The Midlands User Group (MUG) usually meets once every other month, and the meeting this month would ordinarily have taken place today – but like other user group meetings and shows, it couldn’t go ahead because of the pandemic and consequent lockdown.
Read MoreAuthor: VinceH
VinceH, aka Vince M Hudd, owns and operates Soft Rock Software, providing services and software to not only the RISC OS market, but also to the wider world. RISCOSitory and its associated sites and services are provided for free as a result of that - so buying his stuff is probably quite helpful.
Show report: Southwest 2020
I don’t think anyone can possibly disagree with me when I say that 2020, so far, has been an unusual year. Most of the world is in some form of lockdown due to the SARS-CoV-2 (novel coronavirus) pandemic, with movements beyond our homes and interactions with people beyond our own households at a minimum – which means (in a RISC OS context) shows and user group meetings aren’t taking place.
Read MoreGet your daily exercise with two new AMCOG collections available from Elesar
The lockdown may have been eased slightly in the UK (elsewhere may vary), meaning you are permitted to venture outside for longer for your daily exercise, but that doesn’t mean you should be outside all day, every day – so what can you do at home for the rest of the day?
Read MoreKPDFUtil now offers PDF to PNG conversion
With its first release less than a month ago, Kevin Wells’ latest application, KPDFUtil, has seen an update – its second since release.
Read MoreRPCEmu brings RISC OS Direct to a wider audience
A new version of RPCEmu has been released, offering an easy way to get up and running if you haven’t used RPCEmu before – and if you wish, to try out RISC OS Direct without needing a Raspberry Pi.
Read MoreA brief look at RISC OS Direct
At the 2019 London Show, news broke of something to be called RISC OS Direct – a new distribution (distro) of the operating system, and an accompanying video series. The actual launch of RISC OS Direct happened in February, at the Southwest Show, so should be covered in the show report – but that report is currently still a work-in-progress, and is very late, so it seems eminently sensible to write a little something about RISC OS Direct separately.
Read MoreLess flicker in NetFetch, more functions in Fireworkz Pro
A pair of applications from R-Comp have been updated – NetFetch moving up to version 5.52, and Fireworkz Pro to version 2.24.6.
Read MoreNews nybble: KPDFUtil 1.01 brings image extraction
Kevin Wells’ recently released KPDFUtil, which provides a front-end for some features offered by PDFutils, has already seen its first update. Version 1.01 now includes support for extracting images from PDF files, with options for all images, or just those found on a certain range of pages. The new version also benefits from some minor corrections, such as the alignment of PDF file names now being consistent, and the icons having a length far in excess of what was necessary.
Read MoreA look at some of the alternative suggestions in the 2019 Awards poll
The Awards poll for 2019 has been under way for about a month, and has so far received ninety form submissions – although that does include a number of blank entries1.
Read MoreFight off that virus on RISC OS!
Well, in a game, anyway. Rick Murray has found himself inspired by the pandemic that has had such a dramatic effect on all our lives, and written a game for people to while away those lockdown hours – Virus!
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