http://www.iconbar.com/ Technology news and views http://www.iconbar.com/images/logos/rss-TIB.gif http://www.iconbar.com/ http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1225.html Last week saw this year's annual Computex Taipei computer trade show go down in Taiwan. The second largest computer trade show in the world, it's traditionally a source for many product announcements from the major manufacturers. Most of the time these announcements are of x86-based products, but this year it was ARM's turn to take center stage, delivering on last year's announcement that ARM were to make a big push into the netbook market. Although none of the products listed here are in stores at the moment, all announcements point towards a good number of them being made available before the year is out. 2009-06-13T20:00:00Z Jeffrey Lee http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1224.html As most of you probably know by now, a few months ago I started work on porting RISC OS Open's RISC OS kernel to TI's OMAP3 platform - a group of SoC's (Systems on a Chip) which use ARM Cortex-A8 cores. To date, OMAP3 SoC's have been confirmed as being used in various products, including the Pandora handheld gaming console, the Touch Book convertible netbook/tablet, and the BeagleBoard development board. For years RISC OS users have been asking for a new portable RISC OS machine, and soon they may find that they have several available. 2009-05-19T11:00:00Z Jeffrey Lee http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1223.html The 2009 Wakefield Show takes place today.Stuart Tyrrell Developments' have unveiled their VPod graphics accelerator. For GBP149, the podule card for the Risc PC range of computers features hardware acceleration and high resolutions such as 1680x1050 in 16 million colours.NetSurf 2.0 has been released and is available for download on the NetSurf website.RISC OS Open has been demonstrated running on a A7000 computer. 2009-04-25T08:01:00Z Andrew http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1221.html Reader Mike sent in these pictures of something he found while out walking his ferret. Yes, we have readers with ferrets. Although the concept of a reader with a ferret confuses us, luckily we don't have to use our brains for this update because Mike was kind enough to send in some words to accompany the pictures. 2009-03-31T23:00:00Z http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1222.html THIS IS AN APRIL FOOL AS WELL 2009-03-31T23:00:00Z http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1220.html Newsgroup postings and the Portsmouth local newspaper are reporting that Paul Vigay was this morning found dead near his home in Southsea after being reported missing last night. His death is not being treated as suspicious. An online book of condolence has been opened for Paul. 2009-02-20T16:50:00Z Andrew C. Poole http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1219.html Here's the plan: take an old Mac mini, blow the dust off it, and repurpose it as a media centre. In particular, I wanted it to:Watch and record Freeview channelsWatch shows on BBC iPlayerPlay downloaded videosHere's how I got on. 2009-02-17T12:00:00Z Phil Mellor http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1218.html Once again the time has come to wish you all a Merry Christmas. By the time you read this, chances are that Christmas has already been and gone, although I'm sure some of you will have a peek at the site today whilst chomping on your mince pies :) 2008-12-25T00:00:00Z Andrew C. Poole http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1217.html A while ago you may remember that I wrote an article about video conversion for RISC OS, and near the end raised the topic of video conversion on RISC OS using a port of ffmpeg. Although the version of ffmpeg I originally tried on RISC OS was old and broken, Christopher Martin obviously thinks there's some merit to this approach, as he has recently produced !FFmpeg, a working port of ffmpeg for RISC OS. 2008-12-20T20:00:00Z Jeffrey Lee http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news1216.html Saturday 6 December saw the Midlands User Group's RISC OS Christmas Show in Birmingham. The show was held at Birmingham University's Guild of Students, and was attended by a steady stream of people throughout the day. What follows is a brief report and some photos from the event. 2008-12-06T20:43:00Z Andrew C. Poole