May 2000
Intermediate to advanced
620 pages
18h 2m
English
Content preview from PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide, Second Edition
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AvantGo
Imagine a web browser that’s lightning fast, shows full graphics and text styles, and doesn’t even require a modem for your palmtop. That’s the beauty of AvantGo, a free Windows program with a matching component for the PalmPilot. This combination offers a clever twist on bringing the Web to the PalmPilot, one that’s become a hit among corporate users.
AvantGo Via the Desktop
You can use AvantGo in either of two ways. First, you can get your web pages via your PC. At HotSync time, the AvantGo desktop-PC software dials the Internet (or hooks into your company’s intranet), rapidly grabs the web pages that you’re interested in, and compresses them into PalmPilot-ready format. (You can specify how many pages “deep” you want to be able to follow links in the downloaded web pages.) At the next HotSync, the pages are transferred to the PalmPilot. Thereafter, on your own time, you can call up those pages and read them without pressure—and without a modem (see Figure 14.13).
Figure 14-13. With AvantGo, you can do your browsing while not connected to the Net. Links (represented by dotted underlines, left), work to summon subsequent pages (right), complete with graphics and text.
Because all of this information is formatted as HTML web pages, it can contain graphics, fonts, styles, and other nuances that make it look good—a vast improvement over the plain-text Doc format described in ...
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