<p>When Journal Bar is installed, it will ask you to enter a country, a city or a ZIP / postal code. This is used to get local content such as Weather, news and movie times. If the
location entered isn't recognized, or you wish to change your location, see
<a href="jbeng.htp#Options">Journal Bar Settings</a> on how to change it. Sometimes you may need to enter a place near to where you live to get the optimum information. Please experiment with whatever works best for you.</p>
<p>Once the location has been entered, Journal Bar will appear on the today
</b></font>Journal Bar divides all the information it displays into
sections, or pages of information. For more information, see <a href="jbeng.htp#Sections">Journal Bar Sections</a>.</p>
<p><font size="4"><b>Journal Bar Controls</b></font><font face="Arial" size="4"><b><br>
</b></font>On the left hand side of the Journal Bar are three icons / buttons:</p>
<ul>
<li>The top icon (the <b>Section Icon</b>) displays an icon showing which
section of information is being displayed (e.g. Weather, Sports News, Stocks).</li>
<li>The up and down buttons allow manual scrolling between each section.</li>
</ul>
<p>When the Journal Bar is getting new data the Section Icon will flash. Once it
has received data for the section current being viewed it will stop flashing. To reduce the time
it takes to get data, sections can be turned off (particularly the <b>Sports Scores</b> and <b>Movie Reviews</b> custom links). Sometimes the Section Icon
will continue to flash if it cannot get data. See the <a href="jbeng.htp#TS">Troubleshooting</a> section for
more information on helping Journal Bar get data.</p>
<p>To force Journal Bar to get new data, tap the Section Icon and hold it down for about 10 seconds. It will begin to flash, showing it is preparing to receive data. If you are not connected to the Internet, it will not attempt to get data and will stop flashing. This is particularly useful for 802.11 or cell connections, as Journal Bar can be updated when and where you wish.</p>
<p>On the Custom Links section four more icons appear on the right hand side:</p>
<ul>
<li>The top icon links to the Today settings. This link can be used to change
the Journal Bar settings.</li>
<li>The left icon links to this help document.</li>
<li>The right icon allows the Journal Bar to connect with or without a proxy server. See the <a href="jbeng.htp#TS">Troubleshooting</a> section for more information.</li>
<li>The bottom icon turns data gathering on and off. This can be useful to stop Journal Bar trying to get data when wirelessly connected & running up high cell charges. This should normally be set to on (the green button with the tick symbol).</li></ul>
</b></font>The first two sections are <b>home city weather</b> and <b>visiting
city weather</b>. When Journal Bar first starts up only home city weather is
displayed. The visiting city weather can be used to monitor the weather in a
relatives city, or somewhere you wish to visit. To add the visiting location, see <a href="jbeng.htp#Options">Journal Bar Settings</a>.</p>
<p>The weather screens will display 5 day weather information from the <b>
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</b> (for the USA) and the <b>World Meteorological Organization</b> (for the rest of the world). To get more detailed
weather information, tap on any of the weather icons. Note, weather details are only displayed for the USA. The <b>Now</b> tab will show the current weather at this location, along with other information. Note, this is only available for certain cities.</p>
</b></font>The next 14 sections are dedicated to different types of news
data:</p>
<ul>
<li>National News for the USA, UK and Canada (MSNBC, BBC, National Post)</li>
<li>World News (MSNBC, BBC)</li>
<li>Local News for the USA (MSNBC)</li>
<li>Business News for the USA & UK (MSNBC, BBC)</li>
<li>Sports News for the USA, UK and Canada (CNN, BBC, National Post)</li>
<li>Entertainment News (MSNBC)</li>
<li>Technology News (Wired)</li>
<li>Pocket PC News (Brighthand)</li>
</ul>
<p>This information is subject to change at any time.</p>
<p>To turn any news sections on or off, see <a href="jbeng.htp#Options">Journal Bar Settings</a>.</p>
<p>For each section, the top three headlines will appear. Tapping on the
headline will display the full story. <b>Links from the these story pages will not work when the Pocket PC is disconnected, as these pages have not been stored.</b></p>
</b></font>The next two sections display stock data (from MSNBC). By default only one page of
stock information is displayed.</p>
<p>Page 1 of stock information can display up to 5 stocks. Page 2 can display up
