NewsZocalo 1.8 Released01 September 2010 Zocalo 1.8 is now available. This release resolves issues with running in portrait and landscape modes as well as memory leaks and other bugs. Everyone is recommended to install this new version. libncurses 5.7 is also newly available to download from my Zaurus libraries page. Historic Harbour of Bristol 08 August 2010 I went to see the SS Great Britain, a 150 year old ship built here in Bristol by the famous engineer Brunel. Zocalo 1.7 Released 12 July 2010 Zocalo 1.7 is now available. This is a maintenance release fixing some annoying bugs and modifying some behaviour for usability reasons. cURL 7.21.0 for Zaurus 02 July 2010 I compiled the latest curl 7.21.0 for the Zaurus and linked it to libidn. ipks are ready to download, as usual. Zocalo 1.6 Released 02 July 2010 Zocalo 1.6 is now available. This release is a result of user feedback, bug hunting and ongoing maintenance coding. A few new features have been added but most of the work has been on fixing bugs. Recently, most of my testing has been on a development computer and not the target platform (Zaurus). I have now paid the price: several bugs had crept in. One issue was to do with browsing through articles during an update of all feeds. I found that my recent dev philosophy had inadvertently become "You're not supposed to be adding feeds offline and you're not supposed to browse through articles during an update". This is not what I had in mind when I started work on Zocalo, it was meant to be an easy to use application. Fortunately, I was already working through the code for maintenance reasons and was refactoring most of the affected code. Hopefully these problems have now been rectified. Japanese-English Dictionaries Updated 19 June 2010 I downloaded the latest version of EDICT and converted it to bedic format for use with ZBedic on the Zaurus. Thousands of new words have been added since I last made a conversion of EDICT in August 2009. The new version is marked 1.4. Barry and Richard are 40 27 May 2010 Almost a year ago I recorded some footage at Barry and Richard's birthday party. Here is a quick video of what happened. Zocalo 1.5 Released 24 May 2010 Zocalo 1.5 is now available. Zocalo is my lightweight RSS and Atom reader specifically designed for the Zaurus PDA. In this release many new features have been added as well as improvements for usability and bug fixes. On the surface the main changes are a new set of images for the GUI and modified toolbar. Underneath, there are several changes and new features. Zocalo now supports HTTP authentication allowing it to access feeds from websites that require a login. The Article Store received some much needed attention and now saves feeds on an individual basis and stores links to multiple enclosures available in Atom feeds. Feeds can also be reorganised in the list. For a full list of new features and new screenshots please see the Zocalo page. libidn and libexif for Zaurus 09 May 2010 I compiled the latest versions of libidn and libexif for the Zaurus. libidn is the GNU library for internationalised domain names; now that the first non ASCII ccTLDs have been registered this will be more important for internet communications. libexif is a library for handling image metadata. libz 1.2.5 for Zaurus 27 Apr 2010 I compiled the latest version of the compression library, zlib, and packaged it for the Zaurus. cURL 7.20.1 for Zaurus 18 Apr 2010 I compiled the latest curl 7.20.1 with OpenSSL 1.0.0 and libssh2 1.2.5 and packaged them for the Zaurus. curl is a very lively project and this version represents a number of improvements and bug fixes plus introduces support for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP protocols that were not available in the last package I made. Thai Keymaps for MorphOS 2.X 18 Apr 2010 I made some keymaps for MorphOS 2.X. There are some special features for Thai, non spacing markers such as above and below tone marks, vowels and diacritical marks do not repeat. The first keymap is for Thai characters and using Alt allows you to type Roman letters. The other keymap is a reversed version. Hanami in the UK 04 Apr 2010 Spring is here, bringing cherry blossom to Bristol. Zocalo 1.4 Released 04 Apr 2010 More improvements to my Zaurus RSS/Atom feed reader. All feeds can now be reliably found automatically from the homepage URL of a website and an appropriate icon will be found from the website if one is available. Zocalo 1.3 Released 23 Mar 2010 New features include support for enclosures (podcasts) and website icons. Several aspects of the GUI were improved for usability. New Article on Taiyaki 27 Jan 2010 Have you tried this fish shaped cake ? Zocalo 1.2 Released 21 Jan 2010 New features include support for reading in portrait mode and automatic feed discovery. There were several internal changes including numerous bug fixes. ZBedic Patched for Thai 12 January 2010 ZBedic is a great dictionary program for the Zaurus. I have modified it to show Thai dictionaries in proper sort order. I have also resorted my Thai dictionaries. Similar words are now shown next to each other in the word list; as you can imagine, this is quite useful. cURL 7.19.7 for Zaurus 04 January 2010 libcurl updated to latest 7.19.7 linked to latest OpenSSL 0.9.8l compiled for ARM and packaged for Zaurus, is now available to download. Edit: An even newer package now includes support for scp and sftp via libssh2 1.2.2. Older news has been removed. |
