Mon December 27 2004
News on Sunrise 0.40 pre2 |
11:52 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Sunrise Laurens informed us that the new Sunrise 0.40 pre2 allows you to modify the way how downloaded documents are cached: # Default: Use the cached page/image if the Cache-Control or Expires header indicates that it hasn't expired yet. Otherwise, check with the web server if the cached copy is up-to-date using a Conditional GET request (see below). Sunrise 0.40 pre2 also contains some important bug fixes allowing you to run it on Windows 9x machines again. You can download the latest Sunrise by clicking here, or visit here first to see a list of all changes for 0.40 pre2. Sunrise is the only desktop component I know that respects Conditional GET requests, which can not only free up server resources but also reduces overall bandwidth consumption for the user. So what is a Considitional GET? The people who invented HTTP decided that a web client such as Internet Explorer or Sunrise should be able to ask a web server via a conditional GET if a web document has changed since the last time it looked at it. If nothing has changed, the server returns a simple 304 respond code which means as much as "Not Modified" and tells the client that it doesn't have to redownload the document. Let's hope that other downloaders like iSiloX will support this feature as well in future! |
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CCEL Christian Ebook Library |
08:34 AM by Bob Russell in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No... If you are looking for a wide selection of Christian etexts, be sure to check out the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. For Christian resources, this one is a real keeper.
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Project Wittenberg |
08:31 AM by Bob Russell in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No... I've just stumbled across a source of etext that you may not be aware of - Project Wittenberg Unlike the massive collection of copyright-free general literature at Project Gutenberg, the Project Wittenberg collection is focused on Christian religous writings and started off with the writings of Martin Luther. Not surprising as it seems to be a Lutheran effort. In their own words...
Can you imagine the wealth of resources online if more groups would form online libraries of their own favorite topics! |
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Sun December 26 2004
Resco products 30% discount till 12/31/04 |
04:07 PM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones Resco is offering a 30% discount on all of its application till 12/31/04. This is a great deal considering that its Explorer 2003 is my favorite file manager for Pocket PC! |
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Stream music to your Airport Exress from anywhere |
07:12 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Portable Audio/Video Slipstream 1.0 is a new Mac OS X-only application which allows you to send audio from any application directly to remote speakers attached to Apple's AirPort Express device. Airport Express officially only supports streaming music from iTunes. With Slipstream you can now listen to your music in any file format from applications like RealPlayer and Windows Media Player. The program will be available in early 2005 for an introductory price of US $20. Let's hope someone will hack a similar tool for MS Windows and *nix users. I bought an Airport Express even with the original Monster cables, but so far haven't even tried to use audio streaming because I don't like to have to install iTunes. Note: This is not the first time someone tried to circumvent the limitations of the Airport Express. In August we reported how "DVD Jon" cracked the private keys that the device uses to protect music streams. |
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ubook 0.9b e-book reader available |
06:53 AM by Colin Dunstan in E-Book Software | Reading and Management David at Gowerpoint has just released a new version of his wonderful Pocket PC e-book reader ubook - version 0.9b. Here's what's new: Click here for a full overview of all ubook features including screenshots. ubook is a shareware product. A licence costs $12US and works for all versions of the reader. The unlicenced version is not crippled in any way, but pops up an about screen every now and then. |
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Sat December 25 2004
Recent Downtime |
06:37 PM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Announcements Mobileread.com was inaccessible for about one to two hours. Sorry about that - it seems that nasty worms and script kiddies don't enjoy their holidays. |
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