FreeLists / icon-discuss / [icon-discuss] Icon and Braille+ Sotware Release 1.11.16

["Marc Mulcahy" <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All:

Software version 1.11 build 16 is released.  This one contains support for
content from Audible.com.  The complete what's new is below.

Marc

What's new in 1.11

Bug fixes:
* fixed navigation in continuous read--reading no longer gets stalled when
arrowing through a document while in continuous read.
* Fixed continuous read in the docking station--Alt + Space should now read
beyond the current paragraph.
*Fixed problems disconnecting from Ethernet in the dock.
*Keylearn Mode now works correctly when docked.
*Braille Translator is much faster.
* NLS books beginning with short clips of silence, such as the May issue of
Smart Computing, no longer hang up the bookshelf.

New features and changes:
*Audible content is now supported!
* Software packages installed through File Explorer such as games are now
automatically re-installed after an update.
* New Manage Software Utility lists all installed software packages,
including system software.  This utility only allows for the removal of
software packages--packages must be installed by selecting them in File
Explorer or downloading them through the Check for Software Updates utility.

*There is a new item in the Applications Menu called Work Space which
contains 4 views: Welcome, RSS, Recent Books, and Recent Files.  Through
these various views, the Work Space application gives you quick and easy
access to your most recently downloaded RSS podcasts and articles, your
recent books, and your most recently accessed files, as well as providing a
quick link to the APH or LevelStar website (depends on your unit).  

To navigate among the views, press Pound + the Left and Right Arrows (Alt +
Left and Right when docked). To navigate among the items in a given view,
use the Up and down Arrows.  If the view contains a folder structure, use
the Right arrow to enter a folder, and the left Arrow to exit back out of
the folder to the previous structural level.

In addition, you'll find when you check for software updates this go-round
that there are two additional packages available for download: an audio
tutorial package, and an audible content package.  If you choose to download
and install these packages, they will also appear in the Welcome View of the
Work Space below the manufacturer's website.  

The Audible content package contains several samples of various types of
content from Audible.com as well as a link for a free trial.  The Audio
Tutorial package is an audio daisy book containing updated versions of all
of the tutorials produced by LevelStar, including the introduction to the
docking station and a tutorial on the new Work Space application. 

* Due to the addition and placement of the Work Space application under
number 1 in the Applications Menu, the Address Book is now number 7 in the
Tools Menu, and so can be accessed by typing 57 from the Applications Menu.

* Due to the fact that f10 will be one of the programmable hotkeys for
opening programs using the docking station, the Qwerty command for accessing
the Options Menu within a program is now Alt + O.

And finally,
* The Check for Software Updates utility now supports the installation of
multiple packages.  Press Select to mark each package you wish to download,
then press OK to begin download and installation.  All the packages will
download, next all the packages will install, if a package requires a reboot
as do the system software packages, this will happen next, and finally after
the restart and restoration of data, games and other software packages
installed from File Explorer will be re-installed.

Known issues.
1. The NLS books that give "error 22" when unpacking: we're stillworking on
it.
2. Can't currently select links from email or RSS articles when docked.
3. The unit ocasionally resumes with no system sounds or media player or
bookshelf audio.  Closing all applications, powering off, and turning the
unit back on again usually fixes this.  We're still working on fixing the
underlying issue.
4. The function key on the dock says nothing in key learn mode.
5. Occasionally, when docked, no audio can be heard through the dock's
speakers.  Pressing caps lock seems to resolve this.  We're investigating
the underlying issue.
6. Re-installation of packages with interdependencies silently fail.  This
only affects anyone who has a bunch of interdependent .ipk files installed.
7. Installing the Soduku game hangs the installer.

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