Easily Copy Info from IE to Palm with Coola Right-Click

Coola has released a new Windows Internet Explorer plug-in that allows you to easily copy any piece of text from IE onto your Palm, or e-mail it to a friends' Palm. Right clicking on a bit of selected text will allow you to use Coola Right-Click to put it in your memo pad. It is free and requires Coola and Win IE 4.0 or higher.

How It Is Done
When you find something you want to move to your Palm, select/highlight it, then right click on it. 'Make a Coolet' will appear as one of the options. Select it and a 'Create a Memo coolet' form will appear with the information you selected. Assign a title to the coolet or use the one that appears in the title field. Click the Coola button to add this to your own Palm, send to a friend's Palm, or both.

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Coola and Anyday

I.M. Anonymous @ 10/10/2000 9:32:34 AM #
Why do these companies continue to ignore the Mac user amongst us. When are we going to see Macintosh support?

RE: Coola and Anyday
I.M. Anonymous @ 10/10/2000 10:49:56 AM #
waa! I am a baby! I have a mac, and I expect the world to cater to me! waaa!

Wake up!

RE: Coola and Anyday
GregGaub @ 10/10/2000 11:23:39 AM #
When Sudha Jamthe, Coola CEO, spoke at our PUG meeting in July, her answer to that kind of comment/question was that they had tentative plans to support other operating systems and even other handheld platforms. But remember, they are a VERY new company. It makes sense for them to launch their company supporting the MOST widely used combinations, that of a Windows desktop PC and PalmOS handheld. It wouldn't make much sense for them to start off supporting a less used (no judgement calls here, just numbers) OS, would it? Maybe if you contact them *nicely* about supporting MacOS and/or other stuff, they can better guage user need for it, and better plan to make it happen?

IE2PDB is a better option

I.M. Anonymous @ 10/10/2000 9:34:19 AM #
Check out IE2PDB, which is available over at PalmGear. Rather than copy to a memo file, it creates a DOC file, so you aren't limited to the memo size limitations. It's a great way to keep a copy of a good article at hand.

However, just like Coola, it is limited to IE on a Windows machine.

RE: IE2PDB is a better option
Spell @ 10/10/2000 11:39:06 AM #
In a similar vein, a good text-to-doc converter will put interesting online things into your PDA in .doc format. The real benefit is that you have the flexibility to take anything you can get MS Word to open and transform it into a .doc file.

No Mac support

RoofusPennymore @ 10/10/2000 4:38:46 PM #
lack of Mac support sucks!
RE: No Mac support
I.M. Anonymous @ 10/11/2000 6:00:38 AM #
I think you need to remove the words "lack" "of" and "support" from that statement. BTW I use Linux

[ No Subject ]

I.M. Anonymous @ 10/11/2000 4:28:12 AM #
and the Mac users? forgotten as usual.

Macs

I.M. Anonymous @ 10/11/2000 9:19:39 AM #
Want fries with that Mac?

Mac support

I.M. Anonymous @ 10/11/2000 10:28:44 AM #
If you don't understand why no one supports the Mac, you are an idiot. Economics 101. If you had a product with a potential market of either 1 person or 100 people which would you choose? The enormous disparity in numbers between PC's & Mac's all but guarantees that product development will always favor the PC.
If your looking for the latest & greatest, I'd suggest getting a computer that doesn't come in flavors.
RE: Mac support
I.M. Anonymous @ 10/11/2000 4:51:55 PM #
Even like that, I still prefer a Mac computer.
way more stable, faster, more reliable, than wintel computers.
Why do you think all the pros prefer a Mac?
besides most up to date stuff is available for MAC.
All the stuff that you can actually use, PC has too much crap out there, useless soft and hardware.


RE: Mac support
I.M. Anonymous @ 10/11/2000 4:51:55 PM #
Even like that, I still prefer a Mac computer.
way more stable, faster, more reliable, than wintel computers.
Why do you think all the pros prefer a Mac?
besides most up to date stuff is available for MAC.
All the stuff that you can actually use, PC has too much crap out there, useless soft and hardware.


RE: Mac support
I.M. Anonymous @ 10/11/2000 10:26:17 PM #
>> Even like that, I still prefer a Mac computer.
>> way more stable, faster, more reliable, than wintel >> computers.

I never said the PC was better or worse, but simply you shouldn't bitch when companies dont support a MUCH smaller and less profitable platform. We all want to put food on the table.
Logic would dictate that a PC with endless amount of different manufacturers, and infintismal combinations of HW and SW would have far more stability problems then a product from one manufacturer with a much smaller scope of additional HW/SW. If other operating systems had the same dynamics of HW/SW of a PC they to would see a greater decrease in stability. In addition you hear about PC's crashing more frequently than Macs because there is a practically a PC in every office/home compared to Macs. I am in the SW business and I am considered the "computer guy" to friends and in my core group of friends/family/business associates (maybe 35 people) only one has a Mac, which is a second machine(primary being a PC) used for DTP in a printing business. So guess what? I never hear about Mac problems, not neccessarily because they don't have them but because it's a 35:1 ratio.
Personally, I believe a big part Windows "stability" problem are more hype generated by people who don't like MS/Windows/Gates on principal than actual problems.

>> Why do you think all the pros prefer a Mac?
I don't think all the pros perfer a Mac. But it is extremly popular in certain applications. However the fact that it has great DTP support doesn't negate the fact of there only being 2 aisles of Mac SW/HW in a CompUSA.

>>besides most up to date stuff is available for MAC.
Most(a stretch) not all, which is what started this thread in the first place.

>>All the stuff that you can actually use, PC has too >>much crap out there, useless soft and hardware.
I'd rather have the option of endless software/hardware than be limited by the reverse scenario.


Syncplicity....sweet app!

I.M. Anonymous @ 10/11/2000 12:54:41 PM #
Go to zdnet and get Syncplicity.
http://hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/info.html?fcode=001BZW&b=zdpalm

Syncplicity is a must-have Windows utility that allows you to easily import data to your Palm device. You can grab data from any source (Web page, email, text document, etc.) and transfer it to your handheld with just a couple of clicks. To move data into the Syncplicity window you can paste from the clipboard, open the appropriate file, drag highlighted text, or type directly into its window. Once this is done, just select the type of file you want to create (i.e. address, document, memo, etc.) and then HotSync. It uses customizable address templates to automatically transfer contact information into the correct fields of your Address Book. Similarly, event information is automatically scheduled to the correct day and time in your Date Book. An excellent help file is included, but its interface is so intuitive, you'll hardly need it.

Syncplicity

pworkman @ 10/11/2000 7:04:00 PM #
Syncplicity already does this, but as well as pasting to memo pad you can paste to datebk, todo, addressbook or doc format.

Mac Users

DaMohel @ 10/12/2000 12:22:37 AM #
Much like not speaking french in France - speaking other than PC in a PC world makes it hard to communicate. LINUX, MAC, and
others aren't the big market. Buy PC if you want first release!
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