[aclug-L] Re: Avantgo Linux Page

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: discussion-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:discussion-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Carl D Cravens
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Dale W Hodge wrote:
>
> > For those of you wondering what Advantgo is, it's a web
> clipping service for
> > handheld computers: Palm OS, WinCE, and Windows Palm. You specify which
> > sites you want clipped and the software downloads it to your handheld.
> > Pretty cool way to keep up with all the news.
>
> I'm finding SiteScooper + iSilo to work better for me than AvantGo.  (And
> I don't even sync on the machine that produces the pdb... so it's not as
> convenient as it would be for most.)  iSilo is *much* smaller than
> AvantGo, treats your web pages as individual documents instead of
> "channels", it's also a Doc reader, so you can view web pages and doc
> files in the same interface, it's actually *readable* on a non-color
> screen (which AvantGo often isn't) and you don't have to give anybody your
> passwords or rely on a service that may go out of business.
>
> iSilo's only drawback for me is a propriatary file format.

Humm... I've got the free version of iSilo, but hadn't considered using it
for clippings.  I agree that AvantGo is a bit large, but then again it's
also a web browser, which I need for surfing wirelessly.

The killer app that I'm looking for is some kind of printer driver that will
convert what I print into something readable on my PalmOS system.  If it
exists, and it may very well, I haven't found it yet.

--dwh

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