The PDA of tungsten

This behind schedule, while it sailed by FreewarePalm, I have been by chance with a program that fills up a lack, although noncritical, if incomprehensible in PalmOS: the window of “Today”.

In the PocketPC, PDAs that runs Windows Mobile, exists a page of beginning with a summary of the tasks, appointments, emails without reading, and other data, that have of date the present day. When you ignite the PDA you have, therefore, to a glance, all the important information for the day. It is a really useful functionality. Nevertheless, in the Palm always he appears the thrower of applications, which is not bad, but the possibility lies down in lack of having the other option.

Then, in PalmOS a similar window exists, with the same functionalities and even more, since it advances the events of the next days of the week. An image like bottom can even be defined. One is the initial window of the agenda that comes by defect. So being worked that seen, it gave pain to have to give the agenda button to see it, because it already forces to you to have to remember it, and the philosophy of a PDA is right the opposite, who she remembers it to you.

The view summarizes of the day of the agenda

For that reason I was glad much when I discovered AgendaReminder. It is a simple program that is in charge solely to initiate the program of the agenda when igniting the PDA, if a configurable time has flowed out since it went out. He is gratuitous and it does not get to occupy 10Kb. Not to what they are hoping desarroladore of PalmOS to include this option integrated by defect. Now already we can see a summary of the tasks of today, nothing else to ignite the Palm in the morning. Brilliant!

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In previous posts it had dealed with the subject feeds RSS and pages with movable version, that are both very good apt sources of intelligence to be transferred to our PDA, for a reading offline. After an analysis of the different alternatives I have recommended you Sunrise, a project of free software based on Plucker, that allowed to turn as much pages Web as feeds to a format that ra soon visualizable in our Palm.

Sunrise is highly personalizeable. I recommend to you that before beginning to introduce sources to your list, you dedicate awhile to the configuration of the defaults, in the menu “Tools->Default Properties…”. These options will be applied by defect later to each source that you add. I go to comentaros those that seem more important to me:

• “Link depth” talks about the depth with which Sunrise will sail by the Web at issue. A value of “0 ″ only means to keep the page in himself, “1 ″ would indicate to him that it keeps the page and to which connects, etc. For feed RSS normally we will use “0 ″, but for a page Web of the news, for example, higher values will be necessary to unload the different news to which it connects in the cover.
• For a greater intelligence, we can define filters at the time of following the connections, to unload the parts of a Web that interest to us, but not to do it with that they do not only comprise of the version text, or that connects to an external page, etc. This can be formed in the section “Filters”.
• In case our sources have images, these are those that are going to occupy almost all the space, reason why is fundamental to control the quality with which they keep, to avoid problems with the memory available at the time of visualizing them. Sunrise redimensiona the graphs automatically, not to waste space and memory in our device. According to our Palm 160×160 has a screen of standard resolution (pixels) or discharge (320×320 pixels), we will define the size to which the images will keep. Also we can play with the depth of color: 16 bits are true color, whereas 8 bits offer an acceptable result, saving much space of storage. For Palms in black and white, the possibility exists of keeping in gray scale or even monochrome. By íltimo, Sunrise it can keep if we want a version to real size of the images, that we will be able to see later clicking in the reduced version of the same.
• Finally, in “Output” we will define if the documents will keep in ram memory or card SD (recommended this last one), and in “Schedule” we will choose if the documents will be updated periodically (so we must have Sunrise executing itself, although it is diminished comfortably in the tray of the system), or only during a Hotsync.

In order to finalize, now you know to use Sunrise, I go to comentaros a trick that allows to use Bloglines, and its version for movable devices, like intermediary. And it is that archives RSS of the pages, normally have a random length in posts, and so in some cases documents can become really great. The solution is abrir an account in Bloglines, where we will syndicate our sources RSS, and later to use Sunrise to unload the page for movable devices of Bloglines. With this we will obtain, on the one hand, to make the administration easier of the RSS, since our list will be safe from formateos reinstallations and in its Web server, and will be able to accede to our news from any computer with connection to Internet; and in addition, in Bloglines by defect only are the news appeared after our last visit, and so we will not have to sail by the old news, at the same time as we saved space in our PDA.

