News nybble: WeatherUK updated

Stopped working due to the wrong kind of snow on the PCB tracks. Or something. A new version of R-Comp‘s WeatherUK, written by Malcolm Hussain-Gambles, is available to download from !Store. The application connects to a server to download current and forecast weather, displaying that information in a window on the RISC OS desktop – but a change at the server end meant the program had stopped working correctly. The new version addresses the changes, and as an added bonus increases the list of built-in, known locations – and the…

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NewsUK and WeatherUK applications released

I wonder where in the world they would be of most use? Malcolm Hussain-Gambles released two new applications during 2013: The first, released initially in alpha form as BBCNews via the RISC OS Open Ltd forum, eventually became NewsUK. after it was pointed out by Steve Revill that the BBC might not be too happy with their brand being used unofficially in this way. The application is an RSS reader that Malcolm wrote as an initial test of using socket code under RISC OS, and which he therefore considers a…

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