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I want my Android back!!!!

2011-12-18T21:14:00.000+01:00

As for now I'm delighted with my Nexus S running Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich.
It's fast, beauty and seems to be very nice to battery.

But despite of this all, new Android have one big disadvantage...

Somebody stole all robots from it!!!!

In earlier Androids when somebody was calling you (or you was calling somebody), and this person haven't assigned image, you saw nice robot looking at you from the screen:

In Android 2.3 Gingerbread it looked like this:

This was continuation from earlier versions, like Android 1.6 Donut:

From the screen looked at you some nice Android...

In Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich somebody decided to resign from robot, and to replace it with some creepy face:

Without knowing that this is newest Android, I would think that I'm looking on some strange mobile thing from Microsoft.
It is worth noting that this on picture looks much better than this what you can see on real phone screen...

Everywhere where earlier you saw nice android, now you can see those creepy faces...

Additionally in GTalk in earlier versions you saw who from your list is using Android.
Even in Honeycomb (and earlier in Gingerbread) person logged-in from Android device seems like this:

But in Ice Cream Sandwich contact looks like this:

Android disappeared :-(

Also normal looking profile was replaced by this creepy face ;-)

So my message to Google is:
Give me my Android back!!!!!!

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Bloggeroid 1.9

2011-11-13T20:40:00.000+01:00

After very long silence something new ;-) This time new version 1.9 of Bloggeroid.

Main difference between this version and previous should be visible when you will compare how it looked earlier:

and this how it looks now:

All screens was altered to be more readable and nicer.

Bloggeroid should looks nice on different screen sizes, starting from G1 (Android 1.6 and screen 3.2 inch), next Nexus S (Android 2.3.6 & screen 4 inches) and finally EEE Pad Transformer (Android 3.2.1 and screen 10.1 inch):

Additional changes are on post editor screen, button Publish was moved up, Reset was removed (now it is option in Menu), also near to tags you can see icon for working with localisation :-)
Nie są to może jakieś gigantyczne zmiany, ale przyznam, że mnie się podobają :-)

Download it using this link - Bloggeroid in Android Market.

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OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs 3.0.0 - uploading without conversion to Google Docs :-)

2011-06-05T20:51:00.000+02:00

OK, I just created new version 3.0.0 of OOo2GD.

This version allows you to upload documents to Google Docs without conversion...

But because OpenOffice.org extensions repository doesn't work you can download it only from my project page ;-)

New things are:
- mentioned above possibility to upload documents to Google Docs without conversion,
- working with ODG graphics, but only without conversion.

If your document will be possible to convert you will see upload document in this form:

New thing is this "Convert to Google Docs format" checkbox. If it is checked (by default it will be checked, and you can change it in configuration) OOo2GD will upload document to Google Docs with conversion to Google Docs format.
If it will be unchecked you will be able to upload document without any conversion, you will upload binary file, and will be able to download it without any conversions. This means that formatting, formulas and similar things will untouched by Google Docs.... Sounds great? ;-) But it has one big disadvantage, you cannot work with such files in Google Docs. Google Docs works for those documents as storage.

If you will try to upload something in "unconverable" format, for example ODG graphic, you will see Upload window looking like this:

Updating works as always, both with files (so those documents uploaded without conversion) and documents.

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OOo2GD 2.4.0 - folders and HTTPS ;-)

2011-05-12T01:00:00.000+02:00

Today I got next e-mail from Zoho saying that they stopped supporting of HTTP connections, but users of my app are still using HTTP, so Zoho will extend time for moving to HTTPS for me, but I should change my code.
I like it :-)

So I'm doing it ;-)

As a result of this we have today new version 2.4.0 of OOo2GD ;-)

New:
- near name of document/spreadsheet/presentation in Google Docs you can see folder/collection name for this item,
- under items list in Google Docs you may see row of "buttons" named as folders/collections in your Google Docs, clicking on it will filter list of items only to those with this "label".

Changes:
- from now all communication with Zoho will be done over HTTPS (Google Docs communication should work on HTTPS from some time)

As for now OOo2GD doesn't support uploading of files without conversion, I cannot possibility to test it yet. But when Google will add this feature to any of my accounts I will start on adding this to OOo2GD.

As always, you can download new version of OOo2GD from OOo2GD page in extensions repository, or from project page :-)

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2011-04-16T14:31:00.006+02:00

I like Android, it is a dream for programmer :-)

Some time ago I saw presentation prepared by some EU Parliament member who wanted to show how many cell operators know about you.
It was "movie" showing location of this person with information about calls and network usage.

