After the presentation of the new Documentation Centre , which is already being used by lots of eyeOS Developers every day, we are announcing today another key part in every project which wants to involucrate new developers: The eyeOS Developer Manual [312kb, PDF, 37 pages].

This manual is a guide for every programmer who wants to introduce himself to the eyeOS project. Note that PHP programming skills are very recommended to fully understand the manual and the applications creation procedure on eyeOS.

The manual can also be consulted online from the documentation centre.

Note that this is an early release of the manual, which does include the basics to develop eyeOS applications. New version with corrections and new chapters will be published (probably on April 2008).

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eyeOS received this Thursday the Yahoo! Technology Web Revelation 2007 award in Madrid, Spain.

One more time, we want to thank Yahoo! Spain and the whole eyeOS Community to make this possible. It’s great to be able to share with all of you this award. You all are invited to see it at Olesa de Montserrat (Barcelona), where eyeOS does live.

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We are really proud to explain that Softpedia, the great software downloads website, has added a new “eyeOS” section under the Internet software category.

The new eyeOS category (which shows almost all the apps in the eyeOS Applications Community) will make possible to lots of Softpedia users to discover eyeOS as a new way to work, from everywhere with the same apps and games.

This is a very important step in eyeOS, since both the community and the core team are working together to create a platform where thousands of apps can live on, and the support of one of the biggest downloads website, which does provide specially downloads for the traditional Operating Systems, shows that we’re going the right way (but there’s still a long road to go!).

The next step will be to place a big round button called eyeOS on the top of the software sites, with Windows, MacOS, Linux…. But for that, we need 10 or 15.000 apps ;-).

Thanks, Softpedia!

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Any Operating System can be considered good and used when the developers are interested in developing apps for it. For this to happen, developers must see benefits of using such a new platform to learn and code.

eyeOS is a very strong platform to develop rich Web Applications from scratch, with or without a desktop as background to work: the developer can forget HTML, JavaScript, AJAX… and user management, base security and lots of other things, by letting eyeOS take care of all this and center the efforts to create the application itself, like if it was a desktop one.

For this reason, the whole eyeOS Team is working hard on provide every developer the needed tools to discover the power of the eyeOS core and Toolkit and to start programming on it, with a strong development community behind.

The first step (and it’s just the “Part I” of a serie) is the new eyeOS Documentation Centre , a new platforw which does provide reference and documentation for every system part: Widgets, Services, Libraries and Kernel.

The new Documentation Centre (which can be accessed from doc.eyeos.org) has been created using eyeOS. The Documentation Centre itself is formed by eyeOS Applications, after removing the Desktop layer. Of course, you can download its source (released as Open Source) and create your Documentation Centre with it. You will find download links and information on the Centre’s homepage.

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We are proud to announce the second official eyeOS theme, available at the eyeOS Applications Community: The eyeOS Light Desktop.

The Light Desktop theme is a lightweight theme that removes the effects-based menus and adds a new left bar on the desktop (that can be easily edited) with the favorite apps and places, with a new menu that shows all the applications.

It will come bundled with eyeOS 1.6 as an optional theme (the default one will be the current one with some improvements).

If you have an eyeOS server, you can download and install this theme easily, following the instructions at the theme’s download page. You can also take a look at the other great eyeOS Themes available there.

If you use the eyeOS Public Server or any other public server that has this theme installed, you can follow this instructions to enable the Light Desktop:

1. Open System Preferences
2. Go to Autorun Commands and click on New.
3. Write eyeLightDesk (note that it’s case sensitive!) and click on Add.
4. Go to Theme and select Light Desktop.
5. Close your session and log in. That’s all!

If you want your desktop to load faster, you can remove eyeDock and eyeDesk_extras from your Autorun Commands. Just re-add them when you want to switch to the default theme again.

If you are having problems enabling this theme, you can check the common problems and solutions at them theme download page.

