Syncing Webpages

[iiinycboi]

Im not sure if im in the right forum, but i want to sync a certain webpage into my pda without avantgo, to be view daily. I want to sync the yahoo comics section so i can view them. Is it possible to do that? Is there a software for it. And i tried avangto but it downloads too much i just want the links to the cartoon and the image. Thanks

[hamishmacdonald]

I don't know of a way to synchronise just a graphic, but here are two options -- one free, one commercial -- for synchronising pages (apologies if you already know this):

1) "Mobile Favorites".
If you're using a Windows PC and Internet Explorer, you can synchronise any page to your Pocket PC by surfing to the page in Explorer and choosing Favorites/Add to Favorites, and putting a bookmark in the "Mobile Favorites" folder. (You can also customise your toolbar to add the built-in button for making Mobile Favorites.) You can also set specific update times for each Mobile Favorite, but it's a bit involved to get into here.

2) Sunnysoft World Off-Line.
This commercial application synchs more reliably than Mobile Favorites (though less seamless -- your Pocket PC will more obviously be occupied with downloading the pages on ActiveSync), and it also allows you to synchronise the pages from within the Pocket PC itself -- which is handy if you connect to a wireless network.

The first program is part of the Windows OS, and you can find out more about the second at:
http://www.sunnysoft.cz/en_clanek.php?clanekid=98

There was another program that performs this task called Whack Force, but its developer, Ruksun, seems to have abandoned it. I bought it a while back, and it doesn't even install anymore.

Hope that helps!

[hamishmacdonald]

Oh, here's another option:

If your comic is available as an RSS newsfeed (which many are now), you could use the lovely Egress to subscribe to it.

You can find Egress here:
http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=12324

...or here:
http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?productType=2&optionId=1_2_2&jid=FBCE7CE2XXEX8EB4FC69729XBF398EAC&platformId=2&siteId=1&osId=210&productId=93539§ionId=0&catalog=30&txtSearch=egress

There are also other news aggregator programs for the Pocket PC, but I haven't used them, so I can't attest to what they're like to use:

PocketFeed (freeware):
http://www.furrygoat.com/Software.aspx

Newsbreak:
http://www.iliumsoft.com/site/nw/newsbreak.htm

Pocket RSS:
http://www.happyjackroad.com/AtomicDB/pocketpc/pocketRSS/pocketRSS.asp

[iiinycboi]

how do i check if it has a RSS feed, i get my comics from ucomics.com and yahoo.com comic section

[Frantic Ferret]

http://dwlt.net/tapestry/

They provide RSS feeds to some comics.

[Ommadawn]

You could also try isilo, a shareware reader that captures html page format extremely well (inc tables, images, etc). (http://www.isilo.com).

Theres a great forum at http://www.mobileread.com where a lot isilo users hang out (as well as the developer), and you can access the wcc there (an isilox file with hundreds of news/info/comic links in it). There are some specific comic threads there too.

[Darius Wey]

iSilo is the reader that handles the content. If you want to convert HTML to be readable within iSilo, you want to use iSiloX. (http://www.isilox.com/) :)