Minimo on the iLiad: Part 2

It seems that compiling Minimo for the iLiad wasn't necessary. In early firmware versions, you could use the standard Minimo installation to browse the web. Although, you didn't have your own address bar or navigation buttons. Further on, iRex patched their code to prevent this. I was digging around in the firmware today when I found the launch mozilla script. After setting Minimo to use the modified libX11 and replacing the included chrome templates with that of another Minimo release, I was able to get a working web browser.

There are still a few things that need to be done before I can release it. I have to test whether or not it can function in a non-standard directory (so that it can run from the compact flash card). I also need to work out screen refreshes. Right now it does a full refresh every time the page loads. This can get annoying. I should be able to get it to work with a partial update. It's very cool to have a full featured browser on the iLiad. I can now check Gmail on the go.

For ongoing discussion, click: here.

PDA Functions for your iLiad. Calendar, Contacts, Todo List

I've ported GPE Calendar, Contacts, and Todo for the iLiad. Since they share so many libraries, I've included them in a single package. GPE does not have any sync abilities that I'm aware of, so you won't be able to keep it updated with your PC. But, it's a step in the right direction.

It's a standard installer, unzip it to your memory card, and run on the iLiad.

Cross Posting from: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12861

Comic Strip Downloader

I've created a comic strip downloader for the iLiad. It uses the site http://high5.net/comic/ to download the day's comics.

There are two versions of it.

Automatic Daily Downloader

Manualy Initiated Downloader


The Automatic version is for more advanced users who have the unbricking package. It uses cron to setup an automatic daily download. With this version, as long as your iLiad is connected to the internet at 8am, your comics will be ready for you.


The Manual version is for the Average Joe. When you slect the program, it will check to see if it's updated today. If it has not, it will automatically open the connection manager, and download the day's comics. When finished, it will open FBReader and display the comic page. If it has already downloaded, it will simply open FBReader with the comics.

Whichever you use, it's a very cool way to read comics and show off some of the potential of the device.

Preparing for Developer Unbricking

With the release of general developer unbricking coming soon, I’ve started to prepare packages for many apps. From here on out, all of my packages will be released as ipk’s with a shell script installer. I’ve finished Abiword, including a script to modify er_registry, to allow you to open Microsoft Word documents directly from the contentlister. I’m working on Gnumeric now, and will update the FBReader package with the registry hack as well.

Pretty soon, anyone with the developer package and unbricking support will be able to open almost any document they’d like on the iLiad. These are going to be some pretty exciting times.