Desktop Maintenance Tool (DMT) Version 0.90 is available on the eComStation BetaZone.  This is a recently added utility to automatically maintain the WorkPlaceShell INI files.  It is intended to run from the config.sys and normally requires no user intervention and almost no configuration. It will check, clean and backup your ini files for easy recovery, when needed. Current version is distributed as a zipfile, please refer to the enclosed dmt.txt for installation instructions.  Please be sure to back up your os2.ini and os2sys.ini files before installing this utility. 

Changes in v0.90:

• better detection of the Desktop when is missing
• better handling of files with multiple handles
• better handling when moving objects to the RecoveredObjects folder
• a new option (/A) to analyze INIs from other machines without getting errors because drives and files can’t be found.

The newest release of Suntan Special, version 0.63 is available. Suntan Special is a system configuration tool that installs and maintains a collection of useful software to OS/2 or eComStation systems.

Current Suntan Special users are entitled to a free upgrade to 0.63. The upgrade may be downloaded by using the update feature of Suntan Special.

The price of Suntan Special is $24.95 including media, an instruction booklet and shipping.

Version 0.63 is a bug fix and applications refresh. Thanks to current users whose many suggestions have been incorporated in the new version of Suntan Special.

Links:

• http://www.blondeguy.com/suntan6.html
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Silvan Scherrer has released SMPlayer 0.8.0 build2 for OS/2 and eComStation. SMPlayer is a Qt 4 based GUI front-end for MPlayer, a command-line movie player that is available for many systems and supports a wide range of formats and codecs, either natively or via Win32 DLL codecs. For instance, you can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV, and even H.264 movies. SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more.

See the readme.os2 for requirements and installation. Changes in this version: 
2012-05-14 
  * updated to SMPlayer version 0.8.0 
 
Report problems at http://svn.netlabs.org/qtapps

Since the project relies on funds made by the OS/2 and eComStation community, please consider making a donation:

http://shop.mensys.nl/uk/catalogue/mns_NetlabsQT4.html

Links:

• ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/smplayer/SMPlayer-0_8_0-build2.zip
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ZipZap 1.27 (1998/01/08) is now open source software under the GNU GPL V2 license.

ZipZap is an archiver tool integrated to the WPS enviroment. Developed by Gary L. Robinson.

Screenshot:

http://www.os2world.com/images/stories/2012/zipzap.png

Gary L. Robinson does not develop for OS/2 anymore and released it as open source. ZipZap was originally shareware software, and currently I was only able to find the shareware binaries.

 If anybody is willing to recompile this software to remove the registration box, or if anybody has a serial number please write back to me to include it on the package.

 Link: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php

Martin

Links:

• http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php
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MailRun 1.23 (1997/05/03) is now open source software under the GNU GPL V2 license.

 MailRun is a small (both in the size of the executable file and the amount of screen real estate if takes up) and fast program to monitor your Pop3 mail account. It is part of NetChat 1.0. Developed by Gary L. Robinson.

Screenshot:

http://www.os2world.com/images/stories/2012/mailrun.png

Link: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php

Thanks to Gary L. Robinson for making it open source.

Links:

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Within the next couple of days we plan to deliver a Java Plugin (Beta version) based upon IcedTea and OpenJDK 6. We are sorry that we had to change the priorities and release Java 6 GA2 without the plugin. But we thought that updating the core and all the fixes we did, was worth a new release. We believe GA2 came along very nicely. The GA3 (including the plugin) should also be available within the next couple of days. In order to watch progress and see what we plan in GA3 (this is still subject to changes) visit: http://svn.netlabs.org/java/milestone/GA3'>http://svn.netlabs.org/java/milestone/GA3 />
As the Java project is, at least partially, a donation based project, we welcome everyone to sponsor us. The sponsor link is: http://www.mensys.com/shop/NetlabsJava6'>http://www.mensys.com/shop/NetlabsJava6100% of these funds are used for Java exclusively. On http://svn.netlabs.org/java'>http://svn.netlabs.org/java> you see also a sponsor barometer.

I rebuilt firefox with the correct branding and uploaded it to netlabs.
Same code as the last preview. 

Fixes the focus problem and the font matching crash as well as various
cross-platform security and usability fixes.

Needs libc065.dll

Dave
 

Community support for the Mozilla applications is available through the newsgroups ’mozilla.dev.ports.os2’ or ’comp.os.os2.apps’. Messages posted to other forums may not be seen by the developers. For additional resources, see the "Links" section below.

Links:

• ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/mozilla/firefox-10.0.4.en-US.os2.zip
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Seamonkey is the combined web browser/mail program based on the Mozilla open source project.  

http://class='mailtolink'

I’ve uploaded seamonkey-2.7.2.en-US.os2.10.4esr.zip to netlabs. Main improvement is focus should work. Same cross-platform fixes as Firefox

10.04ESR. Requires libc065.dll

Community support for the Mozilla applications is available through the newsgroups ’mozilla.dev.ports.os2’ or ’comp.os.os2.apps’. Messageshttp://http://mozilla.dev.ports.os posted to other forums may not be seen by the developers. 

Dave

Links:

• ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/mozilla/seamonkey-2.7.2.en-US.os2.10.4esr.zip
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I’ve uploaded thunderbird-10.0.4.en-US.os2.zip to netlabs. The focus issue should be improved and this is built with libc065.

Community support for the Mozilla applications is available through the newsgroups ’mozilla.dev.ports.os2’ or ’comp.os.os2.apps’. Messages posted to other forums may not be seen by the developers. 

Dave

Links:

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Paul Smedley has updated Scribus to 1.4.1GA code.
http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.id.au/index.php

"Scribus is an Open Source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout."

Download: http://class='extlink'http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus/1.4.1/scribus-1.4.1-os2ecs.zip/download

/>Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at http://class='extlink'http://mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you’d like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul’s website, or using the Mensys
Online Store http://class='extlink'http://www.mensys.net/os2ports/>

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Paul Smedley has updated MySQL to v5.1.62.
http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.id.au/index.php

"MySQL 5.1 Community Edition is a freely downloadable version of the world’s most popular open source database. It is supported by a huge and active community of open source developers and enthusiasts."

Download: http://class='extlink'http://sourceforge.net/projects/ecsports/files/MySQL_v5.1.x/mysql-5.1.62-os2-20120501.zip/download

Requires: http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.5-csd5.zip
and http://class='extlink'http://sourceforge.net/projects/ecsports/files/GCC%20Runtime%20DLLs/gcc446.zip/download

Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at http://class='extlink'http://mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you’d like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul’s website, or using the Mensys
Online Store http://class='extlink'www.mensys.net/os2ports/