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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New E-book Reader Software

« on: July 29, 2005, 03:57:53 pm »

where download padxromreader?
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It will be posted on my homepage as an ipk file along with source code in a few days.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Lirc And Pdaxrom

« on: July 24, 2005, 06:39:19 am »

I'd like to get LIRC working on pdaxrom so I'd be able to use my PDA as a remote control.

I've manage to compile the LIRC package but I have not much of an idea about the needed kernel modules and how to compile them..

Anyone?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New E-book Reader Software

« on: July 24, 2005, 01:15:01 am »

Interesting... well, I think white on black wins anyway. I feel it's less tiresome to look at. However this can be easily configured from the command line or an rc file.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New E-book Reader Software

« on: July 23, 2005, 07:31:20 pm »

I see no problem with loading the entire file, loading 1mb in a machine that has a total 64mb of ram, is not a problem.

Assuming that you have a working /usr/bin/dict, you'd be able to use it seemlessly. I have debian installed on my SD card (/mnt/card) and I've created a wrapper script as /usr/bin/dict which chroot()'s to /mnt/card and runs dict. See the dict debian package for more details.

The reader currently supports only simple text files (the other ebook formats can usually be convert to text files anyway).

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New E-book Reader Software

« on: July 23, 2005, 12:42:47 pm »

Sorry, it was probably not the right forum for this message, but I was brough to this forum straight from pdaxrom's website...

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New E-book Reader Software

« on: July 23, 2005, 12:38:30 pm »

I'm thinking about releasing a new ebook-reader software, one that I've written from scratch for my pdaxrom-based PDA, relying on GTK toolkit.

Here's a link to a photo and a short description on my homepage:

http://www.monatomic.org/scgi-bin/index.cg...der%20interface

It's pretty light-weight - about 1000 lines of C. Currently it gets the input filename from the command line and reads it completely into memory (so if the file is under /mnt/cf and you suspend nothing bad happens). The text being white on black makes this little app use the minimum amount of power when operating in full-screen mode.

Notice the nice 'dict' feature, which have taught me a lot of new English words

I'd like to know what you think about it.