On Windows, A9T9 does a great job of OCR'ing scanned JPEG files (and any JPEG file). It's also free.

I scanned about 100 A4 documents in just a couple of minutes.

I got £2000 for reverse engineering Psion 5 Word and Sheet file formats (for a Psion based company) in 1998. I tried to get a job with the same company but they didn't want me, which is very sad.

The minimise button of the GUI is in green too, so I say green mode.

I use CinemaParadiso. I thought Lovefilm was the only game in town. But I searched Google for 'UK DVD rental' and found CinemaParadiso. I signed up. That was 6 months ago. Now I watch about 3 disks a week and love the variety.

Just to clarify: I was a big fan of Lovefilm with 4 disks at once, but Amazon shut it down.

Just a note: CinemaParadiso has been a private company since 2003 so basically, it is unlikely to be shut down like Lovefilm. This means it will likely be around another 20 years.

Edit: CP changed to CinemaParadiso

You really shouldn't use that acronym. People might get the wrong idea.

Only if they're being intentionally obtuse. Do those people also object to the Unix copy command? Or HDCP? There's only 676 two letter acronyms so of course there's collisions

I think there will always be a market for this. Maybe not a big one, but surely there are enough people out there who just want to stick a disc in the player and press play, rather than sign up to loads of different services.

Loads of Ted stuff at https://archive.org/details/tednelsonarchive?page=2&sort=-we...

Collaborated with Ted on Zigzag.

Gzz - the open source finnish-developed Zigzag port - had incredible views like MindSundew. It was brilliant.

The project failed when Ted wouldn't commit to going open source.

It's a shame the project is dead now, because it solves problems like 2-way links. Using cursors which can 'sit' on a cell and disconnect when done.

Great on Android mobile as there are no decent SID apps for that platform.

Droidsound-E plays SID format nicely for me, among others.

I found SidAMP to be rather good actually, nice app

In about 2005, I got the Lisp community to pick a Lisp logo on the newsgroup comp.lang.lisp. They came up with the 'Made with Lisp' lizard logo and I feel proud I got the ball rolling.

I thought it was an alien? Although, I must say that "Warning: this product may contain trace amounts of Lisp" is hilarious. https://www.lisperati.com/logo.html

I have gone through several Psion 5's over the last few years. They all broke eventually - mainly the screen (ribbon cable).

Because I couldn't justify spending yet another £60 for a Psion 5 which soon breaks down, I run Epoc Agenda now on my Windows PC on an EPOC emulator, and it's great for keeping track of events.

I'm currently writing an agenda app inspired by the Psion 3a/5 Agendas - because they were the best calendar apps I ever used.

Github: https://github.com/semiprime/pygenda Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvQqFmlZ6nM

If you liked the S5 agenda, I'd appreciate any feedback you could give. (Video shows it on a Gemini, but I also run it on my Linux Laptop. Running on Windows is probably possible, but I haven't tried it, so you'd need to do some fiddling - in particular installing GTK3).

Hi, if you could get it working on Android, I'd be willing to pay $5.

Planet Computers already did an Android Agenda app for their range of handhelds: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pripla.gem...

(I've not used it. I've seen people complaining that it's not very good, but people always complain on the Web, so that's not much of an indicator of anything.)

this is pretty amazing - well done!

I recently bought an Psion 5 off of ebay -- I've never had one before. The one thing I can't really get over is how awful the screen is -- the reviews online seem to indicate that mine isn't unique in this regard. Hard to see in anything but perfect lighting.

The keyboard is pretty good although not as good as I would have expected given the ravings about it.

I should probably open it up and re-enforce the cable but I'm a bit afraid of messing it up in the attempt.

I tried that on the Acorn Archimedes.

It resulted in, after a couple of days, a lot of lost data. Luckily just games.