I always knew that cell operators had such data, it is part of technology. Your internet provider also know Mac address of your computer or router. Cell operators know always where is your phone because in case of call they need to route transmission to proper BTS. So your phone login into BTS, or many BTSes (it depends from this which standard it is and so on)... So I wasn't shocked but I wonder "how difficult" will be to do something similar using only phone? ;-)

It looks that it isn't too difficult ;-)

First we need to handle incoming and outcoming calls. To do this we need to register ourselves for receiving some broadcasts: android.intent.action.PHONE_STATE and android.intent.action.NEW_OUTGOING_CALL.
How to do it I found here.

Next we need to create service which will obtain localisation, and will store into file info about time of call, direction (so incoming or outcoming), phone number, localisation (so latitude and longitude), accuracy of location, provider name (so GPS or Network, where Network describes both cell network and WiFi network), and if we will be able also "address". This is easy part, and most tricky thing for me was to wrote it in this way that we first will try to use GPS, and if we will not have location from GPS in 5 seconds we will try to use Network.

Last part is code for displaying results of our autoinvigilation ;-)

Here results on my Nexus S :-)

Here sample with result from Network (WiFi):

How you can see we have here rather good accuracy, about 60 meters (radius of circle shows accuracy). Btw. it is near KRK Google office ;-)

Here you can see more "global" ;-) view. Little circle near upper left corner is this what you saw on picture above:

Here how looks my all connections to now, from the right you can see Kraków and my connections in Kraków (those you can see on pictures above):

And now how it looks when almost only GSM network is used ;-)

If you are interesting in seeing the code, you can find it here.
If you want APK file, you may find it here.

Isn't it cool that you can write something like this in less than 300-400 lines? :-)

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Watcher ;-)

2011-02-15T23:00:00.002+01:00

I already flooded my Polish blog with pictures of one of my Android figures ;-) exactly this one which stays in my office, and watch for my company laptop ;-)

Here another one, this was watching my telescope ;-) (Dobson 8 inches, and it isn't exactly mine, it belongs to my mother, but because I "trade" it with her for Galileoscope I call it mine ;-))

Btw. I'm trying to attach to this post my localization (but I'm not sure if this blog will able to show it) as a part of testing for something what I want to add to Bloggeroid :-)

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Chrome2Chrome - lets move browser tabs between computers ;-)

2011-01-06T01:12:00.003+01:00

Some time ago I created new plugin for Google Chrome.
It is called Chrome2Chrome and works similar to Chrome2Phone. But instead of sending pages to your Android phone it is able to send page to another computer with Chrome :-)

Here video showing how it works :-)

Now some details ;-)

If you are using 2 or more computers, sometimes you are reading something on one computer and want to change computer and you may like open on second computer those tabs which you have on first machine.

Normally you may copy addresses of pages and send it to yourselves by e-mail, you may try to type addresses again by hand, you may add page to bookmarks, etc.

With Chrome2Chrome you simply need to click on Chrome2Chrome icon, choose computer where you want to send this tab and this is everything what you need to do :-)
Chrome2Chrome will "move" your tab to selected Chrome installation.

It's not a magic ;-) it's crafty usage of Google Docs ;-).
When you sends your page to another computer Chrome2Chrome creates special file in Google Docs in folder Chrome2Chrome, and second computer reads this file and opens new tab with address from this file :-)

Warnings:
Chrome2Chrome generate rather big traffic, it may be about 10 MB per day (count as 24 hours) per one browser. So if you want to use it on Cr48 you should know that it may simply eat your whole 3G transfer.
Chrome2Chrome creates some files in your Google Docs, all those files are placed in folder Chrome2Chrome, but are also visible in "All items" in Google Docs.
Chrome2Chrome stores your Google Account credentials in your Chrome, so NEVER use it on machine where somebody may have access to it.

It's beta, so it may have some problems :-) After installation you need to go to Chrome2Chrome icon and provide your Google Account credentials, and name of computer. This name will identify browser.
After setting Google Account credentials and computer name you should wait about 15 seconds and go again to Chrome2Chrome icon and to check if you can see this newly "crated" computer in "Send To", if not, please repeat setting name and credentials.
I never had problems here, but I heard about people who had problems...

You may download Chrome2Chrome from Chrome Web Store:-)

Hope you like it :-)

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Google Buzz - let's mark some comments as not spam ;-) or how to unhide "hidden" comments ;-)

2011-01-05T23:52:00.005+01:00

[this is translation from my blog post in Polish, so sorry for strange language ;-)]

I think Google Buzz is the best social network/system. FB is way too boring, Twitter with 140 characters is too cryptic for me, but Google Buzz is perfect.

