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I read the best news reader on PocketPC in Newsbreak.
Is there a way to synchronize it with an online newsreader ?
chris247 said:
I read the best news reader on PocketPC in Newsbreak.
Is there a way to synchronize it with an online newsreader ?
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I've been using Newsbreak for a while now. However, SPB just released Insight. Check it out...
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/insight/screenshots.html?en
Edit:
Okay, downloaded SPB Insight. As of now, its not worth the web space it took to advertise it. As of this release, its worthless. Got it to download one fed then nothing. No Auto updates as of this release. No Today Screen plug in. Maybe in later updates but for now, stick with Newsfront.
ive tried alot of RSS readers and only use Egress now which supports a corperate firewall (for when im at work).
SBP however i tried and quite liked the display and the news item display, didnt like the interface.
the only catch with egress is the way it stores files on the SD card it can cause the card to have file system problems. to overcome this i carry 2 cards with me now one for news and one for everything else
Seeking A Different Kind of RSS reader
I would like an RSS reader that
1. Stores everything, including program, on the SD card
2. Has a setting to "download ONLY and AUTOMATICALLY" by activesync, to avoid roaming charges when I travel
3. will preload images
4. has no advertising (paid program ok)
5. renders HTML (I couldn't get NPOP to do this)
I like Newsbreak OK, but it fails 2 and 3. I have it set to download by activesync using a skschema program, but it still doesn't preload images. Avantgo doesn't like the sd card and has advertising. It isn't a good rss reader anyway. I want to be able to read the thing when I can't (airplanes) or don't want to (traveling abroad at $15/MB) connect to the web.
If one meeting these criteria has come into existence, I would like to know about it.
I'm pretty sure SPB Insight meets all your requirements.
I'm using Insight alongside with newsbreak. I like Insight a lot more but it keeps freezing and causing my device to freeze sometimes. I haven't gone through all the settings options of newsbreak yet, but right now it doesn't download images and it only downloads a paragraph of the feeds.
hey Egress has the option to download or not to download images, stores all the news items on sd card or internal memory and can support proxy for use via activesync.
only thing is it will only include a paragraph or a few lines of text for the news items.
It there a way to have all your rss feeds stored in one single location and then access to it from your PocketPC, and online from a Web browser without having to reenter all your feeds ?
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I'm pretty sure SPB Insight meets all your requirements.
I'm using Insight alongside with newsbreak. I like Insight a lot more but it keeps freezing and causing my device to freeze sometimes. I haven't gone through all the settings options of newsbreak yet, but right now it doesn't download images and it only downloads a paragraph of the feeds.
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Perhaps it's just me but I have not found a way to get Insight to download more than 3 lines from most RSS feeds. This is annoying as it means for a lot of the feeds, such as Vertikal and BBC I can only see the first bit of the information!!!
NewsGator.com anyone? (or .co.uk, my logon works on both versions of the site and personally, the .co.uk version is a little less cluttered) They do a mobile aggregator too.
More online aggregators, information:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/30/the-state-of-online-feed-readers/
http://hebig.org/blogs/archives/main/000877.php#pocketpc (this link's quite good)
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Perhaps it's just me but I have not found a way to get Insight to download more than 3 lines from most RSS feeds. This is annoying as it means for a lot of the feeds, such as Vertikal and BBC I can only see the first bit of the information!!!
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I was having that issue with some feeds using Insight, but then i went to the support forum and theres this guy there whos good at coding and told me that the feeds that only bring u a couple lines aren't optimized for Insight, you have to edit the feed file and it'll work great. He helped me out with several feeds and he's got a tutorial on how to do it yourself but i'm not good at code at all so that tutorial was confusing to me. Check out that forum here
Also, before i recommend spb insight to anyone, i'd say be careful. I've had the program corrupt my miniSD card 3 times now. You have to be patient with it. If you have a lot of feeds (i had 50 something in my case) it may look like its frozen but its not. And my impatient dumbass soft reset the device and since its writing to the card; POOF unrecognizeable. I had to format then use GetDataBack to recover all lost data from card, copy paste over and I was back in action.
