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 | ISSUE 236                                             10 February 2008 |
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Contents
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 1) General News
 2) Commercial News
 3) PD/Shareware News
 4) Club news
 5) ANS information



General News
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 1) RISC OS SouthWest Show reminder

  The RISC OS SouthWest Show 2008 will be held at the Webbington Hotel,
  North Somerset, BS26 2HU, on Saturday 23rd February 2008 from 10am to 4pm.

  <http://www.riscos.com/>


 2) Wakefield Show 2008

  The Wakefield RISCOS Computer Club are pleased to announce that the
  Wakefield Show 2008 will be held on Saturday 26th April.

  The show is returning to where it all began back in 1996, the Ceder Court
  Hotel, Jct 39 M1, Wakefield. The club is also celebrating its 25th
  anniversary.

  Show sponsors this year include Advantage 6 and M W Software. For more
  information visit <http://www.wakefieldshow.org.uk/>.


 3) RISC OS Connect

  RISC OS Connect is a web based initiative to connect the people of the
  RISC OS community to each other. It hopes to attract both programmers and
  non-programmers who want to contribute to the ongoing developments in some
  way.

  Initially the main focus of the web site will be around the Skills
  Database. This is a collection of people who have added themselves and
  described what function they are able to perform.

  The main site can be found here: <http://www.riscos-connect.org/>.
  A mailing list <http://groups.google.com/group/riscos-connect> is also
  available.



Commercial News
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 1) New developer for Organizer

  Chris Morison's personal information manager, Organizer, has been acquired
  for further development by RISC OS user Nigel Willmott, through his
  company North One Communications Ltd.

  For the moment, the latest version of Organizer (v1.57) remains available
  from Chris Morison's web site <http://www.organizer.morison.net/>.



PD/Shareware News
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 1) New software summary

  * PhotoFiler, filer extension
    PhotoFiler is an extension to the RISC OS Filer which adds an image
    thumbnailing facility. With PhotoFiler loaded, the file type icons for
    Sprites, DrawFiles, JPEGs and ArtWorks are replaced with a miniature
    version of the picture. PhotoFiler can also integrate with ImageFS to
    provide thumbnails for all of its supported formats. Previous versions
    were commercial software sold by WSS, but the software is now free and
    the source code is included.
    <http://www.davespace.co.uk/>

  * Seek'n'Link, a new search tool
    A new search tool, primarily designed for searching off-line (local) web
    pages - though it can search other types as well - and presenting the
    results in an HTML file, which is Filer_Run so that it is launched in
    your web browser of choice.
    <http://www.softrock.co.uk/products/seeknlink.html>


 2) Updated software summary

  * 7backup v1.08
    Backup software. This version has a clean and simple graphical user
    interface and there is an add-on application, 7bupstats, which tells you
    what 7backup is doing at any given moment even when it is backing up in
    the background.
    <http://www.7thsoftware.com/software.htm>

  * ID3TagEd v0.24.7
    Create or edit MPEG audio ID3 tags. Multiple new features.
    <http://www.chris-johnson.org/software/id3taged.html>



Club News
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 1) Upcoming meetings

  * SASAUG (Surrey & Sussex), 11th February - Charles Hope, The BBC Micro
    <http://www.sasaug.org.uk/>

  * SAUG (Southampton), 12th February

  * ROUGOL (London), 18th February - Christian Ludlam & others
    <http://www.rougol.org.uk/>

  * RONWUG (North West), 20th February - Cashbook
    <http://www.ronwug.org/>

  * RISCOS SouthWest Show 2008, 23rd February
    <http://www.riscos.com/>

  * ROUGOL (London), 17th March - Ray Favre
    <http://www.rougol.org.uk/>

  * Wakefield Show 2008, 26th April
    <http://www.wakefieldshow.org.uk/>



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