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By Brian Kelly -Autumn 2002
Brian Kelly describes how you can read Cultivate Interactive on the bus or train using the Avantgo service.
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Cultivate Interactive can now be read on hand-held devices (often referred to as Personal Digital Assistants or PDAs) such as Palms and Pocket PCs. This can be done from a page on the Cultivate Interactive [1] Web site as illustrated in Figure 1.
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| Figure 1: The Initial Interface |
This service may be of value to Cultivate Interactive readers who use a PDA. It will allow readers to read articles while on the move or away from a networked computer. It is also environmentally-friendly, as hard-copy output (sometimes referred to as "dead trees") is not needed.
The service makes use of a commercial company called Avantgo. Avantgo provides a freely service for providing access to digital information to PDAs. A valuable aspect of Avantgo's service is that it can be used to transform piblically-available Web sites into a form suitable for viewing on a PDA. The service is available without charge, although users will need to obtain a username and password from the AvantGo Web site [2].
As well as getting a username and password you will need to install the AvantoGo software. Again this software is available free-of-charge. AvantGo provide details of the software and the technical requirements to run the software on your PDA [3].
Once you have obtained your username and installed the software on your PDA simply follow the appropriate link from the Cultivate Interactive Web site as shown in Figure 1. You can choose to download a single issue or the entire Web site.
After logging in to AvantGo you will then see the screen illustrated below.
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| Figure 2: The AvantGo Interface |
You have the choice of choosing the maximum size to be downloaded, whether to include images and the frequency of syncing (just once is advisable as the Web site is normally only updated when a new issue is published).
Once you have confirmed the option the Cultivate Interactive Web site will be installed on your PDA after the next synchronisation. An example of the interface on a Palm PDA is given below.
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| Figure 3: Viewing Cultivate Interactive On A PDA |
We hope that this will provide a useful service for Cultivate Interactive readers.
Brian Kelly
UK Web Focus
UKOLN
University of Bath
Bath
BA2 7AY
United Kingdom
URL: <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk>
Email: b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk
Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus. He works for
UKOLN
which is based at the
University of Bath
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For citation purposes:
Kelly, B. "Read Cultivate Interactive On Your PDA!", Cultivate Interactive, issue
8, 15 November 2002
URL: <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue8/avantgo/>
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