This is a copy of the instructions which appear on the Pocket PC. To view them, tap Start, Help and select Journal Bar.

Installation instructions
How it works
Using Journal Bar
Journal Bar Sections
Journal Bar Settings
Troubleshooting
Purchasing
Uninstallation instructions
Further help

The version number can be found in the Options page. See the Journal Bar Settings section for more information.

Journal Bar connects to the Internet via various methods, including using wireless networks which may incur a cost. The user is responsible for paying for all costs associated with Journal Bar's access to the Internet. To disable wireless network access from within Journal Bar, go to the Links section and tap the green "tick" icon.

Installation
Problems with reinstallation
If you are having trouble reinstalling a newer version of Journal Bar, or are upgrading from the trial version to the full version you may have trouble with the Journal.dll file being already in use. To correct this:

Uninstall the current version of Journal Bar. See the Uninstallation instructions for more information.
Install the new version only when uninstallation is complete.

Once the Journal Bar has the information from the Internet it stores the information on your Pocket PC, so when you're on the go you can view all this data. Once you connect your device to the Internet again (e.g. by connecting it to your PC through it's cradle when the PC is connected to the Internet) it will gather updated data.

When Journal Bar is installed, it will ask you to enter a country, a city or a ZIP / postal code. This is used to get local content such as Weather, news and movie times. If the location entered isn't recognized, or you wish to change your location, see Journal Bar Settings on how to change it. Sometimes you may need to enter a place near to where you live to get the optimum information. Please experiment with whatever works best for you.

Once the location has been entered, Journal Bar will configure your Internet connection, then it will appear on the today screen.

Sections
Journal Bar divides all the information it displays into sections, or pages of information. For more information, see Journal Bar Sections.

Journal Bar Controls
On the left hand side of the Journal Bar are three icons / buttons:

• The top icon (the Section Icon) displays an icon showing which section of information is being displayed (e.g. Weather, Sports News, Stocks).
• The up and down buttons allow manual scrolling between each section.

When the Journal Bar is getting new data the Section Icon will flash. Once it has received data for the section current being viewed it will stop flashing. To reduce the time it takes to get data, sections can be turned off (particularly the Sports Scores and Movie Reviews custom links). Sometimes the Section Icon will continue to flash if it cannot get data. See the Troubleshooting section for more information on helping Journal Bar get data.

When new data is being received, a meter showing download progress will appear on the right hand side. When all the data has been collected, it will disappear.

To force Journal Bar to get new data, tap the Section Icon and hold it down for a few seconds. It will begin to flash, showing it is preparing to receive data. If you are not connected to the Internet, it will not attempt to get data and will stop flashing. This is particularly useful for 802.11 or cell connections, as Journal Bar can be updated when and where you wish.

On the Custom Links section three more icons appear on the right hand side:

• The top right icon links to the Today settings. This link can be used to change the Journal Bar settings.
• The bottom right icon links to this help document.
• The top left icon turns wireless data gathering on and off. When the green tick is displayed, Journal Bar will gather data from ActiveSync, WiFi and GPRS sources, if available. If the red cross is displayed, Journal Bar will only gather data from ActiveSync when docked.
• The bottom right icon changes the proxy settings. If your network connection needs a proxy at work, but not at home, use this setting to change between using a proxy or not.

Weather
When Journal Bar first starts up only one weather city is displayed. The 13 other weather cities can be used to monitor other weather locations. To add other weather locations, see Journal Bar Settings.

The weather screens will display 5 day weather information from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (for the USA), Environment Canada (for Canada), the World Meteorological Organization (for the rest of the world) plus other weather sources. To get more detailed weather information, tap on any of the weather icons. Note, weather details are only displayed for the USA. The Now tab will show the current weather at this location, along with other information. Note, this is only available for certain cities.

News
This section allows the selection of up to 14 sections of news information. You can choose from various international news sources. For more information on the news sources, see Journal Bar help on www.omegaone.com.

Journal Bar comes with approximately 90 news sources from around the world. With the purchase of the Journal Bar Expansion Pack, this will expand to over 200. This includes over 60 extra US news sources. The demonstration version of Journal Bar will allow you to trial these extra news sections.

The news sources are subject to change at any time as these sources of obviously beyond our control.