For this integration we will have to follow the following steps:

1. We add like source of intelligence, the page:

   http://www.bloglines.com/mobile?Lang=spanish

   We will use a “Link depth” of “3 ″

2. Within the properties of the source, we go to the eyelash “Advanced” and in “Script” we chose “Embedded”, and we pressed the button “Edit script…”. In the window that is abre we will introduce the following code, that filters the connections to follow to only unload what corresponds to our news:
   

   document.onanchorlink = function (Link) {
     if (link.depth == 1) {
       bar regexp = new RegExp (“. *subs”);
       link.exclude =! link.uri.match (regexp);
     }
     if (link.depth == 2) {
       bar regexp = new RegExp (“sub=”);
       link.exclude =! link.uri.match (regexp);
     }
     if (link.depth == 3) {
       bar regexp = new RegExp (“bloglines|google|given”);
       link.exclude = link.uri.match (regexp);
     }
   };
   

3. Finally, we must indicate to him to Sunrise where it is our file of cookies so that logee correctly in Bloglines and enters our personal account. For it, menu “Tools->Preferences” we entered eyelash “Network” and where Mozilla/Netscape cookies.txt asks to us “you case out” we introduce the route of this file, that corresponds to our account in the computer, for example
   

   program C:\Documents and Settings\Marcos\Datos \ - >
   \ Mozilla \ Firefox \ Profiles \ dktph277.default \ cookies.txt
   

And he is already, whenever now sincronizemos this source, we will have a copy of our Bloglines in the PDA, list to read offline and with all its images. �? ste is the method that I use on a daily basis, and secures a very good result. You must only have well-taken care of with not letting pass many days without synchronizing, since the size of the file will be getting fat as they add posts without reading. I have really given a nut return more, to keep each source RSS from bloglines in a separated file, but for today already it has been sufficient explanation. I hope that you enjoy this method, and if teneis some doubt, I will help you with pleasure in which it can through the commentaries.

Note: the credit of this last method is of Klaas Naaijkens, that published originally it in Lifehack Community.

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Reading the binnacle of I read I have been post very interesting with advice for new users of PDAs Palm. It really contains some very useful:

I am going to mention some:

• It reads the manual of User. - Many do not do it and is an error, since the majority of the operations and simple problems is detailed in the Manual of User, it tries to study it well before setting out your doubts in some forum.
• It consults the Webs of official support. - Many of the technical problems have set out solution or in the pages of Palm Support or Base de Datos de Conocimiento. This also applies for any program that you have bought/unloaded.
• It tries to find out the capacities of your device. - If you have Bluetooth finds out that you can do with, the same for the Wi-Fi; the manual of User gives a very concise panorama you, so made hand of the information of the network.
• I do not put to you in technical questions if you do not have the necessary knowledge. - You do not try to modify the ROM, to flashear your Palm or to increase the speed of the processor, etc. if you do not have true idea than these doing, remembers that many of the programs that are used for it warn to you of the possible risks of their use, you do not say that nobody said to you
• It always uses a cover. - Besides the aesthetic question a good cover helps you to cushion blows, scrapings, etc. Exist many models of which you can choose
• The USA protective of screen. - The price of a plastic protector for the screen your Palm is quite accessible, apart from which it helps you to play with but confidence without the risk of undesirable rayons
• You do not feel bad not to have the new model but. - As Hernandez says to Ricardo well (CEO PdaMexico.Net), the best device is the one than it serves to you but, the one that is a new model does not assure that he is the best one for you.

Since Blogger does not allow the categorisation of posts, I read has taken the annoyance to do post index of all from his blog. Echadle a look, really are very interesting things.

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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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