Journal Bar version history
 

v3.6.0 (20th October 2006)
Faster acquiring of weather information.
Stability release.

v3.5.4 (13th June 2006)
Now looks at user data for the starting city, then populates it automatically.
Last update time for weather & stocks is now displayed.
Fixed various miscellaneous bugs.
Fixed updating problems some users were seeing.
Deletes cached news folder when the user unsubscribes from this feed.
Deletes old cache when the cache is moved from volume to volume.
Full proxy connection support.

v3.5.3 (30th May 2006)
Fixes issues with more than one weather city some users were reporting.

v3.5.2 (26th May 2006)
Fixes problems with getting US weather.
Receiving weather is now faster.
Doesn't wake up to get weather - it waits for the next power on event.
Freeze on iPAQ 4700 has been fixed.
"Never" option to update each section.
Can now unsubscribe from all "Links" feeds, but still display the Links section.
Some minor time zone changes.
Works with Pocket Breeze 1.5.
Fixed En US Wired news source problem.

v3.5.0 (19th April 2006)
Rewrote code to handle data updates.
Supports square screen (240x240 and 480x480) Pocket PCs.
Easier to enter weather cities.
Support for entering US cities by name as well as ZIP code.
Non-US weather is much smaller to grab - useful over wireless networks.
Many other changes.

v3.4.5 (31st December 2005)
Fixed inaccuracy when reporting no temperature for certain weather cities.

v3.4.4 (26th December 2005)
Fixes problem with Journal Bar crashing for certain weather cities.
Added Italian language translation.
Added new Panamanian and Syrian weather cities.

v3.4.3 (26th December 2005)
Fixes US weather problem.
New weather cities (in particular much better Spanish weather).
Stock data updates less frequently, and only during trading hours.
Faster to reacquire data when it's manually requested.
Fixed JB FAQ page in the links section.

v3.4.1 (18th June 2005)
Non US stocks data can now be retrieved by tapping on the stock ticker for the symbol in question.
Uninstallation on the desktop can be done through "Add or Remove Programs".
Some memory improvements.
Supports live updates of forecast information for Battery Pack Pro v2.

v3.4.0 (23rd May 2005)
Satellite images for almost all cities in the world.
Canadian radar & satellite images (from Environment Canada).
More Canadian cities weather information.
Better Portuguese news support & weather city bug fix.
Can put skinned files into a directory without them being deleted between reinstalls of JB.
Desktop components can be removed using "Add/Remove Programs" on the desktop side.
RSS fix so it works with more RSS sources (required a manual format update to work).
Can get satellite & radar images even if not using "fast caching".

v3.3.2 (6th May 2005)
Takes up less storage memory on the Pocket PC.
Uses less memory whilst running.
Can load larger web pages.
Local time display on the weather screens now correctly takes daylight savings into account.
Some small changes to improve weather sources.
Fixed bug in which one English string was in Norwegian.
New stock source (unfortunately non-US stocks are no longer available).

v3.3.1 (7th April 2005)
Fixed US weather non-updating issue.
New US weather page is much faster to download (and a smaller data size).
Added Spanish, Catalan & Portuguese language support.
Program uses less memory whilst running.

v3.2.1 (26th February 2005)
Fixed problem with some US weather locations not updating.
North Korea weather source improvement.

v3.2.0 (14th February 2005)
New custom ability for Expansion Pack customers to add their own RSS feeds.
Fixed problem with some US weather locations not updating.
Improvements in Israeli weather.
Fixed a problem stopping Washington, DC customers occasionally not receiving weather.
Some US weather data grabbing improvements.
New Italian default news sections (9 from 3 previously).

v3.1.4 (21st December 2004)
Fixed issue with some locations in Florida showing the wrong time.
New Costa Rica, Mongolia & Paraguay weather cities.
MUCH smaller download EXE (900KB instead of 1.5MB).
MUCH smaller size once installed (500KB smaller for QVGA devices, 400KB smaller for VGA devices).

v3.1.3 (8th December 2004)
Added "Cebu City" for the Philippeans.
Added 11 new Taiwanese weather cities, and improved the weather information for Taiwan.
Full German translation - including the weather descriptions.
Danish translation of weather descriptions.
Chinese translation of weather descriptions.
West coast USA time zone information has been corrected.
Better determination between EST & CST for US locales.

v3.1.2 (19th November 2004)
Full Traditional Chinese localization.
Users can put a readable name to each stock ticker symbol.
Time zone corrections for Tenerife, Idaho, Tennessee & Oregon.
Better source for Australian weather.
More accurate weather for the UK, France & Germany.

v3.1.1 (4th October 2004)
Fixed problem with removing weather sections.
Fixed problem with removing stock symbols.
Small performance improvement.
FTSE, Hang Seng, Nikkei symbols show correctly.

v3.1.0 (1st October 2004)
14 weather sections (up from 2).
200 stocks can be displayed (up from 15).
Over 800 new weather cities from over 100 new countries - total world coverage.
Support for VGA Pocket PCs.
Option to sync 1 section or all of them.
Grabbing news sections is now faster.
Displayed stocks info is more accurate.
Fixed problem with some Canadian & US cities reporting the incorrect time.
Some Norwegian translation work.

v3.0.0 (24th August 2004)
New large display.
Full localization into French, German & Danish.
Multiple ways to store the web pages.

New weather icons.
Shows radar & infrared images for US weather cities.
Shows the local time, city name & current conditions for each city on the today screen.

News sections can show up to 9 headlines (up from 3 previously).

Stocks on large display can show up to 15 symbols (up from 11).

