tmiller

Ok so I've been hearing Avantgo mentioned on these forums more times than I can count, but being brand new to PDA's I had no idea what it was. Finally, I took the time to check out www.Avantgo.com and may I just say WOW! This is an amazing app, and definitely at the top of my must-have list. Anyone who isn't familiar with it should definitely check it out.

~Tracy

xyeta

...and then, after reading up on this memory hog, go to www.isilo.com and www.turcic.com and use iSilo for web clipping and document viewing. Many eBooks are iSilo friendly, and with iSiloX you can clip any web page right from MSIE ...or sync a list of sites to your MS and enjoy 20% better compression than other web clipping apps.

Obviously, iSilo is my personal favorite, but maybe HandStory or AvantGo is your cup of tea... try them ALL... Web clipping is awesome once you get it figured out, and as for eBooks, I'd rather have a book on my NX80 than in paper any day!

oh, forgot to mention, with iSilo you can create your own documents or eBooks quite easily!

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hherbzilla

Here's the link to HandStory

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tmiller

Of course everything is a matter of opinion. Speaking as a new user, I feel Avantgo is the simplest and I thought I might help someone else out who, like me, wasn't aware of the capabilities of an app like this one, so I passed it along.

To each his own.

~Tracy

Flash-57

Avantgo is a fine application. It's biggest benefit is that it's easy to use. You just log onto the Avantgo website, add a channel, and you're done.

Personally, I am in the iSilo camp. 90% of the documents I want to read, I do so with iSilo. But, I still use Avantgo for the daily news sites.

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starbuckk

Avantgo is to iSilo what an auto-focus, auto flash, fixed lens point and shoot camera is to a changable lens, manual focus, program/auto/manual external flash camera.
The former is best for someone just starting out, and probably great for most general purpose users. iSilo is for the person that wants a lot more power and is willing to take the extra time to set it up and get things "just so".

Keep sharing those favorite apps! There's always someone out there that hasn't heard of them yet.

strider_mt2k

Of course any decent photographer will have several cameras.

Will any of these other programs allow you to get your pages when you are wireless on the road?

One of the things that keeps me using AvantGo is the ability to modem sync when I'm on the road.

For many users this is important.

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Cheechwhiz

RE: memory hog comment above-
You can slam AVantgo up into the FlashZone with Jackflash and significantly reduce the hogging. Then, you put most of the rest of Avantgo's file on your card. Runs fine enough for me.
With Jack installed, even with multiple "large" programs installed to Flash,
I usually have somewhere around 6megs free memory available. I can do a NetFront install just for the day.

dan3750

I purchased both iSilo and HandStory over 9 months ago, largely because of all the hype they were getting on this website, but I have hardly ever used them.

But more to the point, there were no web-pages I cared enough to store on my nx60 for offline viewing.

May I ask what sort of web-pages you place onto your pda's for offline viewing, aside from ebooks, that is?

=Dan

 

tmiller

I use Avantgo channels for weather and news, and I have mapquest on there in case I ever need it for a particular trip. I created my own channel for my local movie theater listings, and I think I'm going to add a page for movie reviews for those times I'm standing in the middle of Blockbuster trying to figure out if the movie I picked is a good one.

The possibilities are endless!

~Tracy

laconf

I use Isilo for many different purposes,such as keeping technical information on palm such as formulas,statistical references,game walkthroughs for a quick glance while playing on PC, or for large web pages that is hard to read its all content during visit such as:

http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/JokEc.html

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strider_mt2k

Agreed.
Avantgo is also a web browser.
Not a great one, but one nonetheless.

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starbuckk

As all the others, daily news and weather mostly, along with funnies, movie times from Hollywood.com. I spend about 8 hours each week on a train where I can't connect, so its a matter of saving all that stuff for reading at a time when I don't have access.

I also save certain favorite Clie Source threads (see my post in Tips and Tricks for how to capture specific threads from Clie Source into iSilo) that I use regularly for reference.

Pages I use are
Accuweather (I capture two different cities)
Fresno Airport status (from FAA web site, you can get a page showing the status of any Airport you want, and it converts to PDA format quite nicely.)
USA Today news briefs
Hollywood.com movie listings for my zip code
Joke-A-Day
Coolquiz.com
Cato Daily Dispatch
Cato Daily Commentary
Geek News
Wired News
Yahoo Mail (turcic.com has a thread on how to download your Yahoo mail to iSilo)
Palm Boulevard
Palm Info Center
MSNBC

I used to get CNN.COM but they stopped their PDA feeds

Note that obviously all of these go to the Memory stick. That would be way too much for internal memory. This is one reason I switched to iSilo. At the time I switched, Avantgo didn't support storage to the MS.