If you said ‘true’ you’d be right! Kevin Wells has released a new version of his Kquiz application, which makes use of Wget to draw a series of quiz questions from the Open Trivia Database. Those questions are then presented to the user in a RISC OS window, with the application keeping a count of how many are answered correctly. The new version adds the option of true/false questions instead of the existing multiple choice ones, although Kevin notes that the true/false selection is currently limited. However, anyone who registers…
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News 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: BusTimes 1.07 released
A new version of Kevin Wells’ BusTimes application has been released. The software’s purpose is to look up the timetables for buses and stops, and version 1.07 allows the user to interrogate the times at any given stop along the route of the bus at which they are currently looking. The software uses Wget to look up the relevant information from the TransportAPI website, and Kevin has uploaded a short video demonstrating it.
Read MoreNews nybble: TrainTimes gains HTML output
Kevin Wells has released an update to TrainTimes, bringing it up to version 1.11. The software uses Wget to interrogate the TransportAPI website and return information about train and station timetables, and one of the improvements in this release is that users no longer need to register themselves with the TransportAPI site for their own APPid or APPkey. As well as that change, making it more convenient for the end user, a new feature has been added; the ability to save the timetables displayed by the application in HTML format,…
Read MoreNews nybble: MACadd gets a bug fix
Kevin Wells has released another new version of MACadd, his application that looks up MAC addresses online and displays the found information. The latest version benefits from the removal of a bug whereby the application could crash if the MAC address being checked is either invalid, or not in the database of the MAC Vendors website, which the software uses as its information source. It does so using Wget.
Read MoreNews nybble: MACadd subtracts a typo
Kevin Wells has released an update to his application for looking up information about MAC addresses – the unique identifiers assigned to network interfaces. The new version of MACadd can be downloaded from his website, and fixes a silly typo (the word Company was incorrectly spelt). The application uses Wget to retrieve the information it displays from the MAC Vendors website.
Read MoreNews nybble: Helpful addition to MACadd
Kevin Wells has released a new version of MACadd, his application for looking up and displaying public information about MAC addresses, giving it a bigger address field, and rather than the country code, it now displays the country name. It also now benefits from the addition of interactive help. In order to work, the software needs wget installed, because it looks up the necessary information from the MAC Vendors website. There is also a short demonstration video available to watch.
Read MoreMACadd gets an API update
Kevin Wells has released a new version of MACadd, an application that retrieves information about the vendor associated with a given MAC address, and displays it to the user.
Read MoreNews nybble: Save your bus route timetables
Following a similar facility being added recently to TrainTimes, Keven Wells has added a save facility to BusTimes – which performs a similar timetable look-up function as the first application, but for buses and stops rather than trains and stations. Kevin has also uploaded a short video demonstrating the new feature. Both pieces of software use wget to draw the required data from the TransportAPI website – and also like TrainTimes, BusTimes has been updated to keep up with an API change.
Read MoreNews nybble: TrainTimes updated to avoid crashes
No, no, not train crashes, you fools – application crashes! Kevin Wells has released an updated version of his TrainTimes application, which can be used to look up the trains due at a given station, to help planning any upcoming trips. Version 1.10 benefits from a bug fix that prevents it crashing when first run if a station had more than ten trains. The new version has also been updated to comply with a requirement of the Transport API website, which it draws upon as a data source using Wget.
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