New link icons.

v2.0.5 (29th June 2004)
Improved format gathering performance.
Changed the location of the format information.

v2.0.4 (29th April 2004)
Compatible with Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition (and Landscape support).
Minor changes to the weather information.
Weather icons can be replaced with custom icons if required.
Fixes problem where cached pages won't work with some Eastern European countries.
Poland flag icon corrected.
Changed source of Belgium weather.

v2.0.3 (8th March 2004)
Brand new caching method for web pages results in faster web page retrieval,  less memory taken up storing pages and better reliability in storing pages.
No more "can't connect" annoying messages on Windows Mobile 2003 devices.
Simple selection method to move the cache to a storage card or another storage area.
Will wirelessly sync just like the device is docked.
Stocks on the right hand side of the screen can be tapped to get detailed info.
Fixed problem with Venezuela / Viet Nam weather.
Negative Celsius temperatures don't have the 1 off rounding problem any more.
 

v2.0.2 (29th January 2004)
Added Netherlands help.
More Saudi Arabian, Tunisian weather.
Maximum update rate for weather, news & links is now 24 hours instead of 6 hours.
Option to turn the connection manager on & off.
Fixed bug to allow the device to only connect when docked.
Some stability improvements.
Some improvement to displaying foreign characters in news headlines.
Data format settings aren't occasionally forgotten.

v2.0.1 (26th November 2003)
Proxy connections work
Swedish, Swiss German, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Slovenian & Turkish news
Better conversion between Celsius & Fahrenheit
Stockholm, Sweden weather works
Improved performance in background operations

v2.0.0 (14th November 2003)
* User settings will be wiped out with the installation of v2! *
Many more extra news sections for different countries.
Horoscopes in the Links section.
New Connection Manager to improve connection issues.
Much better code stability.

v1.4.2 & v1.4.3 (9th September 2003)
Small changes to improve data gathering reliability.

v1.4.1 (25th August 2003)
New weather country: Belgium
New weather cities: Ireland
Added a connection setup wizard to help connection issues when first installing.
Uninstallation allows users to delete user settings on WM 2003 devices.
Corrected Albuquerque weather.

v1.4.0 (14th August 2003)
New weather countries: Algeria, The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, Cyprus, Egypt, French Guiana, Gabon, Ghana, Guadeloupe, Iceland, India, Iran, Ireland, Ivory Coast, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Pakistan, The Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Réunion, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Spain, Swaziland, Sweden, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Yugoslavia.
New cities for the existing cities: Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, United Kingdom.
Improved weather data for these countries: Austria.
Non US Weather now works once more.
Fixed bug with dialog boxes not closing in rare cases.

v1.3.1 (22nd July 2003)
Auto selection of proxy makes Journal Bar work correctly for all types of
Internet connection.
Selector in the links selection allows the proxy to be turned on or off.
Better support for US Weather.
Corrections allowed when entering country / city for weather.
Turning connection on/off survives soft reset.

v1.3.0 (29th April 2003)
On the Links page, tap the connection icon to stop Journal Bar trying to connect to get data.
Auto scroll returns, and the scroll rate can be adjusted in the Options screen.
Simple check box in the Stock Options section can be used to stop Stock being displayed.
Improved getting weather data.

v1.2.1 (23rd April 2003)
Fixed soft reset bug.
Better coverage of Australian & Canadian cities for current weather data.
PC setup informs users to uninstall previous versions.
The Delete Content option cleans more information out than before.
Fixed problem with 2 weather cities, & 2nd one changes the root day of the first.
Update media content to latest version.
Additional stock ticker symbols in help.

v1.2.0 (9th March 2003)
Gets the current weather conditions.
New auto-update feature tells you when a new major version is available.
Journal Bar automatically updates itself with minor updates.
Change where the cached web pages are stored - put them on a storage card to save main memory.
Delete cached web pages to free up memory.
Faster performance.
Changed US Sports news to CNN.
UK Sports news works once more.
Section icon only flashes for sections that need to be updated.
Time weather was updated is shown in the Weather Dialog.
Removed the auto scroll feature.
Links can be accessed without having to add "http://".
Longer stock ticker names can be used (up to 19 characters).
Can get movie information for two cities at once.
More detailed help.
Fixed some problems getting weather information.

v1.1.3 (19th February 2003)
Added help in German.
Fixed changes to BBC news & movie reviews.
Seattle area weather reports detailed data.
Changed tech news to Wired.

v1.1.2 (11th February 2003)
Fixed a problem with some US locations not reporting new weather.
Added help in French.

v1.1.1 (10th February 2003)
Uses new Technology news sources - PC World. This allows the data to be retrieved much faster.
Added Puerto Rico's weather information.
Updated Movie Reviews section to work with new web page layout.

v1.1.0 (7th February 2003)
Gets weather for over 70 countries, and hundreds of cities around the world.
BBC International, UK, Business & Sports news.
Canadian National & Sports news.
Local stock listings for Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands & the UK.
Movie times for Australia, Canada, France and the UK.
TV listings for France, Germany and the UK.
New improved sports scores for the NBA, NCAAB, NHL.
UK Premiership, Italian Serie A, France Ligue 1 & German Bundesliga soccer tables.
Works with 802.11 & cell connections.
Fixed problem when sometimes setup Options would not be stored.
Improved accuracy of US Weather forecast data.
Link icons can be individually removed if required (just use a blank URL).

v1.0.3 (29th January 2003)
Reduced memory requirements.
Sports scores appear once more.
Added help for international stocks & exchange rates.

v1.0.2 (18th January 2003)
Fixed memory leak when Journal Bar moves between sections of information.

v1.0.1 (16th January 2003)
Changed code that reads movie reviews so it works with web site changes.

v1.0.0 (15th January 2003)
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