OpenIliad

Hansel has posted a developer beta for an updated version of the ConentLister with support for more than 6 items on a page.

This has been a major complaint with the iLiad and the way it displays folders and files. This new development should be of great interest to many people.

With a little more work, hopefully this updated contentlister can be included in the first community firmware release.

From the i-to-i blog.

iRex has released more iLiad sources. These are some very important applications including:

* pageBar
* erbusy - The Activity Light
* settings - The settings application
* scribble - PNG Viewer/Scribble Application
* powerMgr
* Kernel Drivers (delta, buttons and battery) - Kernel source for e-ink controller, buttons, and battery

I've received the iLiads that iRex has donated to OpenIliad. In the coming days, I will be in contact with those who have emailed me, and start loaning them out. I've asked those who receive one to make a post in the development forum introducing themselves.

They is still a device or two available for those who are interested. Send me an email if you have an existing project or think you can contribute to the community.

I'd like to offer my deepest gratitude to iRex Technologies for donating the devices to the community.

iRex has released part of the iLiad source code.

You can find the sources here.

Here is a quick list of what is released and what it does:

• contentLister.tar.gz - Main Program. Displays files to user and launches applications.
• displayMgr.tar.gz - Interface to the eink controller.
• erbrowser.tar.gz - Mozilla based html viewer.
• liberdm.tar.gz - Manages Screen refreshes.
• libergtk.tar.gz - User Interface Elements.
• liberipc.tar.gz - Page bar and toolbars at bottom of screen.
• libermanifest.tar.gz - Manifest file reading library
• liberregxml.tar.gz - Manages the registry
• liberscribble.tar.gz - Writing Manager

An iRex blog post states that the rest of the source code should be released sometime next week.

I'm looking forward to seeing what our community can do with all of this. Hopefully we can continue to add improvements and increase the functionality of the iLiad.

iRex has informed me that they plan to donate a number of refurbished iLiad's to OpenIliad.com. I am very impressed with iRex and their initiative to support the development community. This, in addition to their planned release of the iLiad code shows that the iLiad is not a dead platform, and will live on with updates and feature improvements from the community.

Once the devices arrive, I will ship them out to those who have an established project and are in need of a device for testing and development. They will be loaned out on a temporary, as needed, basis.

OpenIliad.com has agreed to provide one to the OpenInkpot project, for their use in porting the OpenInkpot platform to the iLiad.

If you have a project and are in need of a device, please email me at ad...@gmail.com.

Screenshot: 

This is a python script which generates a .pdf file with the agenda for a given year.

It could be used on any platform where python v2.5 runs.
It requires ReportLab PDF Library.

It is not finished but it's quite useful.

Attachment: 

iliad-agenda.py.txt

agenda-2008.pdf

Screenshot: 

I think the name is self-descriptive. Just click to refresh the displayed date and time. Very simple but comes in handy. This was my very first application.

Attachment: 

date_and_time-1_0.zip

dLetter is a small email-client for sending and receiving via pop3. It supports attachements in both directions. It has no GUI (so no screenshots needed ;) ) but uses the onboard options (changing filename, and the two lines for description) read out adresses, attachements and integrates thus quite nice into the content-manager.

Written entirely in Python it depends upon having Python installed (look here as long as it is not mentioned on OpenIliad: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24138 - it is easy).

Attachment: 

dLetter.tar_.gz

This is a set of installers for different versions of the ipdf viewer. It also includes a way of examining which version is currently installed (by examining the file size). Just click on the "Run me to identify the current ipdf" entry in the contentlister.

To use this set of installers:

1. make sure you have upgraded to version 2.12 of the iliad software

Attachment: 

ipdf_installers_v2.12.1.zip

ipdf_installers_v2_12.zip