Comments on: AvantGo 3.3 review

Uummm, ProxiWeb supports SSL. i do not use Hotmail, so i don't know if there if ProxiWeb can be used to check/send Hotmail accounts, but i have used ProxiWeb to access other web sites using SSL.

Calloway, you are absolutely correct. Thank you for pointing this out.

I probably should have added to the review a paragraph about how I don't much like the way the AvantGo Web site is organized. Some items that I think are very important and that should have large prominent links on the home page are hidden off on sub-pages. Ryan had to point out the user guide to me and I'm not surprised I couldn't find this link to upgrade my software. AvantGo recently reorganized their site so that it is much better but there is still some room for improvement.

The pendragon browser does not do color nor is it very useful. Yeah, it's small, but is clumsy. AvantoGo is better, but, it too, is rather clumsy. Still looking for a good offline browser...

I just tried it and it worked for some of my ISPs but not for others. Apparently the Secure Socket Layer causes problems on some providers. I know it works for Freei so if you are a subscriber to that service and have a HotMail account, you can use it from your Palm via AvantGo 3.3.

Apparently, MS has created a "mobile" version of HotMail because I wasn't brought up in the regular version of HotMail's pages but on a page that had been optimized for a small screen, which is great. I'd guess they created if for their PocketPC users but HotMail was able to detect that I was a Palm user and automatically served me the correct page. I was able to read, send, and delete e-mail, too.

Hi,

Even before the 3.3 AvantGo version, Yahoo had announced that they'll releasing a mobile version of Yahoo Mail. There is already a version of Yahoo Mail for Palm VII users. I have on my Plam IIIx a mobile version of Yahoo Messenger and it works very-very-very well. ICQ in the other hand, doesn't work at all :((((

Vladimir.
info@palmbr.com
www.palmbr.com

We're discussing using the manual browsing features of AvantGo to visit HotMail so, yes, you need a modem. But it does raise an interesting thought. Could someone write an AvantGo channel that could let you send/receive e-mail during a HotSynch? You could download your incoming mail then use the forms manager to write e-mail that would be sent the next time you HotSynch.

I've done another test.
Part 1 - Using a desktop browser I've sended an e-mail with an attached JPG colored file to my Hotmail account.
Part 2 - I've entered my Hotmail account using AvantGo and, just like it happens in the desktop Hotmail Messages, I could see the attached image bellow the written part of the e-mail message. Of course the image became grayscale.... but with only 3kb.

You need the latest version of MalSync to use avantgo 3.3
on linux. I don't think gnome pilot has been ported
to it yet. Go to http://www.tomw.org/malsync.html

Tom
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Tom

ditto

Even worse, you can't delete AvantGo files on your Palm from your Palm. You must delete the channel on the website first and wait for the effects on your next hotsynch.

Hmmmm...

OfficeMax in kansas City is selling the Palm Modem for $49. Try an OfficeMax were you live.

Well I've taken a look at this, and I can only think of one solution: The data is sent through the proxy unmodified, then everything (reformating amd somesuch) is all handeled at the site itself. The main reason I think this is the case, is because no company would make themselves liable for information like that getting out that easily. I also had a thought regarding avantgo: Mabye it sends the data to the palm and the palm itself reformats it. When you take into account how much larger avantgo is than most other browsers out there, it makes sense that that's what all that extra code is for... unfortionatally, That's just a guess, I'd like to know the "offical" answer to that too. Of corse there is the age old theroy that went arround in the days of the phone crackers : "If you don't want someone else to be able to listen in, don't say anythign worth listening to" yeah, it causes a monor inconvience, but I'll tell you what, I know guys that can get "secure" data about 50 different ways, so no matter what you do there is some keyboard jockey out there that can steal your data and monkey with it all they want.

CHECKING EMAIL WITH PALM & MOBILE PHONE

THE PHONE MUST BE AN IR-CAPABLE PHONE
You must go the menu and "activate" the IR port. Since the IR port uses battery power, you may want to turn it off when you're not using it.

On the Palm Pilot side
(1) TELL THE PALM PILOT ABOUT YOUR PHYSICAL CONNECTION
If you installed the new OS, there are some changes here.
(a) Go to PREFS - CONNECTION. Add a new connection called "IR modem". Under "connection method", select "IrCOMM to Modem". Dialing is TouchTone and volume is whatever. Under "details", set speed to 57,600, flow control to automaic and init string to AT&FX4.
(2) TELL THE PALM PILOT ABOUT YOUR NETWORK CONNECTION
Go to PREFS and then NETWORK. Type in your ISP's phone number and your login id and password. You'll also be asked which "connection" (from above) you want associated with the network. Select your new "IR modem" entry.
From now on, when a program tries to make a TCP/IP connection, it will automatically dial out on your mobile phone using the infrared port.

IT's great!!

Step by step:

1)Turn on the Palm device
2)Tap on the home icon with stylus.(Home is the little icon in the grafitti area that looks like a house.
3)Tap on the little bar on the top left hand side of the screen. This is the menu bar. (It should have a clock reading on it)
4)From the menu bar, there will be a dropdown, and one of the listed items will read "Delete"
5) Tap delete. The screen will say "Please Wait"
6)After a moment, a screen will appear listing all the items on the device. Pick the unwanted item, tap on "Delete" at the bottom of page, and voila.