Welcome

Welcome to Pond's Place, which offers:

• Software for RISC OS, Mac OS, Ruby On Rails and more
• Hundreds of images from around the world in the gallery and panorama sections, all in high resolution
• Electronic music
• Various other odds and ends.

Recent updates

09-Jun-2025: Bus Panda 2.9

Bus Panda v2.9 is available for iPhone and iPad, along with macOS via a simple Catalyst build. The now-gone Dark Sky weather service is replaced by AccuWeather, which bases the forecast off your current location. There is also a new addition of WeatherWatch, joining the Wellington-specialised group of MetService and WindFinder.

Navigate to the iOS global Settings → Apps → Bus Panda (or search for Bus Panda) to access weather provider and other settings on the iPhone or iPad. Use the Bus Panda → Settings… menu option on a Mac.

Due to the way that Apple tends to limit how far back an updated piece of software can support older operating systems, this version of Bus Panda has updated requirements. You will need iOS/iPad OS 12.0 or macOS 15.0 or later to run v2.9.

17-Apr-2025: Still quiet!

I've been hard at work on the RISC OS Open web site update, with most of it all now tracked via the RISC OS Open GitLab server. Meanwhile, iOS 18.4.1 and macOS 15.4.1 have just been released. Happily Bus Panda and Add Folder Icons work fine on both. Problems with Add Folder Icons noted in October last year are fixed, thanks to bug fixes from Apple.

11-Oct-2024: All quiet

There had been no need to update software for a fair while as, mercifully, it continued to work on newer operating systems. Bus Panda runs fine on iOS 18 too, but Apple's continued addition of bugs in macOS means that macOS 15 "Sequoia" does not fare well. Newly-added icons are now corrupted in the Finder, even though previously added icons are fine, using the exact same application on the same computer. If I find time to investigate a work around I shall as I use the software myself so have motivation, but it might be that macOS is now just too full of bugs for Add Folder Icons to properly function.