U () = )( ð P S I O N T I P O F T H E W E E K T O P I C: Alarms - Responding to Them PREAMBLE A wonderful thing about having a PSION is I rarely miss appointments or events. Yet audio alarms occasionally goes off at the worst possible time, like in a public washroom, during the ballet, or in the middle of vows. While others check their cellular phone, I muffle my organizer in my armpit. Here are some other tactics. It is a good and a bad thing that the alarms start out quietly then get louder and louder still. Alarms ring for several minutes then once an hour for two hours. CLEARING AN ALARM Every time an alarm fires, I habitually hit . Sometimes I hit it blindly, perhaps barely awake, perhaps in a rush to not disrupt a movie. Pressing cancels or stops the sound immediately AND clears the appointment message from the display. Unfortunately, if you do not read or can't see the screen, you miss the message; and so far as I know there's no way to get it back. So don't press if you want to read the message. This applies to the Series 3 and 3a. SNOOZING Funny thing about this is that I never knew it existed until recently. I discovered it by carefully reading the screen. This is hilarious when you know what I do for a living. RTFM! If you want to read the message later, you can press the just like you would an alarm clock. This defers the alarm for 5 minutes; press again for 10 minutes, again for 15, and so on. You can snooze for up to 60 minutes. If your unit is set to auto-switch off (I sure hope it is), then the PSION will power off. Later the alarm will replay and the text will be redisplayed. Now you're in the same boat. This works on the Series 3 and 3a. SILENCING To read an alarm later but silence it now, press . This turns off the sound but does not clear the text message. Now you can read the message in peace. If the PSION powers off, you can read the alarm message the next time you turn it on. This works on the Series 3a only. C O R R E C T I O N S None that I know of so far. N E X T W E E K Previewing and dealing with upcoming alarms. C L O S I N G Startin' to get some feedback. Are there any topics YOU want me to cover? W A N N A B E M E M B E R S Here's a list of people that I know of that use or want PSIONs but don't have electronic mail ids or have ids that I don't know. Please forward a hard-copy to them and send me their email address(es). Cybelle Srour (thanks, Lex, for passing this on) every customer of Bell Mobility every customer of Marketron C O L O P H O N Tip number: 4 Written by: Blake Nancarrow of Computer Ease Entered: 95.03.24 @ 08:35 EST Platforms: PSION Series 3, Series 3a Sent via: internet Origin: CompuServe Good id: 70511.673@compuserve.com Cheap id: blake.nancarrow@canrem.com Written in Word on PSION, uploaded to Dell with RCOM, imported into Word for Windows 6.0, saved as Text Only with Line Breaks, reformatted with IBM Personal Editor 2.0, saved in pure ASCII.