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Books.app is a simple eBook reader for the iPhone. It reads HTML and text files stored in your Media/EBooks folder, and is smart enough to enter subdirectories, if, for instance, you’ve broken a book down by chapters.

New in version 1.3.5

New options in Preferences panel: “Smart” text file conversion–if it’s ON, it’s the same behavior as always; if it’s OFF, you might have better luck with lists, or with books that don’t use double-newlines to denote paragraphs. Also, you can turn off HTML table rendering; try this if tables make your book’s layout too wide for the iPhone screen.

More subtle progress indicator on launch, and improved cover splash if you have cover art for your books.

Miscellaneous optimizations and bug fixes.

http://code.google.com/p/iphoneebooks/

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After months of silence and recoding, here it is! PDRoms is back – your favorite legal rom archive. Play games or use tools on real hardware or just in an emulator of choice!

The page is not really in the shape we want to have it, but before our coder celeth is getting busy again… here it is!

What is done so far:
* Main News
* News Archive (News before 2002 are lost, news between 2002 and 2006 need a recategorization, because while converting the old database the formatting has been lost! – This is a task which will take some weeks)
* File Archive for many many systems! Around 700 files are up, more to come – This task will also take some time to get back to the old > 2200 Files.
* Three MAIN RSS Feeds – “News” – “Latest Files” – “Last Updated Files”
* Each category has the option of own WWW news along with two feeds, systemspecific news and systemspecific “new files”. If you are not interested in the whole bunch of homebrew, just make sure you visit your favorite system page
* Downloads are FREE and don’t need registration

What needs work?
* Registration system – Sorry it’s not public yet, but if it goes public you will have some “extra features”
* Adding extra features
* Possible display problems in Opera – we are on it!

Thanks to celeth for the new framework and kedo for helping to pull few files up! Kudos to them!

Here is also a special message for my beautiful wife Rabia – Thanks for your patience, I know the work on PDRoms drained our free time 😡 – Without your love it would also not be possible to gather all the energy to run such a project. Thanks for your support!

-Kojote / 12th October 2007

PS: Now it’s back up to you to bring PDRoms back to glory – spread the word!
PSS: If you have a digg account – http://digg.com/gaming_news/PDroms_Back_Online_and_at_Full_Status

http://www.pdroms.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=385

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PiMPStreamer is a realtime video/audio streamer from your PC to your PSP (Playstation Portable). Any format/size avi/mpeg/wmv/etc can be streamed without any delay.

Now with an extra addition: any FLV capable browser/system can also use PiMPStreamer (including Wii or PS3).

No need for muxing, converting etc… Just get some WIFI connection and you can watch your flicks everywere! (Streams even over internet).

Remember for the PSP you install the PSP binaries in order to stream, for the other systems you use the internal webbrowser of the system to connect to pimpstreamer.

http://www.pimpware.org/

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Here is a new release of PSP-FTPD the FTP server for your PSP.

Changes:

– Now compatible with fw3x-0E

http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/archives/231-PSP-FTPD-A-FTP-Server-on-your-PSP-v0.4.0.html

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spinal_cord released a new version of Menu. It should work on all the cards that chishm’s loader works on, but for some reason it fails on gbamp.

Changes:

Folder support
Smoother scrolling
GBAMP detection and loader (the dldi loader fails for some reason)

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=14309

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Directly from ZodTTD’s homepage:

Currently 56.52 percent of zodttd.com visitors would like to hear me ramble. This is great news! I love to ramble on. It usually is about something technology related, but this special 56.52% want me to specifically talk about my ongoing development projects. Crazy, I know.

So to please the the majority, I have whipped together this summary of instant gratification.

– PSX4ALL
This is what keeps me active within the homebrew gaming community. I’ve been working on it for years now, and sometimes it gets better. For those of you who are strangely unaware yet reading this, psx4all is a Sony Playstation emulator focused on being portable within a range of low-performance handhelds. The largest community of users of psx4all is the great GP2X handheld community.
Unai has been busy with his day job and has been unable to get much put into psx4all as of late. He’s done so much already, he deserves some rest.
Hlide is currently focusing on figuring out why my crazy dynarec is performing as well as it is. We tried some optimizations to the dynarec where we expected slight, but noticeable gains. We didn’t get the gains. So he is very determined to get this emulator in tip top shape, even if it means we start rewriting this emu from scratch and plug in some existing parts such as Unai’s already excellent GPU. Taking things step by step, Hlide is researching other dynarecs and static binary translation techniques and seeing how they handle things such as register allocation. It’s always good to learn from others who have been writing similar code and have dealt with pitfalls that are to be encountered. If this week of dynarec improvements to the current psx4all ARM Dynarec core don’t shape up, we may consider tearing out a lot of existing framework and using hlide’s work in progress psx emulator sources. This project is being worked on by at least one team member every day. It may be the Craiginator handheld that brings this emulator to life though.

– DOSBOX
I recently got back in touch with c2woody (“wd”) from the DosBox team. I am getting my Sharp Zaurus C1000 out. Dusting it off, and compiling the 0.72 DosBox build for it. The next step, get an ARM Dynarec running! Simple? No. Fun? Yes!

– CRAIGINATOR
Wouldn’t OpenTTD be really cool on a wide resolution VGA touchscreen? Wouldn’t DosBox be better with a hardware based keyboard and an ARM Dynarec to allow for more “recent” DOS titles? Wouldn’t PSX4ALL be great if it were running fullspeed, sound, and all, and gave me some room to not work constantly on performance but allow me to polish it up as well?

– COMMERCIAL DEV
I’m currently working for a great dev studio on commercial handheld development. While my freetime is limited, I strive to use that little bit to get my projects done. All the while, keeping you, the reader, informed.

http://www.zodttd.com/

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Here it is – Anti update for the psp Slim & Lite. It’s a plugin to hide the UMD update icon.

http://forums.qj.net/f-psp-development-forum-11/t-release-anti-updatepsp-slim-ready-123915.html

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Victor Raymond decided to enhance the homebrew PSP Trivia v1.0 by Anonymous D, because his trivia was very limited to the things.

New features and changes:

– Added background music at selection screen (less boring)
– Hold “select” to see Previous Answer (very useful)
– A simple shortcut to play the Trivia on PC (useful when your psp is low battery at school, don’t say it will never happen, procastinator)

– Press “Start” to stop Trivia and see your result at anytime
– Questions can now take up to 4 lines!
– Proper Score counting (bug fixed)
– Trivia now support up to 15 quizzes
– Trivia now support up to 25 questions per quiz
– New Skin (jpg) and layout design by ME

http://forums.qj.net/f-psp-development-forum-11/t-release-vtpw-lua-trivia-v10-124014.html

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Here comes another Flasher application for PSP.

Changes:

-Fixed Bugs on Backup
-Changed exit button from L+R to SELECT
-Changed some folder names, to get prepared for 3.71M33 compatibility.
-Changed Battery Limits:
*If you are under 30%, you either plug in your AC adaptor to continue,
or press X to exit.
-Corrected grammar and mistakes in “USERS GUIDE.txt”

http://forums.qj.net/f-psp-development-forum-11/t-release-flash0-spacer-v201-124043.html

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This is a button remap application for PSP by Auraomega.

http://forums.qj.net/f-psp-development-forum-11/t-release-psp-re-map-v1-99501.html

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