Free Daily news Paper

w3iner · 07-13-06, 01:17 AM

Hey, I was looking for a way to get a free daily Newspaper, or something of that nature on my PDA everyday. I do not have wireless internet so I need to download it when I sync up my weather info and such each morning. Does anyone know of any thing?

psionandy · 07-13-06, 01:19 AM

Avantgo and Mobipocket spring to mind....

And the Guardian Unlimited would be a good one to read (from the UK)

Gigi · 07-13-06, 05:41 AM

Also look into RSS readers, such as Newsbreak.

Tankman · 07-13-06, 06:27 AM

AvantGo has been working well for me, 'bout a year.

Sync's daily as does my weather program! :approve:

And..........it's free too!

07-13-06, 04:47 PM

Yep. NewsBreak would definitely do the trick. Pretty much every news source has an RSS feed today so I'm willing to bet you can get all your local news headlines synched over to your device with NewsBreak. (Plus a lot of other cool stuff as well! Like AximSite posts! :) )

You can download the trial version here:

http://www.iliumsoft.com/download.php?prodcode=20720

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mad0865 · 07-13-06, 08:51 PM

Originally Posted by Ilium Software

Yep. NewsBreak would definitely do the trick. Pretty much every news source has an RSS feed today so I'm willing to bet you can get all your local news headlines synched over to your device with NewsBreak. (Plus a lot of other cool stuff as well! Like AximSite posts! :) )

You can download the trial version here:

http://www.iliumsoft.com/download.php?prodcode=20720

Marc Tassin
Ilium Software
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marc@iliumsoft.com
+1 (734) 973-9388
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http://www.iliumsoft.com

And be sure check out our new blog! http://blog.iliumsoft.com/

While Newsbreak is a nice application (love Listpro!), it only provides you w/ snippets of the news, otherwise you have to connect to read the whole thing. With something like Advantgo or Mobipocket, you download the entire article and can read it offline. Sorry, but that's much more worthwhile to me due to the fact that there isn't internet access when sitting on the train, or taking a road trip. Personally use Mobipocket, subscribe to the RSS feeds and download a weeks worth of news from different sites (they have thousands, plus whatever RSS you can find) and stored to my SD card. Doesn't take up all that much space either.

AgeOfEgos · 07-13-06, 11:54 PM

I got in on that terrific deal they had about a month ago, Newsbreak ListPro and EWallet for 5-7 bucks I think?

Anyways, I love Newsbreak. It is a RSS feed that syncs everymorning. Mind you, it doesn't have a full article...just the headline and a short blurb about the news in question...with the option to jump on the net and get the full article. It does a good job of giving you the heads up of major happenings though...

Ryan

klomp10 · 07-14-06, 12:51 AM

Originally Posted by AgeOfEgos

I got in on that terrific deal they had about a month ago, Newsbreak ListPro and EWallet for 5-7 bucks I think?

Anyways, I love Newsbreak. It is a RSS feed that syncs everymorning. Mind you, it doesn't have a full article...just the headline and a short blurb about the news in question...with the option to jump on the net and get the full article. It does a good job of giving you the heads up of major happenings though...

Ryan

The blurb differs with each feed, with feeds like Engadget, Gizomodo and Make magizine you get the whole articale others you get only snippits. It depends on the feed not the RSS reader.

messmerizer · 07-14-06, 10:46 AM

journal bar too
how come no one like journal bar?

mad0865 · 07-14-06, 11:45 PM

Originally Posted by messmerizer

journal bar too
how come no one like journal bar?

Journal bar is the same as Newsbreak; you get headlines only, if you want the whole article you have to be connected to the net to get the rest.

DieHardMan · 07-15-06, 06:57 AM

Quote:

Journal bar is the same as Newsbreak; you get headlines only, if you want the whole article you have to be connected to the net to get the rest.

Wrong, read here!

mad0865 · 07-15-06, 10:40 AM

Originally Posted by DieHardMan

Wrong, read here!

What was wrong w/ my statement? I didn't mention rss-ReGenerator; we were talking about Newsbreak and Journal bar. Read before you jump all over someone.

klomp10 · 07-15-06, 10:51 AM

Originally Posted by mad0865

What was wrong w/ my statement? I didn't mention rss-ReGenerator; we were talking about Newsbreak and Journal bar. Read before you jump all over someone.

I also stated that it depends on the feed as to weather you get the whole artical or not. I get the whole articals on most of my feeds, using newsbreak even if I do not get pictures.

messmerizer · 07-17-06, 09:42 AM

no i get whole articles with journal bar.
also from sites like geek.com i get all of the user replies so i can read people argue about whether the xbox360 or PS3 is better... quite entertaining ^_^

07-17-06, 02:24 PM

Originally Posted by mad0865

Journal bar is the same as Newsbreak; you get headlines only, if you want the whole article you have to be connected to the net to get the rest.

I'm going to offer some info about how RSS works. It doesn't mean that anyone is wrong...some people like other news readers more than NewsBreak. We certainly understand. I just want to clear up some misconceptions.

The reason for "snippets" is that RSS news feeds contain a set amount of text. The source determines how much text is provided. When an RSS reader pulls a feed it only gets what the feed provides.

Some sites only provide you with a snippet. This is typically because they hope you will visit the actual site, see the ads, and thus support their site via ad revenue. Others provide you with the entire article including images.

As an example, PocketPC Thoughts used to do snippets but just announced that they are switching to full article + image format. They are testing this to see how much it impacts their ad revenue. If the impact is too great, they will have to go back to the other system.

AvantGo on the other hand, while it now supports RSS, doesn't get anymore than other readers from RSS feeds. However, sites that have specially prepared AvantGo content (which is how AvantGo has worked for years...although they added RSS as well recently), often contain the full story...hence the appearance of more data. In fact, RSS feeds pulled by AvantGo won't have any more data than provided to any other reader. They are as limited as the rest in that regard.

The only possible solution is caching the data. This means following the "Read More" link provided in the RSS Feed and actually downloading the entire web page and all associated images to your device (or at least all the text/menu headings/etcetc). In this way you COULD get the whole article on the go, but the problem here is that now you're storing all this on your device.

Long story short, the options are typically a limited news reader like AvantGo that only provides you certain sites but USUALLY provides longer articles, or a wide ranging and adaptable reader like NewsBreak that provides true RSS content, but limits you to the information provided by the source.

Hope that helps!

Marc Tassin
Ilium Software
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marc@iliumsoft.com
+1 (734) 973-9388
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http://www.iliumsoft.com

And be sure check out our new blog! http://blog.iliumsoft.com/