What is on your AvantGo? What's your favorite news channel?

[Crystal Eitle]

This is one of those "just curious" kinds of questions. What news channels do you have on AvantGo (or Mazingo, or whatever)? And which is your favorite one? I have:

Christian Science Monitor
CNET News.com
CNN
Guardian Unlimited
Le Monde Interactif - actualites
My startribune.com - Minneapolis/St. Paul
New York Times
New York Times - International
Salon
The Daily Motiv8r
The Onion
Twin Cities Movie Listings
USATODAY.COM
washingtonpost.com

Of all of these, I'd say I read USA Today the most. It seems to have a good balance between lengthy, in-depth stories and breadth of coverage. After that, my most frequent reads are Salon and The Onion.

[Steven Cedrone]

BBC News Online
CE Wire
CNN
Geek.com - PDAGeek Wireless
Joke A Day
MSNBC
PC World
Pocket PC Magazine
Pocket PC Newswire
Pocket PC Passion
Pocket PC Thoughts
Sci Fi Wire
Windows & .NET Magazine
Wired Magazine Mobile
Writing On Your Palm
Yahoo Mobile News

My favorite: Pocket PC Thoughts - of course... :wink:

Steve

[ntractv]

Avantgo:

Encarta Language Learning - French to Go
Joke a Day (Mature)
Liv4now.com
The Wall Street Journal
The Funniest
USAToday.com

and for Mazingo:

compu2go.com
Maxim Online
MSNBC Mobile
New York Post
PDAschedule (keep up on all the sports scores and standings)
Pocket PC Thoughts
The Onion
UK Guardian

I'd say I probably read the Guardian most of all. But, then again, that's just what on there now. I change around about once a month.

[Fishie]

For general news ive got Time, BBC, Reuters and salon.

[sjo]

Beyond2000.com
Daily Humor by InHis.com
Guardian Unlimited
Health News Digest-deleted
Heavens-Above-deleted
Metacritic.com
New York Times - Book Reviews
PocketDoctor-deleted
Salon
The Onion
The Sporting News
The Weather Channel-deleted
Wired News
AccuWeather-new
DVDMON-new
US Soccer Players-new
(Thanks for asking, I had been thinking I should review my AvantGo list)

[Video11]

CBC News
CNN International News
CoolQuiz.com (Daily Trivia)
DrinkBoy (Never know when you'll need the recipe for a Daiquiri :lol: )
globeandmail.com (Canadian Newspaper)
Joke A Day
PC World.com
Joke A Day
Space.com
TheFunniest
Wired News.

[l0o5er]

I use iSilo which I just love (having previously used Avantgo, Mazingo & another Pocket PC-based syncing program)

Synced daily

http://www.pocketgamer.org/homeindex.php?mobile=1
http://www.wired.com/news_drop/palmpilot/
http://www.cebooks.blogspot.com/
http://www.scoop.co.nz/headline.htm
http://www.powerquotes.net/avantgo/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/avantgo/
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/avantgo.php
http://jsmoriss.mvlan.net:8080/palm/comics/dilbert.html
http://www.europeanvoice.com/avantgo/
http://wireless.cnn.com/avantgo/cnn/
http://www.smh.com.au/handheld/index.html
http://www.accuweather.com
http://www.borowitzreport.com/
http://dearraed.blogspot.com/
http://www1.iraqwar.ru/iraq-news_lenta_d.php?lang=en&archdts=2&lang=en
http://www.poems.com/today_lo.htm


Synced every 3 or 4 days

http://www.infosync.no/mazingo/
http://www.pocketpclife.co.uk/mindex.asp
http://www.publicaddress.net/default,hardnews.sm
http://wireless.metacritic.com/avantgo/
http://www.alternet.org/mobile/
http://www.handango.com/NewsSection.jsp?siteId=1&platformId=2
http://www.wired.com/news_drop/palmpilot/
http://www.freewillastrology.com/horoscopes/printer-friendly.html
http://www.parallel-youniversity.com/


