What's New:


01/23/2005 - Double Launcher

New version: 2.1 (download)

Here are the new features in this version:

  1. Many new special commands that can be assigned to buttons. The full list is now:
  2. Specific documents can now be assigned to buttons as well. Pressing the button will bring up that document under its associated application.
  3. Much more reliable application launching. If you have applications that the current version of DoubleLauncher has trouble launching, try them again with this upgrade.

01/23/2005 - Touch Keyboard

New version: 1.2 (download)

This new version adds a visual effect highlighting the last key you pressed. I've found this makes it easier to detect typos on the fly.

01/23/2005 - Time Present

New version: 1.2 (download)

Two new features:

  1. All times can be optionally rounded to the nearest quarter hour.
  2. Total time for each line item can be optionally written to the log file.

01/09/2005 - Double Launcher Beta

The version 2.1 upgrade is finally ready for Beta testing! (Apologies to all the registered users I announced this upgrade to so long ago. Various factors have kept me from working on any shareware projects, and also, I tried for a long time to learn how to intercept the extra buttons on some devices, but finally to no avail.) Here are the new features in this version:

  1. Many new special commands that can be assigned to buttons. The full list is now:
  2. Specific documents can now be assigned to buttons as well. Pressing the button will bring up that document under its associated application.
  3. Much more reliable application launching. If you have applications that the current version of DoubleLauncher has trouble launching, try them again with the 2.1 Beta.

Unfortunately, I've been unable to figure out how to intercept the extra buttons on some devices (such as volume buttons or Call/Hangup buttons on phone editions.) Again, if anybody out there knows of any app that has succeeded in doing this, could you let me know? It may be that by studying the app, I'll be able to figure out how it manages this trick.

In the mean time, you can download the Beta build of DoubleLauncher 2.1 here. Please let me know if you find any problems. If all goes well, the release date for DoubleLauncher 2.1 will be January 23rd.

10/18/2003 - Time Present

The latest version, 1.01, fixes a bug where commas in note text caused the note to be truncated when loading a saved log.

10/18/2003 - e-war

The price for registering e-war has been reduced to $5.99. Also, an independent party has created a hosting service for e-war games. This should take a lot of the trouble out of playing a multiplayer game, and also provide a community of other e-war users to play games with. (Sorry, the guy who started the hosting service has given it up.)

10/18/2003 - Double Launcher

The planned version 2.1 upgrade I e-mailed registered users about a long while back has been delayed because I haven't been able to get enough time off from my regular job. Here are the planned new features:

  1. New commands: scroll up, scroll down, page up, page down, cut, copy, and paste.
  2. Enable launching of documents as well as programs.
  3. Hopefully fix problems with launching certain apps, and with properly detecting press-and-hold conditions when the button is used to power up the device. (A fix for the first is more likely than a fix for the second.)
  4. Support the volume buttons for the iPaq 5450.

Finally, I've also been trying to figure out how to intercept the volume button on the T-Mobile xda, with no success so far. If anybody out there knows of any app that has succeeded in doing this, could you let me know? It may be that by studying the app, I'll be able to figure out how it manages this trick. Thanks.