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Some people get confused when someone asks them “What is eyeOS?“. There are several possible answers to that question -eyeOS as a Platform, eyeOS as a Web Desktop, eyeOS as a remote file access…-. We have looked for the best way to centralize all the possible answers, and the result is this slideshow:

You can download it as a presentation in Microsoft Powerpoint format and OpenOffice Impress format, or to be printed in PDF format. You can also see/download it from the Concept section at the eyeOS Website.

New documents (such as the cool and completely full Developers Manual) will be published soon…

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We would love to know where are you using eyeOS, and which apps do you use on the system, to prepare the next releases acording to eyeOS main uses. Please take 20 seconds to answer this two polls:

 

 

We will be adding a new poll to resume the main whishes and blueprints for eyeOS 1.6 (add yours at this Forums’ topic) so the Roadmap of eyeOS 1.6 will be built with the most voted ideas.

Thanks!

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We have just updated the main eyeOS Introduction video available in the Concept section:

You can view it at a higer resolution here and download it as MP4 from here [22MB]. The video (and its music!) is licensed under a CC license. Feel free to distribute it!

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In first place, we want to thank everybody who voted for eyeOS to be the winner of the Public Web Revelation award at Yahoo Spain. Finally, eyeOS has been the winner of the Technology category, being the Tech Web Revelation of 2007 by Yahoo Spain.

We would like to announce also that we will finally relaunch tonight the new eyeOS Public Server, which will provide more space per user and specially more overall velocity. We are sorry for the inconveniences the service stop may have caused. We’re sure that every eyeOS.info user will notice the increase of disk space and velocity on the new server. The new partnership with the great hosting company which is providing the new servers will be announced soon.

Once again, thanks to everybody in the eyeOS community who is making this project bigger and bigger, day after day.

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We are proud to announce the release of the most important version of eyeOS ever: the new eyeOS 1.5 “Gala”.

The new eyeOS version is the first to include full support for both the Microsoft Office and OpenOffice formats, for Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations.
 

eyeOS 1.5 Gala also introduces new applications, such as eyeMessages (the new Internal Messaging system) and the new eyeContacts and eyeCalendar, which have been rewritten to provide a much better functionality and new features.

There are also new services and libraries available for developers, such as the new Right Click service, which has been implemented to almost all base applications and provides a much better system usage, making it more intuitive for new users.

The new version can be downloaded here and tested in the demo server.

We think that with this version, eyeOS is now Business and Production ready, providing a really stable system to develop and port specific applications for every business. All problems regarding special characters on the whole system have been resolved, providing a much more stable user experience with the desktop and the base applications.

Since some months ago, several people inside and outside the eyeOS community has told us that had plans to use eyeOS profesionnaly. But even with companies being every day more interested about Open Source Software Solutions, they still would need 3 guarantees before moving to an OSS solution :

• Being secure that the software will persist in the future
• Predictability
• Support

This is why we have decided to launch Professional Services around eyeOS, to give a strong base for spreading the eyeOS project in the business area.

We believe that being Open Source, eyeOS has great capabilities of being implemented successfully on Schools and Companies, providing Support, Personalization, Specific Development and Training to all those companies, schools and governments who are interested in.

We also announce today the availability of the new websites of :

• The new eyeOS Open Source Network: eyeOS.org which is and will be the base of the Open Source project and community
• The brand new eyeOS.com website, which offers eyeOS Based Professional Services.

The plans around Professional Services do include to contract and work collaboratively with people in the eyeOS Development Community with the new Professional Projects.

We want to thank specially in this release the whole community which has been testing the latest RC versions and making eyeOS better and better, to the people at OOOForum, who has helped a lot in the new eyeOffice connectors, and to Ricardo Galli, who has helped a lot on the best configurations for the new servers.

About the eyeOS Public Server, we will have it online back in the next hours. The new server will provide more space to each individual user and a great increase of velocity on the whole Server. It will be online tomorrow, with the new eyeOS 1.5 Gala version!

The official annouce of the new eyeOS Hosting Parters and an official press release about the new eyeOS 1.5 Gala will be available soon.

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