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| What is the BEST txt based news website that will work with IE on a 680e Jornada ? I can get some sites to work and others dont. Frogfind works but some of the links wont load that it loads up. Id love to find a way of being able to simply read txt based news stories on the go with my 680e and im just having issues finding a consistent one that always works. Some articles load and others i just get a blank screen.
Oh and 68k news i got to load, but some articles will load and others wont.
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^ Here A video i just did quickly to show you guys whats going on. Im lucky i guess to get ANY sites really, but im gonna keep searching and trying these different news sites. This one i just found (i mention it in the video ) seems to be the only one that will load every article. So just a heads up. Poandpo.com i think it is. |
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| Also has anyone had any luck setting up gmail thru outlook ? I tried but it wont receive messages, i can send them tho.
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| WallyB110 - 2024-02-21 3:00 PM
Also has anyone had any luck setting up gmail thru outlook ? I tried but it wont receive messages, i can send them tho.
Did you try it with https://npopuk.org.uk/3.05/ ?
and try this
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en
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| ^ I downloaded that program. Ill have to install it in a bit and try it. If that doesnt work, i doubt i can check my mail on the unit. Isnt a huge deal. I mean i have a cell phone, macbook etc. Im just trying to get this 680e to do as much as possible ;-) |
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| Its weird. I cant load the sites if i type the address in. But if i search thru frogfind and search for the address and then click it, it loads. Haha. Its funny how wacky this setup is on the net. But if i type Poandpo.com and press enter, it wont load. I search for it on FF and it works... But im just happy i have found the sites i have so far. I am bookmarking a lot of these on the unit so i can just click thru my favs and itll load.
Wish 68k news worked, i swear it use to work....
Im hoping that email program that was mentioned a few posts ago works with gmail. :-) Id be very content with getting txt based news and my email on this unit to work.
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| Once i get the XP laptop and can connect to Active Sync, ill be able to try more things with finding a txt news site. I think there might be an update that i have NOT installed yet for IE. Or a Windows update that would help with this matter. I mean i find it weird that it wont even load google.com. I thought for sure itd load the google.com, maybe when ya clicked search it wouldnt work. But getting to the basic google.com itself. Weird. Cant thank this FrogFinder enough. Id love to find something that works thats like 68k news. I thought for sure 68k news would work correctly on this 680e.
Hopefully ill discover something out there that is truly just basic txt news.
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| WallyB110 - 2024-02-21 3:52 PM
Its weird. I cant load the sites if i type the address in. But if i search thru frogfind and search for the address and then click it, it loads. Haha. Its funny how wacky this setup is on the net. But if i type Poandpo.com and press enter, it wont load. I search for it on FF and it works... But im just happy i have found the sites i have so far. I am bookmarking a lot of these on the unit so i can just click thru my favs and itll load.
Wish 68k news worked, i swear it use to work....
Im hoping that email program that was mentioned a few posts ago works with gmail. :-) Id be very content with getting txt based news and my email on this unit to work.
It sounds to me that the browser is picky about the link format. Try typing the full www. First and if that doesn’t work try the full http://www. then |
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| ^ I already tried stuff like that. I literally spent hours working on trying to get txt news sites, but will have issues and gmail setup is a no go. From what ive discovered (thus far ) is gmail wont work on a 600 series palmtop from HP. Not a huge deal, but it is nice when it DOES load the sites and you can use it to read the news. That poandpo.com (which wont load on its own ) is the best so far. I have to use Frog Finder to search for it and then i can click poandpo.com and it loads (no issues ) and all the links load with no issues. As i said above i tried www....., http://...., etc. Im just kinda blown away with how few browsers were ever made for these units.
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| Ah I see now. It looks like frog find is like an overlay over the website to format the content so it’ll load for your browser. So it makes sense why you can’t browse the particular website from IE proper. You have to run it through frog find
Like this article
http://frogfind.com/read.php?a=https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/windows-ce-microsofts-stunted-middle-child-reaches-end-of-support-at-26-years/
But i think if you attach this to the url you want to visit as a “prefix” I think frogfind will load it for you
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| Ill have to give that a try
http://frogfind.com/read.php?a=
So just type www.... or http://www.....
So like http://frogfind.com/read.php?a=www.google.com ?
It does seem that Frog Finder is one heck of a tool for us older CE 2.11 users.
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| Yeah so for example if you want to go to https://www.google.com/
You’d do http://frogfind.com/read.php?a=https://www.google.com/
So I think it’s like a proxy server style that
1-strips the https certificate so it’s just http
2-converts the content so it’s as close to plain text as possible |
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| ^ I gave this a try and for the sites i tried so far, none are working still. But im gonna keep trying with this idea of yours with all the sites ive tried so far. Like 68k news i have to try. Thanks very much for your help :- )
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Tried it but 68k news wont load. But as i said above it will load if i go thru frog finder and click the 4th link down the list. Its for their science news. I can replace science with sports and it loads their sports news. But when i click the news links on 68k news, the pages either dont load or error out. So i can only really read the headlines. Popandpop.com is different, those links all load and i can fully read the articles. If i click on the simple 1st link of 68k.news/ thru frog finder irs a no go. (Even with the http://frogfind.com/read.php?a=) it doesnt load it. Its just weird. I can get into 68k news but just not thru the front door haha. Edited by WallyB110 2024-02-22 4:04 AM
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| What were some sites you were trying to get working ? I can try and play with it to see if it’ll run in Frog Find
Edit oops I see you edited your post sorry let me read that
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| Thru FrogFinder i am able to load the forums for HPCfactor but i have to go thru Frog Finder. If i try to do just www.hpcfactor.com, it wont load it. Pretty cool that i can go on to the forums here. But i cant log in. So its read only, but theres so much cool info to read on here its like i found my tech news ;-) hehe
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