If you’re not a software developer or don’t really understand the art of programming, I suggest you skip this post, because it probably only will cause confusion. If you do know something about software development, sure, read on!
The next pVoice version will be different. Very different. In fact, pVoice will no longer be developed as a standalone application, although I think I will eventually create an installer that gives you the same functionality as the current pVoice gives you. Read the rest of this entry »
OK, here it is! You can finally download pVoice 2.2 beta 5 from this site again! Still a beta? Well, that depends on how you define “beta”. It’s certainly not beta quality, since this very version is what my daughter Krista has been using since before I published it years ago. It simply never crashed, except because of Windows XP failing. I haven’t yet changed anything since this version was released on November 4, 2004. However, since I’m progressing in getting a development environment set up again, you can expect me to further develop pVoice.
At first I thought it was an incident, you know, yesterday’s story about Softpedia, incorrectly stating that Mayer Johnson is the publisher of pVoice. But it seems like a virus. What are these kinds of websites?
I’m starting to think that somehow they’re affiliated, because there’s a number of sites all offering pVoice for download, all of them using the same information (including the wrong publisher!). Just to name a few, WareSeeker (387 downloads), BrotherSoft (185), SoftPedia (1019) and FilesTube (30) all seem the same. And that’s a total of more than 1600 downloads for people thinking Mayer Johnson is now publishing or supporting Open Source software. They don’t! I think all of us wish they would! Then I’d throw away pVoice and download the source of one of their products and modify it to my needs.
I’ve contacted the owners of the mentioned sites to let them know about the wrong information. Hopefully they’ll correct it soon.
While googling for pVoice to see what information others publish about it, I stumbled across this page on Softpedia. “That’s nice”, I thought, “More than 1000 downloads, a rating of 3.3 out of 5″. That’s not bad at all…
Until I read this “Publisher: Mayer Johnson”.
What?!?! Just to clarify for everyone: pVoice is NOT published by Mayer Johnson. pVoice could be considered a free alternative to some of their products. I’m the author, the creator, the publisher, the distributor, whatever you want to call it. Not them!
Ahhh…this looks much better. It’s got the logo back, the picture of my daughter Krista using pVoice at the top, and the colors are what they’re supposed to be…now I can sleep
Well, at least there’s a website. Up and running. There may be no useful content on it at all, but I figured it’s better than a server being down all the time. I managed to get control over my domain, my server and (partly) over my sourcecode back. The last part is kind-of a disaster. My CVS repository was deleted. I’m sure I didn’t do it. Who did? I have no clue. I’ll have to go through all my old backups and see what I can recover. I’m sure I can recover a lot (most is on CPAN). I just think the last weeks or months I worked on it may be lost.
We’ll see…
I’ve recently decided I should really restart my work on pVoice. Will I? I’ve said that before, so I don’t really know where it will end. Check back here to see what I’m doing
