Hi Guys,

It’s been quite sometime since I updated my blog. That aside, I would like to bring up one question that has been asked to me for quite some time. People have been asking me regarding my pet project, NuvoPad. I want to do a little status check on it.

Now, first thing’s first. NuvoPad is very much alive, albeit on life support. I want to reveal a very embarrassing thing that happened to me regarding NuvoPad: I have somehow lost the source for the damn editor! I am sorry people but I HAVE been careless these days. It started right after I got engaged. I haven’t been paying much attention to my projects ever since.

I am trying to focus on my projects and am preparing to restart my unfinished work on NuvoPad. I will try to release the source under some accommodating license which will allow me to keep my right to the source but give new developers the freedom to contribute or create their own NuvoPads out of it. I am not certain on this yet. I am trying to do whatever is in the best interests of the NuvoPad project.

Will keep you all updated on the progress.

Well, it is with real sadness that I announce the demise of the domain for my NuvoPad Text Editor. This does NOT mean that NuvoPad is dead! Nope. This only means that I have run out of money for the time being and was unable to renew NuvoPad.com.The further development of NuvoPad is very much on track (although it may get a little bit delayed due to my ) and you can expect another version (some time in the near future).

The NuvoPad website is very much present in the same location where it had been before. The domain was a way to redirect traffic to the NuvoPad website which was on my domain fiqbal.com since the very beginning.

To access the NuvoPad website, you can click here.

Well, the last time I discussed NuvoPad, I told everybody I am nearing an update but couldn’t get it out on schedule. Well, the next release is still a month or so under development and in the meantime, I have made some changes on the NuvoPad website. I hope you will be kind enough to check it out.

Well, it seems that I have found a small glitch in the installer that is currently available for download from various sites around the world on the internet. It is not a glitch actually. I had allowed the installer to expire the Setup around July this year or something like that.

To get around this glitch, you MUST set the date of your system to something in June so that the setup can continue with the Installation of NuvoPad without telling you that it has expired. After it has been installed, you can set the system date back to the actual date.

There that’s it. I have to update the main page at NuvoPad’s site and therefore I must hurry now. Thanks for dropping by!

Wishing all our users in particular and all the people in general a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
I wish that the new year brings in joy, peace and prosperity for all of us. This is a time to make some resolutions for the new year and to kick off the festive season with some hardcore partying! I hope everybody has a grand and gala time out there. Best of Luck to you all.

To our users, got some news! We plan to release ver. 1.0 for NuvoPad with the new year in order to close the Pearl branch of the code and concentrating solely on the new SAKA branch for NuvoPad. Lots of surprises in this future release. I plan to bring in some more features (as far as I can) and have already started a complete rewrite of the application core. It is surely as exciting as it sounds!

Party and enjoy!

Yep, I know what you are thinking about right now. No. It’s not about NuvoPad releases. I have already made those available for download two weeks ago. It’s about the other sites where NuvoPad is available for download. I would like to make a couple of things clear for you all.

Firstly, the best place to check for the latest updates to NuvoPad is of course it’s homepage, NuvoPad.com.

Well I have been thinking over the future path for NuvoPad. What has come to my mind is I better choose the Pearl branch for NuvoPad and better progress on this branch. Apart from this, I have started work on a completely new branch of NuvoPad codenamed “Saka”. It will be NuvoPad 2.0 i am sure about that (unless something changes my mind). I am also contemplating shifting NuvoPad “Pearl” over to Beta from Alpha (it’s current status).

I have been down with flu since the past week now and have been unable to update my blog in the meantime. I feel terrible. All day long either of my nostrils remains blocked and I have problems breathing freely. Before you advise anything here, I wanted to tell you that I have been drinking lemon juice with a little water and taking medicines for flu and allergy. Although I feel that it has thinned out, but it still remains. Part of the reason this is happening is that what I can see is, the whole of Jeddah is under what I would call a “flu attack”

Now, for an update on the status of “Pearl” (NuvoPad). Ok, I have added tabbing to the interface making it easier than ever to use and have improved the UI as well.

Ok, now for the big surprise. I have also added tabbed browsing to it! Well I want to introduce you to NuvoBrowze. The built-in tabbed browser. All this while I’m down with flu. I can’t believe it. Anyway, will update you more on the status of
“Pearl” as it progresses. Till then wish me good luck and a speedy recovery from cold and flu!

First of all, I would like to thank all of the people out there for being patient with the kind of quality I had them use in the previous release, NuvoPad 0.1.5 Alpha. I had previously informed everybody that this is an Alpha release, it is full of bugs and shortcomings. So now comes the good part, I have made an outline of what features may end up in the next release codename Pearl.

Please keep your eyes open as a new release is lined up for NuvoPad soon. This will be a minor, a very minor one in fact. The changes will include a new installer and also two versions will be maintained. A simple Lightweight installer which will include only the program and nothing else and another full version installer which would include the VB Runtime files (required by NuvoPad to run properly).