SumomOS update!

It’s been a while. I finally got (made) time to work on SumomOS a little. What’s new:

  • Cleaned up some glitches and generally tweaked the theme.
  • Removed the chalkboard variation, it’s just the pink chalkboard now.
  • Finished a few app skins – Safari, Mail, Address Book.

iTunes and iPhoto are going to be troublesome to skin – they mostly redo the whole GUI look. iPhoto isn’t so bad, but iTunes… Then there are the Adobe apps, the app itself doesn’t have any meaningful graphics to theme, it’s all in the plugins (one mostly), and I need to figure out how to get those into a template.

I hope to get most of the app skins done before Leopard hits. Or at least before ShapeShifter is updated to work with Leopard.

Enjoy!

2005 Old News

2005/4/19: PostgreSQL 8.0.2.

2005/4/16: MapServer binaries updated – removed X11 requirement from packages.

2005/4/9: MapServer binaries updated and separated to new downloads page.

2005/3/25: MapServer binaries added. Added SumomOS ME.

2005/3/12: GRASS update in the Mac OS X porting instructions.

2005/1/23: More refinements to the Mac OS X porting instructions.

2005/1/19: GRASS now at v6.0.

2005/1/10: Added OGDI install to the Mac OS X porting instructions and >2GB option to GRASS.

2004 Old News

2004/12/27: Added PostGIS install to the Mac OS X porting instructions.

2004/12/19: More fixes and additions in the Mac OS X porting instructions.

2004/12/4: Reorganized Mac OS X porting section.

2004/11/18: More fixes and additions in the Mac OS X porting instructions.

2004/11/9: Many fixes and additions in the Mac OS X porting instructions.

2004/9/25: More fixes in the Mac OS X porting instructions.

2004/8/22: Updated GRASS porting install instructions.

2004/8/5: Updated libpng – security update.

2004/8/1: Updated GRASS porting install instructions.

2004/7/24: More fixes in the Mac OS X porting instructions.

2004/7/17: More fixes in the Mac OS X porting instructions. Added GDAL install for GRASS and MapServer.

2004/7/1: Fixed up problems in the Mac OS X porting instructions.

2004/7/8: Updated install instructions for GRASS GIS and added new install instructions for MapServer.

2004/6/11: Updated install instructions for GRASS GIS.

2004/4/11: Updated Dark Horse status for Sazan Eyes and Oh! My Goddess!. There may be hope yet for Sazan Eyes.

2004/4/2: Started work on SumomOS.

2004/1/25: To heck with the Dark Horse Sazan Eyes status. Too slow.. See page for details. I hope Oh! My Goddess fares better ^_^

2004/1/20: Updated Dark Horse status for Sazan Eyes and Oh! My Goddess!.

2003 Old News

2003/12/10: Updated GRASS install – removed some unnecessary libraries.

2003/12/8: Changed Jaguar install note.

Updated GRASS install info for Panther.

2003/7/13: Updated Dark Horse status for Sazan Eyes and Ah! My Goddess!.

New section for Mac OS X porting info.

2003/7/25: Updated PAR2 to 0.3.

2003/7/13: Updated Dark Horse status for Ah! My Goddess!.

2003/6/16: Fixed unrar 3.20a installer package.

2003/6/13: New PAR2 utility.

2003/6/6: Updated unrar to 3.20a.

Updated Dark Horse status for Sazan Eyes and Ah! My Goddess!.

2003/3/5: Updated UnRarX to 1.5.3.

2003/3/1: Switched to normal StuffIt format for UnRarX and updated unrar to 3.10a.

2003/2/13: New Tarzan the Terrible (also the last available in the public domain for a while).

Minor update to Dark Horse status for Ah! My Goddess!.

2003/1/19: New Tarzan the Untamed.

Updated Dark Horse status for Sazan Eyes and Ah! My Goddess!.

2003/1/2: New Jungle Tales of Tarzan.

Updated Dark Horse status for Sazan Eyes and Ah! My Goddess!.

2002 Old News

2002/12/24: Updated UnRarX to 1.5.2.

2002/12/17: Updated unRAR Mac OS X and added instructions for updating UnRarX.

2002/12/8: Updated unRAR Mac OS X.

2002/12/6: Got bored and updated Pics.

2002/12/4: New Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, and proofed The Son of Tarzan.

2002/11/29: Updated Dark Horse status for Sazan Eyes and Ah! My Goddess!.

2002/11/22: New The Son of Tarzan, and proofed The Beasts of Tarzan.

2002/11/16: New The Beasts of Tarzan, and proofed Tarzan of the Apes.

2002/11/13: Updated (finally!) the Jaguar install instructions for command line apps.

2002/11/7: Proofed Tarzan of the Apes.

