06-04-2009, 01:03 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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AvantGo shutting down on 6/30/09. Any suggested alternatives?
When I tried to sync AvantGo today, I got a message saying "From June 30, 2009, AvantGo will no longer offer mobile web content".
They suggest trying Snac mobile (mysnacs.com) instead.
I'm wondering what other offline web content alternatives there are for Pocket PC users.
Any other suggested alternatives?
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06-04-2009, 08:05 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Mar 2008
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Gee: was WONDERING what happened to AvantGo - and intended to look them up to see whether it made sense to load the app on to the Fuze.
Guess there is no need to bother now.... 
With the advent of more WiFi locations, the ability to download articles during the Sync process has become relatively less important, although can still see times when it might be handy: will watch this space to see what options people come up with...
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06-04-2009, 10:13 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rkistler
Gee: was WONDERING what happened to AvantGo - and intended to look them up to see whether it made sense to load the app on to the Fuze.
Guess there is no need to bother now....
With the advent of more WiFi locations, the ability to download articles during the Sync process has become relatively less important, although can still see times when it might be handy: will watch this space to see what options people come up with... |
When I ride the subway to & from work, I do not have any internet access.
I did some googling around, and some slashdotters suggested plucker ( plkr.org ). I'm going to try that out.
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06-05-2009, 08:01 PM
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I did some googling around, and some slashdotters suggested plucker ( plkr.org ). I'm going to try that out.
If / When you get around to using plkr for a bit, please post your feedback - as noted, had just begun to wonder whether AvantGo was still around & might have some interest in a similar service.... (No Data Plan on the Fuze, and there are indeed times when WiFi is not available...)
Thanks!
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06-06-2009, 04:05 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rkistler
I did some googling around, and some slashdotters suggested plucker ( plkr.org ). I'm going to try that out.
If / When you get around to using plkr for a bit, please post your feedback - as noted, had just begun to wonder whether AvantGo was still around & might have some interest in a similar service.... (No Data Plan on the Fuze, and there are indeed times when WiFi is not available... )
Thanks!
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I wrestled with Plucker Desktop, the SunriseXP Desktop (Java Version of Plucker), and Vade Mecum (Plucker Viewer for Pocket PC).
It had too many problems. It was unable to parse certain websites. I think it might be because Plucker hasn't been updated since 2004.
I also considered Spb Insight ($20), but didn't feel like paying for something that I didn't need.
So what I did: I already sync BeyondPod for my daily podcasts. So I just added some Yahoo news RSS text news feeds to BeyondPod. The RSS text news feeds are short, and not as comprehensive as full mobile news articles. But it's free, it'll sync up whenever I'm syncing my podcasts anyway, so there's no additional hassles.
So in most cases when I ride the subway, I'll just listen to my podcast news mp3s. And in the rare case when I absolutely need to check text news, and I don't have wireless internet, then I'll just read my RSS news feeds on BeyondPod.
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06-07-2009, 04:29 PM
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I wrestled with Plucker Desktop, the SunriseXP Desktop (Java Version of Plucker), and Vade Mecum (Plucker Viewer for Pocket PC).
It had too many problems....
Thanks for the update.
On one hand, have enough interest in an "AvantGo-Like" service that would enjoy pursuing options - but, OTOH, don't see enough likelihood of usage to move the task to anywhere near top of the list - especially as still need to re-load a dozen apps or so on newly flashed Fuze....
Good luck with your work-around!
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