Malaysian news/politics in your Palm

[palmdoc]

These days, keeping a close eye on political developments is important. Things are just so volatile!
Our PDAs and smartphones are so useful that even when we are away from the PC/notebook (and hence cannot reload Malaysia Today or Malaysiakni!) we might be starved of news.
We did mention the mobile news portal http://wapnews.mobi/ sometime back. But I want to share with you how I have been getting fresh news on my Palm Treo 680 without having to pay a sen (other than data charges - which is OK for me since I am on Digi's flat rate RM 66/month and I want to maximise the use):

The best political news portal is Berita Malaysia
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beritamalaysia/

I subscribe to it and set the notification to individual email delivery to my Yahoo account.
I have enabled POP access on my Yahoo account (this is free)
I have set my email client on my Treo to fetch my Yahoo email every 15 minutes.

No need to pay your blood sucking Telco for 50 sen per SMS news

[ebernie]

Ah, useful tips as usual. Thanks doc.

[pdadr]

Will try it out later. Thanks for the tip.

[chyeoh]

...(and hence cannot reload Malaysia Today or Malaysiakni!)...

Agree on that it is very "difficult" in loading those sites in PDA but why dont they make it PDA friendly i wonder?

[Bigfoot]

[quote="palmdoc"]
I subscribe to it and set the notification to individual email delivery to my Yahoo account.
I have enabled POP access on my Yahoo account (this is free)
I have set my email client on my Treo to fetch my Yahoo email every 15 minutes.

Just wondering how you got to use Yahoo Mail POP for free. Can you pls show me some pointers. Thanks, much appreciated.

[ebernie]

palmdoc, any updates on how to enable POP access in Yahoo?

[palmdoc]

I just logged into Yahoo , clicked on Options/Mail Options (this works only with teh Classic interface so if you are on the new one, you'll have to temporarily switch back)

The click on Pop access & Fowarding

QED

[ebernie]

I just logged into Yahoo , clicked on Options/Mail Options (this works only with teh Classic interface so if you are on the new one, you'll have to temporarily switch back)

The click on Pop access & Fowarding

QED

So simple? So does this mean POP is no longer a paid service for Yahoo? That used to be the case.

[palmdoc]

Yeah it's now free. I guess they have to since Gmail's POP is also free. Don't you love competition?

[tehjiao]

yup competition is good stuff!