I've noticed on several forums no one talks much about it anymore. I used to use with an older PPC. I was thinking of using it on my Wizard. But if there is something better, let me know. http://www.avantgo.com/frontdoor/index.html
Still using it. New version works like a charm under WM5.
What do you use it for? I use mobiReader.
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What do you use it for? I use mobiReader.
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Correct me if i'm wrong but mobireader is an ebook reader while AvantGo is a purveyor of internet-based content. So this is why i use it for.
When I used to use AvantGo, it was basically a prefetch of all sorts of information and websites such as Foxnews, CNN, ESPN, Movies, Sports, etc. It allowed you to get the latest information in active sync and then you can view all the information offline on your PPC. Assuming as above posted it works with WM5 now.
i prefer RSS readers nowadays...
not restricted to avantgo content sites.
Do RSS readers allow you to read offline as well? I don't know, i haven't used these types of tools before.
One advantage of Avantgo, which I used to use (on Axim X30) was upload driving maps from (mapquest.com) and sync to my PPC.
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When I used to use AvantGo, it was basically a prefetch of all sorts of information and websites such as Foxnews, CNN, ESPN, Movies, Sports, etc. It allowed you to get the latest information in active sync and then you can view all the information offline on your PPC. Assuming as above posted it works with WM5 now.
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Hmm.. mobiReader does relatively the same thing too, but it runs on XML or RSS. Choices are much less I guess, but the interface and layout are nicely done. In my opinion is better than AvantGo, for news reading and stuff. But, (as my questions on the post above), if you were to consider fetching web contents to be view/refer later, will need AvantGo then.
RSS readers....
...are pretty good compliments to Avantgo, for me anyways. I would like to use Avantgo on my Universal instead of my old Axim, but hadn't had a chance to install the newest version. The previous version messed up screen layout completely. pRSSreader does cache content. So Avantgo is NOT the only caching news reader. But only certain sites, like Slashdot and metacritics, are friendly at offline content. I can never get any of the Yahoo sports to work. RSS is great for lots of funnies (like Dilbert and Peanuts) though. pRSSreader and Adobe are by far the most used apps for reading so far. pRSSreader might also be good at certain podcasts sites, like Engadget, since the podcast comes as an enclosure, but I haven't really used that feature since I only go over a slower T-Mo UK UMTS line right now, instead of WiFi.
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Greetings All,
Since a week i am searching for a web browser which is the best, but cannot find one.
Opera 8.60- its has given me all good response, like having tab in full screen, fast downloading, good look, but it lacked in basic thing like saving page-image etc.
Multi IE 4.0- which also have many good feature but lacked in look, though given me page saving functionality. It doesn't show tab while on full screen for faster navigation.
Picsel browser- is a very good browser which also handles pdf, word, text and other format like that. But it lacked in tab functionality.
Share your views, if you know any good browser do let everybody know.
Thanks.
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Opera 8.60- its has given me all good response, like having tab in full screen, fast downloading, good look, but it lacked in basic thing like saving page-image etc.
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Please follow my articles & tutorials - I've published a tutorial on exactly this question. http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?blog=3&p=879&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Also see http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?blog=3&p=1302&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 for a more broad explanation of page / image saving if interested.
samy.3660 said:
Greetings All,
Since a week i am searching for a web browser which is the best, but cannot find one.
Opera 8.60- its has given me all good response, like having tab in full screen, fast downloading, good look, but it lacked in basic thing like saving page-image etc.
Multi IE 4.0- which also have many good feature but lacked in look, though given me page saving functionality. It doesn't show tab while on full screen for faster navigation.
Picsel browser- is a very good browser which also handles pdf, word, text and other format like that. But it lacked in tab functionality.
Share your views, if you know any good browser do let everybody know.
Thanks.
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Well that's the thing... I don't think you can fine ONE do-it-all browser that you love and is easy on your resources.
If you go by functionality, I think NetFront is the undisputed leader. It's been vodet as the best several times I guess.
Personally, too resourse intensive for my Wizards liking.
I use a combination of Opera 8.60 and PIE coupled with the PIE Plus Enhancement. It (PIE Plus) gives you everything you need and comes with everything that IE lacks. It has a fantastic feature called PWO which if i'm not mistaken, is responsible for reorganising the content of webpages in a manner that makes it most pleasing to view the web from a measly 240x320 resolution device.
