Fred Graute has released version 2.00 of his Pinboard support module, ToggleBD, which can be used to raise the background of your desktop to the top of the window stack – effectively bringing it to the front of the display, with any open windows behind it – so that you can access anything pinned to it, such as iconised windows, shortcuts to files, and so on. Once you’ve got at what you need, the backdrop can be lowered again so that all your open windows can be accessed as normal.
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Look up bank information
A new piece of software – BankInfo – has been released by Kevin Wells, following his tried and trusted approach of using Wget as an interface between the RISC OS desktop and a web-based application programmer interface (API).
Read MoreScummVM 2.9.0 released
Supporting some fifteen additional games, a new version of ScummVM has arrived. The software is maintained by a team of programmers across a number of platforms, with Cameron Cawley to be thanked for his work bringing each release to RISC OS.
Read MoreTrainTimes 2.05 released
Another small update has been made to TrainTimes by its developer, Kevin Wells.
Read MoreRingBind reaches version 0.20
And there’s now a beta version of the Impression User Manual in Bound format Chris Hall has made available a new version of RingBind. The application offers an alternative way to view user manuals and other publications on screen, making them look like ring-bound manuals, as though open on your desk – provided they have first been converted to the Bound format (and file-type).
Read More3D Moonbase Attack – a new game from AMCOG
If you were at the recent London Show, you may have noticed some people wearing cardboard glasses with red and blue lenses – and if you investigated, you’ll have discovered that it was because AMCOG Games had a new title on sale that makes use of such glasses.
Read MoreItalian translations added to MACadd, icon bar display added to Kclock
Kevin Wells has released updates to two of his applications – MACadd (now at version 2.05), and Kclock (now at 1.02).
Read MoreKclock’s version number ticks over for the first time
Released over twenty years ago, Kclock is a simple clock application by Keven Wells that displays the time and date in a window – and it has now received its first ever update, making it version 1.01.
Read MoreNew release from KevSoft: CardInfo
Kevin Wells has a new application that may be of use to people running small businesses that take payment by card.
Read MoreIt’s (not) all Dutch to MACadd
Kevin Wells’ application for looking up information about MAC addresses has been updated to version 2.04, and now includes Dutch in the range of languages that can be deployed in its user interface. This joins the recently added French and German, as well as the already present English.
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