Taking Advantage of AvanGo?

Its been many years since AvantGo has provided so many mobile users with content tailored especialy for small screens. I remembering loading my first AvantGo on my Palm IIIe and reading mobile versions of my favorite newspapers. It has totally change how we view our PDA and push it to another level of use, more than just an organizer.

The LifeDrive is what I call the king of all ebook devices. If you get tired of reading ebooks you can always listen to your audio books library , thats something only the lifedrive can do today.

But the LifeDrive is not perfect like all device out there, I want to get rid of the myth on the extremely long lag time people are talking about, since the New York Times review came out.
Doing my research, I found a great article by PocketFactory about the LifeDrive's lag time complete with videos showing some applications that slowed down the LifeDrive.

One of the power hungry software that slows down the LifeDrive is sadly Avantgo, which take some time to load even with the case of my LifeDrive. But not as long as the video by PocketFactory, the guy must have beyond the normal Avantgo content to get a lag that long.

This is not the end everything, there are alternative to Avantgo which are still free like Plucker. Plucker works very well on pulling out you favorite websites and converting them to mobile versions. I've been exploring plucker and had never experience any problems using it in my LifeDrive, but I still keep Avantgo on my machine regardless of the lag which I dont mind.

Link: Plucker
Link: PocketFactory: LifeDrive lag time article

LifeDrive Prices are Falling!

I did a quick comparison shopping today and I notice a huge drop on the LifeDrive. It has now reach the bellow $400 dollar level to around $389 which was the lowest I found. It still does not make the LifeDrive a cheap PDA but when it reaches a certain level its going to open device to a lot of new customers.
The same thing was about to happened a similar Palm device which was the Tapwave Zodiac but the lack of support from the company discourage a lot of people from investing on the device but still, there was a rise of new users when prices went down.
Palm should learn from auto makers make them cheap so everyone will have one then make some money in the long term from having so many users.

Free LifeDrive Overclocking Utility

The guys from Mobile Voodoo just came up with a simple overclocking and under clocking utility. I personaly have not tried it yet and the software is in its early stages of development. It's nice to know people are developing free software specifically for the LifeDrive.

Keep up the good work guys!

Please Read this important note from the developer before trying the utility.

Note: I'm providing this utility for free, with absolutely no warrantee or guarantee of fitness for any particular application. Play with it if you want to but do so at your own risk. I accept absolutely no responsibility for any loss of data or damage that might occur through use of this program, nor will I provide any kind of technical support for it.

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