“Read documents on your PDA”

I love the fact that I can browse web pages on my Palm device. However, being the intellectual fellow I am, I often like to read long scientific journal entries or pore over long-winded reports and lectures about modern technology. This causes a problem, in that it takes a long time to read them online and I don't want to stay connected too long. Of course, I could download and save the page, but this then puts a burden on my device's memory.

Step forward iSilo, a sophisticated reader for viewing HTML documents and text files on your Palm. The best thing about the software is that it uses a little trick to make these files as small as possible, saving you space on your device. With the help of its sister-Windows application iSiloX, the program converts documents originally saved as Web pages or text documents into TXT format.

As a pay off for the mighty compression rates offered by iSilo, you unfortunately lose some links in the conversion process. Some graphic formats aren't displayed properly when converted, but fonts and tables remain largely unaltered.

Aside from a few niggly display problems though, iSilo represents a great way of compressing HTML and text documents for viewing on your mobile device.

Languages:

English

OS requirements for iSilo:

OS: Palm OS 3.5

Pros

High compression ratios
Supports HTML and TXT documents
Accuarte reproduction of tables and fonts

Cons

Occasionally has problems displaying links or graphics

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From the publisher of iSilo

iSilo is a highly versatile document reader available for Palm OS as well as for Windows computers. You can find thousands of ready-made documents downloadable immediately for reading with iSilo or you can create your own documents from HTML content using iSiloX.

Some of the major features that will win you over to iSilo include:

High text compression in iSilo format documents result in a 50% to 60% decrease in size, which is about 20% better than the Palm Doc format, allowing you to store more and larger documents on your handheld
Hyperlinks make it much easier to navigate through a document
Images add visual richness to documents, especially photo-quality color pictures
Tables allow the display of tabular data
Formatted text gives style to text for controlled emphasis
VFS support on Palm OS allows you to store and access documents on high-capacity removeable storage

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