But Google Buzz has some problems ;-) It can hide some comments......

After my investigation I think I found solution for this problem ;-) It will require some effort, but if you like your followers you may do some work for them ;-)

Lets start from some observation. All comments to your Buzz posts are visible in your stream when you are using API, but in web interface some comments disappear. You cannot see some comments on your profile (here is my profile ;-)).
But if you will go to your stream in GMAIL (by click on your profile in Buzz in GMAIL), what looks like this:

and will inspect comments with DOM Inspector or something similar (I was using Chrome developers tools) you will see that in DOM you have those invisible comments....

Here such post, on the first sight it looks that it has only 2 comments (sorry, it is in Polish, but we are interested only in this that here we can see only 2 comments):

But when we will inspect this with DOM inspector, we will see that one comment is hidden:

This hidden comment is differ from the rest of comments, it has additional class "zl", deleting of this class will cause that we will see this "invisible" comment:

How you can see this comment is crossed out, but visible.
But it isn't end yet.
If you will look into DOM, you will see that one of child nodes of node with this comment is:

So it has some "buttons", but those "buttons" aren't visible.
Inspecting other nodes we will find that one of those "buttons", exactly "Not Spam" is visible when we will add to this node class "xq":

When we will add this class, comment will look like this:

Now you may click Not Spam, and if you will do it, GMAIL will send request to URL
https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=<user_ID?>&rid=mail%3Ara.14bf.5.0&at=<some other user_ID?>&view=up&act=ra&rai=<post_ID>&raat=NOT_SPAM&_reqid=1783035&pcd=1&mb=0&rt=j

After click, this comment will change to:

And now the best part ;-) It will be visible for everyone who is able to see this buzz.

Now some code ;-)

If you have problems with Google Buzz and you want to be able to "restore" comments in way as I shown, here you will find some code.
You need to put it in address bar, or add it as bookmark and use this bookmark, when you will be on your stream view in GMAIL (my stream is visible on first image, to see your stream go to Buzz in GMAIL and click on your name :-)):

javascript:{var z=document.getElementById("canvas_frame").contentDocument.getElementsByClassName("zl"); for (var i=0; i<z.length; i++) z[i].className=z[i].className.replace("zl",""); alert("unhide "+z.length+" items."); var z2=document.getElementById("canvas_frame").contentDocument.getElementsByClassName("I0 Yc"); for (var i=0; i<z2.length; i++) z2[i].className=z2[i].className+" xq"; alert("added Not Spam to "+z.length+" items.");}

This is "delicate" or "subtle" version, which may don't work sometimes. In this case here you have more brutal way:

javascript:{var z=document.getElementById("canvas_frame").contentDocument.getElementsByClassName("zl"); for (var i=0; i<z.length; i++) z[i].className=z[i].className.replace("zl",""); alert("unhide "+z.length+" items."); var z2=document.getElementById("canvas_frame").contentDocument.getElementsByClassName("I0 Yc"); for (var i=0; i<z2.length; i++) z2[i].className=z2[i].className+" xq"; var z3=document.getElementById("canvas_frame").contentDocument.getElementsByClassName("nH Yi"); for (var i=0; i<z3.length; i++) z3[i].className=z3[i].className.replace("Yi","Yf"); alert("unhide "+z3.length+" items."); alert("added Not Spam to "+z.length+" items.");}

Because GMAIL is dynamic, you should run this code several times, till you will not see 0 in each alert message :-)

Now you may click on Not Spam and mark comments as not spam :-)

Hope it will help somebody ;-)

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2010-12-15T00:45:00.003+01:00

Let's start from old one ;-)

By last 2 years 1238 people used survey to say for what they are using OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs, and share with some ideas.
92% of all users uses OOo2GD mostly to work with Google Docs, next 4% for Zoho, and another 4% for WebDAV.

Here short list of those things which users wants and my comments :-)

Possibility to work with non converted documents - I like idea, but Google Docs API allows only to work with such documents when you are Google Apps user, so it will not be a feature for all users, and I'm not able to test it.

Support folders - I'm near of it, I think I will use "gmail approach", so instead showing standard folders [which may complicate UI] I think about using folders as labels in GMAIL, and about adding at the bottom or top of files list buttons with folders names to filter only given folder.

