 Essential Z Software Megapost!, Recommend the stuff you love. |
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 Jan 13 2005, 09:12 AM
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 Group: Members Posts: 608 Joined: 21-June 04 From: The Netherlands Member No.: 3,774  |
Hey guys.
I'd like to compile a list of very good (mature) software for the Z so that newbies don't get overwhelmed by the avalanche of apps available on it. If you have very good apps you think no one should miss, reply here with name, link, and whatever info you think is necessary. I'll update with mine in a few. Please do NOT post questions/comments so this thread stays on-course, and easy to read My personal list: KDEP Pimpi Zautrix is our savior! Send him bug reports here Opie Reader cool text reader. Joe's Own Editor. Just a nice CLI text editor. QPE Filemanager Just a little less braindead than the Files tab. Qpdf2 Get the freetype package. |
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Jan 13 2005, 10:00 AM
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 Group: Members Posts: 39 Joined: 18-December 04 From: Germany Member No.: 5,957 |
just a few personal favourites...
PIM KO/Pi: open source PIM application, also available for other OS featuring applications for addressbook, organizer, email and password http://www.pi-sync.net/ DICTIONARY zbedic http://sourceforge.net/projects/bedic TEXT ZEditor: text editor, very good (free) alternative to tkceditor http://satoshi.web5.jp/f_soft/dw_engzd.htm FILE MANAGER Tree!Explorer QT: free version still good enough! http://hpcgi2.nifty.com/taku2001/zau/texplorerqt/top_en.cgi IMAGE VIEWER mooview: cons: only jpg, pro: cursor up/down change images http://www.cs.unc.edu/~scheuerm/mooview/ tximage: more fileformats (jpg, gif, png) couldn't find its homepage, download at: http://www.elsix.org/downloads/tximage_0.2_arm.ipk READER qpdf2: pdf reader http://sourceforge.net/projects/qpdf2/ justreader: ebook reader http://justreader.sourceforge.net/ GAMES crimson fields: strategy http://www.linuxvision.de/crimson/crimson.html |
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Jan 13 2005, 01:33 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 108 Joined: 29-November 04 Member No.: 5,667 |
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NEOCAL Provides a very good calculator for the Z, much better than the one built in. Free version very usable. http://www.hudren.com/products/neocal/ INTERNET TOOLS GAIM FOR QTOPIA MSN messenger, Jabber, and AIM support. (A bit finicky in the install. Feh.) http://qpe-gaim.sourceforge.net/ QAZOO Yahoo Instant Messenger support. http://qazoo.sourceforge.net/ Software I can't immediately find homepages for that I find useful: NeIC - IRC client for the Zaurus EmbeddedKonsole - For Unix programming, much better than the old Terminal. OpieFTP - Basic FTP client NETWORK SECURITY TOOLS http://www.irongeek.com/all.php For geeks only. Summary of Wellenreiter, Kismet, ZEthereal, etc. GAMES There are some interesting games out there, yes. But occasionally one finds the need to waste small amounts of time playing ZSolitaire. |
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Jan 13 2005, 07:24 PM
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 Group: Members Posts: 89 Joined: 15-February 04 From: NJ Member No.: 1,738 |
The apps I use almost daily.
Tree Explorer QT Plus+ (buy it) Opie Reader (reads chm files too) Zbedic (with wikipedia) Safe Dee Qpdf2 Frink (stick with the jar file) Mighty Charms Eligo (Eon is gone  )ZKnights |
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Jan 14 2005, 05:51 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 188 Joined: 1-February 04 Member No.: 1,647 |
Another Zaurus essential : Portabase !
http://portabase.sourceforge.net/ |
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Jan 14 2005, 06:00 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 188 Joined: 1-February 04 Member No.: 1,647 |
For the enlightened "mobile developer" :
A complete Python 2.3 (2.4 forthcoming) environment, plus PyQt for GUIs and SQLite3 bindings, in one neat package by Kopsis. Installs easily as one large image file to a (FAT) CF or SD card, seen as a read/write ext2 filesystem thanks to some Linux magic. The 2.4 version will also be available as a 'cramfs' image, about 5 times smaller, but read-only. http://pyqplayer.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/b...qPlayerDownload EDIT: For coding directly on the Z, you can use ZEditor (already mentioned in this thread) just like with any text file, or the more specialized VisiScript. It is based on the well-known Scintilla engine (Qt version) and supports colored syntax for several languages (python perl ruby tcl etc.) as well as other niceties usually found in IDEs: http://www.mneuroth.de/privat/zaurus/visiscript.html EDIT2: The new python 2.4 images by Kopsis are available: http://pyqplayer.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/b...qPlayerDownload |
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Jan 14 2005, 06:13 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 188 Joined: 1-February 04 Member No.: 1,647 |
A touch of the exotic, from Switzerland : ELOG
Not as well know as their cheese, chocolate, gold bars, Victorinox knives and luxury watches, but nice and useful too, and free :-) Read up on ELOG here : http://midas.psi.ch/elog/ It's a versatile, 'batteries-included' weblog app (no separate web server or database needed) that can be turned into almost anything (blog, forum, note-taking, database etc.). Very simple to configure. Can replicate or synchronize between ELOG servers, & much more. To try it out: grab the tar.gz archive on the site above (no IPK yet, sorry) and follow the Linux install instructions except for the "make" part. Then get the ready-made binaries for the Z here : http://fredp.lautre.net/Z/ Copy them to the 'bin' directory under your ELOG installation and off you go... |
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Jan 14 2005, 07:18 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 42 Joined: 29-June 04 Member No.: 3,857 |
TextMaker: Word processing with all desktop features of MS Word and combatible to .doc.
