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Slashdot On Palm, No Wires Required
A number of people have asked about getting Slashdot on their Palm VIIs and such -- now the people at DigitalPaths have put together a Palm Query App. Download, install, and soon you too will be able to better justify your wireless Palm bill and test your provider's capacity. The best part of the app, IMHO, is the ability to specify the amount to download, so no nasty throughput surprises with an 800-comment story.
And as completely unbiased source jamie says, that makes it better than Slashdot's light mode, but "of course, a starved, feral orangutan with razor-sharp claws and a taste for blood let loose in a daycare would be better than light mode." Thanks to DigitalPaths for their work.
Palm has the Mobile Internet Kit, which lets you get PDQ content on any Palm. Check their website.
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Now you yuppies with your Palm Pilots don't have to miss "POSSIBLE GPL VIOLATION?!?!?!?" stories even when you're away from your computer.
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Never mind proprietary, inflexible semi-solutions like DigitalPaths's Palm Query App (which works only over the grossly overpriced Palm VII Internet-access service). Nor do you need the equally proprietary and inflexible AvantSlow (AvantGo). How about some open-source software, for a change?
Justin Mason's SiteScooper and David A. Desrosiers's Plucker are the options that come immediately to mind.
Both of those, and hundreds of other open-source packages, either for PalmOS or for other OSes working with PalmOS, are also carried in my repository of PalmOS open-source code and information.
Rick Moenrick@linuxmafia.com
But as you can see, they don't really have claws (they seem to have nails, just like we do).
They are the only so-called "great ape" from Asia, living in Borneo and Indonesia. They are endangered (duh) and if clear-cutting continues, you may live longer than this species does.
All about orangutans.
Jamie McCarthy
Jamie McCarthy
jamie.mccarthy.vg
The only way Slashdot is barely tolerable is via light mode! Grandted, it'd be nice if all the comments in light mode weren't all contained in one big honkin' <TABLE>, and nested comments were delineated with <BLOCKQUOTE> like God and Tim-Berners Lee intened, rather than the rather brain-sick <UL> tags.
HTML hint of the day -- if you contain 192K of comments in one big table, most browsers in use today can't see bupkis until the whole mess is downloaded and rendered. Whereas, if it's not contained in one big <TABLE>, it streams out to the browser all nice like.
"Beware by whom you are called sane."
Potato chips are a by-yourself food.
If you look at the Digital Paths product page now, you will see a tongue-in-cheek apology:
(Please pardon the random buzz words. Marketing just can't help it.)
btw, if someone will not express themselves clearly, they are either ignorant or purposely attempting to deceive.
cpeterso
Now that hasn't worked for months. What happened?
Are PQA files only for Palm VII's or can I use them from my Visor/Handspring? I could never seem to find an app for using the PQA's.
how many slashdoters need wireless browsing? arn't we the geeks that are chained to our desks all day? and how much does it cost to browse the net on a Palm? Yes, I know, I'm PDA illiterate, but I've been assigned to give companionship to desktops my entire professional life ...
Garret
"Old man yells at systemd"
Turns out that the three bytes in hex) are:
E1 EE 77
Go figure. CT is threeleet... I mean, duh.
Can your IM do this?
Gah...as if my Palm doesn't already go slow enough...
Great... now I can have goatse.cx in my palm.... uggh
- passion
been using it for awhile now...
It's way too slow (text entry and download/upload speeds) to have ANY chance of getting a First Post in. ;)
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Read my blog.
More entertaining, to be sure.
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Hey what's the deal with the "triple buzzword" effect?
... re-assess their ability to deliver timely and important data to their employees, partners and customers.
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For example:
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- Digital Paths is your partner with the technology, performance, and vision
But the triple buzzword rhetoric is everywhere. Look at any "mission statement" and you'll see this. These companies cluster groups of words together in "threes". It's always subject verb buzzword1, buzzword2, buzzword3.
The other thing I always notice about these so-called mission statements is the fucked-up rhetoric. Mission statements are usually pretty standard:
1) Acknowledge the general complexity of the current market
2) Point to specific tools company X provides
3) And then conclude that because of (1), if you allow (2) to be deployed, then you'll profit from (3).
Something along those lines, anyway.
But my question is this: do these mission statements persude anyone of anything? Or are they empty rhetoric?
I'm also curious about the rhetoric -- triple buzzwords notwithstanding. Why use such complex rhtetoric? Why not just do the Elmore Leonard approach (an approach that got him fired from his long-time writing job as a PR person at Chevrolet) and say, "We make kickass trucks?"
(Elmore Leonard, you'll remember, is the author of _Get Shorty_ and _Rum Punch_ among many, many others.)
Are these statements so complex because they're simply expected to be complex? (Complexity, in other words, is how they've always been done, so we want our to be complex, too!)
Or are they complex because they're presenting thoughts and ideas which demand complex rhetoric?
Do these mission statements -- especially from web consulting companies, but most every company is guilty of this -- really say absolutely nothing?
I had just finished writing a custom PHP-parsed Slashdot page from the slashdot XML file for use with AvantGo on my Palm..
I switched the file location in the script from a local copy to the real slashdot one and this was the first thing that showed up!
There is no reason why this company (which makes Palm apps, for heaven's sake) can't state clearly why we should buy their stuff. It's harder to say something clear and brief, and this company was lazy.
sulli
RTFJ.
The new e-conomy is growing at warp speed and companies are being forced to re-assess their ability to deliver timely and important data to their employees, partners and customers. Digital Paths' comprehensive array of industry-leading wireless products can ensure your success. Our mobile software solutions can meet your every business need. Digital Paths' server and client applications are strategic to your business. Digital Paths is your partner with the technology, performance, and vision to enable you to continue to scale and enhance your product and service offering capabilities, globally.
Through its use of patent-pending Pathway Technology, Digital Paths extends the reach of web resources to handheld electronic devices and Internet appliances such as PDAs and the new generation of smart phones. Browse Digital Paths' product offerings here:
1. DPWeb Server Application
2. DPWAP Server Application
3. DPWeb Client Palm Application
4. DPWeb ASP Services
Globally, I say. Globally!
sulli
RTFJ.
Its better than Slashdots own effort in the following ways:
There are probably others but I've forgotten them now. Avantslash would have been listed on slashdots links page but I've emailed the url to them three times so far and they seem to have forgotten to do it.
At some point I'm going to completely rewrite it so that it copes with external sites and is even more customisable. However as it is, it still is IMO better than slashdots own.
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Avantslash - View Slashdot cleanly on your mobile phone.
WooHoo! Now I can get First Post on every story no matter where I am!!!