Pelican Software Inc. P.O.Box 74072 Houston, Tx. 77274-1072 Sound Off v1.2 for the Series 3a Sound Off is Freeware from Pelican Software. Just don't forget us when you need a personal finance tool for the S3a. Banker v2.0 from Pelican Software Inc. runs on the S3a and is Quicken compatible. It can be purchased from Psion Inc., New World Technologies, J&R MusicWorld, and Sharper Image to name a few. Installation: Create a directory \App\Sndoff on any drive. Install the Sndoff.opa into any \App directory. Install the Sndoff.pic into any \App\Sndoff directory. About Sound Off: Sound Off is simple but much needed utility program for the Psion Series 3a. It is simple because it performs a simple function. The programming is not simple to accomplish this task, but it was well worth the effort, as you will see. Have you ever been in a meeting and had the Series 3a alarm start ringing. It can be embarrassing. I remember in the Psion developers conference in London in 1993, the last place you expected to hear alarms going off inadvertantly, fanfare after fanfare. I wondered why don't these people turn their sound off. Surely they knew they were coming here. I sure did, after the plane ride from Houston, Tx. Even more embarrasing is the second time in the same meeting. Well, Sound Off will fix this dilemma forever. How does it work? When you first start Sound Off you will be prompted to show the program your standard sound settings. This is so that the program will know what settings to return your sound to when it turns the sound back on. Choose "Re-configure sound" to change these settings at a later date. The program does this because when you start up Sound Off your sound may be off, and in this case Sound Off would not know what your standard ON settings are. Sound Off lets you build a database of events. An event represents a future time and date when the sound should be turned off. Press to set a New Event. Type in a name for the event. Next type in the date, time and duration of the event. Finally using some code borrowed from the Pelican Alarm Server, you can make the event repeatable, which quickly becomes a necessity with a program like this. This way you only have to enter the event time/date once. For example if you get up every morning to go out and walk, and you don't want an alarm going off while you're out walking, just set a Sound Off event in the time slot that you normally go out, and make it a Daily repeat. Here's a list of repeat types: Yearly Monthly by date - (same date next month) Monthly by day - (same day of week , next month, like third Wed.) Monthly(last day) - (last day of month, regardless of how many days in month.) Weekly - (same day next week) Daily - (tomorrow) Workday - (next workday, based on your system settings) Restday - (next restday, based on your system settings) Every (x) days - (how ever many days you set) Every (x) hours - (how ever many hours you set) For the record... This was all done in Opl for those that say you can't do anything powerful in Opl. Once your database has at least one entry, the S3a will queue a time that will wake up the machine at the minute when you want the sound to turn off. The sound will be turned off. After the event duration is completed the machine wakes up and the sound is turned back on. The next earliest event will then be queued. If the event that just terminated is repeatable, the time/date of that event will be updated before finding the next earliest event. Special keys: Menu Menu options Enter New Event Help Help Space bar Turn machine off Sound settings: Use this option to set your sound just like you would from the system screen. Re-configure sound: Use this option to reset Sound Off's standard sound settings. These are the settings Sound Off uses when turning your sound back on. You would use this option if you had been using a LOUD key click, and now you want to use QUIET.