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11-07-2005, 12:30 PM
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 |  Web clipping app suggestions? Hi Treo squad. I'm looking for a quality web clippping application. It must: 1. be able to schedule grabs, and 2. be customizable for link depth. Any recommendations? TIA. -K
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  | There are quite a few out there. Here is a list of those that I played with over the years. Avantgo: kinda big in terms of memory space it takes, but it gets the job done. I didnt like that some channels werent availiable so I moved to something less restrictive in that respect. Plucker: uses a desktop conduit to clip the pages. Free and versatile, has a really loyal following. A great program called Sunrise helps you get the sites onto your device to be read by Plucker. Thats also free. iSilo: havnet used this one in a while but I do remember that the clipped pages that it creates were formatted nicely and showed up on your device kinda fast. mobiPocket Reader: havent used this, but its similar to iSilo. Its also shareware. Hope that helps some. You might find the Plucker/Sunrise combo to work well for you. Avantgo is less to setup, but its ehhh IMHO.
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| w/links: AvantGo http://www.avantgo.com/frontdoor/index.html Plucker http://www.plkr.org/ iSilo http://www.isilo.com/ MobiPocket http://www.mobipocket.com/en/HomePage/default.asp |
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| Almost there? Thanks for the suggestions. I'm not sure of these applications fit the bill, though. Unless I'm mistaken, iSilo and mobiPocket are e-readers that can't independently grab web content. I know this is the case with Plucker, which requires a desktop app to download and parse content. What I'm looking for is a smartphone app that can be scheduled, say every 6AM, to grab web pages to a set link depth and save them, properly formatted, for offline viewing. AvantGo may be it, but there's no Mac support (medieval philistines!). Apparently the current version has "wireless mode" which enables AvantGo as a browser, presumably capable of storing web content. Anyone know if this is true? More important, anyone know if lack of Mac support is an issue if the only intended use is Treo-based? I see that MarkSpace's Missing Sync has an AG conduit, so there must be a modicum of AvantGo/Mac cooperation going on. -K btw, I'm playing with QuickNews, which is excellent, but limited to RSS feeds & podcasts. I'd like something morre robust,
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