Quick Clip 0.2 Released!

Today I am happy to announce the release of Quick Clip 0.2. If you've been following along with Quick Clip's development, you'll know that I've been actively working to make it more robust and user friendly.

(skip down to the bottom of this post for the download link).

If you are unfamiliar with Quick Clip, here's a brief rundown:

Quick Clip is a statusbar plugin for the Nokia Internet Talets and maemo operating system that easily allows you to save off text data. Whether the text be something you want to jot down, or contained in a webpage, Quick Clip automates the whole process.

It just takes a couple of clicks to save off a peice of information. And best of all, with Quick Clip's easy to use interface and easy data categorization ability, you'll never misplace that information you wanted to save.

That said, there are quite a few new features in this release:

• You can now specify whether the Options/History menu appears on the top or bottom of your target files
• There is a whole new "Manage Files" dialog; gone is the editable wordlist in Notes. You can now use the Manage Files menu item to easily add, rename, sort, and delete your target files.
• I also considerably cleaned up the code (there still is a bit more work to do), so things should run quicker and cleaner.
• I've also heavily worked on making the installation more seamless. I don't think there will be all the upgrade problems we had last time.
• Quick Clip is no longer a beta, but a full blown release
  

But there are still a few limitations/things you should be aware of:

• When using the Manage Files dialog, deleting or renaming files doesn't do anything to the files you have stored in memory. It just executes the appropriate action to Quick Clip's interface to those files e.g. if you have a file called "a.txt" in memory, and you rename it to "b.txt", then clip text in to "b.txt" this will happen: Quick Clip's link to a.txt will be removed, and b.txt will be created and the selection will get clipped into it. Thus, you will have any data prior to renaming a.txt still in a file called a.txt and any new data in a file called b.txt.
• Quick clip has still not been uploaded to the Maeno Extras repository, so dependecies will still have to be satisfied manually.

Quick Clip depends on:

python2.5
python2.5-hildon
python2.5-gtk2
python2.5-hildondesktop
hildon-desktop-python-loader

If you have the Maemo Extras Repository enabled, this will install these dependencies:

Run in the Terminal, as root:

apt-get install python2.5 python2.5-hildon python2.5-gtk2 python2.5-hildondesktop hildon-desktop-python-loader

Now you can install Quick Clip like any other application.

Obligitory screenshots:









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And finally, here is the download link: Quick Clip 0.2

Please report any problems, feature requests right here in the comments, or hit me up with an email (my email address can be found in Quick Clip's Help).

Hello World!

This is my first post in my new blog -- Brent's Tech -- and I just want to say welcome. This blog is dedicated to mobile technology, and more specifically focuses on the Nokia Internet Tablet series and the platform that runs on those devices (Maemo).

You're read here my thoughts, ideas, and development ramblings concerning Maemo and other mobile platforms.

I hope you enjoy your stay.