A type of file many people don’t know about – and hopefully will never need to – is DICOM, which stands for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine. i.e. DICOM is a standard widely used in the medical industry for communicating and managing medical images and associated data, such as x-rays, CT scans, and so on.
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If you look after (or need to access) any SQL databases, you will probably at some point need to write a query to do so; SQL stands for Structured Query Language, and is designed specifically for managing and accessing data held in relational databases.
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Thomas Milius has updated his tool for creating MJPEG movies, by adding to the range of sprite formats it supports.
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An updated version of HTTPServ (0.12b) is now available to download from Thomas Milius‘ website (in the ‘Computer Activities’ section), or from !Store. The separate SSI program (0.02) – available to download from the website, and included in the HTTPServ download from !Store – has also been updated.
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Thomas Milius has released an update to his freeware web server, HTTPServ, bringing it up to version 0.12. The software can be downloaded either from his website (in the ‘Computer Activities’ section) or via !Store.
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With its first release barely a week behind us, MakeMJPEG has been updated to version 0.02 by its developer, Thomas Milius – who notes that the application is now useful standalone, whereas in its original form it needed support built into third party software.
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DeskWatcher is a commercial application released by Thomas Milius towards the end of 2020 that provides RISC OS with its very own system for sharing screens between multiple machines over a network, and an updated version is now available.
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Thomas Milius has been combating bugs in his software, and as a result there is a new version available of the FileAccess module, a fairly old piece of software that he rediscovered during 2021, and gave a polished up for release.
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A new application that may be of use to developers when creating ‘how-to’ videos has been released by Thomas Milius. Called MakeMJPEG, the program can be used to create MJPEG movies – a video format that simply consists of a stream of JPEG images that are displayed one after the other. The format isn’t as versatile as other video file types and containers, but it could form part of a handy screen recording process – and the files can be converted to other formats using other tools, such as FFMPEG.
Read MoreA new version of Retriever has been made available by its developer, Thomas Milius, which benefits from a number of new features. The software offers a method of locating documents based on search terms or other criteria, but does so by building up an initial cache of data about your files, with the specific information varying based on their type.
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