2002/10/31: New The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

2002/10/28: Updated Sazan Eyes Dark Horse status.

2002/10/9: UnRarX updated to 1.5.1

2002/10/5: New His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle. This is the last available Sherlock Holmes collection – there is one more still in copyright.

  • Updated Ah! My Goddess! Dark Horse status, and removed the last of the fan translations since Dark Horse has finally filled them in.

2002/9/29: UnRarX updated to 1.5, plus notes on installing CLI binaries in Jaguar.

2002/9/9: Added Sazan Eyes Dark Horse status and removed fan translations.

2002/9/2: New The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle.

2002/8/29: New The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.

2002/8/25: Updated Ah! My Goddess! Dark Horse status.

2002/8/24: New The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle.

New UIPS command line IPS patcher.

2002/8/20: New The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.

2002/8/18: New The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.

2002/8/16: unRAR Mac OS X updated.

2002/8/12: New The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle.

2002/8/11: Proofed Maiwa’s Revenge by H Rider Haggard.

2002/8/10: New eBook section for Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan!

2002/8/9: New Marie by H Rider Haggard.

2002/8/1: Proofed Tale of Three Lions by H Rider Haggard.

2002/7/27: Proofed Allan Quatermain by H Rider Haggard (and file size halved as well!)

Added version dates on all eBook listings.

2002/7/21: Removed a few fan translation from the Ah! My Goddess! manga, since Dark Horse has finally published the first of the remastered graphic novels. Also updated the Dark Horse status.

2002/7/10: New eBook section for Arthur Conan Doyle.

2002/7/9: Some small layout changes, including separate eBook pages by author, and general html cleanup. A couple eBook updates for H. Rider Haggard

2002/7/5: A couple new ebooks by H. Rider Haggard.

2002/6/29: UnRarX updated to v1.4.

2002/6/22: Cool – someone created a GUI front end for unRAR X.

2002/6/20: Yet another one, Arabian Nights vol 4

2002/6/18: New Arabina Nights vol 3, and fixed errors in vol 2.

2002/5/16: unRAR 3.0 out of beta.

2002/5/1: Updated unRAR.

2002/4/3: Woohoo! Dark Horse is “rereleasing” the early TPBs with the Super Manga Blast fillers inserted, in order, for Ah! My Goddess!

2002/3/28: Software section is back. 1st up is unRAR 3.0b5 for Mac OS X. Which means I had to update the WHOLE site again for the new link at the bottom of every page. Time to switch to frames (I’ve been thinking about it anyways).

2002/3/23: Proofed version of Long Odds.

Removed Yahoo email address. Yahoo wants to charge for accessing email with email software instead of over the web. Yahoo sucks.

2002/3/11: Proofed version of Hunter Quatermain’s Story.

2002/2/17: Proofed version of King Solomon’s Mines.

2002/1/26: Added a couple more Haggard eBooks.

2002/1/13: Added a couple eBooks and updated Arabian Nights vol 1.

Updated AMG! Dark Horse translation status.

2001 Old News

2001/12/31: Well, since nobody visits this page I didn’t notice right away that all the links pointed back to the old @home site. And I thought I checked that!

2001/11/20: Site moved.

2001/11/11: NEW eBook section. I plan to put the eBooks I’ve reformatted for iSilo. First one: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol 1, by Richard Burton.

Ditched the Let iCab Smile link – nice idea, but their validation doesn’t always work right.

Also dropped the Bandwidth Preservation Society link – they seem to be kaput.
Updated AMG! Dark Horse translation status.

2001/7/11: Decided to move the page back to @home.

Updated AMG! Dark Horse translation status.

I got a full set of the Video Girl Ai manga, so that’s going to slow down the Dragon Half manga. But, expect to start seeing VG Ai translations for Palm OS!

2001/3/9: OK, finally finished Dragon Half Book 3. Also added HTML versions of the Dragon Half manga.

Updated AMG! Dark Horse translation status.

I figured out my @home problems, but I’ll leave things at work for now (email is good to any address you find on the site – I haven’t synced all pages yet).

2001/1/29: Having continuous troubles with @home, so I moved the site to my works’ server. It’s not a big bandwidth drain, so it shouldn’t be a problem. Otherwise, that’s all. Still poking along at the Dragon Half manga.

2000 Old News

2000/10/1: Updated AMG! Dark Horse translation status.

  • Note: Editing of translations of volumes 2 & 3 of the Dragon Half Trilogy will take a while – none of the character names are prefixed to the dialog, so I must enter them all in as I go. Even with a scrapbook to paste them in, it’s laborious on a Palm.

