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14 Miscellaneous Applications
These applications are part of the Qtopia operating system which runs on your PMA430. You will
find detailed information on how to use these and those applications mentioned in the chapter
PIM
applications
in the online help provided by Qtopia. Open the Help application on the ARCHOS
tab and click on the House icon on the right side of the toolbar or access the Help file installed
with Qtopia Desktop on your PC (see the section
Usage
in the
Installing and using Qtoipia
Desktop
chapter).
14.1 Clock
Acts as a clock, stopwatch, and alarm. If you would like to make your own custom alarm sound,
place a .wav file (8 or 16 bit PCM only) named
alarm.wav
(case sensitive) into the folder
/
System
. The alarm will wake up the PMA430 and then play the audio file. Make sure to leave
the built-in speaker checked to
On
in order to hear it.
14.2 World
Time
Clock application that allows you to see the current time in 6 different time zones (Paris,Berlin,
Los Angeles, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Brisbane). Drag the stylus on the map to view the time in other
countries and cities.
14.3 Calculator
Standard calculator application with two modes, simple and scientific.
14.4 Text
Editor
Basic text editing program similar to Block Notes on a PC or Simple Text on a Mac. Attention,
there is no Save command. The text file is saved as you type. Click on the close file X icon in the
top right of the menu bar to exit. Text files can be beamed with via the infrared port to another
infrared capable device. Please note that newly created files will be saved in the Documents folder.
When this folder contains many files, this can slow don the PMA430 or result in messages such as
“Memory Low” or “Memory Critical”, so you might want to consider creating a folder (e.g. named
“Data”) in the root directory of the PMA 430 to store the files you do not access frequently.
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14.5 System
Info
Gives information about memory and hard disk usage, CPU tasks, software version, product ID,
and WiFi MAC address (Media Access Control address, which is effectively an identifier for your
device when connected to the network).
14.6 Help
Browser
Gives you access to the Help pages for the various applications. The help pages are also directly
accessible by clicking on the
?
icon in the menu bar of each application.
14.7 Mophun®
This icon will give you access to Mophun® games that you have installed onto your PMA430.
You can check the ARCHOS website for these games. Note that if you have not installed any
Mophun® games, nothing will happen when you click this icon.
14.8 Terminal
The Terminal application is included for technically interested user. Through opening a command
line window, it gives them the possibility to execute a subset of Linux commands, for example to
install certain types of applications. Please not that the Terminal application is not supported by
the ARCHOS Helpline.
14.9 Pdf
Viewer
The PDF viewer application allows you to open and read PDF files, such as the user manual, on
your PMA430.
