New software for Wakefield from R-Comp/RCI
We are pleased to announce that the Wakefield show marks the release
of various upgrades and products that we have been working on over the
winter.
The most significant releases are new DialUp3 and NetFetch 2 versions
- 3.1 and 2.1 respectively. The .1 versions contain significant
enhancements to both the programs, and particularly the Hermes mail
transfer software that powers them.
The new version of Hermes has a number of major new features:
Handling RSS news headlines
Have you ever visited news websites, such as
www.drobe.co.uk, www.iconbar.com or more mainstream sites
such as the Financial Times or BBC news? Wouldn't it be
great if the news headlines were delivered to you, rather
than requiring you to visit each site each day? That's now
possible.
Most news websites offer their headlines in a format called
RSS. The new version of Hermes will download as many of
these feeds as you wish, and keep track of which headlines
you've seen. It turns them into emails, which are then
delivered straight to your email program (eg. Messenger Pro
3), along with your other email.
Once set up, you'll be able to check for new headlines
whenever you like, and they will be delivered to your
"inbox". More experienced users may wish to make folders in
their email programs to store the headlines from each news
website.
As you've come to expect from an R-Comp product, Hermes
makes this all simple, fast and straightfoward.
View your email online without the need to download it all.
Sometimes you don't want to download all your email, but you
want to see if particular messages are waiting, or you want
to manage your mail without downloading (eg. delete spam).
Hermes will now do this, listing the mail, allowing you to
process it, fetch/delete messages and so on. How difficult
is it? You just click the "View messages on server" menu
option!
Choose what to do with large messages
Imagine you're on a modem DialUp connection, and you have 30
large emails appear in your mailbox. Do you want to
download them at peak rate (especially as they may be spam)?
Hermes now allows you to set a maximum size for messages,
and if a message (or multiple messages) exceeds this size,
you'll see it listed (just like viewing the mail on the
server, above). Once such messages have been listed, you
can choose to ignore them, fetch them, or delete them.
You can also choose to download large emails at certain
times only.
When this facility is first enabled, we set the maximum size
to quite a low value, which is designed to help you combat
spam. Since many of the most troublesome spam messages are
a little larger than average, you'll see messages listed
before you have to download them, and you can choose what to
do with them.
Of course, there are other enhancements too, such as much improved
problem/error reporting, alternate ways to deal with deleting messages
(some mail servers can be more finickity than others) and a new look
to the setup windows, for a less cluttered display.
Existing DialUp3 and NetFetch2 users will be pleased to hear that they
will receive all this extra functionality for free! Upgrades will be
sent out after the show.
If you're not already running DialUp3 or NetFetch2, what are you
waiting for?
New UniPrint upgrade
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We have released a small upgrade to the various editions of UniPrint
(version 1.53). The changes to this are primarily to do with handling
of shared network printers (improving UniPrint's ability to deal with
such devices). We have also tweaked and improved the Virtual Acorn
mode. Existing 1.50 users will receive the upgrade shortly. Users of
1.40 or earlier will need to make the chargable 1.5x upgrade which was
released this time last year.
Grapevine 2
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Grapevine 2, our program allowing internet users to communicate with
each other when online, receives constant tweaks and enhancements, and
the Wakefield show marks yet another upgrade adding features/fixes to
all the different modes (as requested by various users).
RISCBooks at the show
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OK, this announcement isn't software news, but we'll have a wide
assortment of RISCBook models at the show, all at very special prices.
There will be machines appropriate to all levels of user, from
affordable entry level units, to ultra high resolution systems. If
you're interested in RISC OS on the move, or just a second machine, be
sure to come and check the RISCBooks out - you'll be amazed at the
speed and value.
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R-Comp
22 Robert Moffat, High Legh, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 6PS
Tel: (+44) 01925 755043 Fax: (+44) 01925 757377
http://www.rcomp.co.uk/
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