Opera is a lil heavy on resources and hence gets my attention ONLY when I need to do internet banking and use website like orkut which don't show me the login box in PIE.
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Well that's the thing... I don't think you can fine ONE do-it-all browser that you love and is easy on your resources.
If you go by functionality, I think NetFront is the undisputed leader. It's been vodet as the best several times I guess.
Personally, too resourse intensive for my Wizards liking.
I use a combination of Opera 8.60 and PIE coupled with the PIE Plus Enhancement. It (PIE Plus) gives you everything you need and comes with everything that IE lacks. It has a fantastic feature called PWO which if i'm not mistaken, is responsible for reorganising the content of webpages in a manner that makes it most pleasing to view the web from a measly 240x320 resolution device.
Opera is a lil heavy on resources and hence gets my attention ONLY when I need to do internet banking and use website like orkut which don't show me the login box in PIE.
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Yup, PIEPlus is pretty cool (also see my reviews - I've posted quite a few reviews of it); however, you may want to switch off its PWO and use the built-in One Column mode of PIE instead to make browsing faster.
As far as NF is concerned, the new, 3.4 version is pretty promising (see my reviews - I've just posted the review of the latest TP of 3.4)
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Greetings All,
Looks as netfront is good, ill check both of them.
Aloha XDA!
I understand RSS but have always longed for the subscribe/download/sync feature and have never found one that will (Download the feed and then upon sync, sync with my device, particularly with feeds that have audio attached, like ESPN podcenter RSS)
Can someone lead me down the right road for a nice RSS feed system to my wm6.1 device (Fuze)?
The RSS can come to a laptop or the device, I don't mind either.
Try Viigo. Don't know if it does audio but it handles my routine RSS perfectly well. One plus for it is that you can manage your feeds from a PC based web browser. Really useful when the feed is either stupidly long or full of weird characters.
It looks like there is also one from HTC, HTC HUB. I am not sure if it downloads container files or not.
Right now I am setting up my Outlook to download all containers and perhaps I can make that folder sync with AS and Wm6.1?!
I currently use pRSSreader, which I think is the best one I have ever used. Don't know if it does what you are looking for though.
pRSS is awesome. It handles enclosures too!
Hi all,
just have a quick question regarding RSS Hub... it seems as if it downloads ONLY
the current articles in the feed and deletes the existing cache. Does anyone know
if it's possible to have it just ADD the new articles and keep the old ones?
//Nik
Opera mini does the same way. It looks like cell's limited memory may not quite suitable for Unlimited thesis（pictures）. DIY=Ctrl+c~Ctrl+v
Well, I actually think that it's a "problem" with RSS Hub just downloading current articles after deleting the local cache instead of just adding the new articles. I know other softwares that does what I want but they don't handle Podcasts as well
//Nik
Solved this by using Egress instead...
//Nik
If you would recommended three, or even more, pieces of software for my Windows Mobile device, what would those be?
Bing -- powerful, versatile, and easy to use. Tons of info at your fingertips. Come in VERY handy for me more times than I can count.
Evernote -- taking notes isn't very useful if you can't find them later or forget to look at them. Using Evernote on my PPC and desktop means my info is always available in a quick, searchable way. Also very handy for taking photos of things I want to remember (like a magazine article) and making sure it's accessible on my desktop. OneNote is decent as well, but I prefer the way Evernote works on PPC (and being 100% free is a bonus too).
Skyfire -- there's no shortage of decent web browsers on WM, but Skyfire's ability to handle pretty much any site you throw at it makes it really useful.
Also, it's not really a program per se, but an Exchange-synced calendar and contacts list is, I think, a HUGE must-have. I use Google Sync, and having my calendar pushed both ways makes it 10x more useful than any USB-sync system ever was for me.
Opera Mobile
Advance config
Live messenger
for mention just some of them
It will depend on wich ROM are you running: wm 5, 6, 6.1 or 6.5
My faves...
Google Maps, like it love it. Complete app and comes in handy everday.
Opera- Used to use skyfire, till i got a wvga phone. Skyfire is terrible on wvga phone.
