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Spoonbill Software News July 2010 Hi everyone! BG Crossword Puzzle BG Crossword Puzzle has finally been released. We were hoping that the Guardian newspaper in the UK would provide us with a Download Across Lite button on their crossword pages. This is still being negotiated and we are still waiting for them to finalize it. BG Crossword does provide a temporary format for downloading Guardian crosswords, called Guardian HTML, so you will still be able to solve Guardian crosswords using this program. Any website providing downloads in Across Lite format can also be used as a source of crosswords for the program. There will now have to be another release (Version 1.1) when the Guardian crossword website finally completes the implementation of the Across Lite download button. BG Scrabble The latest project is BG Scrabble, a blind accessible version of the popular crossword board game. The first release will only cater for up to four human players and will only operate on a single machine, not over the Internet unfortunately. I hope that a future release will allow you to also play against computer players, but this is dependant on my being able to develop a suitable computer algorithm. The game has been into the beta testing phase for a month of so now, but as of the time of writing, no release date has yet been set. Our blind beta testers are finding the game fun and have come up with many helpful suggestions to improve the user interface to make the game more straightforward to play. Dropbox Recently one of my beta testing panel introduced me to Dropbox. It's a great way for sharing your files with other people and also getting your files automatically backed up. I am using it now to distribute my games. In the past I have had all sorts of trouble sending games to people as attachments to emails. People with GMAIL or GOOGLEMAIL accounts couldn't receive my games and I'd have to write back to them explaining the situation and asking them for an alternate email address. Also innocent-looking email addresses which were (unknown to me) redirected to a GMAIL or GOOGLEMAIL account would also fail. And people with only a small mailbox, or a mailbox which they had forgotten to empty would reject my emails with zip file attachments with a "Mailbox full" message. So once I'd discovered Dropbox I was suitably impressed and have now uploaded the setup files for all of my games to my free Dropbox account. Now when sending out my games, I only have to mail you the link to the setup file and not attach a big zipped setup file to the email. If you haven't already experienced the advantages of Dropbox, just click on the Dropbox link to find out more about it and how easy it is to use. You'll find it ideal for sharing your photos with your friends - and you don't have to remember to back up your files because once your files are on Dropbox, they are automatically backed up for you. Until next time, Happy gaming!
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