iSilo 3.0 Offers Hi-Res and VFS Support (Updated)
iSilo 3.0 is a doc reader who's new version includes an impressive array of features. It can show formated, read files off VFS expansion cards, and supports both the Clié's and the HandEra 330's hi-res screens. iSilo documents can include both tables and images. It is available now for $17.50 and is a free upgrade to previous owners.
There is also a new version of iSiloX, the Windows app needed to convert files to iSilo format.
Update:Despite what this article said earlier, iSilo 3.0 is a document reader, not a word processor. Files can not be edited on the handheld. Sorry if I steered anyone wrong. -Ed
iSilo 3.0 can show formated text, including the standard bold, italics, underline. It also supports different font sizes and colors and subscripts and superscripts.
It lets users view documents stored on VFS memory expansion cards. It can also copy and move documents from the handheld's memory to VFS accessible external media and vice versa. Files can be stored in any one of several folders on the card.
iSilo 3.0 supports the 160 by 160 screens of most Palm OS handhelds but also supports the HandEra 330's 240 by 320 screen and the Sony Clié's 320 by 320 one. It also supports the jog wheels on both of these.
Images can appear inline in between text on the same line or outside of text blocks. They can be anywhere from 2-bit grayscale to 16-bit color.
iSilo takes the size of the screen into consideration in formatting a table for display. Tables can theoretically be thousands of columns wide and millions of rows long, though memory will limit this. For wide tables or tables that have been laid out for display on a desktop monitor, iSilo provides the ability to toggle table display between single column and multi-column mode. Individual cells can span rows and/or columns and tables can be embedded within one another.
It also has built-in document security. Files can be private and masked. They can be set so they can't be beamed, changed, or even have text copied from them.
It supports smooth scrolling. drag scrolling, and screen tap scrolling.
Bookmarks can be embedded into the document and so can hyperlinks to other parts of the document. Text or images can serve as hyperlinks.
In order to handle the functions that the regular Palm doc format can't, it has its own iSilo 3.x format but can also read standard Palm doc files.
It requires Palm OS 3.0 or later, 306K of RAM for the application plus 128K for viewing documents in internal memory (256K recommended) and 256K for viewing documents on memory expansion cards (512K recommended).
Convert Files
iSiloX 3.0 allows users to convert HTML, text, and Palm doc files to the iSilo 3.x format. It can create a document out of pages on the Web for offline reading or collect a series of local files into a document.
To save room, when creating a document the sizes of images can be limited and the file can be compressed. Security levels can be set on a documents at its creation.
Once they have been created, documents can be set to be saved to the handheld on the next HotSync. They can go to either RAM or the expansion card.
Upgrading
Registered users of iSilo will receive an e-mail soon providing them with a registration number at no additional charge.
Thanks to George Kreamer for the tip. -Ed
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Correction (RE: Nice try, but fatal flaw)
WordSmith is great for editing word documents, but it can't be used for tables (ok, it can display small tables, but it's not really usefull for big ones), images or read webpages offline.
If you want to read a webpage offline (for daily viewing, I prefer AvantGo, but for pages I store once to have them accessible all the time I really prefer isilo), it's a great tool.
To get fast and easy MS Owrd support with an included button for conversation, simply use WordDocConv ($5), which does the trick: http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?prodID=5920
Isilo is a nice doc reader, and it's own format is even smaller than doc (about 20%).
If you want to view a word documents with charts and tables on your Palm, e.g. take a report with charts, diagrams and graphics to a meeting, isilo is a great tool while WordSmith is useless.
If you want to edit Word docs or to use TrueType Fonts, you need WordSmith. So both are a perfect team for power users.
For full-featured viewing, very large docs and offline reading (take informastion from web ressources with you) I really love isilo.
zap!
RE: Nice try, but fatal flaw
RE: Nice try, nothing fatal
VFS SUPPORT.
I'm waiting for Blue Nomad to get Wordsmith up to par with this. I would be in heaven if I could use WS with my card. Isilo may fill that gap, for the time being.
...In accordance with the prophecy...
Quik_Fix
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RE: Nice try, but fatal flaw
RE: Nice try, but fatal flaw
iSilo leads the doc reader pack
RE: iSilo leads the doc reader pack
Has iSilo™ Free disappeared?
RE: Has iSilo™ Free disappeared?
No free version of iSilo 3.0
RE: Has iSilo™ Free disappeared?
[iSilo Free] is freeware and can be downloaded from the download area at the old iSilo.com site. (http://www.iSilo.com/old/index.htm) However, please be aware that iSilo free can not yet read documents in the new iSilo 3.x format that iSiloX generates. A new version of iSilo free that will have the ability to read documents in the iSilo 3.x format is under development. It will have similar capabilities to the existing version of iSilo free and is expected to be available sometime during the first quarter of 2002.
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get Plucker instead
RE: get Plucker instead
I am not advocating iSilo, just remarking some facts.
RE: get Plucker instead
RE: get Plucker instead
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Nice try, but fatal flaw