Friday, December 16, 2005
Read the news whenever you want, without Internet connection (II)
In the first post on this subject commented that exist on the Internet, both pages on the Internet with simple format, image and text, optimized to be displayed on PDAs and smartphones, as RSS feeds with the latest news ready to be read in our PDA, which in principle but had not found any program, the usual for these duties, I am glad that when it comes to transfer them to my Palm to read them so offline.
Well, actually it that there is a method, which besides being very powerful, comfortable and fully automatic, use all steps to free software tools. It is based on Plucker, so to begin, I will dejaros clear what each of the parties that make up this program:
- Plucker itself is an open format document, which can save e-books, HTML pages, documents, plain text, and so on. Supports hypertext links and images, among many other things, and has both free viewer for Palm (Plucker viewer), as for some time for PocketPC (Vademecum).
- On the other hand is Plucker Distiller, a series of scripts that are responsible for turning a page in HTML format Plucker.
- Finally, we Plucker Desktop, a graphical interface for Windows that allows us to do a lot easier to use Distiller.
Plucker Viewer
With Pluck can directly converitr websites formatted for PDAs, or ebooks previously converted to HTML, in Plucker format, and then synchronize the PDA, which will keep it there when we want to read them. There option to read from the SD card, thus not wasting precious space in our internal machine, and the results are excellent.
But even he can give a further twist to the process, as for example we can not read our RSS feeds. And it was created for Sunrise.
Sunrise Desktop WindowsXP
Sunrise is another free software project, programmed in Java and cross-platform (Windows and Linux). It basa in Plucker, but the ability to download RSS feeds of our favorite blogs, and then convert it to HTML format, indexed and everything, and then use Plucker to make a document that we can read from the PDA. The result is that any page that has an RSS feed, may be read from our PDA smoothly, and without Internet connection, since Sunrise is responsible for the Hotsync, or regular intervals (hours, daily, weekly, etc.) to lower the RSS feed, check whether it has changed, if so transform it into HTML and then Plucker, and finally copy to the PDA. And best of all is that the whole process is automatic and does not take more than a minute or two (depending on how many RSS feeds you want to download). It allows files to import OPML, which means we can directly import our collection of RSS feeds from aggregator that only use, without writing one to one.
Well, I think by now I have given quite a few things to think about and fret. I invite you to play around with Sunrise, and in the next post already finished explaining the possibilities for customization of Sunrise (some of which already had Plucker) and a way to integrate with your account at Sunrise Bloglines, only to read the posts that have emerged since the last Hotsync. Not seais impatient.
By: Mark Gonzalez Troyas in Tricks
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Greetings:
Congratulations on the page. I am Chilean and unfortunately PDA versions Newspapers Chileans are invalid, only for cellular, being also a paid service. From here I came to try Sunrise. What utilcé with the only newspaper that has syndication in Chile "La Tercera", but does not possess PDA version. After much testing, I finally have the daily sync with my Palm TX. Unfortunately I have a problem: I can not remove parts of the page that are not news, I mean links. I used the "Filters", but did not make it work. It is a problem that rather "aesthetic", but perhaps I can help somebody. Finally. How can I keep diaries by dates, so that the synchronization not miss news I have not read it?
In advance thank you very much.
Javier
Javier Hello, thank you for your comments.
Regarding the filtering of certain links that do not interest you, I can only recommend that you read the third part of this article, which show an example of that filter use daily to read news Bloglines. Lets define what links continue or not, even applying a different filter according to the depth to which you are (one for the home, one for each page news, etc.).
Regarding the dates, I am afraid that Sunrise always overwrites every time you update a file. The only option is to copy by hand the file to another location to preserve it. Sunrise gener Files are saved in the folder:
C: \… \ PalmOne \ username \ sunrise \
To retrieve news archive, I recommend you use an aggregator such as Bloglines. So you can ask him to show you the news appeared on the last day / week / month / etc in your feeds.
I hope haberte given some useful idea. A greeting.
AL PDAExpertos and synchronize the PDA TRungsteno by Plucker accents and eñes look like strange letters on my Palm… to be and how should I correct it?
Oops, should not happen. Sometimes it happens by an error of bloglines, but the next day should appear well. If you see not fix Dimelo and researchers. The feed is official http://feeds.feedburner.com/pdatungsteno
We need to put any special configuration in Plucker to create the profile of synch… maybe I'm wrong and I'm not selecting the language properly, a mistake in the coding of characters…
Do not worry about choosing language, I work all feeds perfectly leaving "unspecified" in each, using Sunrise XP. In Sunrise normal, I also Input Encoding "autodetect" Outpt Encoding and a windows-1252.
Bloglines sometimes old school news and all the characters wrong, but as soon as brands such as read and you forget them.
It was a problem of coding of characters… fix everything with Sunrise XP. Thank you
Your welcome. To enjoy
mmm… voucher that was resolved, but could you tell me how? It happens to me exactly the same thing.
Ojo, I am not using sunrise (is my next step), I am simply creating a channel with Pluck desktop version for mobile:
http://www.pdatungsteno.com/wp-mobile.php
You might not be able to install any application of Pluck in the sd card? 3 files because install one that is. prc that should be the other is a viewer. pdb of user guide and another is a library. If you install on the internal memory of my palm amiss but if I install a card I do not walk, or I have to install the application of Pluck in the internal memory of the palm and then set up so that I download and read websites from the card? thanks.