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txt-read is a simple app for viewing text files.

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From Google Code
A simple text file viewer for the Wii.

Features
Wiimote support
Front SD support
The display never breaks (by displaying too many lines than fit on one screen)
Uses the Wii’s basic text console
File selector

What is being worked on
Subfolders, and fix bugginess in file selector.
Partial displaying of long lines

Instructions
To load it, you can now use any method of loading homebrew.

The app will then ask you if you want to display line numbers. Press 1 for yes or 2 for no.

Then it lets you choose a file from the SD card. Currently, there is no subdirectory support, so text files must be in root.

Then you can use up and down to scroll, and home to exit.

Simple, eh?

Music player for the Wii. It has a nice interface and is skinnable. It plays mp3, ogg and other formats but does not work with wma, aac or flac. It is a native Wii application (no Wii Linux) with the intent of being a multi-source media player on the Wii.

DragonMedia Player will pick up files anywhere on your SD card, and plays sequentially once a file has started. Simply install into the HBC by copying the dmp folder in the zip file to /apps/ and run the program. Do not rename the folder as DragonMedia Player expects things to be in the correct order to function. For the changelog, please look inside either the source or the binary zip file.

Changes:

Added sid playback support.
Added snd/sndh/sc68 playback support.
Added language file support.
Tweaked a few things to refine more.
Fixed memory leak in emulated support.
Location in filebrowser is preserved when browsing to subfolders.

Drunken Coders got this on their page earlier this week.

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7 Raven Studios is an official Nintendo DS licensed developer and is looking for c/c++ programmers and 3D Modelers.

Applicants must be willing/able to work locally in Thailand.

For more information please write to:
info[at]7rs.it

Thanks to http://www.drunkencoders.com for the news.

Sephiroth_FF7 has updated his Chess game “ManyChess”. Sephiroth_FF7’s aim is to make it a Chess game with many different types of chess rules.

He is comming closer each release, so if you are a chess freak, you might not leave out this on your Memorycard.

Memento Tui Sceleris is an interactive novel like Hotel Dusk or Ace Attorney.

Keep track of your personal expenses with “My Expenses” by sandeman684.

Makisu is a Mortscript-based utility to create and provision XML files. Specifically, it creates XML files to set up e-mail and wireless accounts based on the settings you provide. For more information please read the documentation or check out the video tutorial! ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqOoQx36K0U )

The script pack is meant for devices running Windows Mobile 5 & 6 with Mort’s MortScript as the macro engine mapped to the Notes hardware button. Copy/paste plus many more tools and browser plugin options that a Windows Mobile lacks.

Discussion: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=382043

PockeTwit is a twitter client for the Windows Mobile Professional platform.

Features:
– A unique user interface
– Display public, user, and friends timelines
– Update status
– URL shortining with is.gd
– Reply to tweets
– Show profiles
– Clickable @names and URLs
– Option to check for new version on startup

Changes:

Bugfix and cleanup

Discussion: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=411536

ZodTTD has posted some work in progress news about his VLC port to the iPhone.

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While being a bit sick with a bad cold for the past week, I decided to get some work done on vlc4iphone. I have just released vlc4iphone v0.9.8 for firmware 2.0+ to beta testers.

vlc4iphone is a port of VLC to the iPhone and iPod Touch. It is a media player application that supports a wide variety of codecs, such as DivX/XviD, MP3, OGG, FLAC, MOV, WMV, FLV, etc. as well as streaming video and audio via HTTP, MMS, and (experimental) RTSP.

What’s new in this version:
– Now runs on firmware 2.0+.
– Improved user interface.
– Tons of bug fixes.
– Added experimental support for RTSP streaming.
– Improved playback performance in some decoders such as DivX/XviD.

Things to be aware of in this beta:
– For some users there seems to be some issues with volume in this release. Either volume can’t be changed, or there is a complete lack of volume. This is a high priority bug and I’m looking into it.

Once I iron out these last bugs, a public 1.0.0 release will be made.

Thanks,
ZodTTD