Comments on: AvantGo Removes Limits on Custom Channels

Marco Schouten

A sony version (for testing) was recently released. It supports 320x320 hires (much like Handstory) except that the table formatting and content control (like exclude all links that look like this: etc. etc., or don't look beyond current site or directory)

Make sure that you grab a copy of Plucker Desktop. (check the developers mailing list archive) Makes it that much easier...

Sony viewer can be grabbed separately here -->
www.array.org/~adamm/plucker-sony/20020327/viewer_en.prc
(It can be installed alongside normal Plucker)

Have fun!

ciaran

Akira
eduakira@uol.com.br

Carl Brooks
http://www.palmloyal.com

My second question is: Is it worth it to pay $5,000 a year for the service that AvantGo is providing? Or is there a better way to generate traffic and provide a similar service for less than $1000-$5000 a year?

You site is mostly news (not products). I would assume that $ is generated by ads and afiliates. Is the services that AvantGo providing worth the money spent (in your opinion)?

Carl
http://www.palmloyal.com

ciaran

I look at it like shareware, try it, if you need something for just a one shot deal, use it and uninstall it, but if you derive significant use from it then pay the fee and be happy that you are doing something 1) To reward the people who came up with the idea AND brought it to market, and 2) to ensure that the product is still a viable venture for these people.

Now as to using other progs. I find that everyone that I have recommended avantgo and vindigo to don't have trouble using them even if they are newbies, that counts a _lot_ in making a product useful to me, if people see me using it and I tell them what it is, I DONT want 20 calls on "Why can't I get this to work"

Anyway, hurray that they changed their minds on the channels, I used it to keep some friends updated on some events and switching them to Isilo was going to be a pain!

[From Help File]
5.1 POST Requests
Plucker can send POST requests to a host, just like an HTML form does. It will store the resulting page in the document. ...

POST requests take this form:

"http://harvest.weather.com/cgi-bin/3com/avantgo/palmpilot_city_search.pl"
POST="city_destination=46552&action=Go"
[snip]

ciaran

http://www.handstory.com/

Plucker converts tables to a text format, which in many cases make the information difficult if not impossible to read. Avantgo has a tag for enabling handheld friendly tables while also disabling normal HTML tables (which are often too large for a PDA's resolution).

Also, Plucker doesn't have jog-dial support (it works, but only scrolls one pixel at a time, making it useless).

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If you sing in french while hopping on one foot, the evil birds won't come out of your bathroom mirror.

At 4am, I've got ISilo converting my content and sending it automagically to my CLIE Memstick.

At 6am, I've got AutoSync scheduled to sync up my CLIE to my 'puter, thus pulling all downloaded content and plopping it on my CLIE.

And at 7am, I've got BackupBuddyVFS scheduled to back all that new data up to my Memstick.

It's almost entirely automated! ;)