Mac OS support - yeah, I know it is broken now, and I have not idea how to fix it. If you know Java and have a Mac, I want to ask you for your help :-) If you have Mac, and you aren't Java programmer, but you are super calm, I want to ask you for make some tests (for example, you may test older versions of OOo2GD to check if any of them looks good, you may also test other Java/Swing extensions on Mac to check if this problem is OOo2GD specific)

Official Google support - lets say it in this way, my favorite comment is: "Would like official support from Google.
I think this is the missing link in bridging the Cloud OS Google Docs to Local computing.
Google should buy this from Mr. Przemyslaw and ask him to integrate it with Google Chrome OS." ;-) So I would like to make it more official, but here is move on Google side, not mine :-( But I doubt, I suppose that OOo2GD is too small to be even visible in Google logs :-)

Next survey, this time it was survey if you as users will consider donating OOo2GD with 5 USD to collect list fee for adding OOo2GD to Google Marketplace.
We have 50% votes for Nope, and 50% for Yes.
So I would rather not work on it :-)
As I wrote earlier, if nobody will want to participate, but a lot of people will want adding of OOo2GD to Google Marketplace I will pay those 100 USD it will not kill me ;-) but I don't want to spend money when nobody needs it :-)

OOo2GD help site

2010-11-29T16:39:00.002+01:00

I started to create page with some kind of help for OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs users.
Currently it describes all OOo2GD windows and gives short description of autoupdate aka synchronization feature.

I'm open for any suggestion according to this site, and OOo2GD :-)

So go and see help for OOo2GD :-)

I also started to collect users feedback in one area.
I was asked by some users to add OOo2GD to Google Apps Marketplace. I would like to do it, but Google wants 100 USD for it. It isn't much but it is still 100 USD which I may spent on something else ;-)
So I created form where OOo2GD users may "vote" for this if I should start to collect donations for adding OOo2GD to Google Apps Marketplace.

You may vote here:

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Voting for Yes you don't declare that you will donate anything, so don't afraid :-)
If you think that this whole voting, or considering donation isn't good idea, or you want say anything about adding OOo2GD to Google Apps Marketplace, please put your comments in this form.

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People doesn't read...

People doesn't read...

2010-11-23T12:38:00.005+01:00

It's sad but this conclusion appears after reading comments under post about Connect Cloud for MS Office.

A lot of people asks Google "when version for OpenOffice.org?".

Because OOo2GD can the same [as I may say from description] what Cloud Connect I put links to places where users may read about OOo2GD or download it.

And what?

Nothing ;-) People still asks "when version for OpenOffice.org?".

I would understand if they would write "OK, OOo2GD sux/I don't like it, I prefer version from Google, when it will be available?", but no. They simply doesn't read comments above and asks the same question continuously ;-)

It will be sad [for me] when Google will create theirs plugin for OO.org :-( It will be moment when development of OOo2GD will not have sense.
In ideal world ;-) they would take OOo2GD and fix it to theirs purposes ;-)
Nice dream ;-) but who in Google knows about OOo2GD?
Probably nobody ;-)

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OOo2GD 2.3.0 - new documents, and autoupdate in work ;-)

2010-11-03T02:02:00.003+01:00

After long time I present to you newest OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs in version 2.3.0.
New in this version is support for new documents in Google Docs [to turn it on in Google Docs go to Settings -> Documents settings -> Editing and check checkbox near New version...].
Thanks to this you can work on documents which shows all changes almost in real time.

You can see it on video above.
On the right side of screen you can see OpenOffice.org where I typed some text, on the left you can see open document from Google Docs [in Google Chrome].
After each saving of document in OO.org [here by CTRL-S] content of this document is in seconds moved to Google Docs where you can see it after some short time:

Currently interval for checking if document was updated in OO.org is equal 5 or 10 seconds.

If you will use autoupdate you need to know that OOo2GD has small bug causing that first update in autoupdate may doesn't work, but next updates of document will work :-)

As always you can download newest OOo2GD from OOo2GD page in OpenOffice.org Extensions Pages, or from project page.

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Bloggeroid 1.2 - let's make it simpler

2010-08-24T01:06:00.002+02:00

New version of Bloggeroid, this time 1.2.

Because last version was rather difficult to use (I know it, because I - author has problems with using it ;-)) so I tried to make it easier to use.

