Friday, 16 of December of 2005
It reads the news when you want, connectionless to Internet (II)
In first post on this subject it commented that, in Internet exist, as much pages in Internet with format simple, of images and text, optimized to be visualized in PDA and smartphones, like channels RSS with the most recent news arranged to be leidas in our PDA, but that had in principle not found any program, of the habitual ones for these necessities, that satisfaciera me at the time of transferring them Palm to read them of way offline.
Then, in fact yes that exists a method, that besides being very powerful, comfortable and completely automatic, it uses for all the steps free software tools. It is based on Plucker, reason why to begin, I go to dejaros clear what is each one of the parts that compose this program:
- Plucker in himself, is a abierto document format, in which we can keep e-books, pages HTML, flat text documents, etc. Support to connections of hypertext and images, between many other things, and have gratuitous viewfinder for Palm as much (Plucker Viewer), like for some time for PocketPC (Vademecum).
- On the other hand it is Plucker Distiller, a series of scripts that is in charge to transform a page HTML into Plucker format.
- Finally, we have Plucker Desktop, a graphical interface for Windows that allows us to much more make the use easy of Distiller.
Plucker Viewer
With plucker we can converitr directly the Webs formatted for PDA, or ebooks previously turned to HTML, in Plucker format, and soon to synchronize them to the PDA, we will have and so them there to read them when we want. There is option to read them from card SD, and so we will not squander the appraised internal space of our machine, and the results are excellent.
But still a nut return can be given him more the process, since for example we cannot read ours feeds RSS. And for it Sunrise was created.
Sunrise Desktop in WindowsXP
Sunrise is another project of free software, programmed in Java and multiplatform (for Linux and Windows). One is based on Plucker, but it allows to unload favorite feeds RSS of ours blogs, and transformalos to format HTML, with index and everything, soon to use Plucker to turn them into a document that we pruned to read from the PDA. The result is that any page that has feed RSS, could be Leiden from our PDA without problems, and without needing connection to Internet, since Sunrise is in charge, during the Hotsync, or at intervals regular (hour, daily, weekly, etc) to lower feed RSS, to verify if it has changed, if it is thus to soon transform it HTML and to Plucker, and finally to copy it to the PDA. And the best thing of everything is than all the process is automatic, and it does not take more of a minute or two (based on whatever feeds RSS you want to unload). It allows to concern archives OPML, which means that we can directly concern our collection of feeds RSS from the agregador that usually we use, without needing writing them one by one.
Good, fodder that for today already I have given enough things you on which to think and to trastear. I invite to you that you play a little with Sunrise, and in next post or I will finalize explaining the possibilities of personalisation of Sunrise (some of which or had Plucker) and a way to integrate Sunrise with your account in Bloglines, to only read posts that has appeared from the last Hotsync. Not seais impatient.
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Greetings:
Congratulations by the page. I am Chilean and lamentably Chilean newspaper versions PDA are null, only for cellular, being in addition a paid service. That's why I got to prove Sunrise. Utilcé with the unique newspaper that has syndication in Chile “Third”, but does not own version PDA. After trying much, I could finally have the synchronous newspaper with my Palm TX. Lamentably I have a problem: I cannot clear some parts to him of the page that are not the news, I talk about links. I have used the function “Filters”, but nonprofit that functions. Perhaps that are “a rather aesthetic” problem, but it can somebody help. Finally. How I can maintain newspapers per dates, so that in the synchronizations it does not lose the news that not yet I have read?
Beforehand thank you very much.
Javier
Hello Javier, thanks for your commentaries.
With respect to the certain filtrate of links that they do not interest to you, only I can recomendarte that you read the third part of this article, in which I show an example of the filter that use daily to read the news of Bloglines. It allows to define what links to follow or no, even applying a different filter according to the depth that you are (one for the main page, one for the page of each news, etc).
With respect to the dates, I am afraid that Sunrise always sobrewrites whenever you update a file. The unique option is to by hand copy the file to another place, to preserve it. The files that to gener Sunrise keep in the folder:
C:\… \ PalmOne \ Nombre_de_usuario \ sunrise \
In order to recover the previous news, I recommend to you to use a agregador like Bloglines. Thus you will be able to ask to him that feeds shows to the news appeared in the last day to you/week/month/etc in your.
I wait for haberte given some useful idea. A greeting.
WHEN synchronizing PDAExpertos and the PDA of TRungsteno by Plucker the accents and eñes is seen like strange letters in my Palm… that debera and as I can solve it?
It goes, would not have to happen. Sometimes it happens by an error of bloglines, but on the following day it would have to appear well. If you see that it is not fixed I occurred it and I investigate more. Feed official is http://feeds.feedburner.com/pdatungsteno
The synchronization profile is necessary to put some special configuration in the Plucker when creating… I I perhaps am being mistaken and I am not selecting the language suitably, equivocation in the codification of characters…
You do not worry to choose language, work all the perfectly to me feeds leaving “without specifying” in each, using Sunrise XP. In normal Sunrise, I also leave Input Encoding to “autodetect” and Outpt Encoding to Windows-1252.
Bloglines sometimes strains the old news and with all the incorrect characters, but as soon as the marks as read already you forget them.
Everything was a problem of codification of characters… I am solved with Sunrise XP. Thanks
Don't mention it. To enjoy it
mmm… bond that was solved, but you could say to me like? It is that it passes the same exactly to me.
Eye, I am not using sunrise (it is my following step), simply I am creating a channel with plucker desktop for the movable version:
http://www.pdatungsteno.com/wp-mobile.php
It can be that it cannot install all the application of plucker in the card sd? because one installs 3 archives that is .prc that must be to viewer another one is .pdb of user guide and another one is a bookstore. If I install in the internal memory of my palm it walks or I install but it in the card does not walk to me, or I must install the application of plucker in the internal memory of palm and soon to form so that it unloads and it reads the Web sites to me from the card? thanks.