Everyone,
I am a new Touch user. Just trying to do a round-up of apps and other features of the Touch that make it possible to read day-to-day Internet "content" offline, without a WiFi signal (e.g. on a plane, public transit, otherwise away from a WiFi network, etc.) I use Google services a lot, and this possibility is what really attracted me to the Touch, but there seem to be some gaps.
Mail: Built-in Touch mail app uses IMAP and handles offline reading and composition. Too bad it doesn't "thread" messages.
Web Pages: free Instapaper app lets you "bookmark" web pages on your computer and then sync them via WiFi to the Touch, but pictures don't get brought over. Are there alternatives?
RSS Feeds: A non-free app whose name escapes me lets you download RSS feed content for off-line reading, and syncs with Google Reader.
Calendar: the Calendar app on the Touch can't really be synced with Google Calendar except through a circuitous route involving an Exchange server. When will Google develop an app for this?
Google Documents: a free app called MightyDocs (IIRC) brings them to the Touch for off-line reading. Very nice.
Wikipedia: there is a non-free app to download "all" of Wikipedia to the Touch for off-line use, but it doesn't bring pictures (which include equations, diagrams, formulas, etc.) over. Any alternatives?
YouTube / Vimeo videos: need to download them somehow and convert them to a non-Flash format, then upload them to the Touch in its preferred video format. Any way to automate this?
Magazine / Newspaper / Book content: free Stanza app is good for reading these off-line, but the formatting sometimes fails.
Can anyone suggest apps or work-arounds to fill in the gaps?
Thanks!
I am a new Touch user. Just trying to do a round-up of apps and other features of the Touch that make it possible to read day-to-day Internet "content" offline, without a WiFi signal (e.g. on a plane, public transit, otherwise away from a WiFi network, etc.) I use Google services a lot, and this possibility is what really attracted me to the Touch, but there seem to be some gaps.
Mail: Built-in Touch mail app uses IMAP and handles offline reading and composition. Too bad it doesn't "thread" messages.
Web Pages: free Instapaper app lets you "bookmark" web pages on your computer and then sync them via WiFi to the Touch, but pictures don't get brought over. Are there alternatives?
RSS Feeds: A non-free app whose name escapes me lets you download RSS feed content for off-line reading, and syncs with Google Reader.
Calendar: the Calendar app on the Touch can't really be synced with Google Calendar except through a circuitous route involving an Exchange server. When will Google develop an app for this?
Google Documents: a free app called MightyDocs (IIRC) brings them to the Touch for off-line reading. Very nice.
Wikipedia: there is a non-free app to download "all" of Wikipedia to the Touch for off-line use, but it doesn't bring pictures (which include equations, diagrams, formulas, etc.) over. Any alternatives?
YouTube / Vimeo videos: need to download them somehow and convert them to a non-Flash format, then upload them to the Touch in its preferred video format. Any way to automate this?
Magazine / Newspaper / Book content: free Stanza app is good for reading these off-line, but the formatting sometimes fails.
Can anyone suggest apps or work-arounds to fill in the gaps?
Thanks!