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If you are often on the move, keeping your PDA close at hand, then Spb Insight from Spb Software House is a good pick for your "road warrior" arsenal.

If you are often on the move, keeping your PDA close at hand, then from Spb Software House is a good pick for your "road warrior" arsenal. Spb Insight is a RSS/Atom newsreader for that will let you keep up with all of your favorite news or blog sites, letting you download all your feeds to PDA and then read them offline when you're waiting for a plane in the airport, taking a bus trip to another city, standing in line at the store, or waiting for a meeting to start. will turn your downtime into uptime!

As it's with anything associated with PDA, stands out for the wireless convenience it offers to users. Instead of being constantly wired to your desktop computer in order to read your news feeds, you can install Spb Insight onto your Windows Mobile PDA, and it will wirelessly deliver the latest news of your choice, or let you read the news stories you have downloaded from the desktop computer before going out. Spb Insight will provide full offline reading optimized for a small screen including images. Fine, isn't it?

is easy to get started with. You only need to subscribe to the so-called "channels" (news feeds) and then download the news stories to . There are several options to get subscribed to the feeds. One of the quickest and most convenient is via Spb's Online Catalog. It offers over a thousand of selected channels on a great variety of subjects from all over the internet ? the latest news, sports, finances, you name it! The channels are grouped into categories, making a selection a cinch. As Online Catalog is driven by the suggestions from real users, it's constantly being added new feeds. You can add your own feed too!

Another way to subscribe to a feed is familiar to all RSS/Atom savvy users - you need to input the URL of a RSS/Atom feed you are interested in. However if you don't know the exact address of the feed, you can take advantage of the built-in search option, which lets you specify the keyword, for example, "laptop" into the search form and within seconds get the listing of the news feeds related to the keyword from the server at Spb. Then, you can subscribe to the feed with much the same simplicity as you would with the feeds from Online Catalog. Other ways of getting subscribed include local template and OPML, which lets you import the feed setup in the XML format from another RSS/Atom program. Regardless of the way the subscription is done, all you efforts are restricted to just to a couple of clicks.

Once the channels have been added, you can update the feeds and download the news stories. gives you the choice of either manual or automatic updating. In the first case, it is left to you to choose the time when the update should be executed. To update the feeds, you can use ActiveSync, HotSpot WiFi connection, GPRS or EDGE connection if your device has it.

In terms of networking, offers you some interesting options. You can configure the program to use only free of charge internet connections. This gives you total control over the data charges, restricting your channel updates to only those connectivity options that are provided at no cost. This can also be set up to update all channels automatically when cradled. You can get your channels updated when you connect your PDA to your desktop over ActiveSync, which eliminates the need to remember to set the channel updates on your own.

will help you get the most up-to-the-moment news via the PDAs wireless interface connection or ActiveSync and read the stories when you have some time to spare. At just $19.95, Spb Insight will be an excellent companion for any "road warrior", traveling with PDA at hand. You can see the program in action right now if you download its free evaluation copy from . Enjoy wireless news on the go!

Spb Weather Features:

? Full website news;

? Full RSS/Atom support (0.9x, 1.0, 2.0);

? Offline reading with pictures;

? Easy to use interface;

? One-hand operation;

? Article thumbnails;

? No desktop component needed.

Compatible devices list

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ACER: n300 Series, n30, n50, n20 and others

ASUS: A626, A636, A639, P505, P525, P535 and others

Cingular: 8125, 8525

Dell: Axim X3, X5, X50, X50v, X51v and others

Dopod: Dopod 838 Pro, Dopod 686, Dopod 699, Dopod 828, Dopod 900, Dopod P100, Dopod N800, etc.

Eten: E-Ten G500+, E-Ten M600+, E-TEN Glofiish, Eten M700, etc.

HP: hw68xx series, hw69xx series, hx21xx series, hx24xx series, hx29xx series and others

HTC: TyTN, Wizard, Prophet, Hermes, Artemis, Universal, Herald, P3300, P3600, P4350, P3350, X7500, Athena

IMATE: i-mate JASJAM, i-mate JAMin, i-mate PDA-N, i-mate K-JAM, i-mate JASJAR and others

O2: XDA series

T-Mobile: MDA series

QTek: 9000, 9100, 9600, S100, S110, S200, G100, 2020, 9090

Other Windows Mobile Powered Devices.