What’s New

EtreRef: Etresoft's newest program. Actually, it isn't really a program. It is a collection of dictionaries for the Dictionary tool in Apple's MacOS X 10.5 “Leopard”. The first set of dictionaries is kind of small, but I hope to add more as I find more open-source content.

Another update to Decoder. There is a minor bug fix for handling corrupt MacOS X Zip archives. There is a significant bug fix on Windows for running in a modern security environment such as that of XP in 2008.

Change in focus: Decoder was a good product and generated some good revenue. But I can't say I enjoyed dealing with all the MIME e-mail handling bugs in another very large company's e-mail software. In the future, Etresoft will be focusing on developing software that I would want to use myself or that are just fun to write. The end result will probably be a very eclectic mix of software.

Website redesign: Web design can be tedious, time consuming, and frustrating thanks to a certain very large company that makes very buggy web browsers. One can either write very complicated HTML full of hacks or very simple, boring HTML. Luckily, the people at Dynamic Drive came to the rescue with some nice, free CSS code to jazz things up just a little bit. The end result is modern, nice-looking pages that render well in any browser while keeping the back-end clean and concise XML. Don't try this with those WYSIWYG tools.