[icon-discuss] Re: 0.9.3 released
- From: "John McCann" <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:28:59 -0500
I received my Icon just this past monday, and upgraded to 0.9.3 today (just
hours ago); my point in mentioning this is to say that I had not had
extensive experience with version 0.9.2, but clearly 0.9.3 is a very welcome
improvement. I am particularly happy about the fact that this latest version
fixes the bug with the recorder where I had to go into file explorer to play
back my recordings. I'm also very happy about another glitch with the word
processor which has now been fixed. With version 0.9.2, I wrote the folowing
text (note the punctuation):
Hello John: How are you doing? I am doing fine.
Now, with the previous version, when scrolling backwards to the beginning of
that text, whether by words or characters, the icon simply would not
recognize anything prior to the colon; either it wasn't being recognized, or
somehow that backwards review trashed everything before the colon. I was
going to comment about this, but no need now.
And with particular references to the changes, Michael wrote:
[JMJ]: "We now speak the software version after system startup."
Hmmm, that's not happening with my unit; no big deal; that information can
always be accessed via the menu system, but my icon does not announce the
version number upon boot-up.
[JMJ]: "We added a sleep timer to the general settings item."
Sweet!!!
And,
[JMJ]: "We now don't announce the number of seconds by which the clock was
adjusted when synchronizing with the internet."
Gee, why remove that announcement? I rather liked receiving that
information. Okay, strictly speaking, there's no real significance to that
information, except to telegraph the fact that the icon's clock wouldn't
even remotely pass muster as a time standard, <smile>! That having been
said, though, I didn't by the Icon for use as a time reference, and its easy
enough to pull the time off the internet when you need or want the unit's
time setting to be extremely accurate.
Again, this is a very nice, and even after only having the unit for two
days, a very welcome upgrade.
Keep up the fine work!
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Michael Jones" <mjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <icon-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 12:50 PM
Subject: [icon-discuss] 0.9.3 released
> Hello everyone,
>
> The news you have all been waiting for. Release 0.9.3 is now available.
> Below are the changes in this release and the known issues.
>
> I think you are going to like this release.
>
>
>
>
> General
> Speech settings weren't being backed up. They wil be now.
> We now speak the software version after system startup.
> We added a sleep timer to the general settings item.
> We turned off abbreviation processing in the speech engine. No more
> decibels directory or south dakota cards.
> The manual is now in Daisy format. This means that when you press help to
> open the manual, you can now press pound to navigate through the manual.
> there are still some places where pressing help doesn't take you to the
> right place in the manual. Please report these so we can fix them.
> Cutting and pasting from books and read only documents in the word
> processor
> didn't always work. this should be fixed.
> There was a bug that caused searching through documents and books, as well
> as opening the navigation view by pressing pound to be very slow. this
> should be fixed now.
> We now don't announce the number of seconds by which the clock was
> adjusted
> when synchronizing with the internet.
> We now don't allow the unit to enter disk drive mode if another
> application
> is using the hard drive.
> We now don't allow the unit to enter disk drive mode if the hard disk or
> flash disk is too full.
>
> Added Grade II support in text fields.
> End at end of paragraph now moves beyond the last character, instead of to
> the last character.
> improved go to end; moving back by line to the previous paragraph now
> leaves
> you at the beginning of the line segment instead of the end.
> got the alarm manager to start more reliably.
> Manual updates
>
> Word Processor:
>
> We've added Grade II support. this means you can enter and review
> documents
> in Grade II using thumb Braille.
> We now remember the last directory you were using when opening or saving
> documents.
> Braille text is spoken with a different voice.
> * Saving a file in the word processor as a .brf file causes text to be
> translated into Braille.
>
>
> Media Player
>
> Fixed the random stopping issues.
> Properly clean up media cache when starting and stopping the player.
>
> News Stand
>
> The wording was changed to make things more clear. Now, the menu item to
> add a periodical to the list is called "add a periodical" instead of
> subscribe. After selecting an issue from the list, the periodical
> settings
> are presented, allowing you to select how many days to keep backissues,
> and
> whether you want to subscribe to this periodical.
> It is now possible to delete individual issues, and remove periodicals
> from
> the list.
> There are now menu items to check all periodicals or simply check for new
> issues for the current periodical.
> The unsubscribe and resubscribe menu items were removed, and now there is
> simply a periodical settings form which allows you to subscribe and
> unsubscribe from a periodical, as well as modify how long you wish to keep
> backissues.
> Automatic deletion of old issues is now working.
>
> RSS Reader
>
> We've added top and Bottom sounds on Feed List
> Spelling & Repeat work in Feed List
> Update Folder Feeds added
> Better handling of RSS feeds whose items have no dates.
> Deleting podcasts is now possible by pressing star when pointing to a
> podcast.
> Added complete sound when RSS downloads complete.
> RSS downloads that time-out will gracefully stop.
> Import and Export OPML support
> Updated default feeds.
> Fix delete folder and feed bug
> Add the ability to move feeds or folders.
>
> File Explorer
>
> Create new folder refreshes the current list.
> Rename file allows editing of old name.
>
> Planner
>
> Fixed planner attachment bugs.
>
> Console
>
> Fixed various keyboard handling issues.
> To exit, choose exit from the menu.
>
> Email
>
> Email has the ability to allow the user to enter a different name for an
> attachment when saving. Attachment save form remembers last directory.
> Attempting to remove an email account didn't work. This is now fixed.
>
>
> Network Manager
>
> bug fix where scrolling over profiles very fast would not present the
> correct connection information.
> Correctly display connection status for wireless profiles.
>
> Browser
>
> if the only way to extract text information from a link is by the file
> name
> of an image then do so.
> Properly read buttons with images.
> Browser find feature added
> Added goto top of page in the browser (pres 2).
> Added browser tabs support. This means that we now properly handle sites
> that open other sites in new windows, and it also means that you can open
> and switch between multiple pages.
> The browser now begins reading pages automatically.
> Don't start continuous read after a find.
> don't stop reading when the volume keys are pressed.
> Added new voices for text, links, graphics, etc.
> These settings can be modified to suit each user.
> basic google web search macro
> Mp3 streams can now be played directly from the browser.
>
> Recorder
>
> The recording destination from the recording settings form was eliminated.
> To select where a recording is placed, simply arrow to the appropriate
> recording list and press OK to start recording.
> Recording to mini SD is now possible.
> Audio skipping when recording to the hard drive should now be eliminated.
>
> Known issues
>
> 1. Turning off disk drive mode while wireless is on seems to hang the Icon
> requiring a reset. Any testing to verify this would be very helpful.
> Disk
> drive mode seems to turn off OK when wireless is off.
>
> 2. Automatic deletion of periodicals seems to fail on the first periodical
> in the list. Again, testing to confirm this would be helpful.
>
> 3. The news stand will exit if you try to read a different periodical from
> where you started.
>
> 4. There are skips in recordings made to the mini SD card.
>
> 5. We still have issues with some ID3 tags.
>
> 6. Brf files are not reading properly.
>
>
> Take care,
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> Michael Jones
> LevelStar
> 1500 Cherry St. Suite D
> Louisville, CO 80027
> Phone: 303-926-4334 x 707
> Fax: 303-926-1787
> mjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
>
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