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MegaLauncher 5.5 (Nazareth)

Overview:
MegaLauncher is a multipurpose application manager that can work on all modern Palm OS platform devices. Easy, intuitively understandable interface and the program philosophy enable you to study and accept this program in no time. Designed for considerable facilitation and time saving this program also enables you to control all your applications and databases effectively taking minimum steps. such powerful utilities as Trash Manager, Archive Manager, Backup Manager, Theme Manager, Search Manager, Favourites List and powerful File Manager enable you to control your device completely and save your time and money to perform any operations.

Agendus Pro

Improvements

• Added date and category filtering to the to do hierarchy view
• Order of address fields in contact card is now locale specific
• Added high density icon for grouped/ungrouped indicator
• Added dpad navigation support to the Address to map dialog that appears when a contact has multiple addresses
• Now contact view tab selection colour follows the system colour
• Now mini months selection colour in month and quarter view follows the theme colour
• Addressed problem with weather retrieval system showing wrong error message in case of location not found situations
• Treo 600/650: addressed dpad highlight tab order inconsistency in the to do list view
• Improved transparency around scrollbar in quarter view compact mode
• Corrected dpad highlight selection in date/time slot in today view
• Power Search: now possible to highlight and open a record in the results list using the dpad
• Weather lookup now supports 9 digit US zip codes
• Addressed problem with quote of the day not refreshed if extraneous info, such as icon identifier, was found in a memo record
• Added text to initial forecast dialog when no weather info has yet been retrieved from server
• Treo 650: button preferences now aligned with its specific hardware behaviour
• Terminology change: "Sound settings" changed to "Default Sound Settings"
• Terminology change: "Preview Photo" now changed to "View Photo"
• Terminology change: QUOTD source dialog caption changed from "Quote of the Day" to "Source"
• Terminology change: "Alarm Preset Settings" now "Alarm Default Settings"
• Added Cancel button on large photo view in Address View
• Birthday cake not displayed anymore for hidden and private contacts
• Japanese Localisation: corrected problem with a portion of the text remaining in the wrong place in the repeat settings dialog
• Addressed problem with SMS messages logged as emails
• Addressed problem with To dos not displayed in split view immediately after a to do is converted to meeting
• Fixed issue with quick search field appearing empty when it isn't occurring with certain steps
• Solved problem with Rollover field not getting dpad highlight in edit dialog while in options tab
• Addressed display issue in matrix view that could cause numerous icons on one record to display over each other
• Now possible to drag and drop meetings in Month Expanded view
• French and Portuguese localisations: corrected a few misspellings
• Addressed problem with Items for today showing up as tomorrow in the Today view
• Fixed problem with disabling 'Show Tabs' causing incorrect search results in contact view
• Addressed problem with Un-dated items not shown in Week/List view with certain data sets
• Corrected minor display issue with icon set picker in icon editor dialog
• Addressed category colour persisting after checking off to dos in the hierarchy view
• split and list view: day colour in the S M T W T F S control at top of screen set to theme colour once focus has been on button
• Palm m500: addressed failure after tapping OK in preferences
• Now month icon mode shows standard meeting, call and to do icons for records with no icon
• Text in today view for next alarm and description for event now follow the theme colour
• Now text colour in to do views follows theme colour
• Dpad highlight: addressed problem with highlight not always drawn completely around the button in the toolbar when the mode is changed
• Now hierarchy view also uses the last row of the display
• Corrected redraw error in to do dialog after going to system date picker
• Free Time Finder: addressed problem with find time after a particular date includes that date in the results
• Addressed problem with To do item set to redo that couldn't be set back to none.
• Addressed failure occurring in Memo view when choosing Select All
• Improved beam view functionality from list view and to do views
• Addressed problem with To do hierarchy info discarded if to do completed while show completed to dos is off
• Corrected problem with private memos accessible by tapping on left/right arrows of memo view dialog
• Now allows for hard button cycling of categories in the matrix view
• Corrected display issue when using power search on string longer than 13 characters
• Addressed problem with today view showing global wallpaper instead of view specific one
• OS3.5: addressed possible failure when using contact history
• Sony Clies: addressed failure in contact view occurring when photos enabled and jog dial used to scroll
• Corrected problem with To do and month views missing the NEW EMAIL option in menu when email helper is selected
• Addressed display error in memo edit dialog when switching between details tab and memo tab
• Alarms on un-dated to dos on devices with task database not allowed anymore
• Handspring Visor/Edge: addressed failure occurring when editing a phone number in contact edit dialog
• Addressed possible failure occurring when using Journal Entry/To Do or Meeting Note edit dialog
• Now completed to do items correctly displayed in Month Icon mode
• Improved To DO hierarchy mode behaviour: now when a to do that has children is deleted in the hierarchy view its children are promoted one level
• Now text colour in edit dialogs follows the theme colour
• Addressed failure in To Do view when grouping an empty category
• Corrected label appearing on dialog while getting forecast for a contacts location
• Addressed problem occurring when tapping on to do section of today view occurring if matrix mode was last mode and no to dos shown