infoscape

Long time without posting blog entries, mainly because last two weeks have been a little bit stressing in and out of work. And I also have to admit that my brand new PDA took me many hours :P.

But don’t worry anyone, small fixes and features still on development. I hope a new infoscape to be released next month.

Recently, I found myself wondering which patterns do infoscape’s user community follow… which RSS feeds do they read? do they drink coffee or tea? how geek are they? well, my small database can’t answer most of these questions, but at least a few SQL queries revealed me the 10 most readed feeds by infoscape users: now available on infoscape Live! homepage.

Pssst, guess what? Slashdot and Digg lead the list.

As promised, once again, a new version of infoscape is available with nice features for PodCast and VideoCast consumers. I don’t expect major features to be added anymore; this means that from now on infoscape enters in a bug-fixing cycle: minor fixes, resource usage improvements, memory leaks…

As I always do, I’ll keep appreciating your feedback and support.

Since infoscape’s initial logo was an original creation from Matt Brett, I decided to avoid the risk of being sued and so I created a new icon based on the same idea but giving shapes and colors a more “Web 2.0″ style. I hope you guys like it.

And if anyone doesn’t like it, I challenge good designers out there to share their skills with this proyect’s user community.

In infoscape 1.5, GDI+ library (gdiplus.dll) dependency was removed, but unfortunately neither the installer or the application take care of deleting this file (which is about 1 Mb) from application directory after overriding old versions with 1.5 or higher. If you don’t like to hold this bunch of useless (for infoscape) bytes in your HD, feel free to delete it. Important: Only delete this file from infoscape’s application directory! removing this library from other application or system folders might cause application crashes followed by uncontrollable user rage.

Okay, now that all the cool stuff is inside, I think this thing is mature enough to experience a week of alpha-testing. Just for those impatient, here is a small list of incoming features:

Infoscape user comunity is finally growing and this can be noted in reviews and download counts in different web sites. Clubic.com (French) has reviewed version 1.31 and allows download of version 1.5, Microsiervos.com (Spanish) has reviews for versions 1.4 and 1.5, Softpedia.com has included it between its files but with out-of date versioning and feature set (good user ratings here).