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.