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- Welcome to VoiceMan5 - a freeware Voice Notes manager for your Series 5/5mx.
-
- What is VoiceMan5?
- ==================
- As someone who drives quite a bit in my job, I find the Psion's Voice Notes / Recorder
- facility very handy (once you get over the strangeness of talking to your Psion!) for
- capturing "to-do's" and ideas as I'm driving along. At least, it works very well so
- long as you want to review the Voice Notes you've made as soon as you next switch your
- Psion on.
-
- Very often however, I want to do something else when I open my machine again and so
- Voice Notes gets sent to the background whilst I browse my Agenda, look up a phone
- number, etc.
-
- The problem is that I then invariably forget to review or action the Voice Notes I
- made when I next switch the machine on. What I wanted was an unobtrusive program
- that reminded me about pending Voice Notes every time I switched my Psion on again...
-
- VoiceMan5 is designed to check this for you. It's a small program which checks to see
- if you've any Voice Notes recorded on your Psion when you switch your machine on.
- It's very small and consumes little power or system memory and so can be left to run
- in the background all the time.
-
-
- What else can it do?
- ====================
- VoiceMan5 can also change the default drive used by Voice Notes to record from c: to
- d: (and visa versa). This can be used in conjunction with the Standard Folder
- location (specified in the System preferences) to record your Voice Note(s) to
- wherever you want them. The advantage of recording to the d: drive (i.e. compact
- flash) is that it gets around the Series 5's 8Mb internal memory limit (16Mb on a
- 5mx).
-
-
- Using VoiceMan5
- ===============
- When you run VoiceMan5 for the first time it'll scan your Psion's C:\ drive╣ to see
- if you have any Voice Notes recorded▓. If you don't, it'll goto the background and
- wait until you next turn the machine on - when it'll scan│ again for Voice Notes.
-
- If it finds recorded Voice Note(s)▓, it will present you with a number of options:-
- * 'Quit VoiceMan5' - Quits the program
- * 'Settings' - Takes you to the Settings Menu where you can display the 'About'
- screen, run this 'Help' file, change the 'Voice Notes Drive', or choose when
- VoiceMan5's alert should be 'active' (what days, times, etc.)
- * 'Ignore' - Sends VoiceMan5 to the background until you turn the machine on again
- * 'Play Note(s)' - Takes you to the Record app. with your Voice Note(s) loaded and
- ready to play
-
- There is no Menu structure in VoiceMan5 simply because I didn't really think it
- necessary (and it'd just make the program bigger). If there is a demand for it
- however, I'll create a simple one. You can quit VoiceMan5 either by selecting the
- 'Quit' option when the program comes to the foreground or by closing the program from
- the Open files / programs list (Ctrl+J in the System screen). VoiceMan5 will
- automatically close and re-open itself when backing up using PsiWin (version 2.3 or
- greater).
-
- Notes:
- ╣ You can change the drive that VoiceMan5 scans on startup. Click on the 'Settings'
- option to do this. It will also give you the option to copy or move an existing Voice
- notes file when you change drives.
- ▓ The program will ignore any Voice Note less than 500 bytes in size. This is to
- allow for the use of the 'Erase' capability in the Record/Voice Notes app. which
- effectively 'empties' the Voice Notes file of any sound information - but doesn't
- actually delete the file (leaving a small 'stub' file instead).
- │ Just make sure that the Standard folder set in the System screen (Menu/Tools
- Preferences) is where your last Voice Note was recorded. (It will be by default
- - this is just in case you've moved it!)
-
-
- Compatibility
- =============
- VoiceMan5 has been tested on both an 8Mb Series 5 a 16Mb 5mx and an Ericsson MC218.
-
-
- Installation
- ============
- VoiceMan5.zip contains 5 files. ReadMe.txt (i.e. this file!), VM5Changes.txt,
- VoiceMan5.sis, Systinfo.sis, and SysRAM1.sis. VoiceMan5.sis, Systinfo.sis, and
- SysRAM1.sis install using the standard EPOC installer (either from your PC or
- on the Psion itself - see Psion's own web site for details). NB: These latest
- (ER5) versions of Systinfo.sis and SysRAM1.sis must be installed for VoiceMan5
- to work - make sure that you don't have any old (ER3) versions on your machine.
-
-
- "Incompatible opx version" during installation
- ==============================================
- If you should get this error when you're installing Systinfo.sis or SysRAM1.sis
- (which contain their respective opx files) then one of two possible things could
- be the problem:-
-
- 1) You've got an older version of Sysram1.opx or Systinfo.opx on your machine
- causing conflict with the new one. Symbian released a new version of the
- Sysram1.opx file for ER5/5mx compatibility. The new file will work fine on the
- Geofox/S5 as well as the 5mx - but all of the machines appear to get confused if
- there's a copy of the old sysram1.opx on the machine somewhere as well as the
- new one.
-
- Hence I'd recomend checking for old versions of both files either in c:/system/opx/
- or d:/system/opx/ before installing the new versions. BTW, old apps. will work
- fine with these newer versions.
-
- 2) That you've got a program already running that's using either of these opx's
- when you try to install them (e.g. Macro5). Close down running programs before
- the installation.
-
-
- Standard disclaimer
- ===================
- Whilst I have tested VoiceMan5 quite carefully, I cannot and do not give - or imply
- - any sort of warranty with it. Nor will I accept responsibility for any data
- lost or damage caused as a result of using VoiceMan5 (this definitely includes car
- crashes!)... I.e. use at your own risk!
-
-
- Updates
- =======
- Any updates will be via the Pscience5 web site at:
- http://www.pscience5.net
-
-
- Best regards,
- Martin Guthrie, April 2001
- (martin@pscience5.net)
-