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Handheld Devices
Channel Location: http://corn.osu.edu/pda
For those of you who demand the most up to date
information where ever you go, we now provide
the CORN newsletter in an easily downloadable
format for your handheld device!
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There are Two Ways to Download!
AvantGo
Manually
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you can bring the priceless information the
CORN newsletter provides you each week to
the field with you, to meetings, or where
ever you go! View pictures of pests or weeds,
read up on diagnostic measures, get the latest
in diseases, abstracts on fertilizer tests,
advice on flooding and drainage issues all
in the palm of your hand.
This is available for free if you own a
handheld device that runs on Palm OS, Pocket
PC, Pocket PC 2002/2003, or Windows CE,
(Linux OS versions with a web browser may
work too)! Please carefully read and follow
the directions below to set your handheld
device up for our CORN newsletter. If you
have a Mobile phone, or pager, we regret
to inform you that we do not provide content
for these devices just yet.
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Using Avant Go on Your Handheld
AvantGo is a popular free service on the web for
providing web content on handheld devices. Through
AvantGo, users can select from a large number of
existing content channels along with the option
of setting up their own channels. A channel through
AvantGo is nothing more than a specialized web site
that is set up to download to your handheld device
each time you Sync it to your PC. In order to use
AvantGo, you must have an account set up through
Avant Go. Click
here to set up an account. When finished, refer
to the next paragraph. |
CORN Newsletter on PDA |
If you have set up an AvantGo account, or have a preexisting
account, now is the time to set up a custom channel
for the CORN Newsletter. You must maually set up a channel
through your AvantGo account for our CORN Newsletter.
In doing so, we have set up a special section on this
web site that provides content specifically designed
for handheld devices. Follow the directions in AvantGo
to link to our site. When asked to set up a channel
for CORN, use the following location:
Channel Location: http://corn.osu.edu/pda
Note: This is a simplified version of this weeks CORN
Newsletter and related content pages. The title should
be 'CORN Newsletter'. It should take no more than 100k
of space (usually around 50k). We strongly do not recommend
'following links'; most pages linked to the newsletter
are not PDA friendly. On occasion, we will however provided
other pages within our special channel site related
to the Newsletter that are PDA friendly; thus, set the
'Channel Link Depth' to 1. As for images, we have taken
time to make sure they are PDA friendly; thus we recommend
selecting 'yes' when asked to include images. There
are other services comparable to Advant Go that may
work just as well.
Manual Downloads
CORN Newsletter in Explorer |
The CORN Newsletter can also be downloaded and
be viewed as a web page to your handheld. There
are two ways to do this: 1) go to http://corn.osu.edu/pda
and then save the web page to a data card or directly
to your PDA that is synced to your computer (any
web browser will work), or 2) use Microsoft Internet
Explorer 5.0 or greater by creating a mobile favorite
in the tools menu list located at the top of the
browser.
Instructions using Internet Explorer 5.0 or
greater.
1) Go to http://corn.osu.edu/pda
2) Go to tools and select "Create Mobile
Favorite"
3) It will queue you to save to your mobile favorites
folder. You can change the name and have it automatically
update the file from the web to your mobile favorites
folder for future use so you don't have to download
manually each time.
4) Sync handheld computer to computer and sync
file.
5) Locate the file on the handheld and execute
the file. It should automatically bring the browser
up to read the web page. If this does not work,
bring up the browser first and then locate the
file within the browser.
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