While RISC OS may now be regarded as a small, niche operating system, with only a tiny fraction of the number of users that more mainstream platforms attract, it does still have a surprisingly vibrant community – so with that in mind, every once in a while I look through a selection of news groups, mailing lists, and forums, looking for announcements that haven’t found their way to me via the RISCOSitory news inbox, and from those compile a ‘snippets’ post. Here, then, is the latest selection of news items…
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Snippets – 27th June, 2015
You heard it here first eventually! With a ridiculously busy period now over (mostly – and until/unless things get silly again), it’s time to round up what’s happened in the intervening period in the world of RISC OS.
Read MorePic_Index 1.24c fixes bug
RISC OS 4 and 6 users can once again show the world their holiday snaps. Pic_Index is an application developed by John Williams to generate a thumbnail index for a set of JPEG files, in HTML format – ideal for use as gallery pages on websites, CD ROMs, or anywhere else the user might wish to store the images and resulting HTML.
Read MoreURLtoIE 1.4 released
Cross platform tool doesn’t get cross if it can’t see the other platform. John Williams, of Pic_Index fame, has released version 1.4 of URLtoIE, his application designed to help with web pages that prove troublesome on RISC OS browsers, by passing them over the network to Internet Explorer on a PC. The application will take an address contained within an Acorn URI shortcut, an ANT URL shortcut or a plain text file – such as a URL dragged straight from NetSurf, though any text file can be used; it will…
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