2000/7/17: Woohoo! Finally got the timing right of remembering to do it and the Turnpike’s “Add Link” page being available. But it looks like they just updated the URL – I’m still only listed in the Personal Pages section.

  • Dragon Half Vol 1 Book 2 translation for Palm OS added. Also minor formatting change to Vol 1 Book 1.

2000/6/15: New Dragon Half manga translations (for Palm OS only).

  • Updated AMG! Dark Horse translation status.

2000/5/16: Cool! iSilo (for Palm OS) versions of the manga translations!

2000/5/7: Well, that was a long break! I’m just doing too many things at once – time to simplify again (it happens every few years).

  • Updated AMG! Dark Horse translation status.
  • Cleaned up the HTML so that my new favourite browser, iCab, will smile. So far the first stage of smiling is achieved (yellow/neutral smile) and maybe someday I’ll pick it apart some more to get the full blue smile ^_^
  • I have a new version of the GIS Converter ready, but I need to tidy up the package a bit and add some legal mumbo-jumbo.
  • I also have a new Kanji SKIP lookup application, but again I need to finish up some things first.

1999 Old News

1999/10/27: Updated AMG! Dark Horse translation status

1999/10/9: NEW DIGS! Finally got tired of the connection problems I’ve been having with ExecPC dialup (as well as tieing up my phone line) and went for a cable modem. Please update bookmarks.

  • Updated AMG! Dark Horse translation status
  • Oops. In moving my site I discovered that most of my anchor links were broken at the old location (fixed a few other things, also). Probably happened back when I reorganized my site ^_^

1999/9/9: It’s about time for another update – I’ve been a little too busy/lazy/distracted lately.

  • Updated the AMG! Dark Horse translation status

1999/5/1: Added 2 chapters to the Sazan Eyes translations

  • Updated the AMG! Dark Horse translation status
  • Updated GIS Converter v1.5.2. Bug fix, and added TIGER 97 support.

1999/3/31: Updated the AMG! Dark Horse translation status (I hope to be updating this more frequently now, about once a month – I just needed a Dark Horse bookmark in my monthly set ^_^).

1999/3/25: New GIS Converter v1.5.1. Bug fix.

1999/3/4: New GIS Converter v1.5. Added TIGER conversion (lines only).

1999/1/10: The Software page is done – just one application for now: GIS Converter.

I reorganized the file structure of this site a little. Links to all of the main sub-pages are changed and bookmarks will have to be recreated. Most files and deeper pages have the same links. Sorry for the inconvenience.

1998 Old News

1998/12/26: Added a bunch of new Misspelled Anime Titles. Enjoy. Also, the software utility page is almost ready.

1998/11/15: Started into volume 2 of Sazan Eyes manga:finished up Fujii Yakumo stories. A bit of a style change for the translation table of contents pages to make navigation a little easier. Lightened up the translation backgrounds some more so the pages should be easier to read (I originally did these on my old PB 520c – not a very good screen for graphics).

1998/10/16: Finished up volume 1 of the Sazan Eyes manga: Fujii Yakumo part 1-3.

1998/9/28: Updated the Misspelled Anime Titles page with titles from the most recent incarnation of the thread. Lots of new crossover titles! (among others) Also split the page up since it was getting so big.

1998/7/30: I’ll probably never get to doing any MIDI stuff, so why have a disabled link on the front page. I also added a line in each translation chapter that I did some editing.

1998/7/24: I added AMS chapters 17-20 translations. This is all I have (actually I have a couple from volume 4, but there’s a gap and Dark Horse has translated those too). I’ll be slowly working on 3×3 Eyes now.

1998/7/1: Finally fixed the volume 2 stars for the AMG! translation page (it’s about time I remember to do that! ^_^)

1998/6/25: Added 2 chapters of Sazan Eyes manga translations.

  • Moved the original translator info to the start of each chapter.
  • Fixed a couple other bad links.

1998/6/22: I thought I would add a news & updates section to make it easier to see what’s been going on. I’m close to having chapters 4 & 5 of Sazan Eyes manga ready. This will round out the current story – “The Devil Eyes Mystery”.

Not long before 1998/6/22: Fixed some loopy links in the AMS! translations.

Manga translations for Sazan Eyes will be posted as I find time.

I will also be adding a section for various utilities I’ve written – mostly for work, converting GIS data and batch editing Illustrator drawings, and for now very simple and crude. I have time at my job for software development so I will eventually be spiffing them up. I think I will wait until then to post them here. I also need to work out with my boss ownership & copyright type stuff.

I don’t know when I’ll ever get to working on any MIDI files. There’s a stacks of sheet music and MB’s of MIDI files I’ve collected that demand attention.

<Sigh> So much time, so little to do. Wait, back up, reverse that. (Willie Wonka)