Thomas Milius has been combating bugs in his software, and as a result there is a new version available of the FileAccess module, a fairly old piece of software that he rediscovered during 2021, and gave a polished up for release.
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A new application that may be of use to developers when creating ‘how-to’ videos has been released by Thomas Milius. Called MakeMJPEG, the program can be used to create MJPEG movies – a video format that simply consists of a stream of JPEG images that are displayed one after the other. The format isn’t as versatile as other video file types and containers, but it could form part of a handy screen recording process – and the files can be converted to other formats using other tools, such as FFMPEG.
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During 2021, Chris Hall released a new application called RingBind, intended as an alternative way to present user manuals and other publications on screen. At the point it was noticed here in the Bunker and reported on this site it had reached version 0.15 – and after the most recent update it now stands at version 0.18.
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Yes, it can now take you there and back again. Kevin Wells has released an update to his latest application, KevNav, a route finding tool that uses Wget to look up directions from one place to another on the Transport API website.
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Users of Sine Nomine‘s excellent mapping application RiscOSM, and its sibling application Recce, can now grab new versions of both pieces of software.
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If you need to find your way from ‘a’ to ‘b’ you have a number of options available to you, with the most modern of these being to use a SatNav. However, some people (hello!) find their nagging insistence that you do what they tell you somewhat annoying, so very rarely bother to use them.
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Kevin Wells has released version 2.02 of his application for creating two dimensional bar codes, known as Quick Response (QR) codes. The application – QrCode – allows the user to key in certain information, and that information is then turned into one of the codes.
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New year update for ScummVM The ScummVM team have released a small new year present for gaming fans, in the form of version 2.5.1 – a bugfix release, codenamed Californium because of the element’s average atomic mass – with, as ever, Cameron Cawley maintaining the RISC OS port of the system.
Read MoreKevin Wells recently released an application for looking up time zones from anywhere around the world, and he has now put out his first update for it. The release of version 1.01 of TimeZones brings two changes – one a new feature, and the other a presentation improvement.
Read MoreA new version of Retriever has been made available by its developer, Thomas Milius, which benefits from a number of new features. The software offers a method of locating documents based on search terms or other criteria, but does so by building up an initial cache of data about your files, with the specific information varying based on their type.
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