to 6 stocks. Page 1 of stock information also displays the last time the stock
information was received.</p>
<p>To change which stocks are displayed, see <a href="jbeng.htp#Options">Journal
Bar Settings</a>.</p>
<p>To get a stock to display the stock ticker symbol should be entered. To find
the correct ticker symbol, see
<b>http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/common/find.asp</b>. Note, not just stocks,
but Mutual Funds, exchange rates, Indexes (e.g. NASDAQ) and foreign stocks can be added. To get more information on a stock, tap its ticker symbol.</p>
<p><a name="CommonStocks"></a>Some common indexes / exchange rates:</p>
<ul>
<li>(AUSTRALIA) All Ordinaries: <b>$AU:AOI</b></li>
</b></font>This section displays up to 6 icons which link to custom web pages to
keep track of. To alter which web pages are displayed here, or to not display
this section, see <a href="jbeng.htp#Options">Journal Bar Settings</a>.</p>
<p>Special links can also be added to this section:</p>
<ul>
<li>Movie times (Yahoo.com & Yell.com) - Uses your home or away location to find out the times movies are showing at your local movie theater. Only works in Australia, Canada, France, the UK and the USA.</li>
<li>Movie reviews (Metacritic.com) - Get the latest movie & video reviews from
top reviewers.</li>
<li>TV listings (Yahoo.com) - Scroll to the bottom of this page to get the
primetime shows on the main channels tonight. Only available for France, Germany, the UK and the USA.</li>
<li>Sports scores (Yahoo.com and CNNSi) - Get the latest scores & division
standings from the major leagues, including the UK, French, Italian and German premier soccer leagues.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Note: links from these web pages will not work when the Pocket PC is disconnected, as these linked pages have not been stored.</b></p>
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<p><a name="Options"></a><font SIZE="6" face="Arial"><b>Journal Bar Settings</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">To adjust the settings of the Journal Bar:</p>
<dir>
<li>Select <b>Start</b>, <b>Settings</b>, <b>Today</b>. You may need to select the <b>Items</b> tab.</li>
<li>Select <b>Journal Bar</b>. Tap the <b>Options</b> button on the right hand side.</li>
</dir>
<p>This will bring up a screen allowing you to alter how Journal Bar displays information. The following settings can be altered:</p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="4"><b>General<br>
</b></font>At the top the version number will be displayed. (e.g. <b>v1.2.0 - 1</b>). The first three numbers denote the version you downloaded (e.g. v1.2.0). The last number denotes the latest format data that is available. If the <b>Check for updates</b> is selected, this format information will automatically be downloaded and will update the system to make sure Journal Bar stays current with changes to how News, Stocks & Links information is processed.</p>
<p>Check the <b>Sync when first docked</b> check box if you wish to synchronize the Journal Bar data when you put your Pocket PC in it's docking cradle.</p>
<p>The <b>Check for updates</b> will not only get format information as described above, but will also check for any new versions of the software. If a new version is available, it will display a new "section" between <b>Links</b> and <b>Weather</b> telling you a new update is available. See http://www.omegaone.com/FAQ.html for more information on how to get the new update.</p>
<p>All the web pages displayed are stored in the <b>\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\</b> folder on the Pocket PC. This is the optimum place to store the information, but by altering this setting the web pages can be stored in a different location (for example, on a storage card). Note, it is not possible to store the web information on RAM disks like the iPAQ File Store.</p>
<p>To make the sections scroll automatically, check the <b>Auto Scroll</b> check box. How quickly it scrolls each section can be adjusted between 5 & 180 seconds.</p>
<p>As mentioned above, the format data will be automatically downloaded when it becomes available. However, if there is a problem with getting this information, tapping the <b>Update Format</b> button will manually update this information.</p>
<p>Web pages data are stored on the Pocket PC. If you wish to occasionally clean out this store to free up memory, tap the <b>Delete Content</b> button. Note, this will delete all news, stock & link web pages. To make them reappear, dock your Pocket PC and let the information resynchronise.</p>
