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iSilo™ 5.07 for iPhone OS (June 30, 2009)

Version 5.07 adds the following new features:

iSilo™ for iPhone OS:

• Improved text access speed resulting in a tripling of the search speed.
• Added Copy Entire Screen, Copy Entire Page, and Copy Entire Document commands to the read view through More/Edit/Copy, available for devices running iPhone OS 3.0 for copying the text from files in iSilo, Palm Doc, and plain text format.
• Synchronized the version number to the current main iSilo version number.

iSilo™ 5.07 for Palm OS®, Pocket PC, Windows®, Windows® CE Handheld PC, Windows Mobile™ Smartphone, Symbian UIQ, Symbian UIQ 3, Symbian Series 60, Symbian S60 3rd Edition, S60 5th Edition, Symbian Series 80, BlackBerry®, BlackBerry® Touch, and Android™ (June 15, 2009)

Version 5.07 adds the following new features:

iSilo™ for S60 5th Edition

• Initial release.

iSilo™ for BlackBerry® Touch

• Added ability to change the autoscroll speed by dragging up and down on the screen.
• Improved text access speed resulting in about a one third increase in search speed.
• Disable the timeout for the backlight during a search.

iSilo™ for BlackBerry®

• Improved text access speed resulting in about a one third increase in search speed.
• Disable the timeout for the backlight during a search.

iSilo™ for Android™

• Improved text access speed, resulting in about a tripling of the search speed.

Version 5.07 addresses the following issues:

iSilo™ for Windows® CE Handheld PC:

• Following a link to an external document may result in a jump to a location other than the correct target location.
• After closing a document using the File menu's Close command, opening another document may result in a blank screen.

iSilo™ for BlackBerry® Touch

• After a search completes, the title bar and tool bar disappear.
• When the BlackBerry Options are such that the Menu Style is set to Full Menu, the sub-menus do not appear.

iSilo™ for BlackBerry®

• When the BlackBerry Options are such that the Menu Style is set to Full Menu, the sub-menus do not appear.

iSilo™ for Android™

• On Android 1.5, the Rename File, Add Bookmark, Edit Color Theme, Find, New Category, and Rename Category dialogs have a narrow layout that makes the dialog unuseable.

iSilo™ 5.06 for Palm OS®, Pocket PC, Windows®, Windows® CE Handheld PC, Windows Mobile™ Smartphone, Symbian UIQ, Symbian UIQ 3, Symbian Series 60, Symbian S60 3rd Edition, Symbian Series 80, BlackBerry®, BlackBerry® Touch, and Android™ (May 1, 2009)

Version 5.06 adds the following new features:

iSilo™ for Android™

• Initial release.

Version 5.06 addresses the following issues:

iSilo™ for Pocket PC:

• For documents that do not specify their encoding, it is not possible to set the encoding to UTF-8.

iSilo™ for Windows® CE Handheld PC:

• For documents that do not specify their encoding, it is not possible to set the encoding to UTF-8.

iSilo™ for Windows®:

• For documents that do not specify their encoding, it is not possible to set the encoding to UTF-8.

iSilo™ for Windows Mobile™ Smartphone:

• For documents that do not specify their encoding, it is not possible to set the encoding to UTF-8.

iSilo™ for BlackBerry® Touch

• Following links in a large document may result in an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException error message.
• Following an external link such that the target name has a fragment portion results in a jump to the beginning of the external document.
• Adding a bookmark may cause a crash.
• When scrolling backwards between more than one lossy-compressed image on the same page, the application may crash.

iSilo™ for BlackBerry®

• Following links in a large document may result in an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException error message.
• Following an external link such that the target name has a fragment portion results in a jump to the beginning of the external document.
• Adding a bookmark may cause a crash.
• When scrolling backwards between more than one lossy-compressed image on the same page, the application may crash.

iSilo™ 1.32 for iPhone OS (January 10, 2009)

Version 1.32 adds the following new features:

iSilo™ for iPhone OS:

• Added option for automatically clearing the text in the find text field. The option is available in the read view through More/Edit/Options/User Interface/Auto-Clear Find Field
• Added support for windows-874 encoding.

Version 1.32 addresses the following issues:

iSilo™ for iPhone OS:

• Links within tables wider than the screen may not work.
• Renaming a file may cause the device to hang.
• In the List Menu, selecting a Sort By or Show option does not automatically dismiss the menu.
• In the List Menu, selecting any of the Refresh, Delete All, or Delete Special commands does nothing.
• If the top and bottom margins of two lines at a screen boundary intersect, scrolling may result in a blank screen.

iSilo™ 5.05 for Palm OS®, Pocket PC, Windows®, Windows® CE Handheld PC, Windows Mobile™ Smartphone, Symbian UIQ, Symbian UIQ 3, Symbian Series 60, Symbian S60 3rd Edition, Symbian Series 80, BlackBerry®, and BlackBerry® Touch (January 5, 2009)

Version 5.05 adds the following new features:

iSilo™ for BlackBerry® Touch

• Initial release.

iSilo™ for BlackBerry®:

• Improved document list update speed.

