^ edwords Jim Nagel \1 2 ^ A calendar with !Calibre How to use !Calibre to generate and print various types of calendar. Ray Favre \1 3 ^ Club News Director of ROOL visits ROUGOL and Wakefield. \1 10 ^ Shows coming up Previews of forthcoming RISC OS shows. \1 11 ^ Drobe Despatches Jan Vibes BASIC art 25 years on, Parmesan the free MSN client, USB Hamster wheel, new CPU for the A9home?, Big Ben club. Chris Williams \1 12 ^ Products Available Gutenprint, ArtWorks 2.75, books from Finnybank, RiscDomain, vidiMag, BOTX games, Moredesk. Hutch Curry \1 16 ^ PD column LaBella, PointerColour, Quicksand, IcnClipBrd, VKeyboard, home-accounts software Cashbook, PrintPDF. Steve Fryatt \1 19 ^ PD column MPData, IPwhois, SmartMenu, NetSurf. Steve Fryatt \1 22 ^ hint: StrongEd wordcounts Paul Beverley \1 22 ^ Archive-online offline Updates to !Calibre, communication with Vista, transferring large files, online banking, apostrophes in URLs. Bernard Boase \1 23 ^ Archive-online offline Paint-to-Draw, comparing files, old CDFS with RISC OS 4, FPEmulator versions, "standard" fonts, !Thump. Bernard Boase \1 24 ^ Gerald's Column Standards for fonts. Gerald Fitton \1 27 ^ Arcscan online A PHP website for searching Arcscan data online. Kris Adcock \1 33 ^ Hint: Internet connection timing out? \1 34 ^ Distributed computing What's it all about?, Acorn user involvement, how to join in. Barry Smith \1 35 ^ Web statistics How to analyse statistics about accesses to your website. Jim Lesurf \1 37 ^ Vista and file transfer Notes on transferring files over a network between RISC OS and a Vista PC. Philip Ingram \1 40 ^ PC bits (and a little Linux) Bimal's Core Collection: Vector Graphics, Xara Xtreme. Bimal Jangra \1 45 ^ GCC C and ROOL - part 2 Using GCC C to compile the sourcecode from ROOL. Rob Johnson \1 49 ^ Hint: Listing fonts in an ArtWorks document Stewart Brookes \1 58 ^ Datapower2 Scripts Using days and dates in Datapower2. Julian Fry \1 59 ^ edwords Teething troubles during the Archive editor-switchover. Jim Nagel \2 2 ^ ROOL and ROL shake hands Desribing the recent agreement between the two parties, and the way forward. \2 3 ^ Gold-leaf printing Describing a technique for printing "gold-leaf" onto your documents. John Mulrooney \2 4 ^ Drobe Despatches Overhauling Postscript under RISC OS, Parmesan updates, Virtual Acorn on Apple Macs, USB printing on the A9home. Chris Williams \2 6 ^ Archive-online offline Using MP3 files in RISC OS, migrating data from the Archimedes, reviving the Internet stack, Hermes SMTP. Bernard Boase \2 9 ^ Archive-online offline Attachment filetypes, communication with Vista, shuffling a PDF, modern printers, JPEGs in PDFs, identifying a font. Bernard Boase \2 10 ^ Archive-online offline Slowed by NetSurf fonts, why RISC OS?, shortcuts on the pinboard. Bernard Boase. \2 12 ^ Products Available Datapower3, Netfetch 3.1, Riscubes, Easiwriter and Techwriter, VirtualAcorn for Intel Macs, Epson RX560 from 4D. Hutch Curry \2 14 ^ Products Available Fortran Friends bellringing and polyhedra software. Hutch Curry \2 16 ^ Hint: Modify picture trick in Ovation Pro Alan Adams \2 16 ^ Guildford 2007 Report of the 2007 Guildford RISC OS show. John Peachey \2 17 ^ Hint: Disable "check as you type" in Messenger Pro. Jim Nagel \2 20 ^ PD column Parmesan, VNC with Avalanche, Which, Shakespeare and Bible software, Beeb emulation, GnuPG, GrabWin, MouseCmd. Steve Fryatt \2 21 ^ PD column Superdoku, ROTunes, Makeprime, ROFS. Steve Fryatt \2 24 ^ Virtual Acorn on Intel Macs Installation, setup and use of VA on an Intel Mac computer. Mark Stephens \2 