Friday November 2nd 2007

I found this blog entry at Learning in Hand that describes how two schools in USVI are using Palm handheld devices for student use. Seventh graders at Moravian School are working on a St. Thomas episode their "Our City Podcast". One of the tools they're using to leverage this goal is Plucker!

The handheld are configured and installed with many packages, including Plucker.

The teachers have created simple HTML documents that link to the various

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Thursday September 27th 2007

The Plucker website has been around for many, many years (since 2001), and it has been through many different iterations with varying levels of usability and features.

The last version of the website was reported by many users to be "too complicated" and in some cases, confusing (the download page was one example).

I've taken some time to clean up the site, layered the options on the download page, changed all of the wording to make things much clearer, and added some new features.

With this new site, you'll notice that the new download section has been streamlined and broken into separate sections for Windows, Linux, Ma ...

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Friday November 19th 2004

"Font Collector" is a program which runs on PalmOS® version 3.5 and up (some output formats require OS5) that converts fonts from many other formats — including fonts within applications you may have sitting around on your PDA — to Fonts4OS5, FontHackV, FontSubst, PalmBible+, and Plucker formats.

It's free when used to convert fonts to PalmBible+ and Plucker. For other output formats, Font Collector is shareware ($5.00/USD; free trial with slig ...

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Friday October 15th 2004

Happy 6th Anniversary Plucker!

Can you belive Plucker is 6 years old today? Its come a long way from that little hobbyist project from Mark Lillywhite in Australia to a project adopted by thousands of users, dozens of companies, and hundreds of other projects around the world!

Plucker 0.01 was pretty rough, but it worked! It only handled text, and it required sed and awk to work properly. There was no GUI or "desktop" components. It only worked on Linux and Unix. The early versions of Plucker didn't have a lot of fancy bells and whistles, but what it did, it did well. There were probably less than 5 users of Plucker 0.01 total back in late 1998/early 1999, worldwide, and I was one of them (as was Mike Nordström and Alexander Wagner). This is what it look ...

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Wednesday October 13th 2004

Poker is a card game, the most popular of a class of games called vying games, in which players with fully or partially concealed cards make wagers into a central pot, after which the pot is awarded to the remaining player or players with the best combination of cards.

In order to play, one must learn the basic rules and procedures of the game, the values of the various combinations of cards (see Hand (poker)), and the rules about betting limits (see Betting (poker)). Some knowledge of the equipment used to play (see Poker equipment) is useful. There are also many variants of poker, loosely categorized as draw poker, stud poker, community card poker, and miscellaneous poker games. The most commonly played games of the first three categories are five-car ...

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Tuesday October 12th 2004

http://www.nathanbullock.org/nathan/software/lds-get.html

As I looked for various options I came across a reader program for my palm on the church's website and various books of scripture and other manuals that you could download for reading using this reader program.

Shortly after this I came across Plucker and Project Gutenberg. I started using my palm to read all sorts of books and in doing so realized how much more powerful Plucker was than the free program offered by the church for reading scriptures on a palm.

The set of canonized scripture was also on the c ...

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Sunday August 15th 2004

There have been many requests in the past few years asking us to use our logo and other artwork on t-shirts and other gear for people to wear to promote Plucker, that we decided to team up with CafeShops to produce some items that features our artwork and designs and slogans.

There are dozens of items to choose from, including mugs, caps, bibs, license plate frames, flying disks, coasters and more!

Each item in our CafeShops store is custom-designed to fit with the particular piece of clothing or product. Many other sites just put the same logo on all of the items. Not Plucker, we go many steps b ...

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Wednesday August 11th 2004

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission), an independent, bipartisan commission created by congressional legislation and the signature of President George W. Bush in late 2002, is chartered to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. The Commission is also mandated to provide recommendations designed to guard against future attacks.

The Commissions Final Report provides a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. It also includes recommendations d ...

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Tuesday May 25th 2004

People have been asking for FontBucket support in Plucker. I did the next best (but easier) thing. I added FontBucket support to the PalmFontConv tool chain. In fact, you can now take just about any Palm font collection that contains standard or FontBucket font resources (whether for FontHack or for FontBucket or for Plucker or for Fonts4OS5 or ...) and rip the fonts out of that into text readable files that can be used as inputs to toplucker.tcl. Just run ripfonts.tcl, select the font database, press Go!, and presto, you have a bunch of text files describing all the fonts, and the text files can be imported into PalmFontConv or edited first.

Note that you can now mix anti-aliased and non-anti-aliased fonts in one Plucker font package.

As usual, it's at

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Saturday May 22nd 2004

If you find Plucker useful, and want to support the project, please visit our donate page to find out how to contribute to help support Plucker's development and maturity.

Any bugs you find, please report them in our bug tracker. Make sure to search existing bug reports for similar errors before posting a new bug report. Many times, bugs are reported in duplicate by several users because they didn't search the existing bugs reported for similar problems.

List of items fixed, changed, and added in 1.8 and 1.7.2 releases can be found on our website. The details of this release are also on the project ...

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