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Pocket Blog for the Pocket PC

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Full Installers

These include the full Visual Basic Runtime. Please read the Pocket Blog Documentation before installing. Also see the Pocket Blog Roadmap for information about features that will be implemented in the future.

Pocket Blog v0.1.5 Full Install (576k)
Pocket Blog v0.1.4 Full Install (576k)
Pocket Blog v0.1.3 Full Install (575k)
Pocket Blog v0.1.2 Full Install (573k)
Pocket Blog v0.1.1 Full Install (571k)

Updated .VB Files

This is just the main application file, use this if you have an earlier version of Pocket Blog already installed on your Pocket PC. Rename the downloaded file to "PocketBlog.vb" and copy it to "\Program Files\Pocket Blog\" on your Pocket PC.

Pocket Blog v0.1.5 Updated .VB File Only (82k)
Pocket Blog v0.1.4 Updated .VB File Only (82k)
Pocket Blog v0.1.3 Updated .VB File Only (79k)
Pocket Blog v0.1.2 Updated .VB File Only (76k)

Release Notes

Beta 1, v0.1.5, 8/12/2002

Fix for Blogger users. Pyra has broken spec with the Blogger API, which exposed a bug in Pocket Blog's XML-RPC handling.

Beta 1, v0.1.4, 5/1/2002

"Update" button forces Pocket Blog to post updates and refresh it's cache immediately.

Several minor display bugs fixed. Thanks to Josh Puetz for reporting one of them.

Some types of errors are handled better, still much room for improvement.

Beta 1, v0.1.3, 4/14/2002

Note: Incorrectly identifies itself as v0.1.2, use the "Hyperlink" button as confirmation.

The "Soft Input Panel" is now automatically opened and closed, as appropriate.

The "Hyperlink" button on the Editor's toolbar is now functional.

Pasting support is improved.

Beta 1, v0.1.2, 4/13/2002

Major speed improvements. Caching 50+ weblog entries is now workable, although the synchronization time would be long.

Peak memory usage is reduced by several hundred kilobytes. Continuous memory usage is unchanged.

Cache file size has been cut in half.

Beta 1, v0.1.1, 4/12/2002

Initial public release. This release was tested in the Emulator and on the developer's Audiovox Maestro Pocket PC after a hard-reset. Radio Userland and Blogger have been confirmed to work with Pocket Blog.

Pocket Blog will react poorly if configured to use a weblog that contains no entries. "Don't do that."

The "hyperlink" button in the editor is not implemented. This will be fixed in the next release.

For certain actions there is a "lag" before Pocket Blog appears to be doing anything. In particular this occurs when saving a weblog entry and deleting an entry from the cache. Pocket Blog is in fact working, it just has not yet displayed the "Busy" cursor. This will be fixed in the next release.

Sometimes Pocket Blog cannot detect an active Internet connection, even after restarting Pocket Blog or re-establishing the connection. This appears to be a problem with the Winsock control in Embedded Visual Basic. Presently the solution is to soft-reset (reboot) the PDA. This will be fixed as soon as a work-around is found.

Pocket Blog will only refresh the cache when it initially detects an Internet connection. This is by design, as it is expected that the PDA will only have Internet connectivity for brief periods of time. Select the menu Configure -> Down Connection to cause a refresh.



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Last update: 6/29/2003; 7:19:52 PM.