(Sunrise + Plucker + Palm) * RSS = News Nirvana

AvantGo served me well for years as an offline web reader. It allowed me to download specified web pages to my Palm at Hotsync time and read them later whereever I was. Lately, the service just hasn't been what it used to be. But I couldn't find anything I liked to replace it. Until this week...

I had looked several times for a good (and free) RSS reader for my Palm but none measured up. Then I found Sunrise. It's awesome. But let me back up. What's RSS? It stands for Really Simple Syndication and I'll try to give more detail in an upcoming entry. It's an easy and universal way for any site to publish a news feed. You can get RSS feeds from Reuter's News, BBC, Google, Fark, and just about every blog out there (including Sharpes-R-Us). There are several cool features about RSS feeds but I won't get into that now.

If you already know about RSS and have a Palm, go ahead and delete AvantGo. You can do it all with Sunrise. You'll also need Plucker (also free) to view the documents Sunrise creates. Sunrise polls the RSS feeds (or HTML web pages) and converts them to a Palm format and transfers them at Hotsync time. Then you use Plucker on your Palm to view them.

Slick. Posted by Chris on 10/29/2004 09:58:00 AM :: Permalink   
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