Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Northern New Jersey
Posts: 55

previewing posts

OK - I tried again and saw where you could edit the post right underneath the previewed version. The problem was that my post was long, so I didn't see the edit screen underneath. My fault. But that thing with the back arrow losing your post? THAT should be fixed.

Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Northern New Jersey
Posts: 55

Excellent news!

You know, it happened again. I dropped down another navigator page to check something without bothering the note I was 99% done with writing, and when I went back to the note, the screen refreshed and eliminated what I had written! With all due respect, this sucks!

On the great news front, this morning when I checked my Visor after it's daily Recycle defragging, I saw that upon reset it was giving me the dreaded memory "date out of range" error message" which I know from sad experience can only be fixed with a hard reset. I'm getting reasonably pissed with the fragility of the Palm OS. So looking at the bright side, I was going to have a chance to test the MemPlug's restore ability.

I am extremely pease to report that it worked great!

It did require me to reset the fonts, but so does BackUpBuddy or restoring from the Hagiwara flash module.(The font thing is really a FontHack 123 issue. I emailed the developer to se if he could find a way to have the Visor remember the settings in Saved Prefs, or somewhere.) It took about 45 minutes to restore the 15 MB of stuff on my Prism, and a progress bar shows how far you've gone as a percentage, which is a nice plus. And also, the fact that I had backed up with hacks enabled had no impact on the restoration.

So all in all, very good news. For $49.95 (the cost of the MemPlug) and $25.00 (Amazon's price for a 32 MB SM card), we now have a foolproof, elegant, easy, and painless backup for the 16MB Visor. In fact, no matter how big the memory could ever get, as long as there's a bigger SM card available, we won't ever have to worry about a backup module being available.

PiTechnologies also throws in some other great software with the MemPlug, and their PiDirect, which can access apps directly off the SM card is currently available as a Beta.

Our long national nightmare is over.

eBoy