Thursday, July 27, 2006

Egress version 3.0.1 is released

A new version of Egress was released with the following new features and fixes:

* Fixed broken expand and mark read timers
* Don't store images within items now functions properly
* Channel updates will now function while cradled with auto-connect disabled and no open Internet connection (other than ActiveSync passthrough)
* Fixed broken green progress bar while downloading podcasts
* Modified file naming for podcasts to handle name collision on certain feeds
* Fixed launching of image enclosures
* Added forward and back buttons to embedded web browser
* DPad now functions normally within main menu
* DPad up and down no longer seek to first and last item respectively and will once again scroll while being held
* Corrected item display where last line would be missing

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Egress version 3.0.0 is finally released!

* Major UI redesign including dpad seek. Click dpad-right or left to move to the next or previous channel. Click and hold dpad-right or left to move to the next or previous channel with unread items.

* Retrieve All Channels and Mark All Channels now operate on all channels within current folder

* Entire RSS parsing recoded for greater reliability and speed

* Item filtering greatly enhanced and now supports dates

* Web caching redone to support caching with all browsers

* Added ability to selectively or globally clear web cache

* Web caching retention now selectable

* Correct connection logic when GPRS connection times out

* Fixed crash on feeds with malformed podcast elements

* Supports transparency within GIF images

* Added ability to selectively or globally clear podcasts

* Added support for digg RSS extensions

* Corrected placement of wizard buttons if input panel changed from within a wizard

* Internal image viewer will now attempt to initialize at a more reasonable zoom level depending on the size of the image

* Web browser now selectable during the trial period

* Only channels which contain podcasts are listed in the Manage Podcasts dialog and only items which contain podcasts (either cached or uncached) will be listed in the item list of the dialog

* Context menu for image now changes if image is missing

* Added support for additional html elements

* Corrected rendering of channel icons

* Updated support for Bloglines synchronized channels

* Egress will attempt to auto-discover the URL of a feed from a web site URL

* Added the ability to import a Newsgator OPML

* Removed auto-subscription