The thing I appreciate about off-line reading is being able to find the news that macthes my interests & values. I find it particularly valuable for general news/current affairs as these days all the mainstream delivers up is propaganda

[Pony99CA]

CNET News -- the only one I read regularly
DrinkBoy -- more for a reference
InfoWorld To Go -- but that's never worked
PC World
TV Guide Online
Wired News

Steve

[tcmraven]

I am new to the Pocket PC. I have Journal Bar loaded and Avantgo. The scroll on the Journal bar has weather and a number of Internet channels. Does the Journal Bar and it's channels conflict with the channels of Avantgo? :) Sometimes my Axim freezes when using Avantgo. Has anyone else experienced that problem? 8O

[Jacob]

CNET News.com
CNN
Fictionopolis
HandHeldCrime
Hollywood.com - just for movie times.
Homes.com
MapQuest - directions
New York Times
New York Times - Book Reviews
SI.com
The Onion
The Weather Channel
Words of the Month

I am (im)patiently waiting for www.homestarrunner.com to come out with a mobile version....

[Brad Adrian]

Man, there are some SERIOUS offline readers here! All I've got is:

Finextra
MBusiness Daily
Our Daily Bread
Pocket PC Thoughts
The Feature
The Funniest

What I find even more amusing is the fact that it was not that long ago that synching Pocket PC Thoughts once or twice a day was sufficient to make sure I had the most up-to-date postings. Now, you've almost got to synch the channel during every connection because of how often Jason keeps the site updated.

[jimski]

AvantGo just made my ActiveSync experience longer and more frustrating. Switched over to HandStory and do not regret it. I can update any wireless whenever I need to.

HandStory

-CNN_Sports Illustrated
-InfoWorld
-Palm InfoCenter (just to see what they are saying about PPC's this week)
-Pocket PC Thoughts
-The Feature
-The Street-Company News
-The Street-Markets
-The Street-Tech Stock
-USA Today
-USA Today-Sports Briefs
-Variety
-WindowsANDdotNet

[Weyoun6]

I like to keep it simple, low bandwidth connection and all... so I dont have as much as some.

Writing on Your Palm
New York Times
C|Net News
Heavens-above.com - (astronomy, sat gazing times)
Imprimis
Space.com

Sometimes -
bbc
guardian
the onion

[tewmgd]

My channels :

- C|NET News
- Le Monde Actualités
- New York Times
- New York Times Book Reviews
- DailyWireless (802.11b news channel)
- MSNBC HeadLines
- PalMétéo (french weather channel)
and ....
- PocketPC Thoughts

I realize that I have only one PDA channel .. Sure the best one :mrgreen:

[Evee Ev]

this is my long list of avantgo channels. i try to get through most of them before i pass out on my bus ride home!

reuters
bbc news
cnet news.com
cnn
computerworld
coolquiz.com
God's Word
infosync international
joke a day
new york post
new your times
pcworld.com
the wall street journal
washingtonpost.com

i saw a couple of interesting channels on this thread that i might add...i hope i have room.

[barky81]

3G Newsroom
ExploreZone
God's Word
Network Computing Mobile
New York Times Front Page
New York Times Business
New York Times Technology
Rollingstone.com
Salon
Wired News

[Crystal Eitle]

I finally updated my AvantGo channels, based in part on the many ideas in this thread.

Two things:

1) I added a BBC custom channel using this link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/text_only.stm). Has anyone else found the BBC to be a huge bandwidth hog? I have it on all-text, no graphics allowed, and at a max size of 525k and I still can't read all the articles. Any suggestions?

2) A neat trick to add more channels to your 2MB account: in the "My Account" tab, click on "Manage my Subscriptions." This will show you the maximum size for each channel as well as how many K were actually used on your last sync. You can edit each channel and reduce the maximum size accordingly -- even for non-custom channels. I found that many of my channels had the maximum size set way too high.

This allows you to add more channels to your subscription without having to upgrade to 8MB! :twisted: Woo!