To turn any news sections on or off, see Journal Bar Settings.

For each section, the top three headlines will appear. Tapping on the headline will display the full story. Links from the these story pages will not work when the Pocket PC is disconnected, as these pages have not been stored.

Stocks
The next section displays stock data. To view more stocks that have been set up, tap on the right arrow button that appears on the right hand side.

Page 1 of stock information displays the last time the stock information was received.

To change which stocks are displayed, see Journal Bar Settings.

To get a stock to display the stock ticker symbol should be entered. To find the correct ticker symbol, see moneycentral.msn.com. Note, not just stocks, but Mutual Funds, exchange rates and Indexes (e.g. NASDAQ) can be added.

To get more information on a stock, tap its ticker symbol.

Click here for common ticker symbols. For non-US stock symbols, look them up at  moneycentral.msn.com.

Exchange Rates
Journal Bar allows access to the latest exchange rates. The rates are retrieved with a 7 letter code in the format /AAABBB. Here "AAA" refers to the three letter code of the exchange rate to convert from, and "BBB" refers to the three letter code of the exchange rate to convert to. For example, to convert United Kingdom Pounds Sterling into United States Dollars, use the code /GBPUSD.

The following exchange rates can be used:

USD - United States Dollar
EUR - European Union Euro
XOF - African Financial Community Franc
AUD - Australian Dollar
ATS - Austrian Schilling
BSD - Bahamian Dollar
BBD - Barbados Dollar
BEF - Belgian Franc
BZD - Belizean Dollar
BRL - Brazilian Real
BGN - Bulgarian Leva
CAD - Canadian Dollar
KYD - Cayman Islands Dollar
CLP - Chilean Peso
CNY - Chinese Renminbi
COP - Colombian Kuna
HRK - Croatian Kuna
CYP - Cypriot Pound
CZK - Czech Republic Koruna
DKK - Danish Krone
DJK - Djiboutian Franc
NLG - Dutch Gilder
XCD - East Caribbean Dollar
AED - Emirate Dirhams
EEK - Estonian Kroon
FJD - Fiji Dollar
FIM - Finnish Markkaa
FRF - French Franc
DEM - German Deutsche mark
GHC - Ghanaian Cedi
GRD - Greek Drachma
GBP - United Kingdom Pound Sterling
HNL - Honduran Lempira
HKD - Hong Kong Dollar
HUF - Hungarian Forint
ISK - Icelandic Krona
INR - Indian Rupee
IDR - Indonesian Rupiah
IEP - Irish Pound (Punt)
ILS - Israeli New Shekel
ITL - Italian Lire
JMD - Jamaican Dollar
JPY - Japanese Yen
JOD - Jordanian Dinar
LVL - Latvian Lat
LTL - Lithuanian Litas
LUF - Luxembourg Franc
MYR - Malaysian Ringgit
MTL - Maltese Lira
MXN - Mexican New Peso
MAD - Moroccan Dirham
MMK - Myanmar (Burmese) Kyat
ANG - Neth. Antilles Guilder
NZD - New Zealand Dollar
NOK - Norwegian Krona
XPF - Pacific Financial Community Franc
PKR - Pakistan Rupee
PAB - Panamanian Balboa
PEN - Peruvian New Sol
PHP - Philippine Peso
PLN - Polish Zloty
PTE - Portuguese Escudos
QAR - Qatar Riyal
ROL - Romanian Leu
RUB - Russian Rouble
SGD - Singapore Dollar
SKK - Slovak Koruna
SIT - Slovenian Tolar
ZAR - South African Rand
KRW - South Korean Won
ESP - Spanish Peseta
LKR - Sir Lanka Rupee
SEK - Swedish Krona
CHF - Swiss Franc
TWD - Taiwanese New Dollar
THB - Thai Baht
TTD - Trinidad & Tobego Dollar
TND - Tunisian Dinar
TRL - Turkish Lira
VEB - Venezuelan Bolivar

Custom Links
This section displays up to 6 icons which link to custom web pages to keep track of. To alter which web pages are displayed here, or to not display this section, see Journal Bar Settings.

