Re: [NTLK] Soybo

From: Jens Baumeister (jensbaumeister_at_web.de)
Date: Sun Apr 06 2003 - 23:59:28 PDT


On Montag, April 7, 2003, at 06:56 Uhr, Andrew Diller wrote:

> --On Thursday, April 03, 2003 12:55 PM +0200 Richard
> <r.harbottle_at_imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> I think the point is that you use your Newton to tell your computer at
>> home to email it to a more useful machine. So say you're at lunch, you
>> remember that the presentation you have to give is at home you can use
>> your t68i or newton whatever and request that your home machine sends
>> the file to somewhere more useful where you can access it in time for
>> your slideshow.
>> No one ever mentioned using the newton for more than it can already
>> do.
>
[...]
>
> But, the point is, you still have to Write the Software to do all that.

No, on OS X you just need to access Mail.app, which you can do with
Soybo's built-in capabilities. The software is already written and it's
free.

> I still can't see who wants to give PPT presentations on a Newton. If
> your
> really had a job which required this, wouldn't they give you a laptop
> for
> your presentations?

Nobody's planning to do that. It's about using your cell phone or
Newton or Palm or Pocket PC or whatever mobile device to tell your
system to mail a file you've forgotten another system at your
destination, not to your mobile device. This is for cases when you
might have forgotten to put a crucial file onto the laptop you have
with you.

It's like using a remote control: You use it to change the channels,
but you don't watch TV on the remote. Or maybe like calling up a friend
at home:"Say, can you mail that file to this address?" They wouldn't
send it to your mobile device but to the email address, only that in
this case you're not calling up a friend, instead you can control your
computer via your phone / PDA / Starfleet Communicator / whatever.

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Jens Baumeister

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