So long and thanks for all the bug reports

I was thinking about this decision for more than a month and after that I finally decided to end the work on all my projects for PocketPC. So this is an official announcement that pRSSreader, Batti, tMan, mCountdown, RichesseGPS are no longer developed by myself. As far as I know there is no one who would continue to work on these projects, so they will probably fall into cracks of the history.

Most of the time, I enjoyed the work on these projects, but I do not feel, I want to continue and invest so much of my free time into it. Simply said, the original magic is gone and everything become a routine.

All the projects are open sourced, so they can be studied to see how some things are done on PPC platform. I do not think that the code is of very high quality, but should be readable... If someone wants to become a maintainer of any of them, let me know.

It was nice 4 years, thank to everybody who helped in any way.

See you around PPCs,
--
David

pRSSreader 1.4.4

pRSSreader 1.4.4 has been released.

What's New:

• Today plugin: user can specify cycling time
• Added sort menu to the menu in the feed list view
• Site manager renamed to 'Manage subscriptions'
• UA-String is more sane (R.I.P. Bitevni kocka pitypacka)
• AppToDate support
• Email account for sending email can be selected in GUI (Menu | Options)
• Improved message boxes of the YesNo type
• Can move back to the read items when in sequentional reading and hiding read items
• Context menus can be opened by HW key

Fixes:

• No context menu for URL-entry box in feed properties dialog
• Fixed regression with non-working enter key on article view
• Sort button was not display unless user changed sorting
• Larger item height in feed view when long item titles are on
• When hiding read items and the user exits the prssr in article view and there were no unread items, prssr showed an empty item on the next start.
• Spinner shown on the last item and did not go away
• No notify sound when update finishes and user set it in Notifications
• and more...

Mobile download: pRSSreader 1.4.4 (1.1 MB)
Zipped CAB: pRSSreader 1.4.4 (499 KB)

Enjoy!

tMan 0.9.11

tMan 0.9.11 has been released.

What's New

• FIX: One icon offset issue on WM6 devices in compact mode (thanks to mem and Z. Malinsky for testing)
  
• ADD: Alt+Tab behavior (short press to switch application, long press to show task menu).

Enjoy!

pRSSreader 1.4.3

pRSSreader 1.4.3 has been released. The biggest news is it brings the support for google reader. See below for further details.

What's New

• Greader support
• Improved one hand use
• Touch friendly scrolling
• Long article title can be wrapped (multiline article titles)
• Show a little icon if an article or enclosure is cached or not
• Can use proxy settings from the built-in connection manager
• True full screen
• Larger items in summary view
• Used saved authentication on update
• 'No space left on the device' reported to the user instead of false invalid feed errors
• added GBK encoding
• HTML optimozation related fixes
• prssrnot.exe goes to the \windows directory (fixed auto-update related issues)
• and more fixes

Enjoy!

Batti breaks a record

Today, when I was updating localizations for Batti, I noticed that Batti 2.4 (released on September 1, 2008) has been downloaded 37,804 times. It gives approximately 18,5 thousands per month. Wow!

Since I do not have a detailed info on days/months/etc., I can not say more. But I guess that next months won't be such active.

Anyway, I'm very pleased and still wondering why Batti was not nominated for some award - in my humble opinion, it is pretty good and nice piece of software. These numbers prove it.