Surfing WWW With Your
Palm
Okay now that your Palm is able to connect to the Internet, you can tell your friends that you don't need no "WAP" on your phone. After all, why surf a cut-down version of the Internet (that's what basically WAP is about) when you can surf the full-blown one? :)
For surfing and e-mailing, the top 2 activities on the web, you may want to try the following software.
MsgAgent 0.37b |
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| Category | E-Mail / UseNet client |
Sorry no screenshot!
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| Price | Free | |
| Homepage | MsgAgent Homepage | |
| Remarks | I have only used this when it was version 0.2xx or something, a very long time ago. At the time this software was not very stable, and my Palm always crashed after every mail run, so I gave up. I haven't tried it again since then. Perhaps you might want to give this new version a try and see if it works right. | |
Eudora Internet Suite v2.1 |
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| Category | E-Mail / Web client |
Sorry no screenshot!
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| Price | Free? | |
| Homepage | Qualcomm Homepage | |
| Remarks |
I have always HATED Eudora on the PC. When I first started out on the Internet back in 1995, everybody used Eudora email client (except me. I used Pegasus, and I still use it even today). When I called PI or Singnet Helpdesk because their POP server went down, those "helpdesk" personnel insisted that I couldn't retrieve my emails because I wasn't using Eudora and not because their server had a problem! It's the same for browsers at the time - Netscape was king, and if you didn't use Netscape, and you had a problem browsing the web, they'd insist that you can't browse the web because you weren't using Netscape..Geeesh, what a load of *#^#^. Anyway since I haven't tried this yet, I can't give any comment on this. According to the homepage, it has an email client as well as a web browser in one, so I guess with this suite you can kill 2 birds with one stone. |
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Acemail v1.3c |
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| Category | Email client |
 Acemail screenshot |
| Price | US$14.95 (60 days trial) | |
| Homepage | AceUnion Homepage | |
| Remarks | Here's another email client. Since this product is produced in China, it also has support for Chinese and other Asian languages too. Check it out if you want. | |
Multimail Pro v3.1 |
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| Category | Email client |
 Multimail screenshot |
| Price | US$39.95 | |
| Homepage | Actual Software | |
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According to their website, this can even allow you to send and receive ATTACHMENTS. Personally I'm rather skeptical, like how am I going to view ZIP files on my Palm? Well since I don't use it, I should not say too much about it. Try this one for yourselves. |
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So which of these do I use personally? *NONE* Yeah, you heard right, NONE of these. I use something called "ProxiMail" from the new-defunct ProxiWeb service. ProxiMail is just a "sender" and "receiver". The mail is actually stored in the built-in Mail app that comes with the Palm, so I thought this was pretty efficient, not re-inventing the wheel.
Anyway, ProxiWeb has been taken over by Pumatech, and PumaTech has pulled ProxiMail off the web pages, so you can't download it anymore. However, for those of us who were already signed up with ProxiWeb, we could still retrieve our email from the ProxiMail software, so that's why I'm still keeping it.
Check out the new PumaTech service here.
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