.8 one can also change the config from the command line. CSV on the other hand requires that you define your own file format - is that really easier for non-technical people? I'd argue that syncing is becoming easier to set up than import/export. -- Bye, Patrick Ohly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.estamos.de/ ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Reading Ebooks.
Hi, I was hoping that some else out their may be able to share their experiences with readers for the N810. Previously I have been a big ebook reader using my PalmTX and mostly only use it for that purpose now. I have a really big collection of books in many formats but for the most park they are in MS Word format.. (Yeh I know) Would anyone be able to share their comments of how and what they use.?? Why you do or don't like them. THanks. Peter___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Reading Ebooks.
well I got an N800 and use evince to read most of the ebooks, there is a good blog post when the N800 came out and how to use Evince (avialable for N800 and N810) and read your ebooks on PDF You can use OpenOffice.org to cnvert the doc into pdf and then send them to your N810 and enjoy them there. There are good and band things wiht the N810/N800 specially because the display is a regular LCD, nothing compared to the monocrome ebook readers that have a high definition contrast like the kindle or devices like that but on the opposite you are able to get features such as zoom and well 100 applications more. On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was hoping that some else out their may be able to share their experiences with readers for the N810. Previously I have been a big ebook reader using my PalmTX and mostly only use it for that purpose now. I have a really big collection of books in many formats but for the most park they are in MS Word format.. (Yeh I know) Would anyone be able to share their comments of how and what they use.?? Why you do or don't like them. THanks. Peter ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users -- Kahlil Johnson Ya tengo GMAIL!! ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Reading Ebooks.
Correction, it wasn't evince but FBreader, the blog post is the following: http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/08/04/the-nokia-n800-as-an-e-book-reader-a-review-and-some-fbreader-tips/ On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was hoping that some else out their may be able to share their experiences with readers for the N810. Previously I have been a big ebook reader using my PalmTX and mostly only use it for that purpose now. I have a really big collection of books in many formats but for the most park they are in MS Word format.. (Yeh I know) Would anyone be able to share their comments of how and what they use.?? Why you do or don't like them. THanks. Peter ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users -- Kahlil Johnson Ya tengo GMAIL!! ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Reading Ebooks.
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 08:38:01PM +0930, Peter wrote: I was hoping that some else out their may be able to share their experiences with readers for the N810. Sadly, mobipocket has not been ported to maemo. You can, however, install Garnet VM and then install your Palm reader on that. It supports full-screen now but I have not been able to try it since the upgrade killed my installation somehow. I mostly use FBreader, coupled with Gutenbrowse to get books from the Gutenberg project. I am looking for a good way to port pdfs to a format FBreader understands (prc/pdb perhaps?) but have not come across one yet. I was happy to see that someone had ported Zittrain's new _Future of the Internet_ book to that format and it works perfectly in FBreader. http://www.consumingexperience.com/2008/06/free-ebook-zittrain-future-of-internet.html hope that helps, K -- In Vino Veritas http://astroturfgarden.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Browser location field showing when I click on a text input field
Tony Green wrote: For some strange reason, my N800's on-screen keyboard has started acting strangely. When I click on a text input field in the browser, the keyboard pops up, as it should but now the location field (where you can type a URL to go somewhere) and its associated buttons is appearing at the top of the keyboard as if I'd clicked on the location field, whereas it used to just be replaced by the keyboard. This means I've got even less usable screen area :-( Obviously I've managed to change a setting somewhere, but I can't work it out. Has anybody come across this problem? More to the point, has anybody found a solution for it? ;-) You might want to find / file a bug on https://bugs.maemo.org/ -- but first: what version are you using (Control Panel General About product), does this happen on all sites or a particular site (example url and specific field required either way), fullscreen or normal view or both, settings in browser's menu - view - toolbar, does closing browser and rebooting (no charger) happen to resolve the problem? Also the contents of /home/user/.browser may be of interest. http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/documentation/faqs.html for more information. this is 404. 't. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Reading Ebooks.