All platforms:

• Added support for windows-874 encoding.

Version 5.05 addresses the following issues:

iSilo™ for BlackBerry®

• Starting iSilo on an 8350i device, results in the error message "Uncaught exception: 8350i".

iSilo™ 1.31 for iPhone OS (November 16, 2008)

Version 1.31 adds the following new features:

iSilo™ for iPhone OS:

• Added Simplified Chinese user interface localization.
• Added Traditional Chinese user interface localization.

Version 1.31 addresses the following issues:

iSilo™ for iPhone OS:

• A crash may occur after entering a document password or registration code.

iSilo™ 1.30 for iPhone OS (November 7, 2008)

Version 1.30 adds the following new features:

iSilo™ for iPhone OS:

• Added the ability to directly view image files of the following types: .jpg, .png, .gif, .tif, .bmp, .ico, and .cur.
• Added the ability to directly view document files of the following types: .pdf, .htm, Word (.doc, .docx), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), and PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx).

iSilo™ 5.04 for Palm OS®, Pocket PC, Windows®, Windows® CE Handheld PC, Windows Mobile™ Smartphone, Symbian UIQ, Symbian UIQ 3, Symbian Series 60, Symbian S60 3rd Edition, Symbian Series 80, and BlackBerry® (October 23, 2008)

Version 5.04 addresses the following issues:

All platforms:

• Going to a page with a large table may cause the user interface to hang until layout of the table completes.
• In a document with many links, traversing through a sequence of links may cause the highlight on the links to get progressively more misaligned.
• When the full path of an annotation file is greater than 64 characters, the path may get mangled.

iSilo™ for Pocket PC:

• On some devices, having auto-categization on causes the document list view to respond very slowly.

iSilo™ Symbian UIQ:

• In the Find dialog, the range always resets to down regardless of what is selected.

Version 5.04 adds the following new features:

iSilo™ for Windows® CE Handheld PC:

• In registration dialog, added dropdown listbox for selecting characters for entering registration code to handle situation where no keyboard, either onscreen or physical, such as in the situation on a device not designed for third party applications such as the iPAQ 300 series travel companion devices.

iSilo™ for BlackBerry®:

• Added the root directory as another default directory where documents are searched for inclusion in the All and Uncategorized categories of the Categorized view of the document list view.

iSilo™ 1.25 for iPhone OS (October 18, 2008)

Version 1.25 adds the following new features:

iSilo™ for iPhone OS:

• Added direct line and screen navigation commands accessible through tap actions.
• Added options in the read view at More/Edit/Options/Scroll for configuring the behavior of the Screen Up and Screen Down navigation commands.
• Added direct commands for decreasing and increasing the font size, accessible as the Font Smaller and Font Larger tap actions.
• Added configurable tap actions:
  • The feature divides the screen into an evenly spaced 5x5 grid. Each grid space can have a different action configured for each of the three different tap types:
    • Single tap
    • Double tap
    • Triple tap
  • Allows for 75 individual tap action assignments, 72 of which are user-configurable, the remaining three being the center grid space, reserved for bringing up the tap region reminder/help screen.
  • Configure tap action assignments in the read view at More/Edit/Options/Tap Actions.
  • List of assignable tap actions:
    • None
    • Line Up
    • Line Down
    • Line Left
    • Line Right
    • Screen Up
    • Screen Down
    • Screen Left
    • Screen Right
    • Page Top
    • Page Bottom
    • Page Previous
    • Page Next
    • Page First
    • Page Last
    • Home
    • History Back
    • History Forward
    • Mark Location
    • Mark Jump
    • Bookmarks
    • Auto Scroll
    • Full Screen
    • Rotation Lock
    • Font Smaller
    • Font Larger
    • Document Close
    • Scroll Bar
  • Tap regions also have hold-down repeat feature. To have a tap action repeat continuously, hold down at the end of the tap sequence instead of touching up.
• Added slider scroll bar control for quickly scrolling to any area of the page. By default the left and right center tap regions are assigned the action to hide and show the slider scroll bar control.
• Added Scroll Bar option to the read view, accessible at More/Edit/Options/User Interface/Scroll Bar for setting whether the slider scroll bar control appears on the Left or Right of the screen.
• Added Rotation Lock command for locking the screen in its current orientation, available in the read view at More/Tools/Rotation Lock.

