Launcher X Release Update

I'm looking forward to it also. Their performance with Launcher III and their other products give me hope.

For all the critics out there, I hope you will think about this before jamming someone up for not releasing software that YOU want (ala the second post above)...

The author, Bozidar, has had several personal problems which have greatly distracted him from working on this app. In a recent email, he informed me that he was, indeed, starting work again. I'm delighted to see he has made some progress!

I hope people will think twice before bashing or criticizing. I'm tempted to do the same when I am eagerly awaiting a product that seems to take forever to come out. The author's personal issues (which should always take precedence over software development) might be a reminder to all of us not to make assumption or jump to conclusions.

So if a legitmate company that charges money for its product handles a delay poorly, it should not be criticized?

I doubt anyone would disagree with the fact that personal problems precede working on software. But if personal problems affect the way a *company* behaves, it should come as no surprise that their customers might react with some "lack of faith." They put up a website months ago. They solicited purchases of LauncherIII to be able to upgrade to LX(one presumes in a reasonable amount of time) and the very least they could have done is inform their customers long before they did.

I didn't see the earlier post as bashing, just a statement regarding poor customer relations.

Many of us know and appreciate the quality of LIII. While we hope that LauncherX sees the light of day and is an excellent product, it doesn't eliminate the commercial realities of a company that is in business to profit. I fail to see how disappointment and disillusionment in a company's behavior translates to bashing. Or is this just a case of "everyone should make nice?" If so, let's include the makers of LauncherX in that formula.

HELLO! We're not talking about a big company with teams of coders cranking out new versions of software, who's VP had a bad day. It's a single person doing most of the work, with some help from other people. For chrissakes give the guy a break. How would you feel if something horrible happened in your family (no, I don't know what happened, and it doesn't matter) and people got all pissy that you weren't ignoring your family just to write some piece of software for a bunch of ungrateful whiners?

If I were Bozidar, I'd tell all you whiners to go f*** yourselves and ask Ed to track down the users posting anonymously with trash talk and deny them the priveledge of purchasing the software. But I'm sure he won't do anything of the sort. I'm sure that when the software is released, he'll continue to apologize for the delay.

Now stop whining, and if you like the software after it's released, buy it. If not, then ****.

The advantage to PiDirect is that it doesn't have to load all of an app into memory from the card to run it. Apps load MUCH faster under PiDirect, and you don't neccasarily need 500K free to run a 500K application.

http://pitech.com/software/PiDirect2/PiDirect2.htm

PiDirect allows to have both the application and its asociated databases on the card working like if they were in RAM. SilverScreen only launches an app from the card, but it won´t "see" the databases, if I´m correct...The same with Launcher III, MegaLauncher, etc.

If you have a large enough memory card, you can free up RAM by storing your less frequently used apps there and then only loading them when necessary. Because Launcher III (and possibly Launcher X) copies the app stored on the card into RAM to run it, there is some lag time from the time the icon is tapped until the program is ready for use. The apps you store on the card should be non-critical or less frequently used apps. I wouldn't suggest running your datebook replacement from the card, but games should be OK. How the particular program is written will be the determining factor of whether or not resource DBs can also be copied to the card and still be accessible by the program. It's trial and error. I can store enough of my apps and info on the card that space is not an issue as far as my 8 MBs of RAM is concerned.

Silver actually sees apps from the main laucnher folder and not anywhere else. With PiDirect, I can for example put my CityMaps map on a single folder eg. Palm/Pidirect/CityMapsLondon/

I will run a careful test, but I am 90% sure PiDriect does not load entire PRCs and PDBs into main memory. I can say without hesitation that apps load twice as fast or better with PiDirect.

PiDirect does not copy the entire database over, only small parts that are neccesary. I was using a 10meg dictionary database with an older, non VFS version of TomeRaider, and I kept the dictionary in my PiDirect folder and it worked without any problems (I was using an 8meg N760 then).

Thanks for the tip. I'll check it out.

I agree. Palm Infocenter is by far the best Palm-only news site. If you want to complain about your news site try one of the other Palm news sites.

: I'm sorry, I did not contribute this piece of news.
: However, I do believe in PIC, and have contributed
: before more than once. It would of been nice for Ed
: to say (as he has done, I think) that this is
: not 'new', but FYI.

From Merriam-Webster:

Main Entry: news
Pronunciation: 'nüz, 'nyüz
Function: noun plural but singular in construction
Usage: often attributive
Date: 15th century
1 a : a report of recent events b : previously unknown information
2 a : material reported in a newspaper or news periodical or on a newscast b : matter that is newsworthy

You're right. This is not 'new', but 'news.' Two different meanings. You should try to use the dictionary more often if you're not sure of the meaning of words. It may help you to sound more coherent when posting.

It's easy to think of yourself only, but please try to be fair to PalmInfocenter and stop being so overly critical. I'm sure if you had a Palm news site, you wouldn't like people to chastise you for not getting all the Palm news at light speed.

For those who don't have the time to scour the net for all the latest Palm news (i.e. me), this is much appreciated. At the end of the day, it's nice to visit one site where I can get all the 'newsworthy' Palm news I need. Especially since some of us actually work all day and have a life/family after hours.

Besides, you can always skip over the articles you've already heard about or read. Let those of us who haven't enjoy it.


Jim

Who's a jerk? That's constructive criticism for you.

Terry, this note was just recently brought to our attention. We get a large amount of email and requests for more info on LX all the time, thus I ran the article. We are a news site, while everything reported is not always brand new, every article here is an FYI.

-Ryan
webmaster@palminfocenter.com

Hey pal! Yes, you up at the top there. Sorry but - what a load of shoyt Its a mint site! and its free! These guys probably bust their asses for this site for probably no reward. If you can do better...Fire away.

Silver is dead slow...