Commercial 49.95$ Trial version also aviable. TextMaker |
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Jan 14 2005, 08:25 AM
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 Group: Members Posts: 1,164 Joined: 17-December 03 From: Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Member No.: 1,219 |
Zten Variant (ztenv) http://hiki.lkj.jp/zten%B2%FE.html
A variant of the popular zten dictionary app InkWP http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-O...4550/inkwp.html Handy note take that lets you write on the screen then transpose to text later Opie Reader - already mentioned above but this app rocks - Thanks Tim! Probably the most used program on my Z. X/Qt http://xqt.sourceforge.jp/ For when qtopia doesn't quite cut it, but you don't want to install pdaX FreeNoteQT http://www.urban.ne.jp/home/kanemori/zaurus/freenote_e.html Great note app and very usefull for making quick maps, diagrams etc KeyHelper Applet http://yakty.s31.xrea.com/linuzau/keyhelper/ remap your keys, make shortcuts keys to start apps etc etc etc. maslovsky has added keyhelper support to CryKeyboard but it's a little out of date now (latest version is 1.2.2) Zsafe http://z-soft.z-portal.info/zsafe/ Keep your passwords in a safe place - have been using this since way before PWM/PI became available. ZEditor http://satoshi.web5.jp/f_soft/dw_engzd.htm Handy little text editior All the games from Zports http://zports.sourceforge.net/ for when the meetings just drag on and you want to help pass the time (Tip: Turn the sound off  )Stu |
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Jan 14 2005, 04:52 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 122 Joined: 24-November 04 Member No.: 5,594 |
QUOTE(dtruchan @ Jan 14 2005, 03:24 AM) The apps I use almost daily. Tree Explorer QT Plus+ (buy it) Opie Reader (reads chm files too) Zbedic (with wikipedia) Safe Dee Qpdf2 Frink (stick with the jar file) Mighty Charms Eligo (Eon is gone )ZKnights The ZKnights link doesn't seem to be working... |
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Jan 14 2005, 05:25 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 437 Joined: 3-February 04 From: N54°22.5' E10°08.2' Member No.: 1,678 |
QUOTE(Neverwinter @ Jan 15 2005, 01:52 AM) The ZKnights link doesn't seem to be working... http://free.pages.at/uberger/zaurus/zknights_en.html |
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Jan 19 2005, 02:43 PM
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 Group: Members Posts: 47 Joined: 1-October 03 From: NYC Member No.: 538 |
I don't do much with my Zaurus, but I do use the Spoken program that converts text to speech. It is a java program that incorporates the flite speech processer and requires jeode. I have used it with my 5500 and 6000L. This has read me the news while I am jogging and walking to work for over a year now. For the money ($13 US) It is the best thing I have bought for my zauri.
http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDet...xtSearch=spoken |
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Jan 26 2005, 01:59 PM
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 Group: Members Posts: 2,821 Joined: 13-September 04 From: Wasilla Ak. Member No.: 4,572 |
how does it compare to flite?
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Jan 26 2005, 03:53 PM
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 Group: Members Posts: 1,176 Joined: 3-October 03 From: UK Member No.: 547 |
Stuff I use frequently:
QPDF2 NeoCal Keyring QPSword Zbedic ZUC Drawpad MooView (Fastest JPEG viewer I have found for large pictures) I'd also like to point out that the Embedded Linux Software Index has a voting system, which would be a good way of ranking people's favourites in a more organised fashion. |
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Jan 27 2005, 08:28 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 50 Joined: 10-November 03 Member No.: 832 |
QUOTE(adf @ Jan 26 2005, 01:59 PM) how does it compare to flite?  There's a demo available for download. I didn't like it myself. But to each his own I guess. |
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