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A new release - enjoy. It's all about making your listings downloads more likely to work, so give it a try if you've had problems in the past.

Hi All, the new version of FreeGuide is out, features several small but important bug fixes.

This release makes it much easier to track down problems when they arise while the "Choose channels" setup is going on. It should result in more people being able to get FreeGuide working.

The new version of FreeGuide is out! It has a progress bar during listings downloads, and lots of other minor enhancements and bug fixes.

This version allows you to use the new North American listings provider Schedules Direct, and contains lots of bug fixes and small features.

The latest version of FreeGuide is out! It contains a new Search box, and a vertical listings view, as well as many bug fixes.

The new stable version of FreeGuide is out now! The main improvements are that it is much faster, it's internationalised, it works for lots more countries, it has keyboard navigation, and it works on Mac OS X!

FreeGuide now uses an EXE installer on Windows and an RPM on Linux, both of which install menu items and icons. It now shows program icons where the relevant country's listings grabber provides this information. This release also contains an "always re-download" option, a unix man page, and numerous behind-the-scenes improvements and bug fixes.

This version fixes the problems for UK users where one programme filled the whole screen.

It also includes a lot of work to make the grabbers work with Tk804, which has almost no impact on your experience of using the product, but had to be done :(

This release fixes the widely-reported timezone bug, but does not include an undated version of XMLTV.

This version fixes all the known problems with installation and with the North American grabber. It should work well: enjoy!

The latest version of FreeGuide, which makes installing on Windows child play, is out now!

A new release of the TV guide downloader and viewer FreeGuide is out.

This release includes several new features including having FreeGuide remind you when a programme starts.

A new release of the FreeGuide offline TV guide is out!

I have released a new sub-version which should fix the problems users in the US have been having. These were caused by the US listings provider changing its site, and it was fixed by including a new version of XMLTV (0.5.14).

Another release since I managed to introduce a bug in North America under some versions of Windows ... sorry!

Also one free feature - it now remembers the channel set you were using.

Enjoy.

This new version finally fixes the problems with installation on Windows for UK users. Sorry it's taken so long! Also loads of other bug fixes but no new features due to RSI.

This release contains an updated xmltv grabber that fixes some problems with grabbing UK listings. Little progress is being made at the moment as I have RSI - watch this space.

This include channel sets and movie highlighting as well as a fixed NA grabber. (The files uploaded when this release was named 0.5.2 contained some minor Windows bugs which have now been fixed.) FreeGuide is a TV guide. Download TV listings from the Internet, view them offline, create a personalised TV guide and choose favourites. It uses the XMLTV tools to grab listings for the UK, USA, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Germany and New Zealand.

The new version of FreeGuide is out - this version features a few bug fixes, especially useful for German users. Enjoy...

The latest version of FreeGuide TV Guide has been released. FreeGuide allows you to download TV listings from the Internet, view them offline, create a personalised TV guide and make a list of favourite programs.

This version supports UK, USA, Canadian, Swedish, Norwegian and German listings providers, along with experimental New Zealand support. It also contains numerous new features and bug fixes.

The new version of FreeGuide TV Guide is out now. It includes some bug fixes and some small new features. The next release will be a major feature release, incorporating lots of the feedback I've received, so watch this space!

The next release of FreeGuide is out, and it's significantly easier to install: just double-click the installer and you're away!

Hi All,

If you've been having trouble gettting 0.3 to work, it's probably to do with what version of XMLTV you've downloaded. I designed 0.3 expecting XMLTV 0.5 to come out any day, but it has been delayed, so some of the instructions and defaults are wrong for XMLTV 0.4.5.

Email if you have any trouble getting it working and I'll help you out. We have got it to work fine on both Windows XP and Linux using versions of XMLTV that are available, so don't give up hope. Check out the developers' list archive for how we got it working in these cases.... read more