AvantGo

... Not me, I just AvantGo! I had always wondered if AvantGo was going to just be a passing fad, having originally signed up to the service in August 2000, when it was the closest you could get to 'net content on your Palm - and amazingly over two years a go it still has a stranglehold, and one that doesn't look like it will be surrendered in a hurry or without a struggle. AvantGo is a free mobile web clippings service, or at least it is a freeware piece of software giving you access to content from various providers, some of which in turn do charge subscription fees, although there is a lot of free content. I "rediscovered" AvantGo ...  Read the complete review

My Dad gave me his palm pilot after he got fed up with trying to install a piece of software that he needed on it. I have put it to good use since! Probably one of the best software that I have got the it is Avantgo. Basically it is a system whereby you can read websites on the move. They update everytime you sync your palm pilot with your computer. (This involves connecting to the internet, putting the palm in its charger and pressing the sync button....clever stuff!). There are a range of channels that you can get for it. The ones I currently have are: My BBC: This is from the BBC (surprise surprise). You can personalise the pages, its ...  Read the complete review

Now, I've got two hats on here. HAT NUMBER ONE: THE DEVELOPER I've developed a few AvantGo channels, the public one being the Media UK AvantGo channel - which takes our forum system and makes it available for you to read messages from our forums on the tube. We had such a good response that we tweaked it so that you can also write a message on the tube, too, and it adds it to the website the next time you sync. And hopefully we'll add a few more features soon. Let me tell you - it's dead easy to write stuff for it. Really, dead easy. And it might be worth mentioning that AvantGo are looking at selling advertising on ...  Read the complete review

I am fairly new to AvantGo so this opinion reflects my first impressions of the software and the facilities that it offers. What is AvantGo? AvantGo enables you to pull information such as news and sports articles from the web each time you synchronise with your PC. The information that you download is based on a customisable list of 'channels', which are stored in your personal profile at the AvantGo web site. Installation AvantGo is freeware, which I suspect is availble from various places, but I found it via the PalmGear site. Once the software is downloaded, the installation process is a relatively simple, step-by-step procedure, ...  Read the complete review

Avantgo is a great service!! I've been using it for a few months now, and i don't even need to buy a newspaper anymore. All the major UK papers are available on avantgo, as well as more specialist information. It's free to join and easy to use. You pick the sites that you want on your palm from the avantgo website. Then you just connect to the internet on your PC and sync your palm. Thats it... a wealth of information in your palm as easy as that. Whats more it provides internet content without the need for a palm modem. It really is worth getting a palm just for this service alone, so if you have a palm, and don't have this service ...  Read the complete review