Buy shareware software to support eCS

2009-12-01 22:37:31 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

The delay of eComStation 2.0 GA release influences on the sellings of shareware programs, users don't invest money into software.

You may contact the nearest eComStation reseller and order:

• Virtual Keyboard/2
• DVD/CD Toys
• eComStation FAQ brochure
• eCo Tunes internet radio

• Google Apps
• Sponsor units for osFree team
• Panorama VESA for IBM OS/2 Warp users
• VirtualBox for commercial usage

Many shareware/commercial programs were updated in the last 1-2 monthes:

• OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 GA - office suite
• Weasel mail server
• FTP Server
• Sunny icons - large transparent icons
• WebDAV plugin (review)
• DFSee 10.0 (whatsnew)
• Virtual keyboard
• SearchPlus - search of documents on your computers
• Emperoar TV - watch digital TV (DBV-T)
• PMMail - email client (every message is stored in separate file)

Virtual keyboard/2 is updated

2009-11-09 23:29:47 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

The utility is updated: multi-language support, improved User Interface.

Let's paint the keyboard together. Use Drag&Drop to drop colors on the buttons!

Examples of color keyboards: photo 1, photo 2, photo 3, photo 4, photo 5, photo 6

New program for eComStation - Virtual Keyboard/2

2009-11-05 19:28:01 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

We are proud to present new program for eComStation: Virtual keyboard/2 (VKeyb). Homepage: http://ecomstation.ru/vkeyb

Ideal for using on Ultra-Mobile PC, Tablet PC, Panel PC and kiosk. Moreover the keyboard is useful for those who type text/email on foreign language. No need to keep in memory the codes of umlauts - use Virtual Keyboard/2.

How to use?

• Install the program (it is distributed as WarpIn package)
• Start the keyboard: Programs -> Utilities -> Keyboard (or System Setup -> Keyboard)
• Use small icon (left, top) to change layout, to setup the utility.

Send us your suggestions and testimonials!

Share the knowledge: social networks

2009-11-04 17:21:38 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Do you have problems / advantages when connecting to social networks from eComStation?

• Facebook
• vk.com (AKA vkontakte.ru)
• .. other networks

DVD/CD Toys - new utilities

2009-10-28 17:55:10 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

The development of DVD/CD Toys continues (burn CD and DVD)
(Homepage)

Install DVD/CD Toys and burn important backup data today.

Whatsnew:

• Two new utilities (Convert images of different formats to iso + DVD drive information)
• // notes for translators (homepage -> History -> notes for translators)

We are waiting for feedback:

• What do your children/parents talk? Is it comfortable to use DVD/CD Toys?
• Are there problems with buring of BR disks?

Five questions, share your opinion

2009-10-25 18:54:00 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Join the discussion of hot topics:

• What is the harddrive read/write speed on your PC? Comparison with Windows? discussion
• Which version of Firefox do you use (Firefox 2 for 512 Mb RAM, Firefox 3 - for modern PC)?
  • Firefox3: Which version of Firefox 3.x is stable?
  • Firefox3: How to prevent hang in N hours (what do you offer? don't keep tab with gmail opened or what)
• Which means, scripts and tools do you use to develop sites running on web-server based on eComStation (apache or web/2, ppwizard, ..)?
• Students may exchange tools and self-made math programs/algorithms via the site for Students
• We continue collect your offerings, which programs should be included to eComStation package or Essentials package, queue of suggestions

OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 GA released

2009-10-19 22:48:25 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [Mensys BV, Joachim Benjamins ]

Effective immediately, Serenity Systems International will be distributing a GA version of OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 to all users who own an active Support Agreement for OpenOffice.org product. This version has been compiled to run on eComStation and IBM OS/2 as a native application. This release replaces OpenOffice.org version 2.4.

Features

NLS:

OpenOffice.org 3.1 for eComStation and OS/2 is released in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch and Russian.

Internet integration:

• E-mail related settings are now supported, you can email your current document, but only Thunderbird is supported.
• The default OS/2 browser will be used for opening web pages from URL links in documents.

Desktop integration:

• Support for WPS integration via seperate package.
• Support for the FreeType2 (FT2) font engine for improved text rendering.
• Support for XWP/eWPS sliding menu hilite (requires XWorkPlace 1.0.8 or eCS 2.0 RC4 or newer)
• Support for clipboard bitmap formats and unicode text.
• Support for mouse wheel.

