Great Linux tool for reading web on Clie

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I'm not affilliated with them, but I just learned about a great Linux-based tool for moving content to the Palm and wanted to make sure others didn't overlook it as I had. After spending some time with iSilo (http://www.isilo.com) and, more importantly, the iSiloXC (http://www.isilox.com) tool for formatting content, I'm very impressed! The Linux form of the tool is command-line based and requires non-trivial work to get it set up (using an XML-based configuration file), but it's incredibly versatile, and the results look superb. I've been able to set it up to automatically go to my Yahoo Finance portfolio page, download the full page including all links on the page (meaning every quote, chart, and news article associated with any of the dozen stocks I have listed), and the whole resulting .pdb is less than 2MB and takes only a few minutes to generate. I was even able to take the cookies Yahoo sets (for ID/password) as shown by Mozilla's cookie manager and enter them into iSiloXC's configuration file so everything works identically. When viewing the result on isilo on my NX it looks exactly like the original webpage, and all links work instantly. Note that for it to look great you need the registered ($17.50) version of isilo.

Anyway, I thought I'd point this out for those of you looking for good Linux-based tools for our Clies.

Bill

[Unregistered]

is it as good as plucker?

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I've not tried Plucker. I can't imagine the output being any better than iSiloXC, but there's definitely room for improvement on the ease-of-use / configuration. I'll try to give it a look.

[cyclone]

I gave Plucker a look. Something seems to be broken in the Linux package; when I run plucker-desktop with progress set to a console window, I get "can't find plucker-build", which doesn't seem to be anywhere in the .rpm. Nonetheless, it looks like Plucker is much better than iSiloXC in terms of ease-of-use, but it appears to be less powerful (no cookie support I could see, for one). Free is always, good, however!