+georgeandmary Posted May 10, 2002 Share Posted May 10, 2002 I just went to Avanto.com to try and set up a new custom channel for an area of caches and I cannot find the custom channel setup area. There are some obvious changes to the site but did they finally do away with all the custom channels? george Quote Link to comment
+Hawk-eye Posted May 10, 2002 Share Posted May 10, 2002 Good question ... I hadn't notice that before. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Co-founder of the "NC/VA GEO-HOG ASSOCIATION" ... when you absolutely have to find it first! Quote Link to comment
wahroongaa Posted May 10, 2002 Share Posted May 10, 2002 I'm logged into Avantgo.com at the moment and at the bottom of my list of subscribed channels (top right hand corner of the page under "My Account")is a "Create Channel" button. It works fine - give it a shot. Wahroongaa Quote Link to comment
+Hawk-eye Posted May 10, 2002 Share Posted May 10, 2002 That's what I get for trying to think at midnight Thanks ... ---------------------------------------------------------------- Co-founder of the "NC/VA GEO-HOG ASSOCIATION" ... when you absolutely have to find it first! Quote Link to comment
+Hawk-eye Posted May 10, 2002 Share Posted May 10, 2002 That's what I get for trying to think at midnight Thanks ... ---------------------------------------------------------------- Co-founder of the "NC/VA GEO-HOG ASSOCIATION" ... when you absolutely have to find it first! Quote Link to comment
+georgeandmary Posted May 10, 2002 Author Share Posted May 10, 2002 I need to investigate a little further.. it's never done this before. george Quote Link to comment
+georgeandmary Posted May 10, 2002 Author Share Posted May 10, 2002 I've had the same password for months and now it won't take it. I reset it, to the same password and now it's working.... I had to panic for a second there. george Quote Link to comment
Eric O'Connor Posted May 10, 2002 Share Posted May 10, 2002 quote:Originally posted by wahroongaa:It works fine - give it a shot. I added this to my Avantgo list just the other day. http://www.knology.net/~carlos/redneck.htm A classic tale of Rednecks in suburbia. You only need to sync this story once, and the photo's aren't available on the device, but the read is hilarious. Quote Link to comment
k2dave Posted May 11, 2002 Share Posted May 11, 2002 Yes and no They changed their poliocy on CC's. It was a little vague but it seems you can only have a custom channel that no more then 5 avantgo users have. So if you are the only one to have www.akuheghlsheg.com then your ok but if 5 people have it and you try to add it, it ain't going to work. Possible work arounds I thought of (but havn't tried): 1 - try editing an old CC to the one you want - It seems like it will let you keep your old CC's. 2 - I think ou can use endora web (free app) for the palm to sync web pages The reason for this is: 1 they want to put pressure on web sites to become a 'standard' channel (and pay Avantgo) 2 they want you to become a paying user of Avantgo -------> Did you ever do any trail maintainence? - if so you will know that all but the most worn trails need continuous maintenance to prevent mother nature from reclaiming it. herd paths are quickly reclaimed - k2dave to a troll Quote Link to comment
+parkrrrr Posted May 13, 2002 Share Posted May 13, 2002 quote:Originally posted by k2dave:Possible work arounds I thought of (but havn't tried): 1 - try editing an old CC to the one you want - It seems like it will let you keep your old CC's. 2 - I think ou can use endora web (free app) for the palm to sync web pages Another possible (untried) workaround: 3 - If you have access to a webserver of some kind, even if it's on your own machine, create a script that redirects to the first page of the site AvantGo won't let you use. Quote Link to comment
+blscearce Posted May 14, 2002 Share Posted May 14, 2002 quote:Originally posted by k2dave: Yes and no They changed their poliocy on CC's. It was a little vague but it seems you can only have a custom channel that no more then 5 avantgo users have. AvantGo current policy on custom channels. If you have more than 1000 users, you have to pay. If you have more than eight (not five) users and you're doing commercial work, you have to pay. If you have eight or fewer, you don't have to pay. If you have between nine and a thousand, whether or not you pay depends on AvantGo's judgement of whether you're running a commercial venture or not. Quote Link to comment
k2dave Posted May 14, 2002 Share Posted May 14, 2002 Another workaround - very close to what was suggested and not tested. use a free web service like geocities or your isp's free web space to post the links of the pages you want on avantgo. Set the custom channel to go to off site links and look one extra level down. -------> Did you ever do any trail maintainence? - if so you will know that all but the most worn trails need continuous maintenance to prevent mother nature from reclaiming it. herd paths are quickly reclaimed - k2dave to a troll Quote Link to comment
k2dave Posted May 14, 2002 Share Posted May 14, 2002 Originally posted by k2dave: Another workaround - very close to what was suggested and not tested. use a free web service like geocities or your isp's free web space to post the links of the pages you want on avantgo. Set the custom channel to go to off site links and look one extra level down. Actually looking at Warm Fuzzies - Fuzzy work around it is basically the same but this might be a little easier to understand to the web newbe. -------> Did you ever do any trail maintainence? - if so you will know that all but the most worn trails need continuous maintenance to prevent mother nature from reclaiming it. herd paths are quickly reclaimed - k2dave to a troll Quote Link to comment
mortonfox Posted May 14, 2002 Share Posted May 14, 2002 quote:Originally posted by k2dave: Another workaround - very close to what was suggested and not tested. use a free web service like geocities or your isp's free web space to post the links of the pages you want on avantgo. Set the custom channel to go to off site links and look one extra level down. That's what I have been using and it works. The custom channel is just a hidden page on my website. Quote Link to comment
teamwsmf Posted May 16, 2002 Share Posted May 16, 2002 The new channel restrictions (upped to 1000 from 8) make avantgo a nice tool for places like wired and cnn but pretty much usless for hot sites (more than 1000 users) that are not in the biz of paying Avantgo. I use Plucker to grab the great stuff over on http://www.pathetique.com/geocaching/ Its never failed me yet. -tom ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org Quote Link to comment
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