25 ^ Converting Archive to HTML So how is the Archive CD compiled every year? Chris Johnson \2 28 ^ !Printspool How to install and use !Printspool. Doug Webb \2 37 ^ 32-bit TaskEnsure utility Christopher Martin \2 44 ^ Resampling revisited Jim Lesurf \2 46 ^ Comment corner Cross-platform datapower. \2 49 ^ GCC C and ROOL - part 3 Rob Johnson \2 50 ^ Datapower2 scripts Data manipulation. Julian Fry \2 55 ^ PC Bits Notes on Vista, Media Management. Bimal Jangra \2 59 ^ Top of the coders' pops Gavin Wraith \2 63 ^ edwords Jim Nagel \3 2 ^ Products Available Artgraph image CD, PRMs, Risc Domain, Iyonix monitor offer, Photodesk, Power-tec Sale. Hutch Curry \3 3 ^ Drobe Despatches ROOL and ROL join forces, NetSurf printing, DIY portables, losing the NetSurf banner. Chris Williams \3 5 ^ Archive-online offline Sound files for ringtones, filetypes and Windows, printing between Windows and RISC OS, 'net security, large HDs. Bernard Boase \3 8 ^ Archive-online offline Monitor definition files, Messenger Pro address book, halftone rendering. Bernard Boase \3 10 ^ PD column Joe Taylor's AppBasic, Rob Davison's Thump, Somascape, Syncopath, Verma, Swish, Historian, Open RISC OS apps. Steve Fryatt \3 11 ^ PD column MouseInfo, ASMFind, Openwatch, LaBella, Quicksand. Steve Fryatt \3 15 ^ 'Crossing' off the list History of producing a churchwardens' newsletter with Acorn computers. Charles Barraball \3 16 ^ Random reminiscences 2 Programming at Cambridge, BASIC, Wordwise, moving towards the Archimedes. Paul Beverley \3 17 ^ PC Bits Mirth and woes with school laptops, plus regular backups and regular maintenance. Bimal Jangra \3 20 ^ Bookmaker revelation Using Bookmaker with Messenger Pro and Netsurf. Mark Syder \3 26 ^ The Mad Scientist invents ... the ultrasonic wind speed and direction anemometer. Roger Darlington \3 28 ^ GCC C and ROOL - part 4 Rob Johnson \3 29 ^ Sound pt 15 - What's on LP? Filtering and processing sound data, digitally mimicking analogue. Jim Lesurf \3 37 ^ Data manipulation in Datapower2 Adding and deleting tables from within scripts. Julian Fry \3 40 ^ Fonts: standard or straitjacket? Adopting a standard - but excellent - set of fonts. Philip Draper \3 44 ^ Hints and tips for a new year Making a calendar with !Calibre. John Mulrooney \3 47 ^ Ednotes Acorn reunited, Southwest Show, Lightening up, SOS in St Albans. Jim Nagel \4 2 ^ A chat with Furbie, CBE Interview with Steve Furber, one of Acorn's original engineers. Jim Nagel \4 3 ^ Southwest show is 'go' Preview of the Southwest show 2008. Plus details of other usergroups. \4 6 ^ Drobe Despatches Drobe's "Best of the year" awards; Martin on memory lane; Honour for Furber; Riscript ; eBay tips; Netsurf review. Chris Williams \4 7 ^ Products available R-Comps Riscbook mini; Liquid Silicon products. Hutch Curry \4 11 ^ PD column DrawPrint, Calibre, LaBella, Dr Wimp, "Rover" the application tracker, Webgallery, Fakefiles, MiscSetup. Steve Fryatt \4 12 ^ PD column Crontool, PrintPDF, Superdoku, Id3Tag, Parmesan. Steve Fryatt \4 15 ^ Hint & Tip Using NetSurf as an image viewer. Gavin Wraith \4 16 ^ Archive-online offline Playing MP3 files, VNC, printing from Windows to RISC OS, Pendrive problems, application launchers. Bernard Boase \4 17 ^ Archive-online offline Where's my dictionary?, font questions, exporting Impression, filer window backgrounds, problem e-mail attachment. Bernard Boase \4 18 ^ Archive-online offline Taming a Windows desktop. Bernard Boase \4 19 ^ Gerald's Colun Charting your BMI (body mass index) using a spreadsheet. Gerald Fitton \4 20 ^ JPEG via Artworks to