Egress version 4.1.1 is released

Version 4.1.1 of Egress has been released for both PocketPCs and SmartPhones. This version contains the following changes:

* Fixed saving and display of retrieval folder with Retrieval options
* Automatic update was not updating until the PocketPC was awakened from sleep

Egress version 4.1.0 is released

Version 4.1.0 of Egress has been released for both PocketPCs and SmartPhones. This version contains the following changes:

* Added full screen display mode (Press '0' or double-click topbar)
* Added support for ISO-8859-15 encoding
* Improved error message for opml parse failure during opml import
* Tap podcast icon will launch podcast
* Toggle item lock from item context menu with improperly disabled
* Fixed bug which would cause some feeds to download incorrectly
* Minor item layout improvements
* Added option to disable image retrieval filter per channel

Egress version 4.0.3 is released

Version 4.0.3 of Egress has been released for both PocketPCs and SmartPhones. This version contains the following changes:

* Added support for gzip HTTP compression
* Added support for multiple feeds with the same description but with different URLs
* Additional fine-tuning of window scrolling
* Fixed support for NewsGator synchronized channels
* Refined UI of item display to reduce number of taps required
* Now possible to collapse an item by tapping the item icon or pressing center dpad when item's icon is selected
* Added option to remap Channel Up to move to root
* Restored Manage Channels dialog accessable via Channel or Folder menu
* Restored export opml accessable via Manage Channels dialog
* Channel and Folder titles can now be edited via Properties dialog
* Corrected support for Internet proxies
* If multiple feeds are detected on a web page from the new channel wizard then Egress will display a list of choices rather than automatically selecting the first feed
* Corrected automatic playlist generation which was not working

Egress version 4.0.2 is released

Version 4.0.2 of Egress has been released for both PocketPCs and SmartPhones. This version contains the following changes:
* Fixed bug where trailing characters would cause parse of feed to fail
* Fixed item custom sort dialog
* Podcasts are no longer written to PocketIE's cache which was causing out of storage space errors
* Podcast downloading was not respecting "Only when cradled" setting
* Screen will no longer inadvertantly scroll to the side when dismissing up item context menu

Egress version 4.0.1 is released

Version 4.0.1 of Egress has been released for both PocketPCs and SmartPhones. This version contains the following changes:
* Fixed inability to exit the view image dialog
* Fixed image display with zoom levels greater than 100 percent
* Corrected image filter which was causing some images not to appear
* Added to option to display total item counts
* Added option to set number of lines to scroll with up/down dpad
* Double-tap on image (within viewer) will change zoom level

Version 4.0.0 of Egress is released.

Please give it a try and keep up the feedback. Thanks.

Version 4.0 Preview of Egress is released

A "Preview" of Egress version 4.0 has been released for both PocketPCs and SmartPhones. This version adds many new features along with a redesigned user-interface. On touchscreen devices you may now scroll the screen by dragging vertically and you can change to the next and previous channels by dragging right and left.

Please let me know how this version works for you as I will be refreshing it frequently to get ready for the 4.0.0 release. Also, please pass any suggestions for future development.

The "dry" change list is as follows:

* New user interface with touchscreen kinetic scrolling (PocketPC)
* New channel wizard can now import multiple channels at a time
* Added ability to search Google for feeds
* Greatly reduced speed of feed retrieval
* Improved reporting of RSS parsing errors
* Repaired Newsgator synchronization
* Added all podcasts view filter
* Corrected handling of podcasts with same "name" but different URL
* Corrected multiple download of podcasts
* Corrected bug where erroneous directories would be created in the Channels storage

Version 3.4.1 of Egress is released.

Version 3.4.1 of Egress has been released for both PocketPCs and SmartPhones. This version contains the following changes:

* Improved error message when unable to parse OPML file
* Improved dialog layout on landscape SmartPhones
* Corrected bug where NewsGator synchronized channels would fail to synchronize when multiple channels were queued
* Improved UI responsiveness when synchronizing with NewsGator
* Improved resilience with malformed HTML documents
* Corrected BACK button interaction on edit boxes (SmartPhone)

Egress version 3.3.2 is released

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

* Fixed blank images in feeds where image URL contained url-encoded characters
* Added display of next automatic update on Retrieval tab of Options dialog
* Improved layout of dialogs on landscape SmartPhones
* Will only cache web content of items which are not currently read
* Fixed bug where mark read immediately would not always mark correct item
* Fixed crash during web caching and large number of failed image retrievals
* Improved support for Skweezer

Egress version 3.3.0 is released

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

* Added support for Micro-blogs (Jaiku/Twitter)
* Retention overrides were erroneously "locked"
* Corrected add channel wizard dialogs for landscape displays
* Clicking on podcast now properly launches podcast
* Pressing select (on dpad) while image in focus launches image viewer

Egress version 3.2.0 is released

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

* Added version for Windows SmartPhones (no touch-screen)
* It is no longer necessary to keep Egress running in the background for the channels to update.
* Added support for HTML optimizers (Skweezer and Google Mobile)
* Automatic update options have been redone to make them easier to use.
* Improved layout of menu on Windows Mobile 5 devices
* Corrected Manage Podcasts dialog which would appear empty
* Corrected bug in Today plugin which could cause endless loop
* Fixed parsing of some ATOM 1.0 feeds which would cause entry dates to be missing
* Corrected rendering of feed icons
* Corrected behavior of Sort dialog
* Changed application icon

Egress version 3.2.0 BETA for SmartPhones is available

A beta version for the Windows SmartPhones is now available at my website http://www.garishkernels.net. This beta version does not include a home screen plugin, but one is in development at this time. Please send all comments to garishkernels@sent.com. Thank you in advance.

Egress version 3.1.0 is released

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

* Added support for softkeys on Windows Mobile 5 devices
* Added option to revert to old toolbar with Windows Mobile 5
* Restored to ability to select a separate storage location for podcasts
* Added the ability to filter channels and items which contain cached podcasts
* Added support for SHIFT_JIS encoding
* Read status retained when item is clipped
* Fixed bug in Today screen where channel title font size was not changeable
* Proxy address now retained when proxy is disabled
* Remove (the sometimes long) refresh pause in Today screen plugin
* Improved layout of items on screen
* Added support for the iTunes duration element
* Correct bug where playlists were encoded in UTF8 rather than current codepage
* Tap-and-hold menu for podcasts (enclosures) now provides selection to launch the podcast's URL if the podcast is not currently cached. This allows Egress to launch streaming content easily
* Spin buttons for web retention on channel properties dialog were reversed
* Improved output of ampersands in non-HTML descriptions
* Fixed bug where Show Channel Icon would always always de-select when Options dialog used in landscape orientation

Egress version 3.0.3 is released

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

* Improved character encoding support for RSS feeds
* Corrected bug where cached web content was not properly encoded
* Significantly improved web caching
* HTML elements removed from single line titles
* Fixed bug where some images and podcasts would be truncated
* Added ability to schedule hours where automatic update will occur
(See Schedule button on Retrieval tab of Options)
* Improved podcast naming format to make filenames more "readable"
* Fixed broken playlist generation

Egress version 3.0.2 is released

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

* Fixed dpad seek when expand or mark read timers were used
* Improve detection of Internet connection on some wifi-enabled PocketPCs
* Fix Clip to Favorites from item's context menu
* Fix non-working Open item from item's context menu
* Fix Delete item from item's context menu
* Fixed bug where Egress would inhibit sleep for PocketPC after item caching failed due to no connectivity with automatically connect disabled