Updated hellaphone. Finally fixed the download button bug. Also a few styling improvements.

Some bugfixing and behind the scenes work.

Replaced the old templating with HAML. Mainly because I wanted to give it a try. I like the cleanliness of it, and it is already starting to grow on me. 

Searching a second time replaces the original results now. If you liked the old behavior better (it was an oversite) feel free to muck around in the application.js. It’s rather easy to find.

New Hellaphone release at github.

Now each news post has a post description available.

It’s that time of year for half off newzbin topups. I usually top up a year, and it carries me through until half off time again.

A year of newzbin. Just link it up with your hellanzb and hellaphone

The new hellaphone at github can now monitor the queue and updates the progress. More to come soon.

What’s on the immediate horizon:

• Look and feel updates
• Slimming down the code for less to download
• Ability to reorder, pause, and delete from the queue

New release of hellaphone. I scrapped the old code, got rid of cakephp, rolled a lighter, custom framework. Got rid of the installation troublesome mod_rewrite dependancy that cakephp required. I may even end up with a super light MVC after it’s all done. Grab a copy at Github here.

I was getting a new install of hellanzb up and running and noticed that it wouldn’t download the nzb’s from newzbin. I found that the problem was an old uri path in the python scripts. My file was located at /usr/share/python-support/hellanzb/Hellanzb/NewzbinDownloader.py.

Right after the class definition “url” is defined. Just search for v3.newzbin.com/dnzb. Change http://v3.newzbin.com/dnzb to http://v3.newzbin.com/api/dnzb and save. 

I hope this helps out others until hellanzb gets a fix up. I haven’t checked, but this may already be in HEAD.

Almost as soon as I announce that I was going to stop working on Hellaphone, I start using newsgroups again and start on the project. Partly because I keep getting emailed how to set it up. I didn’t spend any time creating an installer when I released it. In fact I hacked it up real quick to be a single user system.

I always planned on releasing it as a service, but became dis-interested and open sourced it. So now I’m concentrating on bringing the service up again. The project is still open and located at http://code.google.com/p/hellaphone . Check it out, contribute, or just use it.

(Update) There is a newer git repository at http://github.com/buck2769/hellaphone/. This is being actively developed.