[Wumpi]

To avoid the Avantgo 2MB restriction I've switched to iSilo some months ago. Not only that, I found that with iSilo I have an even bigger choice of channels available.

The best source I've found is at http://www.turcic.com/palm.shtml (don't let the "palm" freak you out - the list available there is for the desktop contuit iSiloX) and the forum at http://www.turcic.com/forums. Very friendly people and a great resource for us.

[davidspalding]

Actually, you can create multiple subscriptions to Avantgo, and in Pocket IE select which "server account" to use. I haven't tried this with two distinct accounts, and distinct channels between the two, but found for a few months that between my work and home pcs, I had two copies of the same account info on my PDA, and each PC was downloading content for both ... double-syncing. So no WONDER it took so long to sync up...!

I've tried that channel adjustment, but ... I thought that AvantGo still limited free accounts based on the proposed size, not what you've configured. Also ... funny, my limit is 2 MB, but how come my near-full subscription only takes up < 1 MB on my PDA? Interesting math in use. >:|


Accuweather.com
Reuters - US
Guardian Unlimited
Guardian Unlimited - film
New York Times (includes world, tech, biz)
New York Times - International
The Onion (for the A.V. Club)
Triangle.com (Raleigh area specific)
Wired News


I've tried and discarded many, like PowerQuotes, word of the Day, CNN, USA Today, MSNBC, ... some of those news sites just have too little content.

I also sync up BCC, Fox News, The Onion, Box Office Magazine, and Computer User with Mobipocket news. Much easier to read.

[Unreal32]

I opted for the full 8 meg upgrade :)

So... here's my list:


Alison's Blog 60k
Astrology.com 40k
BestStuff - Handheld 150k
Beyond2000.com 100k
Brian's Belly 100k
Business Thinkers 100k
Business Week 100k
chicago.citysearch.com 50k
CNET News.com 150k
CNN 110k
columbus.citysearch.com 50k
ComputerUser.com 175k
Daily Almanac 10k
Daily Bread 150k
Daily Wisdom To Go 75k
Daily Word 350k
Detroit Free Press 100k
detroit.citysearch.com 50k
Expedia To Go 90k
F I C T I O N O P O L I S 250k
FlightLookup 150k
Gizmodo Gadgets Weblog 300k
Golf Digest 300k
Google 30k
Greg's iPAQ and PocketPC Software List 200k
HandHeldCrime 150k
Hollywood.com 50k
Horoscopes 70k
Joke A Day 30k
Joke A Day (Mature) 100k
LifeTrek Coaching 100k
Metacritic.com 100k
Michigan NOAA Weather 150k
MSNBC.com Headlines 100k
New York Times 140k
New York Times - Front Page 70k
North Oakland Michigan - Movie Listings 200k
PC WORLD.COM 60k
PDABuzz.com 100k
PDALIVE.com 150k
Pocket PC Life 150k
Pocket PC Thoughts 200k
pocketnow.com 120k
PocketPC Magazine 150k
pocketPCpassion 200k
Powerquotes 10k
PPC Tips and Tricks 100k
RandomHouse.com 175k
Restaurant Row Offline 100k
Salon 120k
SciFi Channel 100k
Scobleizer Weblog 100k
Shooter's Home Page 300k
Smaller.com 5k
South Oakland Michigan Movie Listings 200k
The Onion 125k
The Wall Street Journal 100k
The Weather Channel 50k
USATODAY.com 50k
WeatherPixie 60k
What's Next in Mobile Tech 250k
Wine.com 100k
WineSquire.com Mobile Edition 150k
Wired News 175k
Words of the Month 15k
Yahoo! 70k



Takes a long time to synch, but I'm never out of reading material!

I read these the most:
The Onion
USA Today
PPCT :)
CNN
Detroit Free Press
and Gizmodo

I've set up most of my channels to optimize the size, and synch only as needed... so at any time, my synch times are staggered, rather than staggering :lol: