Smartsync beta 2 by Xetra (Offline Browsing for Free!)

[Guest spv_dman]

With due respect to Xetra, the French developer, I'm posting a review for this beta application.

The freeware Smartsync beta 2 works like Avantgo as the author claims. Unlike other smartphone applications in the market similar to this specifically Sunnysoft World Offline, downloading of websites takes place in a temporary desktop PC directory which later on is synced with the specified smartphone directory. A file, index.htm, is created in the smartphone which contains all the syched websites. This can be added to "Favorites" of Pocket Explorer for offline viewing. It uses HTTrack application for downloading the websites and its links. And uses a so called "rapi" for file transfer between PC and smartphone.

A plugin, notes.exe, is also included for synchronization with MS Outlook.

The design is a bit crude at the moment but the author is kind enough to include the source code in a zipped package which can be obtained from the link below:

http://www.xetranet.com/spv/smartsync.zip

The GUI is in french. I've made some modification with the field names for my own personal use as shown in the screenshots below. The author will later on post the English version in his website.

Some things that I've noticed that can be further improved:

1. There's an indicator for Battery, IPSM and Memory, it would be nice to include a Storage Card space meter as well.

2. No option to "Sync Now". As a workaround, you have to toggle between "Sync On" and "Off" which is primarily used for scheduled synching.

3. An error message appears when "Erase All" is clicked, it executes the command but terminates the application, so you have to restart it everytime.

I haven't got the webpage links to work. It connects to GPRS when I click a link within the main page though the links were downloaded successfully to smartphone. I think this has to do with HTTrack parameters.

Since the source code is provided, VB developers out there are encouraged to further improve the implementation (hope you won't charge anything for it, coz the code is free anyway from the author) :)

Also, I was thinking of implementing this as another application sort of a "Folder Synchronization" thingy, wherein you can schedule a sync between a pc folder and smartphone folder. This will be useful for programs such as Repligo and MobiPocket which doesn't have a working Auto-Synchro option. 8)

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[Guest gregbarton]

does this kinda replace microsoft activesync ??

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Nope, just lets you download webpages on your PC and view them offline (free) on your phone at a later date.

[Guest mhonard]

Need some help geeting this app installed. I get an run time error 75 Path/File access error and don't know what to do

[Guest karl184]

I tried to mirror USA Todays page: wap.usatoday.com but it wont work although USA Todays says that its the address of their wap site.

[Guest PritenC]

My french is non-existent, can someone please tell me how to get this to work

[Guest ziggystardust888]

Has anyone got this to work?

It is in Beta 3 now so i imagine that it must work for some one.

i downloaded the Beta 3, unzipped the archive and tried to run the smartsync.exe file and got a "runtime error 75" Path/file access error"

Does this app need to be unzipped to a particular directory in order to get it to run/setup?

I use HTTrack to download sites manually (palm version of the BBC etc) but its a pain to have to manually copy the folders over to my phone after HTTrack has done its thing.

If anyone has the authors/xetra email address that may also help.

Cheers.

PS when is advantgo going to get their act together and make a compatable MS Smartphone version????

[Guest thorp]

I'm going to take a look at this as my first ever smartphone project - i'll keep you informed of progress....!

[Guest ppmnt]

i downloaded the Beta 3, unzipped the archive and tried to run the smartsync.exe file and got a "runtime error 75" Path/file access error"

Has anybody figured this error out yet? I'd love to try out this tool.

[Guest Mehka]

;) any progress yet?