Saving to SD card disappeared from Publishing screen and is now available on Post Editor in Menu. Editing exiting posts was renamed to Load exiting posts, and now after choosing it you need to choose if you want to load post from blog or from SD.
Also loading post content from blog or SD changes content of post in Post Editor (generally it should be only one Post Editor).
To avoid situations when you will loose your post because you will hit Back when it will not be needed, I added special "feature" which detects using of Back button and shows text about this that if you want to close you need to use Back button one more time (exactly in 2 seconds ;-)).

Hope those changes will make Bloggeroid more predicable and more useful.

Please share with your opinions, and feature requests :-)

Here is QRCode for Android Market :-)

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2010-08-21T17:17:00.002+02:00

And here it is :-)
New version of Bloggeroid :-) This time with version number 1.1 :-)

Most important feature is saving posts to SD card, and reading posts from SD card.

Here you may see how blogging from Bloggeroid works:

And here how editing of existing posts works for posts from blogs, and SD card :-)

Here QRCode to Android Market :-)

If you will found any problems please send me information about it!

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2010-08-16T12:41:00.002+02:00

Communication.

As a developer I would like to have possibility to communicate with users. If they have problems with my App I would like to be able to communicate with them. To ask questions.

Currently only way to communicate is to use description or comment, but in both cases you are limited in size (for description limit is set to 325 characters). And truly both those "channels" are intended to something other.

Anybody with HTC Evo?

2010-08-16T01:07:00.004+02:00

It seems that Bloggeroid have big problems with HTC Evo. It's something with images but I cannot say what.

So I'm searching for anybody with Evo who will be able to help me :-)
I will create special version or versions of Bloggeroid, and owner of HTC Evo who will want to help will check if problem still exists ;-)

So, anybody with HTC Evo here? :-)

[I'm not able to test it, first I don't have Evo, second Evo will even don't work in my country or even on my continent :-) we have here GSM/HSDPA not CDMA or EV-DO :-)]

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2010-08-11T23:05:00.005+02:00

I just published my first app to Android Market :-)
It's called Bloggeroid and it's simple Blogger client for Android.

To download it go to Android Market and search for Bloggeroid, or simply use this QR code:

Bloggeroid is simple. First screen which you will see is screen for writing post. You will choose where to publish when your post will be written :-)

Here list of things which you may do with Bloggeroid:

to write a blog post,
to add picture or pictures to post,
to decide where in post content those images should be placed,
to use simple "wikisyntax" (**bold** and __italic__),
to publish your posts on any of your Blogger blogs,
to use multiple Blogger accounts,
to publish your posts as draft,
to edit existing posts,
to share images from gallery and send those images to your blog.

This all in stable and simple way :-)
App takes after installation about 120KB, so it will make happy users of all older phones like G1.

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2010-07-28T01:30:00.003+02:00

I'm currently working on some small Android project called Bloggeroid.

Bloggeroid is small and simple Blogger client. Currently it can only publish posts with multiple images to any blog connected to any Google Account (of course you can always send post without images ;-)).

Currently it has only about 34kB, so all G1 users should be happy ;-)

In comparison to more than 3MB of other solutions available on Android Market it isn't bad result ;-)

Anybody interested? ;-)

If you are interested here is link to APK file :-)

And movie showing how it works [this was done with older version, texts in presentation are in Polish ;-)]

Just testing my new Android app for blogging on Blogger :-)

2010-07-08T02:31:00.001+02:00

This is only a test of this how works my Android app for blogging on Blogger.

I was able to blog on my "main" blog, now I'm trying here :-)

Btw. question to OOo2GD users, do you noticed problems with downloading documents from Google Docs when you are using "new editor" feature of Google Docs?

I'm asking because I have solution [in code] for this problem, but this is only "half of" solution... I cannot update any documents when this "new editor" feature is enabled, it seems simply that Google Docs API doesn't follow Google Docs features in this area.

[End of test blog post :-)]

Buzz Troll Remover v0.3.2

2010-05-22T14:25:00.002+02:00

If you are using Google Buzz you might notice that Buzz lacks one feature. Hiding or blocking comments from some people under others peoples buzzes.

When you are following some popular person its almost sure that one or two commenter of buzzes from this person will be rude, unpleasant, too talkative or at least boring.
In other words, it is almost sure that you will meet an Internet Troll :-)

You may fight with it, but it isn't the best way, it is one of the worst. Internet trolls loves to fight and fighting with them gives them power.
So better way is to ignore, but ignoring is difficult when somebody writes unpleasant, rude or stupid comments.....
And in this place Buzz Troll Remover is :-)

You simply need to install it, and after this you will see in Buzz in your Gmail small [x] near name of each person in Buzz:

After you will see prompt with question if you really want to hide all comments from given person:

Movie below shows has it works :-)

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2010-05-02T14:35:00.003+02:00

[Update I just changed demo to new version, now on my machine it reaches speed from 90 to 100-110 fps per second :-)]

I was wondering if it is even possible to create Gouraud Shading with JavaScript.

