maestro/trekker updatige :)

So I've had an interesting twelve hours of trekker/maestroness! well, not really as I did actually sleep!
but after finding out the tutorial on CD was exactly the same as the online one I had downloaded from the humanware site, I was listening to that yesterday afo and familiarizing myself with the layout of the keys, etc.
then i actually connected to trekker and was attempting to get signal inside (as I'd heard some people can do if they're lucky.) not for me! I went outside near my front door, but still nothing. I moved a few inches towards my steps and all of a sudden, it announced it had six satellites - kept on going back and forth between five and six.) then I started to walk down me drive and it told me I was facing Main street!
anyway I came in and did some more mucking around, then, phone rang, and after the call, I turned it on but nothing happened. (this is where I copy an email I just wrote to the aus list to save me some repetition.)
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so even before humanware people have called me back, I figured it out. (I called R this morning but it divertted to Syd. :)
so I guess, since stupid me could have been charging it last night and didn't ahve the powerpoint switched on (grrr) it would have been fine otherwise, but I will have to wait now! oh, am also charging the GPS receiver as well from that splitter.
Maybe I should actually go and install activeSync. And I'm thinking of changing over to outlook at home as well as work, as that's what PDA uses obviously; always outlook! but eudora crashes a bit so maybe it's a good thing.
Oh we all had a good time last night celebrating Dad's b/day. we went to Zigami's, but as usual for there lately, I ordered a non-pleasantish meal - a rizotto-polo. the rice was all gluggy! *grr! anyway I figured I couldn't force myself to eat that! so, I kinda had bits of other meals and I was OK. -- the other time i had ordered Lasanya and didn't like that too much; plus it was cold! -- but I should have ordered chicken snitzel or something I knew I would have liked; just love trying new things! .. But we had some really awesome prachetta (excuse spelling) for entrae) and that was to die for!
then when we were about to leave, I went to grab ang's arm but her and parents decided to embarrass me un-necessarily and tell me it was someone elses. ah well! my heart-rate just went up for a while!
then we went back to parents place and chilled for a while and had some chocolate biscuits etc, (cartwheels - just the same as minny wagonwheels.)
til next time, RdFreak

go me .. not

so I've really stuffed up this thing now.
I went to use trekker but found that the battery loss seemed to erase the map, so, well, I decided i may as well try and reinstall the whole thing!
after various resets and stuff, I thought maybe I need to exit maestro before I do this (this is what happens when one doesn't read the entire manual first - not that I've found much more help by reading it). anyway, after a lott of fiddling and finally doing a cold reset, I am somehow sitting here with the PDA in cradle, connected to my USP port of course; it didn't ask for a partnership, even though I'd installed activesync, but i decided to try and go ahead with it anyway. now, the CDrom has the message on screen "preparing to install; this should take several minutes. I have prob been here for about an hour! me thinks something is very wrong!
and there's no-one in Melbourne to help; R is in Perth or something, so it's really fantastic! *insert sarcasm* I highly doubt I'll be able to fix this by meself with the little knowlege i have of this!
how freakin stupid? why on earth can't more than one person work in Melbourne? too ilogical I guess?!
ah well, will forget the whole stupid thing til I can get some help; no good being my usual self and getting so frustrated and upset. doesn't solve a damn thing!
I hate computers! stupid things!
til next time, a very frustrated RdFreak

all is right with the world - at least for now!

So after shoving this thing in a draw and resigning myself to forgetting about it until I can get some sort of physical help, I decided to get it out and try it again. and after doing another reset, I eventually heard "welcome to Maestro" which meant I obviously got it back thank god! I had tried cold resetting it, but thought shift was next to the system menu, not escape. so yeh in other words, can't remember if a cold reset was meant to fix it or what, but it's working. And I put the sD card back in (as I had taken that out) and loaded trekker and sure enough, it went into it fine. only thing is it sais it couldn't find my gPS unit and my bluetooth was switched off (which I had just done.) so, all working fine again now.
Now I just figure out how I am meant to install activesync, cos I tried it twice and just can't establish a partnership at all. not sure why it's not recognizing it.
then, trust me, I will read the manual before I try and play god with this thing! *grr
so yeh, now it's OK.
til next time, RdFreak