YellowTAB releases Faktum… just the Faktum, ma’am
Stephen B. - March 16th, 2006
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As reported by Studio-33, YellowTAB recently announced the release of a trial version of Faktum, their “business management” application. The application is designed to aid in the management and manipulation of all the data accumulates as part of operating a business. Faktum handles things like customer management, inventory tracking, accouting/bookkeeping, and invoice generation. YellowTAB plans to release the application commercially, along with traning and installation services; a trial version can be downloaded here. Aside from providing useful features to those running businesses, Faktum is also written entirely in YAB – providing a showcase of what the language is capable of. And thanks to the number of Windows-based business management / Point-Of-Sale applications that directly steal BeOS icons, Faktum will look pretty familiar to many users.
Also from Vasper, I recently received an EMail with a status report on YAB. I’ve been a bit slow on the draw reporting on YAB, it’s a BASIC interpreter and IDE developed by Team Maui – YAB also contains bindings to the BeOS API, allowing developers to write graphical BeOS apps in a BASIC language. Not content to simply rest on a cool idea, Team Maui have been hard at work pushing towards a 1.0 release. Read on for the latest info, straight from the horse’s mouth – or in this case, straight from the Vasper’s EMail client.
Mr. Vasper, of BeOS Max fame, wrote in recently to let us know about some new forums that have been added to BeOSMax.org. They have sub-forums covering just about every BeOS-related topic imaginable – including ZETA and Haiku-specific forums, a Development forum, a Media forum, and more. Great to see another place for online discussion of BeOS / ZETA / Haiku, especially with the BeGroovy forums still offline. Vasper also mentioned that they host the YAB forums at yab.beosmax.org
A screenshot, purportedly of the upcoming 1.2 version of ZETA, was sent in recently by Mr. X. No version number is displayed in the screenshot, but a kernel build date of March 7 is visible. The screenshot also shows off what appears to be a new preferences panel for info_popper (called the InfoServer in the screenshot), offering fairly thorough control of info_popper’s display options.
Over on the Italian BeOS news site Il Tuo Sistema, there is a recent post about a new DVD manager/library application for ZETA and BeOS. Descriptively called “DVD Manager,” there is also some information in Engilsh on the developer’s website – along with a screenshot. From the description, DVD Manager looks like a cross between an equivalent of CDDB for DVDs and a catalogue library for your DVDs – it downloads information on your movies, and keeps a database of your DVDs. A downloadable demo is available for ZETA, with an R5 version promised in the near future; the full version costs 15 Euros, a good deal if you have a huge DVD collection and want more sophisticated than a spreadsheet for keeping track of it.
Tako “0033” Lansbergen of Studio-33 has spotted a BeOS/ZETA build of the Mozilla-based calendar/contact application “Sunbird.” He also took the build of Sunbird for a spin and has posted some first impressions along with a couple of screenshots. While a native solution using attributes would almost certainly be more “elegant,” Sunbird is useful to have at the very least because it gives people access to a program they may already use on another platform.
The fine folks over at HaikuNews and ZetaJournal have spotted a post on the DeBug forms announcing the dates and location for the upcoming BeGeistert 016. Since the post was made, the BeGeistert site has been updated with the official announcement. Their FAQ page contains the important when/where/how much details – namely: May 20th & 21st, in the Youth Hostel Berlin-Wannsee, Badeweg 1, a cost of 22 Euro to attend, and 21 Euro per night for overnight accomodations. Note: I had mistakenly listed the accomodation price as 21,000 Euro – the price is listed in their FAQ using the EU currency format (21,00) and my brain reflexively followed the North American “comma after every third number” rule. Fixed now.
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