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Web clipping for Mac-Palm

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From: Lance Lawton
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 06:55
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Hi.

Back in the earlier days of AvantGo, I a humble user discovered the joys 
of reading my local newspaper on my palm device. Ever since AG started 
their thing with requiring a subscription from the content provider, 
I've been wandering in the wilderness. Oh the travail of the macuser!!

The best I can do at the moment is use iSiloX to manually create a .pdb 
file to install on my Visor during hotsync every day! Not exactly 
set-and-forget :( Meanwhile, as is the way of things for macusers 
(especially pre-OSX), I beg and plead with the folks at Handstory, 
Mobipocket, iSilo etc to provide a web-clipping feature in their macOS 
desktop software (like they do for every other major OS!! - grrrr!)

Basically all I want is simply to read my local city newspaper on my 
Visor. Not too much to ask, surely?? I'm just wondering whether there's 
a kind person somewhere with maybe a Windows version of say Handstory or 
Mobipocket, who would be willing to use the webclip thingy to create a 
channel/script/clip (whatever it's called) for the handheld version of 
the newspaper in question, that I could schedule to download the data 
for me every day.  Or alternatively - other suggestions welcome (but 
don't bother suggesting anything that involves programming, scripting or 
text-editing .... I'm far too techno-challenged for that!)

Please!!? ... Someone?? ... Hello..... Anyone....???

-- 
Regards,
Lance <�))>< 
Werribee, Victoria, Australia 
email: lancel@DONTSPAMminister.com [Delete UPPERCASE characters when 
replying]
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From: Lance Lawton <lancel@DONTSPAMminister.com>
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