From: Ronnie Simon (ronnie_simon_at_uk.ibm.com)
Date: Mon Feb 02 2004 - 08:30:08 PST
The most cosmopolitan Newton User's Group so far !
Karel Jansens - The Belgian
Thomas Hart - The Canadian-Belgian
Elizabeth Garlick - The British-Belgian
Robert Benschop - The Dutch
Paul Guyot - The French
Daniel Padilla - The Spanish
Ronnie Simon - The British
We started at 10am and finished at 10pm !
We all had a great time and some of the live demonstrations and stimulating
discussion topics were (too numerous to mention all):
How to transferThomas's Voicenotes recordings to the Desktop using
Binhexer and potentially eScale
How to boost the output from Daniel's audio dongle on Elizabeth's Newton
using "the Boosteroo" appliance
How to change the settings on Windows NTK to handle large MP3
conversions
Newton package transfers between Paul's Powerbook (in ad-hoc Airport
mode) and Ronnie's Newton in appletalk mode
Paul's Powerbook with Panther and Escale in WiFi infrastructure mode
conversing with Ronnie's Newton using tcpip
Daniel upgraded Ronnie's and Elizabeth's accelerated Newtons with
PCBMAN's SER-001s
Robert upgraded Ronnie's emate with the new PCBMAN memory expansion kit
Elizabeth's Stowaway keyboard with Daniel's cable and also Doug Parker's
Newtway adapter driving Elizabeth's Newton
Internal examination of Robert's emate
Eliminating the "Hinge problem" on Robert's emate
Internal examination of Elizabeth's accelerated Newton
Daniel's "Blue Newton"
Setting up and demonstrating the new Blunt Bluetooth capability on
Ronnie's Newton and Robert's T68i mobile phone (not completed)
Practical Newton enhancemnt plans over the next few years - Karel's
"Brain in the Box"
Robert's highspeed note taking technique using "sktetches mode" and
"defered translate to text mode"
Daniel's hints and tips on the Newton's time zone application
Daniel's tip on setting daylight savings on the Newton
Daniel's tip on how to increase the text paragraph sizes in Newtscape
for reading ebooks
This has set the standard for all other Newton User Group meetings to
match.
"Finally group therapy that fits" - Thomas
"We need to make these meetings a few days longer" - Daniel
Thank you again Elizabeth for organising this and everyone else for
travelling from a far to attend (Jean-Loup we missed you !).
The photos from the session will be available shortly.
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Ronnie Simon
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