Special links can also be added to this section:

• Movie times - Uses your home or away location to find out the times movies are showing at your local movie theater. Only works in Australia, Canada, France, the UK and the USA.
• Movie reviews - Get the latest movie & video reviews from top reviewers.
• TV listings - Scroll to the bottom of this page to get the primetime shows on the main channels tonight. Only available for France, Germany, the UK and the USA.
• Sports scores - Get the latest scores & division standings from the major leagues, including the UK, French, Italian and German premier soccer leagues.
• Horoscope - Get your personal horoscope for each day.

Note: links from these web pages will not work when the Pocket PC is disconnected, as these linked pages have not been stored.

• Select Start, Settings, Today. You may need to select the Items tab.
• Select Journal Bar. Tap the Options button on the right hand side.

This will bring up a screen allowing you to alter how Journal Bar displays information. The following settings can be altered:

General
At the top the version number will be displayed. (e.g. v3.0.0 - 1). The first three numbers denote the version you downloaded (e.g. v3.0.0). The last number denotes the latest format data that is available. If the Check for updates is selected, this format information will automatically be downloaded and will update the system to make sure Journal Bar stays current with changes to how News, Stocks & Links information is processed.

Check the Sync when first docked check box if you wish to synchronize the Journal Bar data when you put your Pocket PC in it's docking cradle.

The Check for updates feature will not only get format information as described above, but will also check for any new versions of the software. If a new version is available, it will display a new "section" between Links and Weather telling you a new update is available. See Omega One's FAQ for more information on how to get the new update.

All the web pages displayed are stored in the main memory on the Pocket PC. By altering the settings under the Web Page Store button the web pages can be stored in a different location (for example, on a storage card). This can be useful if you need more main memory, and have a large storage card to store the Journal Bar web content.

On this page it is also possible to choose to use the Fast Cache Store. Using the Fast Cache Store speeds up the loading of web pages and uses up less memory to store web pages. However, links from the stored web pages will not work when tapped on (presuming there is an active Internet connection). Unchecking this check box will allow links to work from stored web pages.

To make the sections scroll automatically, check the Auto Scroll check box. How quickly it scrolls each section can be adjusted between 5 & 180 seconds.

As mentioned above, the format data will be automatically downloaded when it becomes available. However, if there is a problem with getting this information, tapping the Update Format button will manually update this information.

Web pages data are stored on the Pocket PC. If you wish to occasionally clean out this store to free up memory, tap the Delete Content button. Note, this will delete all news, stock & link web pages. To make them reappear, dock your Pocket PC and let the information resynchronise.

Weather
Tap the Edit button to change the weather location. The location you enter here will also get movie listings information for Australia, Canada, France, the UK and the USA. In the USA this can also be used to get local news information.

Use the check boxes to display or not display the relevant weather location.

Use the radio buttons to select whether the weather temperatures should be displayed in Celsius or Fahrenheit.

At the bottom of the screen, the weather information update rate can be changed from between 1 hour and 6 hours.

News
Edit each of the 14 combo boxes to select the correct news source. Note, the left hand column of news sources are displayed in Journal Bar first, followed by the right hand column. To not display a news section in a particular position, select <none>.

Each news section is preceded with letters denoting the language & the nationality of the news. For example:

• Al - Albanian
• Cr - Croatian
• Cz - Czech
• De - German
• Dk - Danish
• En - English
• Es - Spanish
• Fi - Finnish
• Fr - French
• Hu - Hungarian
• Id - Bahasa Indonesia
• It - Italian
• Nl - Dutch
• No - Norwegian
• Pl - Polish
• Po - Portuguese
• Ro - Romanian
• Ru - Russian
• Sl - Slovakian
• Sr - Serbian
• Tu - Turkish

• AF - Africa
• AG - Argentina
• AL - Albania
• AT - Austria
• AU - Australia
• BE - Belgium
• BR - Brazil
• CA - Canada
• CB - Caribbean
• CH - Switzerland
• CR - Croatia
• CZ - Czech Republic
• DE - Germany
• DK - Denmark
• ES - Spain
• EU - Europe
• FI - Finland
• FR - France
• HU - Hungary
• ID - Indonesia
• IT - Italy
• ME - Middle East
• NL - Netherlands
• NO - Norway
• PL - Poland
• PO - Portugal
• RO - Romania
• RU - Russia (note, the headlines will not display in Cyrillic).
• SE - Sweden
• SL - Slovakia
• SR - Serbia
• TU - Turkey
• UK - United Kingdom
• US - USA

At the bottom of the screen, the news information update rate can be changed from between 1 hour and 6 hours.

