Web clipping for Mac-Palm

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3 total messages Started by Lance Lawton Thu, 24 Apr 2003 06:55

#59

Author: 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]

Re: Web clipping for Mac-Palm

#60

Author: cartoon
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 12:57

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> 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!!

I just re-started doing this yesterday. Join for free via the web and
subscribe to the free content area which included Morning Herald and a
few others. Synced my Palm 3x and everything was sweet.

Re: Web clipping for Mac-Palm

#61

Author: Lance Lawton
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 00:08

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In article <240420032257480049%cartoon@optushome.com.au.spam>,
 cartoon <cartoon@optushome.com.au.spam> wrote:

> [[ This message was both posted and mailed: see
>    the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]]
> 
> 
> > 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!!
> 
> I just re-started doing this yesterday. Join for free via the web and
> subscribe to the free content area which included Morning Herald 

If only I could say the same of The Age!! :(



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

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