Latest news - one of the basic needs of the business, and not a business person. So, anyway, we believe, and journalists. Therefore, we write every day hundreds of news reports. What makes a person who wants to get news from a particular site, whom he trusts, or news on specific topics (this is only the latest in a network)? Go to the site and read the news that long, expensive and most importantly - think of how much Russia has a working internet! (Russia and Italy on this indicator the most expensive country in Europe). In such cases come to the aid program for automatic downloading and sorting of news with the most popular sites for later reading offline. The most famous and popular, no doubt, is AvantGo, a separate version that runs on PDAs. It turns out that similar programs are produced and Russian developers. The website of the Russian company SoftAura now available for free download demo version of this software called UNIC - Universal News Internet Collector ("Universal News Internet Collector). This program is interesting to us because of its description on the website states that the downloaded news can be transferred to your PDA and read it. Well, let's see how it works.
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Once attention is drawn to the fact that the install is not easy. She herself "weighs" just over 2 megabytes, but for the work you need MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components - Microsoft Data Access Components manufacturing Microsoft) version 2.6 +, which occupy 5 MB, and Microsoft. Net Framework weighing over 20 MB. The latter program is downloaded as a self-extracting archive, unpack that, you must run the file dotnetfx.exe. But that's not all. Directly during the installation the installer downloads the two files totaling approximately 1.5 MB:
But the sleepless hours (if you have a slow Internet connection) behind the program is established, begin to work. The program consists of two parts: one in the background downloads of news scheduled, the second - the client interface, which we are interested. By the way, the interface is loaded very slowly for such a simple-looking application. In UNIC'e two windows: one list of news in the other - the texts and photographs.
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Settings are not very many: you can change fonts, specify a proxy server, designate a folder to store files and news for PDA, read the "History", also known as the log of the program, set up a schedule to download news and a PDA files. The most interesting setting - the choice of news sites and news categories. In the demo version contains: cnn.com, compulenta.ru, gazeta.ru, lenta.ru, ntv.ru, top.rbc.ru. utro.ru; and of the categories: Business, Community, Recreation, Politics, Events, Sports. Separately configure filters to search for news on specific topics. And now the fun part. File for Pocket PC, "as he calls SoftAura - news, merged into a single file *. lit, which is read using Microsoft Reader. Attention! Something to read, Microsoft Reader, you must first Russify! To do this, download the file this one, razarhiviruem and rewrite the fonts in the directory \ Windows (not \ Windows \ Fonts!) On Pocket PC. The result here is a nice file with the news:
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Program until the really "demo."You can not keep a separate news as text or HTML, not for speed "download news without the pictures, and share the program log file generator for PDAs. However, because these issues are discussed on the website SoftAura, one can only hope that the final version of the problem will be solved. In addition, it is impossible (and probably this is not provided), add the site to the list of downloads. In AvantGo, incidentally, is also impossible. In general (judging from the demo version) software is quite comfortable and certainly useful, although, of course, that the number of sites and columns that are now clearly inadequate. It is a pity that the file to Microsoft Reader for Pocket PC to be rewritten by hand. And if the first flaw will probably be corrected in the release version, the second seems to remain unchanged. Nevertheless - UNIC indeed full domestic response AvantGo, though not very loud. The authors, translation:
