As i'm currently very busy with university in these days, and also i've to code both kde3 and kde4 branches, i was wondering if someone is willing to contribute with a not-too-complex application to be rewritten.

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Finally after some troubles i could finish LiveMobileTools 0.5.0-beta3.

There are no major release hilights, just the ones in the KMobileTools 0.5.0-beta3 release.. plus the addition of KDEBluetooth 1.0-beta3 which should make the Live CD work better.

Enjoy it

Well it's a long time since my last blog entry, but i was almost busy.
In my personal life, there were no big changes, so it's almost annoying blogging about it.
In the meantime KMobileTools had a great speedup, helped also by the joining of Matthias Lechner, who almost finished the gammu engine.

Since many of you already noticed the lack of subversion updates, and also of the homepage too, i guess i should write it here too.
Yes, development is currently suspended (again).
I've some university exams until 15/02/2007, so probably there will be no more updates until then.
I must anyway tell you i'm quite disappointed. After all these years, kmobiletools still is a one-man project. It's shameful in my point of view that if someone is busy, for study, work, real life, or (why not) a girlfriend, the entire project freezes.
Even if i'm studying, i'm still here to encourage and give some references to a brave developer, so there's no point in totally stopping development. Also some time ago i received some mobile phones kindly donated (look here), so there's also this resource available.
It's open source: no secret development, no private servers.. everything is on the public kde svn, so why not keeping an eye on it?
So this is the point: i'll be back soon, but in the meantime, try thinking on helping this project too.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, KMobileTools Homepage was enraged by enemy Referrer Spy of the evil Spam Empire.
Using the bright side of the Force, our heroes were able to destroy this terrible enemy weapons by banning several referrer keywords.
But the Spam Empire was far away from being destroyed.
A new weapon, secretly developed was ready to strike: spam usernames.
Do you really think that "free xxx wife story" is a "real" user name?
At this time, our heroes tried to stop the Empire by banning IP address. Will this stop these evil plans?
Soon other details coming...
Update: Since i got yet other subscriptions from spammers, i added the captcha module to the homepage.
However, it's NOT based on image captcha, but instead on math expressions, so it's even higly accessible.

After a long waiting, KDEBluetooth 1.0 beta2 got released!
Release hilights include compilation fixes, and now works with lastest versions of bluez and openobex
Including also some stability fixes, and header exporting to allow other application to use kdebluetooth libraries. KMobileTools 0.5 will use them.

After being a bit disappointed that Bluez-utils 3.x simply doesn't accept old pin-helpers, like kbluepin from kdebluetooth, i thought about the best solution for this.
Of course, we should develop a new pin helper, which can communicate with bluez over dbus.. and with kde4 supporting dbus it will be very easy.. but in the meantime, you can enjoy this patch.

Well, i finally had enough time and ideas to add direct support for bluetooth in kmobiletools.
It was more tricky than i though anyway..
First i had to update kdebluetooth to make it export some classes, and add a new one, RfcommSocketDevice, which is similar to the existant RfcommSocket, but more usabile on threading.

Long time since last blog post..
But i've been quite busy with KMobileTools 0.5 beta1 release.
Pre-release time was a hell.. i had to rewrite the whole theme for the homepage (looks really good now, anyway ) and some new reference pages, since a lot changed since 0.4.

After a long wait and many code rewrites i finally release the first beta of the new KMobileTools.
Totally redesigned user interface, better codebase stability, full phonebook support, integration with KDE AddressBook and Kontact, better support for a lot of mobile phones.
I've prepared also a Live CD, LiveMobileTools, with everything (including kdebluetooth) integrated and ready-for-use.

Here you will find the original news from the KMobileTools homepage, the download page is here
Also i redesigned a lot our website, adding new pages. Hope you like it