WPS integration package for OpenOffice.org 3.1 for eComStation and OS/2:

• Extends the WPS data file class to recognize OpenOffice.org document files
• Integrated support for WPS-Wizard hint and folder info area
• REXX hooks for reading document properties

Quickstart:

The quickstart feature has been implemented for eComStation and OS/2.

Availability

OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 is available to anyone with an active OpenOffice.org Support Agreement for eComStation and OS/2, via their download-area at the Mensys Online Shop: http://www.mensys.net/login/

A mediakit is available as well, for those who prefer to have OpenOffice.org on CD.

What is new in OpenOffice.org 3.1

Below is a list of some of the improvements that are present in OpenOffice.org 3.1:

• Support for the Microsoft Office 2007 File Format - Beginning with version 3.0, OpenOffice.org supports importing and exporting of files in the Microsoft Office Open XML file format. This includes Word 2007 (.docx), Excel 2007 (.xlsx) and PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) formats.
• Start Center - When launching OpenOffice.org 3.x, users are presented with the Start Center that allows the selection of an application within the office productivity suite without having to click the File -> New menu.
• PDF/A-1 Support - OpenOffice.org now supports the popular PDF/A format for creating read-only files.
• Enhanced PDF export - The PDF export feature in OpenOffice.org provides a huge set of formatting and security options; so that PDF files can be customized for many different scenarios.
• Calc Columns Support - the new version of Calc now supports a maximum number of columns of 1024, up from 256 in the previous version.
• View Multiple Pages in Writer - OpenOffice.org 3.x allows Writer users to view pages with single-page, two-page side-by-side and book layout options.
• Improved Notes - The new version of Notes in OpenOffice.org 3.x provides additional formatting, spell checking and accessibility features while displaying notes within the margins.

More information on the OpenOffice.org development roadmap can be found at: http://development.openoffice.org/releases/index.html

Information on the eComStation and OS/2 version can be found at: http://www.ecomstation.com/openoffice/

User Support

For help with the OpenOffice.org 3.1 office suite, take a look at the archives to find questions already answered on the 'users@openoffice.org' mailing list at: http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html

Alternatively, you can send in your questions to users@openoffice.org. Remember to subscribe to the list to get an email response.

Also check the FAQ section at: http://user-faq.openoffice.org

Support specific to the eComStation and OS/2 version can be obtained through the ticketing system at: http://www.ecomstation.com/support/ooo2/

More information

More information on OpenOffice.org can be found at: http://www.openoffice.org

Information on the eComStation and OS/2 version can be found at: http://www.ecomstation.com/openoffice

Flash 10 Plugin wrapper for eComStation Technology Preview

2009-10-09 20:42:32 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.com, Mensys BV ]

Mensys BV is pleased to announce the availability of the Flash 10 Plugin wrapper for eComStation Technology Preview

This product is available for download to all registered users of Software Subscription Services for eComStation. For more information, please visit: http://www.ecomstation.com/subscription/

The Technology Preview of the Flash 10 Plugin wrapper for eComStation is intended to show the progress of this product and to give you an early experience of being able to use websites implementing the latest Flash content. The development team is working hard to resolve the last outstanding bugs before we release a real test version.

The official Flash 5 included with eComStation is outdated and does not support video playback. The unoffocial Flash 7/9 release which can be found on the internet does not work on a lot of websites as it identifies itself as Flash 9 but can only display Flash 7 content.

With the new release of Flash 10 we have up-to-date Flash support for eComStation. This release also supports proper rendering of Flash 10 text elements and Flash keyboard input works.

Notes:

• There is no support and no need for feedback for the Technology Preview.
• This code should not be used on production systems. See the readme document for details.
• This release requires eComStation 1.2 or higher.

About the Flash standard: Flash content is used on a lot of websites. Some websites require Flash support to login with your user credentials. Also a lot of populair websites have video files online in the Flash format.

After downloading please review the readme documentation for known issues and instructions on how to uninstall.

Notes from ecomstation.ru:

eCo Software opens new site "eComStation TV" with collection of clips related to eComStation.

Problems of the player * problems of Uniaud * .. = .. Exclude the audio driver from the formula, test the player with supported audio adapter.