Kevin T. Neely schrieb: Sadly, mobipocket has not been ported to maemo. You can, however, install Garnet VM and then install your Palm reader on that. It supports full-screen now but I have not been able to try it since the upgrade killed my installation somehow. It works better now. I was able to sync with palm desktop via network and have now a complete working system on my N810 (with the standard programs). I manage my contacs still with Palm. The new fullscreen potrait mode is a must. I don't need my Palm Tungsten C any more. Even some of the music programs (microbe) for palm work, but those crash sometimes. But they didn't run at all with the first beta. -- Klaus Rotter * klaus at rotters dot de * www.rotters.de ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Anonymous wiki edits: disable NOW (please)
Hi, I suspect the right place for this is maemo2midgard-discuss, but until that becomes maemo-community, here'll do: can we turn off anonymous editing of the wiki - or at least anonymous editing over HTTP. I've reverted the fourth or fifth spamming of Talk:Task:Community_Council and it's getting annoying. I don't see *any* harm in requiring an account to edit this wiki, the aims are much more focused than Wikipedia, and people should be getting karma anyway. Thanks in advance, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.bleb.org/ ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Anonymous wiki edits: disable NOW (please)
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Ryan Abel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 21, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Andrew Flegg wrote: I don't see *any* harm in requiring an account to edit this wiki, the aims are much more focused than Wikipedia, and people should be getting karma anyway. Done, but it's only a 24 hour block. Will have to be discussed further. Ta. I've created a page on which we can define the policy, and discuss it on the talk page: http://wiki.maemo.org/Meta:Anonymous_editing Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.bleb.org/ ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Reading Ebooks.
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 08:38:01PM +0930, Peter wrote: I was hoping that some else out their may be able to share their experiences with readers for the N810. It's the best e-book reader I ever used (disclaimer: I never used any e-ink/e-paper readers): * smooth fonts (225 pixels per inch) * fits into a pocket (I read in the elevator) * integrated stand Previously I have been a big ebook reader using my PalmTX and mostly only use it for that purpose now. Same here, only I used Palm m500 and a Palm Tungsten T for that purpose. WeaselReader rocked. I have a really big collection of books in many formats but for the most park they are in MS Word format.. (Yeh I know) Would anyone be able to share their comments of how and what they use.?? Evince for PDFs. The bundled Nokia PDF Reader is okay, but it won't remember which page I was reading when I closed it (or when the battery ran out, or when the tablet crashed). FBReader for everything else. I use OpenOffice.org to convert RTF/DOC e-books to HTML. Other alternatives (AbiWord, rtf2html) produce inferior results. (FBReader supports RTF natively, but many RTF books I've seen have ragged right edges in FBReader, while converting them to HTML produces a nice justified page.) Marius Gedminas -- Every nonzero finite dimensional inner product space has an orthonormal basis. It makes sense, when you don't think about it. signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Postal address in Contacts?
Patrick Ohly wrote:
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 14:55 -0600, Mark wrote:
You are confusing "convenience" with "flexibility". Syncing can be a
whole lot more *convenient*, once you have it properly set up (which
can be a real bear), but it is in no way as flexible or powerful as
import/export.
True. However, the flexibility that you value so much comes at the
expense of a lot more manual work each time you do an import/export. CSV
has the same problem: it's kind of okay when you manually define your
fields *and* teach your apps what you mean with these fields, but it is
unsuitable for automated data exchange without this upfront
configuration.
You remarked that SyncEvolution is too hard to use because there is no
GUI and one has to edit configuration files. Someone has written a GUI
("Genesis"; implemented in Python, so it might run on Maemo, although I
haven't tried that) and in 0.8 one can also change the config from the
command line. CSV on the other hand requires that you define your own
file format - is that really easier for non-technical people? I'd argue
that syncing is becoming easier to set up than import/export.
You still have not responded to the the main problem, which is that
sync is not and never will be as flexible as import and export, and in
some cases is absolutely, positively impossible. Import and export
*always* works to some extent, as long as you have the patience to keep
looking for a solution. Sometimes it requires jumping through some
hoops, but jumping through hoops (and adequate - as opposed to complete
- data transfer) beats absolute impossibility every time.
Mark
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