Version 1.25 addresses the following issues:

iSilo™ for iPhone OS:

• When performing a search, if the text is found on a different page, the found text may highlight and then lose its highlight after a moment or more.
• When jumping to the middle of a page and immediately drag scrolling, it may become impossible to drag to the top of the page.
• When jumping to a location on a page through a link, through a search, or otherwise, if the end of the content of the page ends before the end of the screen and the content of the page from top to bottom spans no more than the height of the content area, then it may not be possible to scroll down by dragging.
• Pages with lines having top and bottom margins may result in blank screens when drag scrolling.
• When going from a section of a document that spans wider than the screen to a section that does not, traces of the section that spans wider than the screen may be left in the border.

iSilo™ 1.2 for iPhone OS (October 4, 2008)

Version 1.2 adds the following new features:

iSilo™ for iPhone OS:

• Added WebDAV file server implementation for transferring files to and from the device using a WebDAV client with configuration for the server available from the document list view at More/Server.
• Added an option to turn on and off the display of Hidden Files, available from the document list view at More/Options/List.

Version 1.2 makes the following changes:

iSilo™ for iPhone OS:

• In the Download view, when downloading to a non-existent directory, create the non-existent directory before downloading.
• When unzipping a file, disable the auto-lock timer until the unzipping completes.

Version 1.2 addresses the following issues:

iSilo™ for iPhone OS:

• Decompressing a large zip causes the system to terminate the application and return to the home screen due to a memory leak.
• After downloading a document and selecting yes to open the document immediately, when going back to the Download view and tapping Done, the application re-opens that last downloaded document instead of just returning to the document list view.
• Going to a page with a large table causes the user interface to hang until layout of the table completes.
• When the search range is set to Top to Bottom and the bottom is reached, performing the search again does not restart the search from the top of the range.
• After search finds text and highlights it, another unrelated area of the document may highlight.
• Performing a search again after a prior successful search may result in the application crashing.
• After following an external link in a document, using the history to jump back to the document results in a jump to a different location.
• After following a link to an external document, the screen may go blank and scrolling after the screen goes blank restores the content to the screen.
• After following a link to a line such that the line immediately before the target line has a bottom margin, scrolling may result in a blank screen.

iSilo™ 1.15 for iPhone OS (September 20, 2008)

Version 1.15 adds the following new features:

iSilo™ for iPhone OS:

• In portrait mode, a tap on the status bar scrolls to the top of the page.
• Added display of page layout progress in Read Options/Content.

Version 1.15 makes the following changes:

iSilo™ for iPhone OS:

• Drag and flick scrolling optimized to be consistent with the general expected feel of such actions on the platform.
• In the document list view, have the context menu attempt to display above or below the file name depending on how much space is above or below.

Version 1.15 addresses the following issues:

iSilo™ for iPhone OS:

• After performing a search and then rotating the screen, the search progress display may not layout correctly.
• When exiting the application with the document list view in a given category, upon returning to the application, the document list view starts in the All category instead of that last given category.
• iSilo 1.x documents display a blank screen.
• Margins and other spacing take up about a third less than their expected width.
• In the document list view, when the context menu is active, going up a folder or to the List Menu, the context menu remains open.

iSilo™ 1.1 for iPhone OS (September 4, 2008)

Version 1.1 adds the following new features:

iSilo™ for iPhone OS:

• In the Download view, if the URL entered does not have the three characters ://, then automatically prepend http:// to the URL before starting the load.
• When autoscroll is on, disable the auto-lock timer.
• When downloading a file, disable the auto-lock timer.
• The Download view can now download files from an FTP server.
• Added the root of the Documents directory and the iSilo directory as additional directories in which to search for external documents.
• If the application crashes, then the next time it starts, do not automatically open the last viewed document.

Version 1.1 makes the following changes:

iSilo™ for iPhone OS:

• In the Download view, the activity indicator has been moved to the status bar, the Back button has been removed (because it is too easy to mistake it as the button for going back in the link history), and a Done button has been added to the upper right to return to the document list view.
• In the Downloading view, the activity indicator has been moved to the status bar.
• After tapping Go in the Go To Percentage or Go To Page dialog, go back to the Document view instead of the More view.
• Changed default encoding from UTF-8 to Windows-1252. This only affects brand new installations.

