Kevin Wells’ Currency application, which provides an easy way to obtain currency exchange rates and other data from the RISC OS desktop, has been given a version bump to 2.00.
Read MoreCurrency quantitatively eased to version 2.00
Tag: Currency
A new Currency to keep users API
An updated version of Currency, the exchange rate application from Kevin Wells, has been released. Version 1.14 doesn’t contain any updates to the program itself or its functionality, but is instead a small update to ensure it continues to work with the remote site from which it gets its data and sends user requests.
Read MoreCurrency readjusts itself to 1.13
Kevin Wells has released an update to another of his Wget-based applications, which make use of the command line tool to pass user requests to a remote site and retrieve the results. This time, the application is Currency, written to allow easy monitoring/checking of exchange rates.
Read MoreCurrency gains a handy default in version 1.12
If you want to know the conversion rate from one currency to another – perhaps you’re going on holiday and need some euros, for example, and therefore need to know how much to take out of the bank in pounds sterling – Kevin Wells has an application you’ll find useful.
Read MoreCurrency updated to version 1.11
Kevin Wells’ has released a new version of his Currency application, which uses Wget to pass currency conversion requests to the Free Currency Converter API and display the results on the RISC OS desktop.
Read MoreNews nybble: Currency now outputs CSV and HTML
Kevin Wells has updated his Currency application, which allows users to check exchange rates by tasking Wget to obtain data from the Free Currency Converter API site. The new version gains the ability to save the last eight days of exchange rates as either HTML for displaying in a web browser, or CSV for loading into a spreadsheet or other application. It also sees a bug dealt with, whereby the last eight days view stopped working for a short period.
Read MoreNews nybble: Currency now peeks into very recent history
Kevin Wells has released a new version of Currency, an application that uses Wget to interrogate the Free Currency Converter API in order to examine exchange rates. Version 1.09 of the software sees it updated to use version 7 of the API, which adds the benefit of being able to look at the exchange rates over the last eight days, as well as adding a wider range of currencies to work with, amongst other things. Kevin has also uploaded a short video demonstrating the software.
Read MoreNews nybble: Currency receives an API update
Kevin Wells has released a new version of his Currency application, necessetated by an API change in the Free Currency Converter site the software uses via Wget.
Read MoreSnippets – 1st January, 2019
Although this is the first post for 2019, it’s also the last post of 2018! It’s once again time for a round up of new releases, updates, and so on, that have somehow not made it to these pages before, with a whole bunch of news snippets from 2018.
Read MoreSnippets – 13th January, 2018
A round-up of 2017 news that could have been reported on at the time if people had only sent it this way! With 2017 now behind us, looking back over the RISCOSitory posts for the year might leave people thinking there has been very little activity in the RISC OS world – but in fact it merely means there have been very few posts on the site over the course of the year. This, sadly, is a reflection of the amount of news submitted to RISCOSitory by developers etc, more…
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