</b></font>Tap the <b>Change</b> button to change the city or ZIP code / postal code area to get weather information from. The location you enter here will also get film listings information for Australia, Canada, France, the UK and the USA. In the USA this can also get local news information.</p>
<p>Use the check boxes to display or not display the home and visiting weather
pages.</p>
<p>Use the radio buttons to select whether the weather temperatures should be
displayed in Celsius or Fahrenheit.</p>
<p>At the bottom of the screen, the weather information update rate can be
<p><b>How can I access Journal Bar's options?</b><br>Select <b>Start</b>, <b>Settings</b>, <b>Today</b>. Select the <b>Items</b> tab, select <b>Journal Bar</b>, then tap the <b>Options</b> button.</p>
<p><b>Journal Bar doesn't get any data. What's happening?</b><br>First of all, check that your PC is connected to the Internet and can successfully browse web pages. Then check the Pocket PC has a partnership with the PC (the system tray ActiveSync icon on your PC should be yellow or green).<br>It may also take a little time to get data from the Internet into Journal Bar, especially with a dial-up connection. The link section in particular may take several minutes to appear. However, weather and/or news headlines should appear after the first couple of minutes of being connected.<br>Original Pocket PC devices are not able to connect to the Internet through the PC, and are not supported.<br>If you still aren't seeing any data, it may be that the Pocket PC settings to read the web pages is not set up correctly. To test your connection is working correctly, select <b>Start</b>, <b>Internet Explorer</b>, tap the <b>House</b> (Home) icon at the bottom of the screen, select the <b>Pocket PC.com</b> item on the home page, then tap the <b>Go to PocketPC.com now!</b> link. If you get a message saying the connection settings aren't correct, then your Internet connection isn't correct yet. Tap the <b>Not online yet? Find out how to get connected.</b> link below it to correct the problem.<br>Some Internet connections require a proxy server to connect to the Internet, and some do not. For example, a work link may require a proxy server, but the home link does not. If you aren't seeing any information it may be the setting needs to be switched. To do this, move to the <b>Links</b> section and tap on the <b>Connection icon</b> (the icon with an arrow on it on the right hand side). A message will appear asking whether the connection needs to be switched. Proxy details may need to be entered in the <b>Start</b>, <b>Settings</b>, <b>Connections</b> screen. Also, see the Pocket PC help for more information on adjusting connections.</p>
<p><b>Journal Bar has got some data, but some is missing.</b><br>It may also take a little time to get data from the Internet into Journal Bar, particularly with a dial-up connection. Particularly, the link & stock data may take several minutes to appear. However, weather and/or news headlines should appear after the first couple of minutes of being connected.<br>Also, there may be a problem with the web site that is getting the data. In particular, some web sites have occasional down-time to update their web pages. Wait an hour or two and the data should be updated correctly. If the problem persists, unselecting that piece of data in the Journal Bar Options section will stop it trying to get this data.</p>
<p>In general, if the section icon is flashing, it is still updating that section. Once it stops flashing, this section is updated.</p>
<p><b>Will Journal Bar work with my Pocket PC Phone edition?</b><br>Yes! Journal Bar will download information through your PC ActiveSync connection, and you can use your cell connection to get data when on the move (when coverage allows an Internet connection). To get Journal Bar to grab data when you're not at your desk, tap the top left <b>Section Icon</b> on the Journal Bar screen, and it will start to get data.</p>
<p><b>Will Journal Bar work with a wireless connection?</b><br>Journal Bar will work with a BlueTooth ActiveSync connection as if it were a standard serial or USB ActiveSync connection.
Journal Bar will also work with a 802.11 wireless Active Sync connection, however it will not automatically grab data. To get Journal Bar to grab data, tap the top left <b>Section Icon</b> on the Journal Bar screen, and it will start to get data.</p>
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</b></font>For further technical support, please see the Frequently Asked Questions document on www.omegaone.com, or e-mail our technical support at info@omegaone.com.</p>
