When I had a 6035, and now with my 7135, I find that web pages I'm used to visiting on a PC are just not worth the trouble, largely.

Where do you go to find stuff viewable on our little screens?

IMDB would be nice, for instance. Weather, scores, and the like. News.

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Don Cook
Formerly Coming to You
on my Much Missed 7135 by the Sea
Now on a Shiny 700P
VZW Carrier

I use mine primarily as a modem for the laptop when I'm traveling. Occasionally, I use the PDA to look something up (address, phone number, etc), but it's kinda slow and cumbersome and I only do it when absolutely necessary.

There's probably a directory or two of sites that are formatted for PDA viewing, but I've never looked for one. Some sites have PDA-friendly versions of their content, as well. Google has recognized the need for PDA friendly service and has created http://www.google.com/xhtml , which is very handy when looking up stuff (check out the "local" search option - very cool). Details of their PDA friendly offerings can be found at http://mobile.google.com/ .

Another useful tool is Plucker (http://www.plkr.org/), a free tool that retrieves web pages/sites that you define and saves them to your palm in a pda-friendly form for offline viewing.

I'd just look around a bit and search the specific sites you're interested in to see if they have PDA versions of their content. You can also see if they've got an AvantGo channel that you can subscribe to.

Here's a few:

http://www.google.com/palm (obviously google for the palm)
http://mobile.wunderground.com/ (good weather site)
http://www.pdamobileweb.com/visit122.htm (great portal)
http://www.mapquest.com/pda/ (similar to the old PQA DA)

This one is fairly neat, compresses regular web pages to better display on the palm:
http://www.skweezer.net

This one is the American edition of the news by the BBC (in case you want to see what the world thinks of us and a different opinion on world news):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/default.stm


Notably, I'm using Web Pro V and all these links work well. I usually find pages on the PC, copy them into a memo on the Palm desktop called "links", sync, then open the memo. If you highlight the address and press the green phone key it will bring up your default browser and take you there. Have fun!

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Here, have a clue. No, take two, they're small.....

Just as a necessary politeness, I see that my post resulted already in a richness of responses for me to review, even now. Thank you all!

Don.

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Don Cook
Formerly Coming to You
on my Much Missed 7135 by the Sea
Now on a Shiny 700P
VZW Carrier

Here are some sites that I use:

-Stew


Information

http://www.google.com/palm/ Google (web only)

http://www.google.com/wml Google2 (wml may not work?)

http://www.google.com/xhtml Google3 (xhtml - local web and images)

http://mobile.yahoo.com/ Yahoo

http://mobile.yahoo.com/dd Yahoo Driving Directions

http://mobile.yahoo.com/yp Yahoo Yellow Pages

http://people.yahoo.com/ Yahoo People Search (not palm optimized)

http://www.mapquest.com/pda/ Mapquest

http://wireless.mapquest.com/Palm/v3.0/index.html Mapquest V3x

http://www.infospace.com/info.avant/yellow.html InfoSpace Yellow Pages

http://www.infospace.com/_1_BGWT1J03...x.htm?ver=5517 InfoSpace White Pages (not working 7/04!)

http://palm.moviefone.com/main.adp?uid=5300 Moviefone

http://wireless.tvguide.com/ TV Guide

http://www.rovenet.com/master/PackageTrack/ All vendor package tracking


News

http://espn.go.com/wireless/palm/index.htm ESPN

http://proxy.espn.go.com/wireless/espn/html/pocketpc ESPN 2

http://mobile.yahoo.com/sports Yahoo Sports

http://www.usatoday.com/wireless/PALM_OS/index.html USA Today

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...vendor=avantgo Washington Post

http://mobile.msn.com/pocketpc/Default.aspx/News/ MSN Mobile News

http://www.latimes.com/wireless/avantgo/ LA Times

http://www.newsday.com/wireless/avantgo/ NY Newsday

http://slashdot.org/palm/ Slashdot

http://www2.marketwatch.com/palm/frontpage.asp CBS MarketWatch

http://www.accuweather.com/pda/pda_5dy.asp Accuweather


Email

http://my.screenname.aol.com/_cqr/lo...d=myaolprodweb AOL/Netscape/Compuserve/AIM Email

http://wap.oa.yahoo.com/raw?dp=mail&...&src=mail1 Yahoo Email

http://mobile.msn.com/pocketpc/ Hotmail


Other

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/dt...912520-8276914 Amazon Mobile

http://pda.edmunds.com/ Edmunds Car Price Lookup

http://www.m-w.com/palm.htm Merriam-Webster Dictionary


Other Link Sites

http://www.palmzone.net/mobile/mobileweb.htm Tim's Web links

http://blazer.handspring.com/blazer/EnglishUS/ Handspring's Web links

http://www.warrenernst.com/mobile/ Llama's Web links

http://pdaportal.com/ PDAportal Web links

http://www.plinkit.com/ Plinkit Links

You should also check out these 2 programs.
Directory Assistant by Rick Whitt
http://home.triad.rr.com/rlwhitt/palm/

Flight Status by Andrew
http://www.andrewsoft.net/
(This program does not hang up the phone when it is done searching so you need to press the red phone button on your Kyocera after the search is complete.)

I just thought I would mention that I've substantially updated my "mobile portal."

Though it is free for anyone to use, the links on it are those that *I* use almost every week, or at least once in a while. It therefore reflects my interests and such, but at least you can be sure that if it isn't working for you, then it isn't working for me either.

Cheers!

-Warr