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Cor, memory lane....
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I was browsing my old email folder on my old (ie: pre-G4, pre-new iMac)
iMac, looking for a confirming email giving the registration code for
some software I bought.....
And found a crop of emails from Windy. And a number of other regulars,
past and present, about this and that.
Normally I tend to purge personal emails older than a year or so, but
when they're sitting on an old machine they stay there.
How long do people tend to keep personal emails for, anyway?
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Until Windows or Outlook crashes and needs reloading.
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I had all sorts of mails in one of my webmail accounts. Wasn't best
pleased when they decided I wasn't allowed access to it anymore.
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You use Outlook for home email?
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Yep, like almost everybody does.
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No - almost everybody uses Outlook Express.
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OK, I wasn't differentiating the two.
I use full Outlook at home (because I can), and it's an excellent
email/contact/diary manager.
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Which is exactly why I have full fat Outlook, not the pikey diet
'Express' version. I still haven't found a bit of software that will
allow me to synch my Palm 3X with Outlook though, which would make life
even easier.
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I'm sure Palm desktop 4 does this just fine, and was a free download off
the palm site.
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The free download of Palm Desktop does not include Chapura Pocket Mirror,
which is the bit that allows you to properly synch Outlook with a Palm.
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'Was' the bit - Palm desktop does it itself now. Or at least the one I
got off the Palm website does..
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Really? All the evidence pointed towards that not being the case. The
downloaded version I have won't allow me to synch with Outlook.
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You must install Palm Desktop from the original CD you get from Palm,
then you can go to the Chapura and Palm websites and download updates.
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Thank you for that. I was unsure what software to download. Is it free?
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Is what free? Pocket Mirror? The standard version of PM that comes on
the original Palm Desktop CD is "free" in that it's included in the price
of the Palm kit, but you cannot download PM for free from Chapura.
The version of Palm Desktop that you can download for free from the
Palm(source?) website doesn't include Pocket mirror. Oh, I already
said that. Email me if this isn't clear and I'll do my best to
explain it. Replace 'tiny.net' with 'visi.com' in my reply-to:
address.
Beg borrow or steal an original Palm Desktop CD and reinstall Palm
Desktop from it. Then go to the Palm website and download the
latest Palm Desktop, which will recognize the previously installed
Pocket Mirror application. Then go to the Chapura website and
download the latest update to the standard edition of Pocket Mirror.
I think that's the sequence, anyway.
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I'll try that when the free trial of Pocket Mirror I downloaded last
night runs out. Thanks.
I don't have the original Palm Desktop CD here, I had to download the
version I have installed.
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If you need a copy of this I think I have a version around somewhere.
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You're wasted on that Skeletor bloke, thanks.
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If you go onto the Palm website and download the latest version (and
tell it that you have a Treo 650 or similar) you should get the latest
version with all the features.
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The latest versions of Palm Desktop allow you - it should be a free
download from the Palm website
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I don't need one of those at home. Or rather, if I did, I'd use
Outlook on my laptop VPNed into the office.
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Just because my employers give me a laptop, I really cant be arsed
carting it back and forth to work every day.
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I don't either. Well, except on the one week in three when I'm on
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So... when you don't have your laptop at home, and you want to look
up, say, my address, what do you do?
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although I've no idea what your address is, in general, I'd look it up
in my address book.
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tch! Luddite!
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it's somewhat quicker than booting up the PC.
On the other hand, to be honest, I don't /really/ use the physical
address book either; generally, if I'm going somewhere for the first
time, I'll find out the address, and then - get this - I'll remember
it. If not the actual postal address, at least where it is and how to
get there.
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Well, sure, I do the same if I need to go there.
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I could find my way straight to Champ's old place - the one near the
roundabout with the fuel station in the middle - but I haven't a clue
what the road name or house number was. I don't know many peoples
addresses, but I know where they physically live, IYSWIM.
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that's exactly what I meant. If I've worked out where someone was
once, and got there, then I can always get there again without knowing
the address.
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And if you're talking about snailmail, well, I plain don't use it.
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Really? No christmas or birthday cards? No cheques to TOG or others
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I know the addresses of the small number of people that get these.
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for various things?
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Not in recent memory. The only things I put in a postbox are returning
Amazon rental DVDs and pre-addressed stuff like tax returns.
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I'm using snailmail more and more to send DVDs of programs recorded on
my PVR to various people.
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You seem to be implying that VPN would only work with his _company_
laptop. This is not necessarily so.
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3rd-line support.
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And I thought I was weird!
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For ever. I have mails going back to the late 80s, work and personal.
Having just finished with my current employer, I brought home 9GB of mail
on a flipdisk in various pst files, which have been integrated into my home
mail setup and backed up.
Call me anal....doesn't take much effort if you're organised about it
though.
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Sent-mail, indefinitely (dating back to mid 1998)
Received mail, indefinitely, but only if it's interesting. So not much
really.
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Until my machine crashes an or gets a new OS installed on it.
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