Hi, I have moved from HTC Tornado to Samsung i600 (with WM6), and I think that it kills background applications very eagerly:
For example, on HTC Tornado I could run JVM (opera mini), media player, browser, IM, Total commander and even though the memory was almost full, everything worked, and I could return to a page in opera mini after a day of other work.
Not so on i600, usually running WMP and IE is enough to get JVM in background killed, even though there's enough (12MB+) of free RAM. I think that it kills background tasks too eagerly...
I did know about a registry key that changes memory manager's behaviour, but I cannot google it (no matter the phrase I use, I get mostly task-manager tools).
Can you remind me of correct registry path? Thanks!
I found http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=228 , but it is only for HTC devices (I don't have the HTC reg key). And http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=373128 discusses this as well, but again, no solution for non-HTC phones.
Wohoo, it should be this: http://www.howardforums.com/archive/topic/540062-1.html
Trying to make the best of both worlds, I decided that perhaps the MPx220 is worth taking another look at if the memory management issue could be resolved. After all, with Media Works, I want to keep Agile Messenger open all day to receive IMs, while using the phone, surfing, playing games, etc.
Then, it dawned on me - why is the Audiovox SMT5600 with an apparently older revision of WM2K3 running things better than the newer MPx220?
A couple of registry keys.
MPx220:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shell\LowMem ]
"ResetDivision"=dword:1
"ProgramMem"=dword:32
SMT5600:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shell\LowMem ]
"ResetDivision"=dword:0
"ProgramMem"=dword:96
After forcing in the SMT5600 settings on the MPx220, I ran Agile Messenger and connected. Then, I ran Internet Explorer. Launched Agile again, and same copy of Agile still came back, still connected. Launched MSN Messenger. Launched Agile again, still accessible and running. Launched Tasks, Contacts, Calendar, File Manager, Resource Management. Returned to Agile Messenger, still running! With all these programs running simultaneously, Agile Messenger is still active and connected!
With the original registry settings, Agile Messenger would get lost in the memory and a new instance of Agile Messenger would launch, and not be able to connect because the original copy was still connected.
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I'd be happy if I had those registry entries... but I don't. Did it really work?
Yes, it works, now I can have many apps open, and even with 2MB of free RAM, none will be closed. If you don't have the keys, try creating them, as far as I know, it should work on at least all smartphones (maybe touchscreen devices as well but I don't have one to test)
First an foremost id like to complement all XDA-Dev staff for making such a helpfull forum.
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Im making a internet explorer mobile bizzness aplication for an industrial PDA
the motorola MC9090 with barcode integrated.
I allready made the aplication but tested it in a updated version of internet explorer.
My Q is: how can I update these 10 motorola machines with a newer updated version of internet explorer mobile without updating the whole windows mobile?!
Thankz in advance
never heard of any pocketpc inrom program like ie or wmp being updated by a cab
The easy way will just be to upgrade the roms, but you probably don't want to do that. I'm assuming they all have PIE 5. The newer versions of PIE are getting better (the initial PIE 6 betas were pretty bad, imo), but they're still quite beta in nature. I don't think you can use these, though, as they are built around WM 6.5. I suppose you could download a 6.1 kitchen with PIE 6 in it, then rec'mod (or whatever it's called) all of the PIE modules and make a cab file. I'm not sure it would work (pretty sure I couldn't get it to work, but someone else might be able to do it).
Long story short, it will be hard without flashing, and given that the new PIE's for 6.1 suck, I'm not sure it's worth it. I'd just go for a different browser, if you can use it. Check Meinnesys's browser review for a ton of info (he'll also say that PIE6 is crap, as I remember).
hmmmm maybe other browser then.
Yes that maybe right, Farmer Ted.
But, I've been searching and probably I will go for an opera browser or fennec.
This is a huge setback for development and if I use a proper browser the development time will be much shortened i just hope boss understands this.