Stocks
Enter stock ticker symbols in the edit box separated by commas - e.g. $DJI,COMP,MSFT,INTC. To display a readable name against a stock, add the readable name in brackets after the ticker symbol - e.g. $DJI(Dow),COMP,MSFT,INTC(Intel).

To display no stock information, uncheck the Display check box.

Stocks gains are showed in green, and losses in red. On some today backgrounds this may be difficult to read. To display gains and losses in the usual today text color, uncheck the Gain/Loss in color check box.

To find the correct ticker symbol, see moneycentral.msn.com. Note, not just stocks, but Mutual Funds and Indexes (e.g. NASDAQ) can be added.

At the bottom of the screen, the stock information update rate can be changed from between 10 minutes and 3 hours.

For some common stock ticker symbols, click here.

Links
Select the page to display in each of the 6 positions on the screen (e.g. *Movie Reviews* to display Movie Reviews). To enter a custom link, select the relevant link box and enter the web page (e.g. www.omegaone.com). Missing off the http:// prefix is OK. To remember which link is which, edit the name of custom links on the right of the link URL.

To not display this page, uncheck the Display this page check box.

At the bottom of the screen, the link information update rate can be changed from between 1 hour and 6 hours.

Journal Bar doesn't get any data. What's happening?
First of all, check that your PC is connected to the Internet and can successfully browse web pages. Then check the Pocket PC has a partnership with the PC (the system tray ActiveSync icon on your PC should be yellow or green).
It may also take a little time to get data from the Internet into Journal Bar, especially with a dial-up connection. The link section in particular may take several minutes to appear. However, weather and/or news headlines should appear after the first couple of minutes of being connected.
Original Pocket PC devices are not able to connect to the Internet through the PC, and therefore are not supported.
If you still aren't seeing any data, it may be that the Pocket PC settings to read the web pages is not set up correctly. To test your connection is working correctly, select Start, Internet Explorer, tap the House (Home) icon at the bottom of the screen, select the Pocket PC.com item on the home page, then tap the Go to PocketPC.com now! link. If you get a message saying the connection settings aren't correct, then your Internet connection isn't correct yet. Tap the Not online yet? Find out how to get connected. link below it to correct the problem.
Some Internet connections require a proxy server to connect to the Internet, and some do not. For example, a work link may require a proxy server, but the home link does not. If you aren't seeing any information it may be the proxy needs to be set up. To do this, move to the Links section and tap on the Connection icon (the icon with an arrow on it on the right hand side). Ask your system administrator for the proxy server address, then enter the proxy details in the Start, Settings, Connections screen. See the Pocket PC help for more information on adjusting connections.

Journal Bar has got some data, but some is missing.
It may also take a little time to get data from the Internet into Journal Bar, particularly with a dial-up connection. Particularly, the link & stock data may take several minutes to appear. However, weather and/or news headlines should appear after the first couple of minutes of being connected.
Also, there may be a problem with the web site that is getting the data. In particular, some web sites have occasional down-time to update their web pages. Wait an hour or two and the data should be updated correctly. If the problem persists, unselecting that piece of data in the Journal Bar Options section will stop it trying to get this data.

In general, if the section icon is flashing, it is still updating that section. Once it stops flashing, this section is updated.

Will Journal Bar work with my Pocket PC Phone edition?
Yes! Journal Bar will download information through your PC ActiveSync connection, and you can use your cell connection to get data when on the move (when coverage allows an Internet connection). To get Journal Bar to grab data when you're not at your desk, tap the top left Section Icon on the Journal Bar screen, and it will start to get data.

Will Journal Bar work with a wireless connection?
Journal Bar will work with a BlueTooth ActiveSync connection as if it were a standard serial or USB ActiveSync connection. Journal Bar will also work with a 802.11 wireless Active Sync connection, however it will not automatically grab data. To get Journal Bar to grab data, tap the top left Section Icon on the Journal Bar screen for a few seconds, and it will start to get data.