Programming Stuff.
I've written a few useful programs for those of you running Microsoft Internet Explorer or developing web pages. All of these are free and the source code is also downloadable for most of the programs.
A Portal maker.
This will convert your Internet Explorer favourites into a local page (and optionally set that as your Internet Explorer homepage). This can be very handy.
Click here to download the installation
set (1.9Mb).
Click here to download the .EXE
only if you have VB6 SP5 runtimes already installed (34Kb)
Click here to download the
source (25Kb)
Click here for more details.
Cookie viewer.
This displays the contents of your cookies and allow you to delete the
cookies.
(It will actually let you view any file and delete it, so it's quite useful
as a general purpose ASCII file browser).
Click here to download the installation
set (1.9Mb).
Click here to download the .EXE
only if you have VB6 SP5 runtimes already installed (13Kb).
Click here to download the source
(7Kb).
Lost Pixel Checker
This program is an oddity. I bought myself a cheap laptop and wanted
to test for lost pixels and couldn't find a free program to do that, so
I wrote one.
It has 2 modes, beginners where you can turn each colour on or off independently
and advanced where you can set each colour to any of it's 255 possible
values.
Click here to download the installation
set (Nearly 2Mb) .
Click here to download the .EXE
only if you have VB6 SP5 runtimes already installed (9Kb).
Click here to download the
source (7Kb).
Easter calculator
Another oddity. This program will calculate the dates that Easter falls
on.
Pick the year and get the dates of Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Easter
Monday for the selected year.
This was updated 1/6/2007 following suggestions from John Stockton (http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/)
and has since been updated to use a calender like display.
Click here to download the installation
set (1.7Mb).
Click here to download the .EXE
only if you have VB6 SP5 runtimes already installed (16Kb).
Click here to download the
source (15Kb).
Meta Tag generator
This is a Visual Basic program for web developers that will analyse the local copy of your web pages and generate fully inclusive content meta tags and either update the page itself or write the meta tag as a file to the location of your choice. It will also generate a search array compatible with several public domain local Javascript search engines.
To read how it works, look at this page.
Click here to download the installation
set (1.9Mb).
Click here to download the .EXE
only if you have VB6 SP5 runtimes already installed (21Kb).
Click here to download the source
(15Kb).
At last - a game.
This is a Visual Basic version of the classic game of Hangman. All versions come with a dictionary of 59,500 words constructed from 4 public domain dictionaries, merged and de-duped. The game itself has some nice features like the ability to auto insert vowels, to be driven completely from the keyboard or the mouse.
This was originally written in VB3 and used a a test program for the auto-conversion wizard into VB5 then again into VB6 and now into .NET compact to run on my IPAQ.
Click here to download the Windows
installation set (1.6Mb)
Click here to download the Windows
.EXE only if you already have VB6 SP5 already installed (184Kb).
Click here to download the VB6
source (188Kb).
The following are the installation cab files for the various Pocket PC
processors. All are around 700Kb. This was written for Windows CE, but works
on all later versions as well.
To install: Copy the appropriate file to a temporary directory on your
Pocket PC or Smartphone and then double click on the .CAB file to install
the program and support file.
Note that all of the CAB files require the Windows .NET runtime which is available elsewhere.
The source code for this program is not available at the moment.
Click here to download the
Pocket PC version for the ARM processor.
Click here to download the
Pocket PC version for the ARMV4 processor.
Click here to download the
Pocket PC version for the MIPS processor.
Click here to download the
Pocket PC version for the SH3 processor.
Click here to download
the Pocket PC version for the WCE420X processor.
Click here to download the
Pocket PC version for the X86 emulation processor.
The sources.
I've placed the sources of most of the programs on the site for you to download and play with. I don't expect any of these programs or the code within them to appear in commercial editions.
If you want more information then