Because he is pushing us to do it for pie. which makes no sense at as it is just a huge load of crap.
By the way is there a mobile browser that you recommend i take a look before deciding on opera or fennec?
Thanks for the reply and take care.
I personally use opera mini 4.2 v8 version. It's crazy fast, but may be too lite for business. Check out Iris, it's basically like PIE, but better.
I've never used Fennec, but from what I've read, it's very alpha. I'd suggest avoiding it for now.
Opera Mini and Skyfire both do their rendering on a proxy server, which makes them fast. I guess that security is lower in that scenario (although you can change the server in opera mini). They might be nice, though, for business because you could set up a single user account for all the devices, and if needed you could set up a library of bookmarks that everyone could access.
Iris is nice because it uses PIE's cookies (only browser I've found that does this), and it can import PIE bookmarks. You can set the Iris cache to the storage card as well in settings. (You can also do this with PIE, but it requires registry edits).
UCWEB6 is also fast (a little slower than opera mini), and you can import PIE bookmarks with it. It is also a light, mobile browser, and it does the rendering on your device, so I guess it's more secure than mini if less quick (in my experience).
I've been using Opera Beta 9.7 some recently. It is quite nice, and fits my tastes. I like browsers that quickly render pages in a single column. You can set it to do this, and it does so reliably. I don't care for the normal Opera, which renders pages beautifully like you see them on a desktop, but you have to futz around a ton to get it so you can read what's on there. This is all down to tastes, though, and a lot of people don't like the mobile-view. The beta version will work fine for you as long as you don't enable the 'Turbo' mode. Turbo mode is very beta, and it doesn't store cookies (or history, I believe). It's basically the same as Opera Mini, anyway, but not quite as fast.
If you find that none of the alternate browsers are suitable, I'd suggest making some registry tweaks to PIE to improve it. In particular, move the cache to the sd card, and also increase the # of connections or threads or whatever they call it-the tweaks are available in sk tools. Just max out all of them, and see if things work better.
Here is a cab that re-routes your cache to the storage card (it must be called storage card and not 'sd card'). It also sets the default download location to the sd card, increases the max connections per server to 8 and has a tweak to increase download rate. These are the actual keys:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"History"="\\Storage Card\\Temporary Internet Files\\History"
"Cookies"="\\Storage Card\\Temporary Internet Files\\Cookies"
"Cache"="\\Storage Card\\Temporary Internet Files\\Temporary Internet Files"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Default storage location]
"All Files"="\\Storage Card\\My Documents\\My Downloads"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"ReadAllBytesThreshhold"=dword:00000400
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
"MaxConnectionsPerServer"=dword:00000008
You can also increase the cache size; here is the setting for 20,480 MB. For some reason, it's not sticking on my fuze, so I didn't include it in the cab:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\Cache\Content]
"CacheLimit"=dword:00005000
You need to soft reset after installing the cab. Oh, and I posted this with Iris (over my mobiler). It was kind of a pain in the butt, but do-able.
Edit: What the heck, the second cab increases the cache to 20 MB. Only install if you have the cache on the storage card. And soft reset after installing.
Alright... Here's the low-down. I'm using an AT&T Fuze with the updated official ROM. I am having more problems with web browsing than I ever had with my old device...
Opera Mobile: Randomly refuses to load images. I just get the empty box that says 'image' at the top. Reloading does nothing and the context menu doesn't appear. And when images DO load and I want to save them, I'm forced to save them in a folder on the root of either my device or storage card (i.e.: "/storage card/temp" but not "/storage card/temp/images") and am forced to go in later and organize the files into the correct sub-folders. Plus, I can't set the default save location to the storage card, so I have to change THAT every time I try to save an image, too.
Opera Mini: With the stock Esmertec Jbed, Opera Mini isn't allowed to save or read files from my device. Way to go, AT&T. We appreciate you trying to protect people from themselves, but you guys suck. I tried downloading another version of Esmertec Jbed from the forum here and OM is able to save images, but half the time they don't display fully (I get the blank squares that OM likes to use as place-holders while it loads the image). That, and OM locks up with that modified Jbed...
