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iSilo is a document reader available for
Palm OS,
Pocket PC
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,
Windows Mobile Smartphone,
Symbian
Symbian is a discontinued mobile operating system
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UIQ
UIQ (formerly known as User Interface Quartz) was a software platform based upon Symbian OS, created by UIQ Technology AB. It is a graphical user interface layer that provides additional components to the core operating system, to enable the deve ...
,
Symbian S60, and
Windows CE Handheld PC
A handheld personal computer (PC) is a miniature computer typically built around a clamshell form factor and is significantly smaller than any standard laptop computer, but based on the same principles. It is sometimes referred to as a ''palmto ...
handhelds,
Windows
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computers as well as
Apple iPhone,
Android
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Science and technology
* Android (robot), a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to imitate a human
* Android (operating system), Google's mobile operating system
** Bugdroid, a Google mascot sometimes referred to ...
,
Windows Phone 7 and
HP webOS
webOS, also known as LG webOS and previously known as Open webOS, HP webOS and Palm webOS, is a Linux kernel-based multitasking operating system for smart devices such as smart TVs that has also been used as a mobile operating system. Initially ...
smartphones.
iSilo website
/ref> iSilo has direct support for reading these document types: iSilo 4.x, iSilo 3.x, iSilo 2.x, Palm Doc, and plain text files (.txt).[''iSilo''. Retrieved November 16, 2007, from iSilo web site: http://www.isilo.com/] However it has largely fallen out of use due to its one-way nature — documents can be converted ''to'' iSilo format, but not back out for editing. Other formats, such as EPUB
EPUB is an e-book file format that uses the ".epub" file extension. The term is short for ''electronic publication'' and is sometimes styled ''ePub''. EPUB is supported by many e-readers, and compatible software is available for most smartphones ...
, use open standards, are easily edited or converted, and achieve similar compression rates.
iSiloX
iSiloX is a desktop application
Application may refer to:
Mathematics and computing
* Application software, computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks
** Application layer, an abstraction layer that specifies protocols and interface methods used in a c ...
that converts web and file content to the iSilo document format. It is made by ''DC & Co'' company. Supported file formats include HTML
The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScri ...
, CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language such as HTML or XML (including XML dialects such as SVG, MathML or XHTML). CSS is a cornerstone techno ...
, text, Palm Doc, JPEG
JPEG ( ) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and imag ...
, GIF
The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; or , see pronunciation) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on 15 June 1987. ...
, BMP, and PNG.[''iSiloX''. Retrieved November 16, 2007, from iSiloX web site: http://www.isilox.com/] The X in the name iSiloX represents the "transformation" of content functionality provided by iSiloX. iSiloXC, on the other hand, stands for the command-line version of iSiloX, with the C denoting the command-line capability.
See also
* Palm OS
References
External links
iSilo
- iSilo official website.
iSiloX
- iSiloX official website.
Cross-platform mobile software
Pocket PC software
Windows Mobile Standard software
Ebooks
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