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BlogMatrix Sparks! 1.7.1-beta for Windows available

edit David Janes 2004-12-15 22:36 UTC 1  comment  ·

Sparks! 1.7.1-beta for Windows is now available. There's a number of important changes:

  • Sparks! now installs in its own directory, independent of Jäger. We are going to remove radio recording from Jäger and let Sparks! specialize in this. The 1.6 numbering will remain for Jäger versions; 1.7 will be the beta s for Sparks.
  • The My Directories and My Subscriptions notebook is now gone. Everything is in the one tree control.
  • Sparks! is now a first rate weblog reader. Use the "My Bloggers" to store your weblogs.
  • Import your old blogs into Sparks! by using OPML. We'll have a proper UI function for this soon, but for now just right-click on "My Bloggers", choose "Subscribe..." and select the OPML file.
  • You can move weblogs back and forth between My Bloggers and My Podcasters by drag and drop.
  • There is a control bar on the bottom which we will explain in another post. The most important button is the green triangle in the lower-left corner which will bring you to the next unread posting.
  • There is a search area available but its just for show! It's not quite finished yet.
  • The web browser has a location area above it showing what you are looking at

Comment #1 — mauricio

2004-12-16 18:47:01
hey dave:

great integration for blog reading in Sparks. In the spirit of helping, I want to send you the log for one of my latest radio recordings. Where should I send it?

Here are my issues:

1) Although the recording + encoding succeed, the log gives a CPU detection warning in the log.

2) Everytime I shutdown and restart Sparks, it forgets that iTunes is my podcast player. This becomes a problem with scheduled recordings because even though the recording + encoding succeed, the item never gets added to my iTunes playlist. This is reminiscent of that text field erasing bug in an earlier Jaeger build. This time around, I've done some testing and determined that recordings do not get added to iTunes when Sparks does not know that iTunes is the default podcast player (despite the settings in Preferences saying otherwise).

Otherwise, as usual, powerful stuff man. Keep at it.
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