Namo Interactive subsidiary HandStory has released HandStory Suite 2.3 for the Palm OS and Pocket PC. The HandStory Suite 2.3 for Palm OS is the first official release of HandStory to support support Palm OS 5.

HandStory lets users browse Web Clips, view images, read Docs and eBooks, as well as to read and edit Memos. The company said HandStory also has a wireless feature that allows users to update Web content (Web Clips) on their PDAs from HandStory's central clip server through a wireless Internet connection, bypassing the need to synchronize with a desktop or laptop computer.

According to HandStory, HandStory Suite 2.3 has

-- Support for Palm OS 5 devices (Palm Tungsten T, Sony Clie NX series)
-- Support for Tungsten T's 5-Way Navigator.
-- Support for Hi-Res+ screen display in Clie NX series (320x320, 320x480)
-- Support for small and tiny fonts display in Doc and Book views.
-- Faster document loading in Doc and Book views: background page loading information is saved when exiting a document, and loading continues from where it was stopped when the file is next opened.
-- Faster page loading in Clip view: if a Clip page is long or contains many image files, it opens faster because of the background loading support.
-- Support for displaying the list of contents in HandStory eBooks
-- Support for making Custom Direct Clips from HTML files in the local hard drive. Now you can update HTML files in your computer periodically.
-- Support for 256 colors image conversion in Clips, for smaller file size
-- Support for Unicode text file conversion in HandStory Converter
-- Support for more file extensions in Direct Clipping (e.g., --.story, --.png, --.tiff, --nsf).
-- New Clip Script commands for HandStory Script Clips (e.g., commands for clipping Web pages where an article is divided into more than two pages)
-- Faster clipping speed when updating Script Clips with many images
-- Support for PNG and TIFF image conversion
-- Support for adding a note when converting an image
-- Support for installing and viewing commercial HandStory Clips and eBooks

The company said HandStory Suite 2.3 for Pocket PC has:

-- Support for multiple extended memory cards
-- Support for 256 color image conversion in Clips, for smaller file size
-- Support for making Custom Direct Clips from HTML files in the local hard drive. Now you can update HTML files in your computer periodically.
-- Support for Unicode text file conversion in HandStory Converter
-- Support for more file extensions in Direct Clipping (e.g., --.story, --.png, --.tiff, --nsf).
-- New Clip Script commands for HandStory Script Clips (e.g., commands for clipping Web pages where an article is divided into more than two pages)
-- Faster clipping speed when updating Script Clips with a large number of images
-- Support for adding a note when converting an image
-- Support for installing and viewing commercial HandStory Clips and eBooks
-- Support for displaying the list of contents in HandStory eBooks

HandStory Suite 2.3 is available for $19.95 for a single-user license. Users of the 2.x versions of HandStory Suite are entitled to a free upgrade; users of older versions can upgrade to HandStory Suite 2.3 for $5.