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I got my YY Wednesday and my Optimized DX Thursday. They work well together. I decided to push them to the limit to see how far I could go. I checked flight schedules and could have made reservations, checked my E*Trade account and would have made a trade if I had some money in my account, went into secured sites among other things.

None of that compares to what I think is the coolest thing I did. I guess because I kinda expected that I could do those other things. This I didn't expect to do. Using YadaBrowse, I went to the PalmGear website to look around. I then went to browse the software section to see if I could find a small program to download. I found "Types of Phobias" and clicked on the "ZIP" icon. The next page that opened showed the actual file--Unzipped! I clicked the file and the D/L began. After the status bar went to 100% it asked if I wanted to install the file. I clicked "YES," opened iSilo Free and sure enough the file was there.

Blown away, I tried another. This file (don't remember the name) was larger. When I clicked on the "ZIP" icon the next page showed 5 files unzipped. This time I just clicked on one to download and again I accepted the file.

I was not expecting to have the ability to download file directly into my DX by way of the YY server doing the unzipping for me. I haven't tried this with any other browser. If anyone has tried please post it here.

To me this is the coolest thing I've done.

So far.

Following a great act isn't easy!

I was eager to duplicate your adventure and went to PalmGear with my Prism and YY Minstrel all charged and ready and... when I click on the zip icon and downloading starts, I keep getting an error message that says, "Unknown mime-type: "application/zip"

This happened with Palmscape and I couldn't even get the YY browser to access the site. It kept whining, "Server not found" and other error messages.

Finally, I went home where reception is fairly good even when using the YadaYada browser and repeated the test. Palmscape still refused to handle the zip file downloads but the YadaYada browser did exactly what you said! This totally blew me away. It means that the PDA dependency on PCs is coming to an end. Once this is standard across more sites and browsers, we will have almost no reason to lug laptops around again.

Thanks for sharing your discovery. Have you tried this at other sites?

David

[Edited by davidstl on 01-12-2001 at 01:14 AM]

How do you get PalmScape? My version is really old, I need a new one.

davidstl:

I have not tried any other sites. But I will probably try Tucows, Memoware and the the other Palm sites. I'll keep you posted.

More coolness!

I tried another Palm site at random from a list of links
and the result was impressive. The zip files unzipped and became .prc files which I downloaded and ran. Now I want to see how big an application I can do this with. Maybe an email app?

To respond to the Palmscape question, there is a new beta version available which will operate until the end of January. Ilinx expects to have the final version available for sale during this month. The URL for Palmscape is: http://www.ilinx.co.jp/en/

David

davidstl:

That's good to hear. Do you remember which site?

I know it probably wouldn't make a difference, but I wonder if you'd be able to download any other types of files besides Palm. I just want to push the service to see how far it could go even though non-Palm files would be useless on such a device.

I wonder if it could decompress a Mac stuffit file and allow you to download the individual components as it does with Zip files.

Thanks for the PalmScape info. That is one of the browsers many people talk about that I have yet to try. I downloaded it earlier this month and it said it had expired on 12/31/00. It was very careless of them to leave expired software on their site for download.