In the beginning of the summer we updated: ACPI subsystem, Panorama video drivers, Bootable JFS, General Network Utilities, Piano Launchpad, eSchemes, Firewall ports setup, Personal Cards Manager Traffic Visor III, PNG IO Proc. Mokey's audio IO Proc, T&V HappyPlayer, etc. eComStation growed in the last 5 years. All planned technologies, applications and drivers were created. What is the next target? The main goal today is select/create TOP TEN eComStation applications (and 30 must-have applications and tools for usual PC user). 1. Updated eCo Software runtime Please pay attention to requirements of our software, install needed runtimes first. Attention: * If you have Imagination released in the first part of 2007 and going install new program from eCo Software then .. * If you have WPFLDREX.DLL released in the first part of 2007 then .. Then read the instructions -- http://ecomstation.ru/projects/neowps/?action=critical update the runtime and our software. 2. ACPI sub-system ACPI is the engine which pushes eComStation ahead today. Updated ACPI.PSD 2.22 (20070526), APM.ADD, ACPI snooper (download from BETAZONE) * ACPI supports multicore notebooks/desktops based on VIA chipset now * ACPI.PSD can't boot if MADT ACPI table absent - fixed * New switch /St for ACPI.PSD * Stack is replaced on UNI and SMP now, so /EIS should work better APM.ADD - Please join the testing of suspend/resume. eComStation is able perform this operation even on multi-core notebooks! Read ACPI-APM.doc -> 4.0 Usage. New perspectives make us move the support service to the tracker: http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi Create ticket, input Title: model of notebook or motherboard or common problem; post the report, attach files. Mention if you have posted reports in the past (we have 2 collections already) ACPI makes developers create new applications and tools. Please, download new smart and modern Battery Widget. http://ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/?action=down PIC: Beer battery widget 3. WPS extenders Piano Launchpad 1.20 brings to eComStation desktop: dynamic drawers, any size of icons, backup/restore, bubble tips, help. Read the review here: http://ecomstation.ru/showarticle.php?id=158 Whatsnew: Fixed some critical bugs; scaling of icons with antialiasing PIC: http://ecomstation.ru/projects/eschemes-deluxe/screenshots/Piano-20070701.gif eSchemes 1.38 (Download from BETAZONE) -- mechanism of desktop schemes (every schemes contains different colors, buttons and other parameters), please apply the schemes designed by professional designers, don't spend time to schemes editing. What's new: * Making attempts to complete eSchemes for eCS 2.0 * updated schemes: Technosense, Summer -- http://ecomstation.ru/projects/eschemes/?action=down * Gallery of eSchemes -- http://ecomstation.ru/projects/eschemes/eschemes-gallery.phtml Personal Cards Manager (20070630) -- http://ecomstation.ru/pcm Address book, integrated to desktop, Whatsnew: Fixed critical bugs 4. Video drivers Panorama VESA is available from BETAZONE (20070716) -- http://ecomstation.ru/panorama * fixing Dive * Improved WPS setup * To simplify the upgrade of Panorama, you can install warpin package It's necessary collect at the homepage of Panorama: source code snapshots, libraries for fast drawing of video stream, fullscreen, etc. If you have sources and examples, please contact us. Testing: * Does Panorama VESA work fine on DBCS systems? * Test output to external monitor (beamer) * Test compatibility with multimedia applications, with commercial applications 5. Internet/LAN software General Network Utilities (20070725) -- http://ecomstaiton.ru/gnu Read more about GNU here (many screenshots): * RUS: http://ru.ecomstation.ru/showarticle.php?id=155 * ENG: http://ecomstation.ru/showarticle.php?id=156 * SWE: http://ecomstation.ru/showarticle.php?id=157 Whatsnew: * We fixed all bugs found by new users * Changed the algorithms of some utilities * Updating the user interface and artwork Updated Traffic Visor III 1.01.3 -- http://ecomstation.ru/apecs.php?action=item&id=1007 (system to analyze IP-traffic) Updated SVSNET.SYS driver for Serenity Virtual Machine -- http://ecomstation.ru/apecs.php?action=item&id=1045 6. Multimedia applications * PNG IO Proc update (20070506), Download from BETAZONE, whatsnew: Fix of libpng warning: Ignoring extra png_read_update_info() call; row buffer not reallocated * New system audio codec is available - Monkey audio (.ape files), 20070525 -- http://ecomstation.ru/apecs.php?action=item&id=1044 * T&V HappyPlayer updated (20070729) -- http://ecomstation.ru/happyplayer 7. USB devices * Searching information: Does eComStation supports USB Touch screens? * USB FAQs are updated. Read advices from Robert Lalla, how to increase the performance of reading from USB 2.0 flash disks. http://ecomstation.ru/projects/usbtools/?action=faq 8. Bootable JFS Updated JFS drivers (20070612), available from BETAZONE, whatsnew: * Several threads are creating files with equal names * Fixed 4os2 problem * enabled symbol "+" in EA * added /G:gid /U:uid for compatibility with Linux Support our efforts purchasing JRescuer recovery tool -- http://ecomstation.ru/jrescuer 9. eCo Software support service The hardware database contains more than 1190 reports of supported hardware -- http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php You can post new reports or add notes to published. Now gathering reports about supported Color Laser Printers -- http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=category§ion=print 10. Collaboration with other developers * Doodle released SDL/2 compatible with Panorama VESA -- ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/sdl * If you are using Widescreen activators created by Robert Lalla then please notify him. 11. Additional information: * Welcome to eCo Software homepage -- http://ecomstation.ru/ecosoft/?action=orders * eCo Software runtimes -- http://ecomstation.ru/ecosoft/runtime.php * Full pricelist of eCo Software products -- http://ecomstation.ru/ecosoft/?action=pricelist * BETAZONE -- How to download ACPI, Panorama, eSchemes? -- http://ecomstation.ru/mensys.html * Previous eCo Software newsletter -- http://ecomstation.ru/commentnews.php?id=1382 From Eugene Gorbunoff egDESPAM at DESPAMecomstation.ru