Palm desktop, Hotsync & Centro

Dug out my (early) Centro, and decided i'd use it again. Getting fed up with WM6 & 6.1 (too clunky).

So, needed to install the apps. Palm Desktop 6.2 seems latest, so grabbed that.

It complained about an old version of Palm desktop, and it couldn't find the .msi. This was an old issue (see previous...) so fixed that, and got new version in. (as an aside, got a new Dell D420, with corporate build on it. Usual fun & games with it half copying old laptop profile, which is why I think the old Palm desktop 'sort of' existed... needed to fix bluetooth too, although shortcut to control panel is dead - it opens in quickview... oh, and the old palm desktop reappeared in Start/All Programs too. nevertheless...)

Connected up hotsync to new bluetooth COM port (COM ports - this is the 21st century, sheesh...). Found laptop ok, paired up ok - a first really, maybe now we're in 2008 Windows bluetooth is working as i'd expect it to.

It took ages to sync the media, and I had to let it run otherwise it complained... After ~20 minutes (there were lots of photos on, well, somewhere)

Lesson learned: remove photos and large things before sync. Besides that, it was ok.

Canon Scanner 8000F, Mac OS X, Canoscan toolbox

Right, to get this to work properly, Canon recommends using version 4.0.x (and not version 5).

Fine, download the drivers, and download the Canoscan toolbox version.

The trick to making it work - and not getting "no plug-ins found" or similar errors - is to install the toolbox in /Applications, but copy the contents of the driver directory (which is put any-old-where) into the toolbox's Plug-Ins directory.

Thus, when the toolbox starts, and you ask it to scan, it looks in the plug-ins directory for your particular scanner, finds it, and off it goes.

The version of toolbox works on PPC and intel macs (I tried on emac, and on new macbook).

Works ok. Slow, but it's an old scanner...