Fire is a lightweight themable GUI engine for J2ME MIDP2 applications, which also provides XHTML rendering support. It is designed to be an eye-candy replacement to the traditional midp GUI components and to be J2ME implementation independent.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fire-j2me/

wplaat is working on a BibleQuiz for Nintendo Wii. There isn’t a release yet, it will be open source once it’s finished.

Changes:

Add support for xml question files.
Add question result image with animation.
Add multi language support.
Add three hint buttons.
Add support for 60Hz (480i) TV mode.
Add score result screen
Add sndlib module with some sound effects
Add exit button
Add question word wrap function.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/BibleQuiz

A new beta of Wii Linux (Codename Miight) has been released. It has been worked on by Muzer and now includes a GUI (XORG) with wiimote support as a mouse and it has an on-screen keyboard as well as many other applications. Wifi is still untested.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wii_Linux

MPlayerWii is an audio/video player. It is a native port of the MPlayer media player.

Release notes:

MPlayerWii 0.07 with DVD support
Released by tipolosko. Requires DVDx.

MPlayerWii v0.07 DCelso & Qualith MOD R1
A modded version just to support sequential and random play. No SDHC support at this momment.

MPlayerWii v0.07 with sdhc support
Simple recompile using the latest libogc by sanderevers. Now supports SDHC

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/MPlayerWii

milesmowbray released an update to his YouTube search and player application Youtubeplay. It feels a bit like CorePlayer.

Youtubeplay allows you to search for videos in a nice friendly Windows Mobile 5 (and greater) application and then plays the full FLV video (not miniscule MPEG4 versions) with its own player. This application can download the FLV videos for offline use and also then extract the soundtrack to an MP3 file.

The app is written in a mixture of .net and C so you need the .net runtime, v2 or v3.5. The video player overlay is hacked out of TCPMP and the FLV part is based on FFMPEG.

Changes:

New – Added the facility to extract the audio as an MP3 from any saved FLV
Fix – HTC Streaming Media option should now work again

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=385227

APPSwitcher is a little VSH plugin that lets you categorize your homebrew for the XMB. By the press of a button combination you can then switch from category to category which then gets shown to you right on the XMB.

Changes:

ISO, GAME150 etc. directories now work
The content of the memorystick gets automatically refreshed (no need for the workaround of activating/deactivating the USB mode anymore)
The standard XMB functionality should now work correctly

Thanks to the author MK2k himself for the news.

http://www.mk2k.net/serendipity/index.php?/archives/24-APPSwitcher-PSP-1.1-New-Updated-Version.html

Plata and Mikau are working on an operating system for Nintendo DS named DS-Me. DS-Me is optimized to use a minimum of resources.

Release notes:

Beta 1:
Displays of the interpreter acting, posivilidad events on. Function of windows, buttons and text. Not adapted to the user.

In future versions, with this so you can do whatever you want as if it were your computer, but with something very important … You can do several tasks at once! Imagine being able to listen to while you read an mp3 file. With DS-I is possible!

Thanks to www.nintendomax.com for the news!

http://www.elotrolado.net/hilo_ds-me-el-so-definitivo-para-ds_1127767

PSPIRC is a basic IRC client for the PSP.

Changes:

– Finally fix issue with “Home -> Exit” !
– Add a built-in editor to edit commands & words list
(command.txt and word.txt files)
– Add eboot music from NeXuS
( see http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/nexus )
– Can now return back to Wifi menu
(No need to restart pspirc to connect to another hotspot)
– Bug fix in battery level display

http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/archives/352-PSPIRC-IRC-Client-for-PSP-v1.1.6.html

PSPSSH is a port of Dropbear, a small SSH2 Server and Client running on a variety of POSIX-based platforms.

Changes:

– Multi-session support !
(No need to restart pspssh to connect to another server)
– Add a built-in editor to edit commands & words list
(command.txt and word.txt files)
– Add eboot music from NeXuS
( see http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/nexus )
– Finally fix issue with “Home -> Exit” !
– Tested on firmware 5.0 M33
– Bug fix in battery level display

http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/archives/351-PSPSSH-SSH2-Client-for-PSP-v1.2.0.html

iWeather uses the weather feed from yahoo (or weather.com). When you run iWeather, you need to connect to the internet. Same for the Settings.exe.

Changes:

– Battery-Bug removed
– Settings will work without pushing “Enter”, just wait until validating has finished and press “Done”
– iWeather now caches the last update, so you don’t have to stay online the whole time
– refresh iWeather by tapping on the signal-strength in the upper left corner
– still no VGA support, sorry

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=441825