Software Update: LCD Smartie 5.1

David reported that a new version of LCD Smartie has been released. Version 5.1 has been released with the most important new feature that you can now write your own plugins. A list of all features is here to find. Below is a list of innovations compared to the previous version:

Changes:

• I have made a checkbox for all you guys with a dial up connection. If you turn it off you don’t check for a new version @ startup. This does also mean that you don’t get a popup if you want to make a connection (dialup)
• Fixed Gamestats (which didn’t work in 5.0)
• 20 screens instead of 10
• 10 pop3 email addresses instead of 1
• Upgraded Motherboard Monitor support (new version also works now)
• Randomize screens feature

new things:

• Winamp Status
• Network statistics (speeds, totals, errors and more)
• Weather.com support (for people in America)
• Folding@home statistics
• I made a very simple skin function so you can skin for yourself. (check the ‘images’ directory)
• Theme feature (which allows you to make several ‘themes’ which you can ‘play’ separatedly
• Resume on next line (will cut of the text that is to long for the screen, and pastes it on the next line)
• Center Text (will center the text on that line)
• Events screen where you can make your own events (ie skip all winamp tracks with a low bitrate, or flash your backlight 5 times when you have email
• Full support for Matrix Orbital buttons and keypads. (Also the LK404-55)
• $Counter (counts back to a specific day or time)
• $dll() (plugins support)
• $Count() (Counts several, not limited, decimal values ​​together)
• $Right() (aligns a small peace of text to the right)
• $Flash() (let’t the text between the brackets flash)
• Lots of small and big bug fixes (ie the shutdown bug; Thanx suppressor)