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Best Wireless Applications

I'm using Blazer and One-Touch since they came with my Visor Phone. I'm wondering though, what are the best applications to use over the wireless Internet connection? What do you use your Visor + Internet for?

Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Sanford, Florida
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I'm using Eudora Internet Suite (Eudora Web and Eudora Mail) because they were free! Sunday my daughter and I were trying to find a play she needs for college, but has been unable to find. We stopped and searched the web and found it in a collection of plays. Very handy.

I'm also using the SureWave browser for PQAs, and occassionally going wireless through AvantGo ... but with space on my Visor running low, one of those is going to have to go.

But what I REALLY find useful is the ability to use Torpedo and LFtp to edit and post HTML. This means that when I am "on call" for possible breaking news for our web site -- which can be any time of day or night -- I can actually be anywhere my cell phone gets a digital signal.

And no more lugging a laptop every time I'm out of town, and sometimes just when I'm out of the office.

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Location: Cincinnati, OH USA
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I'm also using the SureWave browser for PQAs, and occassionally going wireless through AvantGo ...

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Just go to www.jpmobile.com, click on downloads, fill out the registration form and its yours for free. Works great. It worked on my Deluxe and now it works on my new Platinum.

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Just go to www.jpmobile.com, click on downloads, fill out the registration form and its yours for free. Works great. It worked on my Deluxe and now it works on my new Platinum.

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>>But what I REALLY find useful is the ability to use Torpedo and LFtp to edit and post HTML. This means that when I am "on call" for possible breaking news for our web site -- which can be any time of day or night -- I can actually be anywhere my cell phone gets a digital signal. <<

Can you go into a bit more detail? I'd love to be able to edit and then update my web site wirelessly when I'm on vacation. Like: what's torpedo? Where do you get it? Does the page saved retain all the formatting? Are you able to log into secure sites to ftp up or do you do it by web based control panels?

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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Sanford, Florida
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Torpedo is available from PalmGear. Just search for Torpedo and it'll pop up. You can also get more information from the web site of the company that makes it, Pine Tree Software, at: http://www.pinetreesoftware.net/

It comes with, and is integrated with, a full version of LFtp and a trial version of Palmscape. LFtp is an actual FTP program. I've tried to limit what I need to do with it, so while I'm sure it has limitations, I haven't run into them.

Torpedo really is an HTML editor, with quite a few bells and whistles. It's code-based, of course, not WYSIWYG. I prefer it that way.

Three things you should know:

1) You CAN use the memo pad in conjunction with LFtp and get the same results; it's just harder. LFtp's documentation should contain all the info you need.

2) I've simplified things by using server-side includes, so all I have to take with me on my Visor are the tiny include files, not the whole page.

3) Torpedo's functionality is limited by, so far, the lack of a desktop conduit. You have to import HTML pages from your PC to the memo pad, then import them into Torpedo. And trying to import memos into Torpedo keeps crashing my Visor. However, the author says he's had numerous requests for a conduit and is working on one.

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Philadelphia
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Thanks. That conduit lack makes it sound pretty cumbersome. All they need is something like a Documents to Go solution.

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