Impression Jim Nagel \4 25 ^ Webserve as a cache for Oregano Richard Darby \4 27 ^ Yearning for Unicode Keith Hopper and David Pilling \4 30 ^ A rant about Internet Explorer Is Internet Explorer the only browser you need on your PC, or should you install something else? Bart Nagel \4 34 ^ PC advice RISC OS vs Windows and Mac OS, laptop or desktop, PC magazines and coverdisks. Mike Brown \4 39 ^ And Tcheck this! Buying a laptop from Tchibo. Jim Nagel \4 41 ^ A membership secretary writes On using RISC OS as a secretary for a society - membership database, application forms and subscription payments. Peter Young \4 42 ^ Datapower2 scripts: indexes Julian Fry \4 45 ^ Sound 16 - Fast transformations Fourier transformations. Jim Lesurf \4 49 ^ !Coeden for tree view !Coeden released as freeware with permission from author Barry Wickett. Jim Nagel \4 52 ^ GCC C and ROOL - Part 5 How to use GCC to compile the RISC OS sourcecode. Rob Johnson \4 53 ^ R-Comp's !LPR with Gutenprint Using LPR and Gutenprint to print to a network-attached printer from RISC OS. Chris Bass \4 58 ^ Hint & Tip - word count pitfall Make sure you're really counting ALL the words in your document! Mike Nicholl \4 59 ^ Throwaway programs Little programs to write, for which the task seems too petty to have a full application to deal with. Gavin Wraith \4 60 ^ Puzzle Corner revisited Brynmor Owen \4 62 ^ Hints and Tips Saving an ArtWorks selection, multiple copies of Organizer. \5 2 ^ Products at the SW show Datapower, Netfetch, Messenger Pro 5, Draw2PDF, WebWonder3, FireFox, ROOL, RISCOS Ltd, MW Software, Virtual Acorn. John Peachey, Hutch Curry \5 3 ^ Upcoming Wakefield and Amsterdam shows \5 8 ^ Drobe Despatches Peter Killworth's legacy, RISC OS Connect, fans on fringe of Acorn reunion, Wakefield show back to old location. Chris Williams \5 9 ^ Drobe Despatches Organizer has new owner. Chris Williams \5 11 ^ More news RISC OS-aware teaching post, new developer for SiteMatch, David Pilling's scanning software update, Northeast and London club news. \5 12 ^ PD Column Photofiler, PrivateEye, 7backup, Parmesan, Searchy, Seek'n'Link, Drawprint, Calibre, Webgen2. Steve Fryatt \5 14 ^ Archive-online offline Javascript support, maps on the web, website management, printing from Netsurf on RISC OS 5, Messenger on Mac VRPC. Bernard Boase \5 19 ^ Archive-online Offline Default StrongEd mode, interactive help, testing for a running app, long USB cables, Choice icons. Bernard Boase \5 20 ^ Datapower3 - first impressions New features, first impressions, conclusions, should you buy it? Julian Fry \5 22 ^ Comment corner Uncle Gill - all about the Gill Sans font. Jim Nottingham \5 25 ^ Gerald's column - charting your BMI Gerald Fitton \5 26 ^ Found on the web What is Matthew Somerville doing now? Jim Nagel \5 30 ^ PDFs the right way up Producing PDFs in landscape format. TOMS and Martin Wurthner \5 31 ^ Double-entry with !Cashbook Lindsay Gallon \5 34 ^ Using Latex with RISC OS Gavin Wraith \5 37 ^ Datapower2 scripts More on the Calendar database. Julian Fry \5 41 ^ Sound 17 - Better on average! Jim Lesurf \5 46 ^ GCC C and ROOL - Part 6 Apps components, networking components, debugging networking, compilation errors. Rob Johnson \5 49 ^ Memories of Deuce All about the Digital Electronic Universal Computing Engine. David Worden \5 57 ^ Hint and Tip - FontFS gets its kick How to add fonts as standard to Font Directory Pro. Jim Nagel \5 58 ^ PC Bits - Burning and Backup Burning data to CD or DVD, and backing up your data. Bimal Jangra \5 59 ^ Puzzle Corner - Concoct a quine Gavin Wraith \5 64 [