> Has anyone tried something like "Goo Gone" to remove the
> sticky stuff?
I just scratched it off with my nail. Took 15 minutes. While reading a book
:)
> charge for an
> hour or so, and the battery seems to hold at least some
> charge. It lasted several hours last night
I found that the battery on my GEM unit gets better with use. Apparently
they've been asleep for too long and now need some charge cycles to fully
"awake" :)
> I saw a blurb about the Serial57000 to make transfers faster,
> but haven't downloaded it.
Do it. And you also have to touch the registry to set NCU at that speed.
> I tried to download the Newton Tool Kit from UNNA for Windows, but the
> archive appears corrupted. Does anyone have a working version?
Don't get it from UNNA, they got an old version. Get it eg from
http://download.planetnewton.com/download/programming/WinNTK161.zip
(You do know about google.com, right?)
> Or is the Mac a better platform to work with Newton code?
Probably is. I thought
> "Princess Of
> Mars", wrote a quick script to convert it to HTML, opened in Explorer,
> Select All, Copy, Pasted into WordPad, Save As RTF
Why not just work from the plain text?
> I was STUNNED to find that the package it created was about
> 850K for a 350K text!!!! Egads!
Welcome to Unicode. The package is compressed when stored on the newt, but
it still takes time to download to the newt. However, get unixnpi and you
can transfer at 115200. (Search this board a few days ago.)
> Is there a more efficient way of making Newt books?
No, AFAIK.
> I was very disappointed when I opened the book I made,
> switched to landscape
> mode, and found that the book reader didn't adapt well (i.e.
> expanding the screen).
Get Paperback. It supports plain text in a single font only (you can choose
between 3 fonts in 4 sizes), but can rotate the book and relayouts it
dynamically. It's better for plain-text books than the Newton Book format.
> I appear to have a version of Nethopper on the machine
Get NewtsCape and don't spend time with Nethopper.
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