There will be an out of schedule meeting held by the Midlands User Group (MUG), at which the group’s own John Rickman will discuss the use of StrongED as a scripting tool when programming in Python.
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WimpInfo 1.24 released
WimpInfo is a small application that was previously supplied by Quantum Software, and is now hosted here on RISCOSitory after Stuart Halliday announced he was shutting down the software house.
Read MoreIcon bar’s cloak of invisibility improved in Pinboard 2.05
A new version of Pinboard 2 has been released by RISC OS Developments. The software is a replacement for the standard ‘Pinboard’ supplied with the operating system – the component that looks after the desktop background, allowing backdrops to be displayed, icons to be pinned to it to save navigating to the relevant files or applications using the filer, and so on – and provides quite a number of new features that make it a worthy replacement.
Read MoreKPDFUtil 1.06 released
KPDFUtil is an application from Kevin Wells that provides a front-end to the facilities found in PDFUtils, itself a set of command line utilities for getting information about PDF documents, and performing actions on them such as extracting individual pages, converting them to HTML, and so on.
Read MoreROUGOL to see Visions of the Impossible – 15th July
They’ll see things you people wouldn’t believe. The RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) next meets up on Monday, 15th July, and this month they’ll be hallucinating. No, wait, I meant they’ll have Nathan Atkinson from Visions of the Impossible as their guest speaker.
Read MoreBristol RISC OS Users meeting – 11th July
The next meeting of Bristol RISC OS Users (BRU) will take place on Thursday, 11th September.
Read MoreStreetFix gains support for multiple languages
A new version of StreetFix has been released by Kevin Wells. The software provides a means for RISC OS users to report and check upon local issues, such as damaged street furniture, potholes in the road, and so on – all from within an application on the RISC OS desktop, rather than via a web browser.
Read MoreTwo meetings coming up – WROCC on Wednesday, developers on Saturday
The Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) will be holding their next meeting on Wednesday, 3rd July, at 7:45pm, with a ‘Potpourri’ topic – i.e. a mix of various short talks, rather than one to cover the whole meeting.
Read MoreWi-Fi wanderings with ROUGOL – 17th June
The next RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting will take place tomorrow evening – Monday, 17th June – where the group will be taking a general look at wireless networking.
Read MoreDevelopers’ fireside chat – 8th June
If you have any interest in software development on RISC OS, then you’ll be pleased to read that the next occasional ‘friendly fireside chat’ for programmers, and anyone with a related interest or who is thinking about trying their hand at coding, is set to take place on Saturday, 8th June.
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