And answer is yes :-)

Here is a proof on youtube :-)

I was wondering also if it is possible to run it on G1 on Android 1.6, and answer is also yes:

As you can see on Chrome we have about 30-40 fps [when recording was of it was almost always near 50 fps on my laptop with Intel Core Duo 2 2.2 GHz on Chrome 5, 20-25 fps on Firefox], on G1 it was only 0.5 fps :-)

If you want to check how it will work on your machine you may try:

If you are reading this post by RSS or Buzz you may use direct link to demo :-)

It will work on Chrome, Chromium and Firefox. I don't know why it doesn't work on Opera :-(

Earlier versions of this worked about 5-10 times slower but it was caused by using fillRect(int,int,int,int) of Canvas object, now I'm working directly with pixels and this gives us big speed boost :-)

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OOo2GD 2.2.0 - autoupdate extended ;-)

2010-04-04T23:17:00.003+02:00

Available is new version of OOo2GD, this time with version number 2.2.0
New thing which you may find in this version is adding of autoupdate to upload/update window in Google Docs.

It works in this way that when you will check this autoupdate checkbox during export of your document to Google Docs each Saving of document to disk [so each time when size or modification date of file will change] will cause in that OOo2GD will update your document in Google Docs with new version.

As always you may download newest version from OOo2GD page in extensions repository of OpenOffice.org or from project page.

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ePubGenerator v0.0.3 - from OpenOffice.org to EPUB :-)

2010-03-02T01:34:00.002+01:00

Short info ;-) Last week I started to work on new AddOn for OpenOffice.org. This AddOn called for now ePubGenerator will let you to publish your documents from OpenOffice.org as EPUB ebooks.
Currently ePubGenerator version 0.0.3 is available, and still it is very early beta.

What it can?

export your OpenOffice.org documents to EPUB format
You can set title, author, subject, description and so on
images in publication should be placed in EPUB file and should be displayed

Still ePubGenerator 0.0.3 doesn't let you to use chapters, your ebook will have only one chapter [I hope I will be able to fix it in next release], sometimes some texts may be lost [I found it with only one ebook], AddOn left mess on your disk [in your working directory you will find new directory with name like folder1267483747244 which is used to generate your ebook], result files are saved for now only in your working directory under names like folder1267483747244.epub.

After installation you will see new tooblar with one button ePubGenerator:

When you will click it [with open document which you want to export] you will see window:

after you put your informations about Title and so on you may click Generate EPUB and after a while you will see dialog saying where you may find your EPUB file [this message may be somewhere under another windows]:

I will be happy to see any suggestions :-)

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OOo2GD 2.1.2 - small fix

2010-02-26T22:12:00.002+01:00

New version of OOo2GD with version number 2.1.2 is available.
This version except version number ;-) differ from version 2.1.1 in data format used in Import Window. Now this will be something like 2010-02-26 22:17:16, this format is sortable [OK, dates are generally sortable because we have here order relation, but this format is lexicography sortable, or something like this ;-)] and if you are running your OOo2GD on Java 1.6 or higher you will able to sort documents in Import Window by modification date.
From other thing, I today tested OOo2GD with Java 7 preview and it works :-)

To download go to OOo2GD page in OpenOffice.org Extensions Repository or to OOo2GD project page.
You may also as always use Update from Extensions Manager in OO.org :-)

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OOo2GD 2.1.1 is ready :-)

2010-02-18T02:34:00.002+01:00

I wasn't sure what to do this evening, learning to SCWCD exam wasn't at the top of list of my desired thing to do ;-) the same learning algorithms and preparing for my Big Secret Plan ;-) So I decided to look at OOo2GD code ;-)

As a result of this looking we have new version of OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs, this time with number 2.1.1.
Most visible change is in Import Window, to now in window for Google Docs, and in window for Zoho you saw different formats of dates, now it is one format, and this format is "sortable" what should be helpful for those who run OOo2GD using Java 1.6.
This version should also fix problem with empty folder/directory for storing downloaded documents.
Another cosmetic change is the fact that from now you will not see message after successful upload/update.
Also error messages should be more informative :-)

As always you may download new version from OOo2GD page in OpenOffice.org AddOns repository or from project page.

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