Version 1.1 addresses the following issues:

iSilo™ for iPhone OS:

• In the Download view, the Web view extends into the toolbar area.
• Rotating the device from portrait to landscape mode or vice versa does not cause relayout of the document content and view.
• Unzipping a zip file created using the Finder on Mac OS X results in an error message and the creation of zero-byte files.
• On a given line, when multiple spans of differently formatted text precede a link, the hit detection area of the link becomes misaligned with the text of the link.
• Tapping outside the bounds of an open menu in a document does not close the menu.
• The Font Size, Relative/Aboslute, and Bold options for documents do not get set as defaults when turning on the Also Set As Defaults option.
• When following an external link to a document located at the root of the Documents directory, the application crashes.
• The file Copy command copies files to the iSilo folder regardless of which destination folder is selected.
• While viewing a document, the content area may become blank, such as when going to the Bookmark or More view and scrolling within that other view.

iSilo™ 1.0 for iPhone OS (August 25, 2008)

Version 1.0 adds the following new features:

iSilo™ for iPhone OS:

• Initial platform release.

iSilo™ 5.03 for Palm OS®, Pocket PC, Windows®, Windows® CE Handheld PC, Windows Mobile™ Smartphone, Symbian UIQ, Symbian UIQ 3, Symbian Series 60, Symbian S60 3rd Edition, Symbian Series 80, and BlackBerry® (June 26, 2008)

Version 5.03 addresses the following issues:

All platforms:

• When in hyperlink mode, it is not not possible to traverse across a link in a cell of a table if the cell begins at a location more than the height of the content display area before the top of the display area.
• Moving a bookmark down in the list may cause corruption of the bookmarks.

iSilo™ for Pocket PC:

• On some devices, starting the application may turn on the Internet capabilities of the device.

iSilo™ for BlackBerry®:

• When in hyperlink mode, it is not possible to traverse across links in a table.
• Background pagination of large documents may hang the device.

iSilo™ 5.02 for Palm OS®, Pocket PC, Windows®, Windows® CE Handheld PC, Windows Mobile™ Smartphone, Symbian UIQ, Symbian UIQ 3, Symbian Series 60, Symbian S60 3rd Edition, Symbian Series 80, and BlackBerry® (May 2, 2008)

Version 5.02 adds the following new features:

iSilo™ for BlackBerry®:

• Initial platform release.

Version 5.02 addresses the following issues:

All platforms:

• When jumping from one document to another, whereby if the document before the jump had annotations, the annotations file would remain open for the second document and thus be inadvertently set as the associated annotations file for that second document.

iSilo™ for Palm OS®:

• If a document already has an associated annotations file, then when going to the Annotation Settings form and selecting Select File, the application may crash or show gibberish in the Name field of the Select File form.

iSilo™ for Pocket PC:

• When using the previous/next page control or the Go To dialog to go directly to a page with an image wider than the screen, it is not possible to scroll the image.

iSilo™ for Symbian Series 60

• In the read view display options, selecting to set the options as defaults does not set the options as defaults.
• After deleting all categories through, re-entering the categories dialog the program abnormally terminates.

iSilo™ for Symbian S60 3rd Edition

• In the read view display options, selecting to set the options as defaults does not set the options as defaults.
• After deleting all categories through, re-entering the categories dialog the program abnormally terminates.

iSilo™ 5.01 for Palm OS®, Pocket PC, Windows®, Windows® CE Handheld PC, Windows Mobile™ Smartphone, Symbian UIQ, Symbian UIQ 3, Symbian Series 60, Symbian S60 3rd Edition, and Symbian Series 80 (January 1, 2008)

Version 5.01 adds the following new features:

iSilo™ for Symbian S60 3rd Edition:

• Added general display support for devices having multiple resolutions and orientations.
• Added display support for large internal screen of Nokia E90.

iSilo™ for Symbian UIQ 3:

• Added support for P1 specific button options.

Version 5.01 addresses the following issues:

iSilo™ for Symbian S60 3rd Edition:

• Addressed font sizing and double-spaced blank lines.

iSilo™ for Symbian UIQ 3:

• When going into the document list view's Options dialog without having previously opened and closed a document, the application would revert to "free mode".

Version 5.01 makes the following changes:

All platforms:

• Updated version and copyright.

iSilo™ 5.0 for Palm OS®, Pocket PC, Windows®, Windows® CE Handheld PC, Symbian UIQ, Symbian UIQ 3, and Symbian Series 80 (September 7, 2007)

Version 5.0 adds the following new features:

All platforms:

• Ability to annotate document text:
  • Copy mode changed to select mode. After text is selected, a context menu appears with option to Copy or Annotate.
  • Annotations have one of sixteen background colors to highlight the annotated text.
  • When not in select mode, holding the pen/mouse down on the annotated text shows one line of the associated comment and provides options for viewing/editing/deleting the annotation.
• Ability to associate any annotations file:
  • When adding an annotation to a document with no associated annotations file, the user is prompted to select one or create a new one, which defaults to the same directory as the document.
  • The user can optionally select an existing annotations file to associate with the document, thus giving the ability for a document to have different sets of annotations for different purposes.
  • Because the annotations file is separate from the document file, the annotations file can easily be shared with other users of the same document.

iSilo™ for Symbian UIQ 3

• Initial platform release.

iSilo™ for Symbian Series 80

• Initial platform release.

iSilo™ 4.x

iSilo™ 3.x