Skyfire: Promising, but why can't I disable javascript? I keep getting popups that are obstructing the screen and I can't get rid of. That, and it seems to be overly sensitive to screen taps. ("No, I didn't click on that! Go back! GAH! Stupid popups!")
IE: Well, it shows images that Opera Mobile refuses to, it lets me save those images when Opera Mini won't even think about it and, as opposed to Skyfire, it gives me no option to ENABLE javascript. It does, however, throw up all over itself if you try to view a page that wasn't designed for a mobile browser. Sometimes it even locks up as a result...
Which brings me to my question for you fine folks. Can anyone offer a solution or fix for ANY of the above problems? Any one of these browsers would be fantastic, if not for its crippling flaw. I've read a little on this NetFront browser, but I don't know how I feel about PAYING for yet another browser.
Oh, and MiniMo/Fennec drags my device to a crawl, so that's no good...
You could try Iris Browser: no flash support but it a good browser.
D'rath
PS: FEnnec is an alpha version
Thanks, D'rath! Iris works WONDERFULLY! All the nice things that Opera offers (tabs, 'flick' scrolling, accelerometer screen tilt) and it actually displays the images I ask for!
D'rath
Well i recently got the tp2(for free) because my tp got oil in the middle of the screen and started to look weird..I went to the sprint store and after talking to them a little bit they ordered me a brand new tp2..
I love this phone, its beautiful and big compared to the tp. But anyways i loaded most of the games and apps i had on my tp to the tp2 and now the internet(im using the regular opera) is going very slow. I downloaded opera 9.7 and deleted it because it was very buggy on my phone.
Since then the regular opera has been rediculously slow. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Also is there a way to get opera to have three tabs instead of two? two tabs isn't enough for me.
Also i did look at some other threads revolving about internet but most of it is about changing the registry settings but the tp2 is pretty high compared to my tp in some settings
Edit:http://www.htcwiki.com/thread/34005...ro2,+Increased+tabs+and+added+to+task+manager.
I just found this, i guess you can add up to 5 pages on opera
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=78019
post #6 seems easier
Do you have 3g service?
yea i have evdo on sprint.
how is the speed on IE?
If it is good, and you can't find a fix for Opera, you might want to do a hard reset and just start over.
speed on ie is slow as well. Any advice? im thinking about hard resetting but idk. Would clear storage work as well.
Give my Opera .cab a shot:
I have cabbed up all of my Opera tweaks for a simple install to your device. This should replace your opera.ini preferences file located in Windows/Opera9 folder. You may want to back up your original file in case you dont like it.
Here are some of the tweaks that will be installed:
-Zoom Slider Maximum=600
- Minimum Overview Zoom=85 (allows you to click on links without zooming in first)
-Raised Cache to 10000
-Maximum allowed tabs=9
-Various speed tweaks including turbo mode.
-Full desktop browsing enabled (Will go to full webpages rather than mobile pages.
-For those that would like to try this with Opera 9.7, drop the attatched opera.ini file into the proper Opera 9.7 folder.(untested).
**Soft reset after installation**
Go here:http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?p=1236861#post1236861
Ok i just hard resetted and used ppc geeks clean up program. Its kinda faster but i would like it to be alot faster
@Jeffrizzle1212
To tell the truth, I've always found Wireless interenet to be kind of slow. There is a remedy, though... I would suggest that you Try Skyfire. It wtill won't be as fast as your computer at home, but it does speed up a lot of things and has a lot more functionality than IE or Opera. I do find some uses for Opera, still, but they are far and few between. It does take a little bit to load up, at first, but once it is loaded, it does seem to surf the web a lot faster than most (am not saying all, because there's always new software in development) out there right now.
On your mobile phone, goto http://get.skyfire.com and download the latest version (it is free, too)
Hope this helps you.
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