Our entire website has been redesigned! The new pages should not only be clearer to read, but faster to load and easier to navigate. The site has also been redesigned to be easier to maintain. Please change your bookmarks to reflect the new location of pages. We hope you like the new look!

PIM Saver hit a bug with the "Calendar - This Month Only" Module (not the "Calendar - This Week On" Module). This resulted in the module not displaying the month, but showing a blank screen instead. This bug, which was related to the first day of the month landing on the Sunday (no, not a Y2K issue... sheesh, will you people give it up). This bug has been fixed and a new build uploaded. Site link and information has also been updated in the program.

Build 5 includes a bugfix for the path/file access error some people were getting. This was caused by running the program after initial setup run, with no soundscapes in it own SND directory.

I have just added two more SoundScapes to the SoundScapes Section. These are two versions of the Mobile Phone (Ringing) SoundScape. Each suits a particular Datalink Model (150 & 150S).

Photo Clock is a fun little clock which you can customize by adding your own background image and changing the configuration and colors of the clock elements... it loads up your next appointment as an alarm. It also has its own setable alarms (2).

Want to distribute your new sounds easily? Well with SoundScape Simple Setup you CAN! This program is easy to setup, and offers your Users a simple, clean and quick way to setup your sound in their software. They can even run it again to UNinstall the sound!.

Datalink Software Central now has a Feedback form! In order to make it easier for web browsers to send their feedback I have written up a feedback form which is fast, easy, and (optionally) anonymous.

I encourage web browsers to even just fill out the short quesionaire (only four simple questions). This would provide valuable information on what areas we are doing okay in and what areas needed more attention. You can access the Feedback form from the Datalink Index, or just click here.

The following changes are in direct response to an email I received from Jarom Olson. Thanks Jarom!

• The anniversaries were dealt with as occuring in the year they were listed, or the next year if the month was before the current month. Normally this would be the current year. Instead, some people (i.e. Jarom) list the anniversary under the year of the original event (i.e. the year of birth, marraige etc.) as a form of keeping record of these details. I have changed he code to allow this method of record keeping, instead I use the current year (or next year). 98/10/29 - This now includes both the Calendar modules as well.

• 2nd Timezones were not set correctly at all ! I had actually changed this code while doing some work on a previous version (I can't even remember when) so it did not even have a chance to work. Sorry about that all, I am surprised someone didn't bring it to my attention before.

• In the 2nd Appointment Module, the next appointment would tend to be calculated starting from the next day. This would occur even if there were further appointments past the next appointment in the current day.

I have not thoroughly tested the changes, if you see any errors please email me and I will get straight onto it!

Well, you can see what I have been doing for the past two weeks! As you have most probably noticed by now, the site has had a complete redesign! Could two sites be more different???

The site now pushes the limit of what is possible with HTML today. I'm not saying it uses oodles of Java, but rather that it should look good in the latest browsers (I have tested it in MS IE 4.0 and Netscape Navigator 4.0), while downloading in record time (as opposed to my old design which took a significant amount of time to download, and was not as well presented in Netscape).

I have not seen the methods I have used here used anywhere else, central to the design is the fragmentation of the component parts of the images. This allows both the flexibility of self adjusting images, but also faster download time. This means that the menu to the left has been compiled, on screen, out of many slivers of images, but comprising of only a few component parts, which are then meshed to appear as one image. I managed this by using the end caps and dividers as images, while the "middle" is a cell tile. This works vertically for the Menu and Title Boxes, and horizontally for the dividers and link boxes.

Due to the advances made in HTML, this site may look somewhat lacking in older browsers... in IE3 the site will look as it has been designed with the exception of the links which are all dark green (I can only specify global color for links in this version of HTML). You should upgrade. This site is best viewed in True Color (or High Color, if you must).

Melody Wizard incorrectly saved files with Soundlet Count tables larger than 10 (the value was written in decimal, not in hex as it should have been). Thanks go to Richard Preuss for spotting the problem!

I also fixed the spacing error in the "Delete Current Melody" dialog. Appologies go to Olivier Philipp, as he pointed this out to me some time ago, but I only just relaised that I had not addressed the issue.

Due to the clear need for this page I have implmented it woth this site update. You can check back here for software updates and information, as well as site news.

Due to the clear need for this page I have implmented it woth this site update. You can check back here for software updates and information, as well as site news.