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Morse Code Tools (formerly RSS to Morse) Changelog

What's new in Morse Code Tools (formerly RSS to Morse) 3.2

Jul 15, 2013
  • Twitter communication overhauled to be compatible with Twitter's newer service. This was a major change and probably has bugs.

New in Morse Code Tools (formerly RSS to Morse) 3.1 (Dec 27, 2012)

  • Closing News or Keyer will no longer result in it being "stuck" minimized.
  • The volume control now works correctly in News when fading is in effect.
  • Fading has been made less severe. The volume was too low before.

New in Morse Code Tools (formerly RSS to Morse) 3.0 (Jul 4, 2012)

  • More realistic noise, static crashes, and ionospheric fading to Morse News CW tone and spark-gap sound.
  • Removes ellipses (...) from news stories, and removes parens from (REUTERS) as it did before for (AP).
  • NOTE: TWITTER URI'S HAVE CHANGED! THEY NOW HAVE THE USERNAME OR "" IN THE FIRST PART. See the help!
  • The above is a consequence of new support for specifying the Twitter user/screen name for the feeds to be retrieved. This allows switching Morse News between Twitter feeds. You cannot mix Twitter feeds from multiple accounts in a feed list though.
  • RSS requests now include a real HTTP User-Agent: header (mimics Google Chrome). At some point in the past, this became required to successfully retrieve the Facebook notifications RSS feed.
  • A great deal of additional debug tracing has been added to Morse News, revealing a number of bugs including time-stamping of articles. If you're curious about the internals of Morse News, read about how to read this info in the Help me! doc.
  • The Morse News documentation has been expanded in some areas that were a bit thin.
  • Support for Twitter "direct messages" has been removed. As of last year, Twitter's permissions model prohibits Twitter apps from accessing direct messages unless they also have write permission. I did not want to give Morse News permission to write to peoples' Twitter timelines.

New in Morse Code Tools (formerly RSS to Morse) 2.5 (May 21, 2012)

  • Brings low-latency ASIO audio to the keyer, some command line options to the news reader, and a couple of bug fixes.

New in Morse Code Tools (formerly RSS to Morse) 2.4 (Apr 20, 2012)

  • Brings Atom feed capabiity to Morse News, allowing you to take feeds from the Associated Press and other sources that were previously unavailable since they were not RSS.

New in Morse Code Tools (formerly RSS to Morse) 2.1 (Jun 27, 2011)

  • It is now possible to adjust the tone envelope shape in Morse News (when using the default DirectX mode).
  • You can have hard or soft keying now. Click the "Sound cfg" link to access the setting.
  • The "story age" setting now means "don't send stories older than this, period."
  • Twitter screen names have been moved into the story body similar to the story source (AP, REUTERS, etc.) in RSS news feeds.
  • Twitter screen names are now capitalized
  • Maximum speed is now 60 WPM. Note that higher speeds may produce unsatisfactory timing on slow machines.
  • Several memory leaks have been plugged. The programs can be left running continuously without adverse effects.
  • Message numbering has been fixed, and numbering is reset to 1 at local midnight.
  • Twitter API usage was fixed for /search timelines.