Freeware!
Free software is great! Linux is pretty much free, and a much more rewarding experience than the other. And, my palm is full of free software (really free, not the stuff I ‘made’ free).
I use PetitLaunch as a launcher. I used to use BigClock, but it misbehaves too much on the treo, even the patched version. I use DA’s which are mostly free, and a bunch of little utilitied which I keep on my sd card which get used very rarely, but are just the thing when they are needed. I use Yanoff to browse newsgroups on the go, and now use plucker intead of Isilo or Avantgo.
I amuse myself with several freeware games such as Patience and Minesweeper. I use Bundesliga to track my football team, and I’m posting this with U*Blog.
So cracks, patches and keygens are fine, but there’s some great free stuff out there too, well worth taking a look at.
TeikeiDA
I've been using DA's (desk accessories) for some time now, I love them, great little things. But I've taken several off now I have the Treo600, as they either don't play nice on OS5, or they simply duplicate what is readily available elsewhere in other apps.
Well, I've recently been checking out TeikeiDA, a fiendishly tricky app to get to grips with, but one well worth the time and effort.
Like most DA's, it is free (and originates from japan, hence the tricky instructions!), and basically allows you to create a series of menus of instructions such as cut and paste, or text such as the time and date to be pasted into the underlying app, or you can even launch other apps and DA's, or do a host of other clever things, all in a single pop-up app, available from any other app.
All the configuration is done by writing the instructions into specially formatted memo's in the standard memopad, giving you the ultimate in control and configuration.
It's a great little app, with almost endless depth, well worth looking into, and it also allows me to duplicate the functions of several other DA's I currently have, so I can now delete them also, and just use teikei instead, giving me a one-stop shop, instead of several different apps all doing different bits.
Debian installed
Well, I just completed installing Debian Etch (the testing version) onto my main linux box.
This move was kinda forced on me when the Suse install I had on there decided to crap out last week. Not sure what went wrong with it, but it seemed like a good oportunity to put Etch on as I planned on doing that some time anyhow.
I have to say it went pretty smoothly. Well, up to a point!!! There were some 'issues', but they resolved fairly easily, and that was that.
Main problems were as follows :
1. Couldn't install the standard dektop software selectable from the install menu because of a dependancy issue. I figured this was because of it being the testing edition, although I had installed without problems into a vmware container previously, but curiously, I installed the sarge version via dvd onto my laptop, and had the same issue.
I had to install a base system, then use aptitude to install the other stuff.
2. Couldn't install KDE because of dependancy issues. Almost certainly a testing issue this time. I just got XFCE installed, got synaptic running, and set up an ftp repository pointed to both the testing and unstable distributions, and selected the kde components, and let it download the neccessary bits as required.
3. Samba wouldn't let me in. An old favourite this, one I have visited many times on linux distros before.
First step in the solution process is to install and run webmin, and use that to convert linux users to samba users, and set the passwords up, much easier than doing it by hand. Still no joy!
After some head scratching and cursing, I finally released that my user account was, for some reason, disabled. Webmin wouldn't enable it, so a trip to the command prompt and an smbpasswd -e sorted it, and there was the debain system all lit up on my WinXP box, and I could copy all my data back across.
4. Still can't launch my pdf attachments from thunderbird. I tried upgrading to the latest version, as that is reported to resolve such problems, but still no joy. I'll track it down eventually.
On the plus side, the courier-imap install worked like a charm first time. I have my emails stored on the linux box in an imap config using courier, and once I pointed thunderbird at my saved configuration files from the suse setup, all my emails were there without having to do anything else, much simpler than the setup process on suse.
5. The scanner caused problems again, until I realised it was just the old file permissions issue. I added my username to the scanner group, and all was well, although I had by then also updated the sane scanner libraries, but that may not have been neccessary.
So far, everything else seems to be working OK. I re-installed Crossover, and have all the windows apps I previously installed on the suse system available without any re-installation, even excel and co. which I thought I may need to re-install from scratch.
Sound worked first time, no problems, and my printer installed and worked OK, which has sometimes been an issue previously, as it is on a print server, but the latest versions of cups seem to have no problems finding and setting it up.
So, so far so good, and the laptop install was almost as smooth, although sound doesn't seem to want to work on there, but that's nothing new. I may go back to using OSS for the sound on there, as alsa just doesn't seem to enjoy itself at all.
Two down, just have my soon-to-be server to go. I think I'll go for the debian testing on there again, although I may be tempted into the official sarge version, as the server is a 64 bit intel, and I think the dvd version of sarge I have has the 64 bit intel kernel on (it definitely has the amd 64 kernel), so that may fair better.
MiD Dictionary app.
I recently revisited an old friend, MiD.
This is a nice little pop-up dictionary app, now available in two versions, one for OS5, and one for the others. I have pathced this before, some while ago, but it seems to have been neglected of late. I stumbled across it while looking at some other stuff, and decided to give it a look as it allows storing of the dictioary databases on the memory card, always a nice touch for this type of app, to reduce memory load.
I have so far managed to do a self-keygen for the OS3/4 version, and MAY have made the OS5 version non-expiry, but I'll need to wait on that before I am happy releasing it.
Cryptos
Following a request, I just completed a patch for Cryptos, a little code-cracking game.
I did a 'take any serial' patch along the lines of the earlier patches for this app, but then dug a little deeper using Southdebugger, and found a way to keygen it.
The serials appear to be username independant, but you can produce as many as you like using this keygen patch.
Chatteremail – MatrixSSL
Well, my Matrix trial finally expired today, so I got to try my patches.
It looks like I've finally found a way round the expiration. I've basically patched the app to restart the trial period each time, then killed the trial pop-up alert, and so far it seems to be working OK.
I'll test some more today, and if all seems well, I'll release it later this weekend.
pdAbs
Done a self-keygen for pdAbs.
This app comes from the same stable as AcroWiki, and in theory the same type of keygen should work on that, but it doesn't.
I am more or less convinced that AcroWiki is in fact a crippled demo, rather then a proper shareware, and that is why the keygen doesn't function.
AcroWiki
Just made some adjustments to my AcroWiki patch.
Really must get round to playing with this app more.
Chatteremail
Released Chatteremail self-keygen a couple of days ago, based on the original keygen for version 1.0.6.4.
Haven't been able to keygen the ssl component yet, but haven't entirely given up, just need to keep looking. I have come up with a couple of alternative no-expire patches, and have another option waiting in the wings if they don't work. I'm now waiting for my ssl to expire so I can check them out.
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