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Originally posted by radleyp
Basil, I don't understand why you are having this problem. I don't think you realize that there is a webclipper icon in iSilo. All I do is find the image, click on the Tools menu, open up the iSilo web clipper and install. It's just as simple as HandStory.
Haven't tried zooming, but I don't think it's possible in iSilo.
As for your flipping through images, if there is one thing that annoys me in HS, it is the lousy scrolling. Images bigger than the screen cannot be accessed as they can in iSilo which allows for horizontal and vertical scrolling. In HS, you have to install a series of images. BTW, the map I installed in iSilo also fills the entire screen.
Nor did I spend any more wait time for files to open in iSilo than I did in HS - both took some time.
I really see no marked advantage to anything in HS.
Cheers, PDR
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PDR, Sorry to take so long to respond to your points, but I'm afraid they still don't tally with my experience:
a) Webclipper Icon: I was aware of this and have tried it out. But I haven't found a way of using it to copy a single image from a web page. I either get the entire page or all the text minus the image. In HandStory I can just right click inside the image and save to Palm. To get the image in iSilo, I had first to save it as a separate file on my computer, open that file then use the iSilo webclipper icon.
b) Time taken to open files: I agree - pretty much the same
c) Flipping through images: I think you're confusing two issues. You're talking about scrolling an image, I was talking about moving from one image to the next on the pda. You can do the later easily with HandStory because of the arrows that show up on the screen. In iSilo you have to close the image and select the next one from the library.
d) It
is possible to scroll images in HandStory and you can have any size of image, much bigger than the screen. You don't need any scroll bars, you just use the cursor to drag the image around (you can also do this in iSilo). The rate of redrawing seems to be very similar
So I still think that HandStory is better for images. Nevertheless, iSilo wins out in some other respects, and Plucker is best in other ways. So I still use all three (and AvantGo, but only for OnlineWeather - I haven't found a satisfactory way of accessing this using any other application).
If I'm missing a trick (or several tricks) with iSilo and images, I'd be glad to be enlightened.