Two articles on the site

2009-10-06 11:49:18 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Two new articles on the site related to languages:

• (RUS) How to translate applications (eComStation)?
• (RUS) JDic/2 - japanese/russian vocabulary for eComStation

We are working on new utility related to this topic.

btw, visit the site Multilanguage world of eComStation

Genmac: additional drivers

2009-10-04 13:57:04 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Genmac - drivers for network adapters. Doug Bissett collected additional drivers for Genmac (working in UNSUPPORTED mode)

Download the package from os2voice.org server

GenMU-0-0-5.WPI

• Broadcom Gigabit [14E4:1693]
• Atheros Wlan AR5007EG/AR242X [168C:001C]
• Attansic Fast Ethernet [1969:2048]
• Intel 10/100/1000DM [8086:104A] - corrected
• Intel 10/100/1000 GT [8086:107C]

GenMU_TEST-0-0-5-1.WPI:

• + Intel(R) PRO/1000 PL [8086:108C]

The users are interested to know:

• How to setup Intel 4965 a/g/n? the adapter goes to sleep (?) in several hours of work.

Additional links:

• Genmac homepage
• Site about Genmac (unofficial)
• Discussion of Genmac

eComStation Babylon

2009-09-26 19:55:03 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

New site is available for eComStation users. eComStation Babylon - information how to adopt eCS to your language, links to vocabularies, codepage tools.

Questions to users (post the information via web-form)

• How to enable spanish/french/.. language in eComStation English International?
• Do you have vocabularies for eComStation? spanish <> japanese ? german <> french, ..

Translate applications to russian

2009-09-10 18:08:56 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

We offer to russian speaking users translate popular applications to russian language.

• Animated mouse pointers
• Search Plus
• XWLAN
• NetDrive

Please remind us which applications/utilities to translate?

The debugging of Flash player 10 continues

2009-09-10 11:08:43 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [Martin Iturbide, http://www.os2world.com/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,63/topic,1862.msg12795/topicseen,1/#new]

It is not a final product yet. Still needs some work but it looking good. It crashed my browser from time to time, and sound didn't work for me, but the youtube went smoothly.

Changelog
==========
28.03.2009:
 - odin (mscms): added mscms dll (required for Flash 10).
 - odin (kernel32): added missed apis for Flash 10
 - odin (urlmon): added missed apis for Flash 10 (stub)
 - plugin: removed unneeded XPCOM/JNI code. Decreased DLL size 3 times

01.04.2009:
 - plugin: Fixed Odin search via ODIN environment variable
 - odin (kernel32): Memory autocommit added to exception handler
 - odin (comctl32): added additional check for NULL pointer of DPA_GetPtr()

26.04.2009:
 - odin (kernel32):reworked autocommit. now its tries to commit page when
   other autocommit workers are done (for example - dib section).

12.05.2009:
 - fixed flash10 video

15.06.2009:
 - Wrapper now works only on registered ECS 1,2 and higher systems

16.06.2009:
 - Created WARPIN installer

21.07.2009:
 - Added Adobe license agreement to installer
 - Fixed text and other GUI elements dissapearing
 - Fixed crashes and freezes in different conditions

QT4 status update

2009-09-02 16:47:28 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [AROA Business Software Solutions, Silvan Scherrer]

Finaly it's done the beta is available! For the complete port there is some work to be done. But the beta will give a good overview on what we did so far. The Qt4 GA milestone will be set in the next days to the targeted date. We will also port some Qt4 Apps, to see/show how good the beta is.

At http://svn.netlabs.org/qt4 its described how to download the beta.

Look at the Qt4 Trac at netlabs, there is the roadmap and the milestones shown. If you want to see also the completed milestones view this page

I'm very confident, that the project succeeds. But to get there we still need some sponsor units. To buy sponsor units please follow the link Mensys shop

To see the actual sponsored units look at http://qt.netlabs.org

Many thanks to all who helped to get Qt4 reality.

eComStation Essentials

2009-08-20 12:35:00 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

You are installing eComStation on new PC.. which utilities and applications do you lack? What do you install during the first three days?

Let's collect eComStation 2.0 Essentials - package of small utilities and applications, which are not included to eComStation but should be installed on every PC.

Suggestions from users (what to include): Essentials queue.

eSchemes, Firewall, ACPI Setup

2009-08-13 01:15:40 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

New files in BETAZONE:

• eSchemes 1.51 - change colors of the desktop (gallery of screenshots, homepage), What to test? Install the latest eCo Software runtime.
• Firewall ports setup - open/close ports of system firewall (homepage) What to test: is it comfortable to use the firewall?
• ACPI Setup - setup of ACPI (replaces Power object) (homepage), What to test: load/save settings, check the .cfg file, Do you see visual defects on Power Panel, in Properties notebook?

http://betazone.ecomstation.nl (additional FAQ)