Kevin Wells has identified and fixed a minor bug in BusTimes, his application that can be used to check the timetables of buses and their stops when planning trips in the UK.
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Currency 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 MoreFollow the Hobbit’s journey with KevNav
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.
Read MoreNew route finder application KevNav
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.
Read MoreQrCode 2.02 plays keepy uppy
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.
Read MoreTimeZones learns how to find out where you are in version 1.01
Kevin 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 MoreTimeZones application released
Find out if it’s too late/early to ring your Antipodean Auntie! Kevin Wells has released a new application that provides an easy way to look up information about different time zones around the world from the RISC OS desktop.
Read MoreTrainTimes 1.17 putting stations on the map
Kevin Wells has released another update to TrainTimes, his application that allows people to look up timetable information about trains and stations from the RISC OS desktop without having to resort to a web browser on another platform.
Read MoreNews nybble: kHangman version 1.01
Kevin Wells has released an update to his hangman game, kHangman, in which like the traditional game of its kind, the player must guess a word letter by letter, and for each incorrect letter one part of the gallows, noose, and hanging man are drawn. If the drawing is complete before the word is guessed, the player loses. Version 1.01 now keeps track of the number of wins by way of a percentage, and no part of the gallows are drawn until the first incorrect guess. In addition, the software…
Read MoreNews nybble: TrainTimes 1.16 steaming in
Hot on the heels of his update to BusTimes, Kevin Wells has released a new version of TrainTimes, an application that performs a similar function for trains. The software uses Wget to interface with the Transport API website to retrieve information about train times and stations, presenting the results in the RISC OS desktop. Version 1.16 gains the ability to save a station’s timetable in CSV format for importing into other applications, and a redesign of the Save dialogues.
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