RSS feeds in my Treo650
I am an RSS Junkie. Yup, can’t do without my daily fix of News and websites. I’m not that addicted though, since once a day updates are enough for me and I don’t need hourly RSS updates. There are more and more Medical RSS friendly sites and you can even get Journal feeds as blogged earlier. Pubmed realises this and they now support RSS feeds of search results.
My tools are:
Sunrise (now Opensource) to fetch the RSS feeds and webpages
Plucker – the reader of choice on my Treo650 (I also use iSilo for ebooks but the RSS support with iSiloX is not as good)
I miss the T5′s drive mode (and indeed TX users may also miss this) but third party apps do fill in this gap nicely:
Softick Card Export II
Free alternative to Card Export II: Palm File Browser
With Card Export II I can map my Treo650′s SD as a removeable Drive (labelled T on my System naturally!). I have a simple batch file which does a Copy *.pdb /Y over to the SD card’s Palm/Programs/Plucker directory and after Sunrise does the conversion. One simple click and that’s it!
PocketPC users are not left out: there is a free equivalent of Plucker for the PPC: Vademecum. It’s not bad, just that it does not have the one-handed friendliness of the Palm version (then again what PocketPC does? 
). The other downside of Pocket PCs is that you can’t map the SD card as a “Drive” so anything you want to stuff into the card, you have to use Explorer and click on the Mobile Device and drill down to the folder of your choice before copying the files over. I don’t know of an automated process to simplify this but if anyone does, please enlighten me!
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About the author, Alan: Alan Teh is a Malaysian Physician who specialises in Hematology-Oncology & Stem cell Transplantation. He has been using Palm PDAs since 1997 and is absolutely reliant on them. His current PDA is a Palm Pre and is a strong advocate of the webOS platform, Palm's latest operating system. Caught the blogging bug in 2004 and has been addicted ever since… |