Vito Communications suite- This will cost you about $25 but I honestly couldn't function with out this setup. Winterface, funcontacts, SMS-chat are all amazing beautiful programs, ridiculously fluid and add a new higher level of clean fluidity to windows mobile. depending on the phone, I'd upgrade to an extremely light ROM and put this bad boy on right away and call it a day.
ThumbCal- if you've ever used winmo calendar you know. This is extremely finger friendly...amazing app.
s2p- windows media player is old and outdated...s2p is funtimes, finger friendly although very iphoney...if you're looking for the complete package
Kinoma play- total package app. nuff said
s2v or image viewer 0.9- s2v is iphoney but an awesome picture viewer. Image viewer is a lesser known picture viewer but doesn't skimp on the quality. Has an smooth feel an i think uses opengl..not sure though.
Quickmenu- not too sure if this fits your liking especially with what htc has done in making changes to the start button, but I have havent uses my phone in years with out quick menu. its a do all app that can be a launcher and task manager...my personal must have
WKtask, e-natives, taskfacade- no personal preference here since what I really want would be something similar to the PRE, but wktask is non obtrusive, e-natives is more HTC menu like, taskfacade is more graphical. whatever you like.
I could go on for a while here...but there are some of my faves with alternatives...its what i love most about winmo, the only reason I wont leave, so much customization
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Bing -- powerful, versatile, and easy to use. Tons of info at your fingertips. Come in VERY handy for me more times than I can count.
Evernote -- taking notes isn't very useful if you can't find them later or forget to look at them. Using Evernote on my PPC and desktop means my info is always available in a quick, searchable way. Also very handy for taking photos of things I want to remember (like a magazine article) and making sure it's accessible on my desktop. OneNote is decent as well, but I prefer the way Evernote works on PPC (and being 100% free is a bonus too).
Skyfire -- there's no shortage of decent web browsers on WM, but Skyfire's ability to handle pretty much any site you throw at it makes it really useful.
Also, it's not really a program per se, but an Exchange-synced calendar and contacts list is, I think, a HUGE must-have. I use Google Sync, and having my calendar pushed both ways makes it 10x more useful than any USB-sync system ever was for me.
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Im with you on Skyfire but the must have is Total Commander
SK Tools. Best 16 bucks you can spend.
Alreader 2 is a nice ebook, doc, txt, etc reader for WM.
It has nice features like font/line sizing/spacing, memorizing last page read for any document, tap up/down to change page, full screen, etc. There's probably more features but those are the ones I use most.
Is there anything like it for Android? (I'm using HTC HD2 and since Android also runs on it... )
edit: Please move if this should be in the App/Games forum. (I just noticed it.)
I think the best is iReader. http://ireader.over-blog.com/pages/About_iReader-1955734.html
I've tried fbreader, aldiko, wordplayer and a few others. With the exception of iSilo and iReader, all were slow when opening an ebook, especially when the ebook is a few MB large. And its worse when they dun support txt, conversion to epub etc with Calibre or the online sites takes decades and often hangs with big files.
But iReader reads txt, pdb, chm, html, etc, and has no problems displaying other languages if you save your txt file in unicode. And when installed on my Samsung Galaxy S, it opens even 10+ MB .txt files faster than Alreader 2 on my HTC Touch HD can open a 6+ MB doc file. Similarly as Alreader, iReader can jump several thousand pages without more than 1-2 sec lag. Changing font size is fast too, apparently no repagination time needed at all.
And best of all it follows the same file opening procedure as Alreader, no crap with updating libraries, bookshelves, book cover displays etc which frankly is much more trouble than is worth.
Conclusion, bookreaders coded by russians and chinese are much more practical for actual heavy duty use. I've used tequilacat on java phones, alreader on WM phones, and now I'm gonna stick to iReader for Android
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Conclusion, bookreaders coded by russians and chinese are much more practical for actual heavy duty use. I've used tequilacat on java phones, alreader on WM phones, and now I'm gonna stick to iReader for Android
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Interesting. I'm pretty sure that the readers I ended up using on both Palm and WM were Russian in origin. Although, I can't remember the name of either. Gonna go check-out this one. Been using FBReader. Pretty good. But, the slow library opening is a real pain.