Before installing, you have to read the License Agreement at the end of this page.
In the help of the Jewish Calendar Program for Pocket PC, more
information is contained.
The help can be shown by clicking on the button Menu and then
on Help....
To install it, put your pocket PC into the cradle, make sure that
Windows Mobile Device Center or ActiveSync is started, and then
start the file install.exe
contained in this archive on the desktop PC.
Now, the installation will proceed automatically.
If you have a device with Pocket PC 2002, Pocket PC 2003, Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PC, Windows Mobile 6 Classic or Windows Mobile 6 Professional, you have to select the ARM processor when the dialog box Select Processor appears - the ARM processor has also be selected if your device has a XScale processor.
Note for Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PC devices: When a confirmation message appears that the application is from an unknown vendor, acknowledge it with Yes.
Daily notes can be entered by pressing the stylus on the rectangle
for the day, holding it down for two or three seconds and
releasing it.
Notes can be copied into or pasted from the clipboard.
If notes are present for a day, a symbol (three different colors
chooseable) can be defined which is displayed in the calendar view.
If the notes appear too quickly when tapped on a day, you can adjust the time which you tap down the stylus to make a day note by clicking on Menu, Configure... and Notes Timeout... - please try to increase it in 1000 steps until you have reached your desired time.
The Hebrew day, holidays, candle lighting, end of shabbat times,
Zmanim, readings, Yahrzeit and optionally Daf Yomi for a range of
dates can be imported into the Outlook Calendar on the pocket PC.
When the data has been imported, a message box appears, and then
you can view the imported data as an All Day Event in Outlook
Calendar.
In the month calendar of Outlook, it is shown by a blue
rectangle - if you have already made notes for a specific time
in the calendar, a blue filled rectangle is also displayed.
When a whole day is displayed, you have to click on the line with
the Hebrew day to view the other imported data.
For importing Jewish calendar data into Outlook, the calendar view
in Hebrew has to be turned off temporarily.
This can be done by clicking on Menu, Configure... and making sure
that the item Hebrew Calendar View is unchecked, i.e. no checkmark
is placed besides this menu item.
The Jewish Calendar for Pocket PC does not support importing Jewish
calendar data in Hebrew.
When importing large times ranges, it should be done in parts of one to two months, since otherwise the speed of importing will be very slow.
For more information, please see the help file.
Alternatively, you can use the Jewish Calendar Data Export
Program for desktop Windows which imports the data into desktop
Outlook, offers more features, is faster and also suitable for
a larger time range.
The data in desktop Outlook can be synchronized with Pocket
Outlook via ActiveSync.
The Jewish Calendar Data Export Program can be downloaded free of charge from the website
http://www.tichnut.de/jewish/dataexport.html
Please note that, if you use the Jewish Calendar Data Export program, you may not use the Import to Pocket Outlook feature of the Jewish Calendar for Pocket PC anymore, because otherwise double entries occur.
In the Jewish Calendar Program for Pocket PC, it is also possible
to display the text of the torah sections in Hebrew by clicking at
the bottom rectangle with the torah section name.
Click here for instructions how to
install this feature.
Please do not forget that for displaying torah readings, the Hebrew Reader is needed which can be downloaded from the website
http://www.tichnut.de/jewish/hebrewreader.html
Instructions how to define an own individual created background
for holidays is contained in the help under the topic Configuring
Holiday Background.
Click here for instructions how to install
samples.
Thanks to Mr. Moishe-Richard Davidovici from Antwerp, Belgium who kindly
provided me the sefirass haomer and the shir on memory of Rabbi Shimon
Bar Yohay.
He wrote me the following regarding the users of his texts:
| "I just express a wish that the users should pray for the refuoh sheleymo of my sister "Ruhama Pessel Odel bas Gitel" |
To install the texts, perform the following steps:
\My Documents
folder of your Pocket PC, e.g. by
Hint for advanced users: by clicking on Menu, Configure..., Readings/Holidays... and Texts for Omer..., you can change the paths for the files, so that you can also place the files on a Storage Card.
Thanks to Mr. Yuda Feldman who kindly provided me this file with the full text of the sefirass haomer.
To install the text, perform the following steps:
\My Documents
folder of your Pocket PC, e.g. by
\My Documents\sefira.prc
You can also change this location if you placed the file
on a storage card.
\My Documents
folder of your Pocket PC, e.g. by
http://www.tichnut.de/jewish/hebrewreader.html
and copy a Unicode font on the pocket PC by following the
instructions on this webpage under the topic 10. Copying a font to the Pocket PC or deleting a font from the Pocket PC.
Then click in the Hebrew Reader on
Font, Font Name, select Unicode and in the combobox
the font which you copied.
\My Documents\HanukahPocketPC.PDB
You can also change this location if you placed the file
on a storage card.
If synchronizing a Microsoft Word (or Microsoft Excel) document which
uses a font which is not present on the pocket PC (e.g. Times New
Roman), then the pocket PC uses an arbitrary font and that could be
the Hebrew font which the calendar program uses.
This problem can be fixed by copying the fonts used in the desktop
PC document from the Fonts folder on the desktop PC
C:\WINDOWS\FONTS
or
C:\WINNT\FONTS
to the fonts Folder on the pocket PC
\Windows\Fonts
Mostly, the fonts Arial, Courier New, Times New Roman and Tahoma are enough to copy.
Detailed instructions how to copy a font to the Pocket PC is contained under topic 10. Copying a font to the Pocket PC or deleting a font from the Pocket PC on this webpage.
To solve this problem, please remove the file
NewCompHebrewCE.ttf
from your pocket PC which is located in the
\Windows\Fonts
folder, either using the File Explorer of the pocket PC or ActiveSync/Explore
on the desktop PC.
When Hebrew Reader is also installed, also remove the NEWCOMH1.TTF
file.
Copy the Unicode font Times New Roman (TIMES.TTF) from the desktop
PC to your pocket PC.
On the desktop PC, it is located in
C:\WINDOWS\FONTS
or
C:\WINNT\FONTS
The Times New Roman font must be copied into the
\Windows\Fonts
folder of the pocket PC.
Detailed instructions how to copy a font to the Pocket PC is contained under topic 10. Copying a font to the Pocket PC or deleting a font from the Pocket PC on this webpage.
In the Jewish Calendar for Windows CE, click on the Menu button, Configure..., Configure Hebrew font... and select Times New Roman.
When the Hebrew Reader is installed, click in the Hebrew Reader on Font, Font Name, select Unicode and in the combobox Times New Roman.
Copying a font from the desktop PC to the Pocket PC is possible by the following steps:
Users of Windows Mobile Device Center have to follow these instructions:
Users of ActiveSync have to follow these instructions:
Deleting a font from the Pocket PC can be easily performed by the
File Explorer on the Pocket PC.
Click on the Start menu button, select Programs and File Explorer.
In the folder combobox, first select My Device, then click in the
list on Windows and Fonts.
Then delete the desired font by tapping with the stylus a longer time
so that a popup menu appears and select the menu item to remove the file.
When using a Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC device and if the file cannot be removed because it is in use, perform the following steps:
DeleteFont
This software is protected by copyright laws.
The author is not liable for consequential, incidential or indirect damages of any kind which arise out of the use of the software.