OpenCards - A free flashcard learning extension for Impress-0.9.0-beta

It is with great pleasure that we announce the v0.9 release of OpenCards, the free flashcard learning extension for OpenOffice Impress:

http://www.opencards.info

OpenCards 0.9 comes along with a great bunch of new features:

* First beta of OpenCards :-)
* Auto-synchronization on changes, insertions and deletions of slides while being in learning mode
* Streamlined keyboard control interface by using arrow-keys only
* Common drag'n'drop operations for LTM-Manager
* Optional automatic recursing into child-categories in LTM-Manager
* Schedule files based on mean "learn-urgency"
* Major performance improvements
* Fixed: negative scheduling times in LTM-Manager
* Fixed: invalid configuration of windows in dual-screen setups
* Fixed: STM* and LTM-learning can be started within a single Impress-frame in parallel
* Various minor stability and usability improvements

More exhaustive release notes are available at
http://opencards.blogspot.com/2007/12/opencards-09-released.html

Although OpenCards 0.9 is not completely ready for production yet, we consider it to be reasonable stable. Anyway, it still might crash OpenOffice, corrupt your presentation files or your OpenOffice settings.

You're welcome to share and discuss your experiences with OpenCards, suggestions, bug-reports, problems or ideas about flashcard learning in general in our discussion forums.