The Dark Disc Knight rises Dave Ruck (aka Druck) announced towards the end of June* that new versions of TimerMod, AppStat and CPUload can be found on the ARM Club website. The updates correct for “code which could crash if used on the Raspberry Pi when the NetTime module had adjusted the system timer for the real time clock running too fast,” according to Druck’s announcement, who therefore recommended that the new versions are downloaded if they are to be run on the credit card sized computer.
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Alpha release of new image viewing application
Show me the money JPEG! Towards the end of June Chris Gransden, who has ported a number of emulators and games to RISC OS, released an alpha version of a new application for viewing images on the platform, explaining that “There are quite a few variants of various existing image formats and more recent formats that cannot be viewed easily on RISC OS.”
Read MorePackMan update and test of drag and drop installation
Drag and not-drop added, not-drop not dropped, but drag and real-drop added. Sort of. In May, Alan Buckley released an update to PackMan, his alternative package manager to RiscPkg for downloading and installing RISC OS applications and other resources. Since then, he has also released a test application which shows a proof of concept of how drag and drop installation might work in future versions of PackMan, asking for feedback on the idea.
Read MoreSetting up the Raspberry Pi just got easier
…thanks to Beginners New Out Of Box Software. Earlier this month, the Raspberry Pi Foundation introduced a piece of software called NOOBS – an acronym standing for New Out Of Box Software – which aims to make it much easier to install a suitable operating system on an SD card, suitable for booting the Raspberry Pi.
Read MorePDF pre-release test version available
Putting your money currency symbol where your mouth space is. A new, test version of PDF, has been made available as a direct download by Chris Gransden, with the app itself cunningly renamed as PDFTest to avoid confusion and to enable it to be run alongside the the existing version for comparison purposes.
Read MoreUSB multimeter reader app released
Get the application from its ohm page. In May, Dave Higton released an application to display, and optionally log, data from a Maplin N56FU multimeter – a device for measuring electrical properties such as AC and DC voltage, current and resistance.
Read MoreConvText’s improved wildcards improved some more
…in that, according to the developer, they now actually work! Paul Sprangers has recently announced a couple of updates to ConvText, his versatile search and replace application, bringing it first up to version 3.04, and then to version 3.10 – although it has actually reached version 3.12 when downloaded.
Read MoreJDServer reaches a new high
That means the app’s version number, not a barman getting more drunk than ever before! JDServer is an application from Dave Higton that enables the RISC OS computer on which it is run to act as a print server, running HP’s JetDirect protocol (which is sometimes known as ‘raw’), allowing a printer connected to that machine to be shared with other computers on the network, even if they are not running RISC OS themselves.
Read MoreSiteMatch 2.44 becomes 2.45, leaves beta
Bye bye, beta, bye bye. Website management tool SiteMatch, which automates the process of uploading new and changed files from the local copy of your site to the copy on a remote server, has been updated from the previous beta version, 2.44, to release version 2.45.
Read MorePluto and eSpeak updated for ARMv7 compatibility
Pluto still classified as an application, and not a dwarf application. Pluto, a popular news and email client, and speech synthesizer eSpeak, both originally developed by Jonathan Duddington, have been updated for ARMv7 compatibility – and can therefore now be used on modern RISC OS systems based around the BeagleBoard and PandaBoard, as well as the Raspberry Pi.
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