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An anonymous reader sent in: "According to The Register, AvantGo is shutting down unregistered (unpaid) "custom channels" with more than eight subscribers. Until now, AvantGo has been free (as in beer). What alternatives are there for Web sites that wish to distribute free information to PalmOS devices? Blazer and Eudora Internet Suite require wireless connections; Plucker is open-source and almost does the trick but doesn't automatically synchronize and the installation is way too complicated for the average user. Is there an alternative to paying AvantGo thousands of dollars? All I want to do is give away information, not charge for it."

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  1. DYI by BenTheDewpendent · · Score: 0, Redundant

    do it yer self.
    write a scirpt or 2 that grab what you want from your fav webpages and have them add the information to your sync cue. im sure there are plenty ways of doing it. im you may even be able to hack a current system in to doing. try a proxy/cache and scipts.