What AvantGo channels do you have?

[Pride Of Lions]

I know that AG is a touchy subject around here, but even though I've come and gone several times, it's convenient.

Myself, I sync daily:

AccuWeather.com
American Museum of Natural History
Astrology.com
AvantBlog
AvantGo Travel Guide
CNET Reviews
ComputerWorld
Daily Almanac
ExploreZone
GOPUSA mobile
JiWire HotSpot Locator
Learning Annex of Los Angeles
Learning Annex of San Francisco
Mobile Concierge
Palm Horoscopes
Radio-Locator Travel Guide
Scholastic.com-Education in motion
Space.com
The Sporting News
The Wall Street Journal
TheFeature
USA TODAY.com
washingtonpost.com
Wired News
Words of the Month
Yahoo!

and all of this takes up 2440KB of 3000KB. So what do you guys sync and how else could I use up the remaining space?
POL9A

[Pride Of Lions]

I just realized that WSJ doesn't offer AG content (I thought it was only subscription based if you want to read it online), but I've just added the recommended replacements: Forbes.com, BusinessWeek online, and Reuters. We'll see how much space those take up.
POL9A

[Pride Of Lions]

I just checked my AG usage and I'm up to 2610KB of 3000KB. Still looking for recommendations...
POL9A

[Alexander Turcic]

I would love to comment, but the last time I've used Avantgo was like 2 years ago. Is it really still worth installing it? I remember it wasn't small and I really couldn't see a justification to have installed beside iSilo.

[radleyp]

I used the new Avantgo 5.7 a few months ago, and my use did not last a week. Size aside - and AG files are ridiculously large when compaired to either iSilo or Plucker, which do the same thing - I got soft resets, garbled text, and often the sync would not work at all. My answer to you, Alexander, is that it is not worth using, not least because, in addition to its other shortcomings, it gives only snippets of sites. Philippe Radley

[Pride Of Lions]

No, AG isn't as good as anything else out there. I have a Z2 with the 128MB's, so size isn't an issue with me (plus, they only give me a maximum of 3000KB.)

If I wanted to, I could configure each channel I get from AG into iSilo, but
1) That's a lot of work (with the settings and all) and
2) It's so easy to just HotSync and get these little snippets.

I do use iSilo religiously and daily sync about 25MB of content from all of my conversions. I just feel nostalgic for my first offline browser. I agree with each and every negative comment about it, the advertising, the little snippets, the non-landscape in Palm OS,... but it's easy. I don't get soft resets or garbled text, and that would sour me to it in a hurry, but since iSilo is here to save the day, AG is more like a toy.

And it was the lack of AG moving to OS X that led me to another offline browser which led me to iSilo which led me to Turcic.com which helped me understand the power that is iSilo. It comes full circle.
POL9A

[hacker]

What is AvantGo?

[Bob Russell]

Originally Posted by hacker

What is AvantGo?

Doesn't Avant mean "forward" in French. So it means to Go Forward.... to iSilo, Plucker or Sunrise I think!

[Bob Russell]

Originally Posted by Pride Of Lions

I just realized that WSJ doesn't offer AG content (I thought it was only subscription based if you want to read it online), but I've just added the recommended replacements: Forbes.com, BusinessWeek online, and Reuters. We'll see how much space those take up.
POL9A

Another nice option is to get a WSJ subscription on Audible and listen to it in your car every morning on your pda with a car kit. I think Brian (Ballistic) does that.

BTW, The reason I left Avant Go was that iSilo was superior and AG seemed to be almost abandoned, and took a lot of space. But you're right that there was something convenient about just hotsyncing and it's there. There were a couple of feeds I could never deduce the hidden URL for also. So long ago I don't even remember which ones I couldn't get, so by now I guess it doesn't matter to me anyway.

But I'm curious what other people have in their AG lists.
Might be interesting to do another similar thread for Plucker, iSilo, Sunrise, etc. also!

[Pride Of Lions]

Based on your excellent suggestion, Bob, (and thanks to Alexander for letting us upload .IXL's instead of having to ZIP them first) I just started an iSilo thread. (I wish I knew how to attach a cool looking image like you guys do when you have articles on the Frontpage. If y'all tell me, I'll go edit it so that it looks all official.)

I wish that iSiloX had an automatic setting where I didn't have to turn the application on before I go to bed at night, but rather it would turn itself on when needed and then all I'd have to do is just wake up and HotSync. Sometimes I forget and then my whole day is ruined. (Not really, but you know what I mean.)

I hear such a thing is possible with a PC, but I'm a (all-together) "Mac guy" and it's lacking. Maybe in a future incarnation. Or this "Tiger" "Automator" program can be set to do my bidding. Now I just need $129.

Anyway, go upload your .IXL's. It'd be cool to see what you guys are geeking out to.
POL9A

P.S. I just don't feel like paying for Audible. Especially now with the Podcast Revolution and the goo-gobs of free content out there. It kinda bugs me, though, that "Your Mac Life" has archived all of their content on Audible. I know, life's a B.

[Francesco]

Originally Posted by Pride Of Lions

I wish that iSiloX had an automatic setting where I didn't have to turn the application on before I go to bed at night, but rather it would turn itself on when needed and then all I'd have to do is just wake up and HotSync. Sometimes I forget and then my whole day is ruined. (Not really, but you know what I mean.)

I hear such a thing is possible with a PC, but I'm a (all-together) "Mac guy" and it's lacking. Maybe in a future incarnation. Or this "Tiger" "Automator" program can be set to do my bidding. Now I just need $129.

I remember a thread about how to do that in a Mac... but it was almost two years ago, when I was a MR newbie...
Why don't you look around?

Oh, by the way, I was about to reply "what is avantgo?", too!

[Pride Of Lions]

If you mean this, then yeah. Thanks for the recommendation. Not ready for prime-time.
POL9A

[Francesco]

Well, not really. I meant a thread in MobileRead. I tried to find it, without any success. The search engine does not accept words with less than four letters, meaning you can't look for "mac", which makes that thread harder to find.

[Pride Of Lions]

Was it this thread?
POL9A

[cosmic_fool]

not many - just:

Ansible Information
BBC News
Pentacle (a custom one)
SCI FI Channel