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 BOOTSave 2.8 (Downloads: 282)
BootSave saves/restores the master boot sector BootSave saves/restores the master boot sector on the
hard disk. Suite of three utilities BootSave, BootRest and
BootChk. Protects against damage to the partition table or
boot sector done by rogue programs, viruses or accidents
with tools like Norton NU.
The BootSave suite will work under DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows
95/98/ME, OS/2, but not NT, Windows 2000, XP, Vista or Windows 7.
These OSes block low level disk I/O as...
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 Honk 1.5 (Downloads: 245)
Plays one or more of the Standard Windows sounds or wav files. Plays one or more of the Standard Windows sounds, triggered
purely from the command line.
use:
honk
- Plays the default system sound.
honk SystemStart SystemHand SystemQuestion
- Plays the given list of standard system sounds (usually just one).
- they are case-insensitive (you can get the case wrong and it will still work).
Possible sound names are listed in the registry...
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 Insult 1.9 (Downloads: 333)
Generates insults typical of those posted by Republicans in newsgroups. Generates insults typical of those posted by Republicans in
the alt.politics.bush newsgroup.
Java Applet that can also be run as an application.
You can run it without installing it at
mindprod.com/applet/insult.html
To install, Extract the zip download with WinZip, (or similar unzip utility) into
any directory you please, often C:\ -- ticking off the (user
folder names) option. To run as an application,...
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 Masker 1.9 (Downloads: 291)
Hides email addresses from spammers as PNG image files. Produces PNG files (image files similar to GIFs, but
smaller) that contain your email address. When you post them
on your website, it is harder for spammer to harvest them.
You can include the generated image files in the HTML on
your website with: code like this:
[a href="../image/mailto/roedy.png"]email me[/a]
(pretend [] are angle brackets)
or
[mg src="image/mailto/r...
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 FileFilters 2.7 (Downloads: 424)
Colllecton of Java FilenameFilters. FilenameFilters you can use in your own Java programs with
File.list( FilenameFilter f ). They can also be used
standalone as fancy dir commands.
They come with Java source and include:
AllDirectoriesFilter gets all directories
AllFilesFilter gets all files
ClamFilter simple wildcard
DirListFilter gets a list of directories
EndsWithFilter gets files whose names end with a...
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 Primes 1.4 (Downloads: 477)
calculates the prime numbers 1..N, tells you if N is prime etc. calculates the prime numbers 1..N, tells you if N is prime etc.
Prints tables of primes.
Computes the prime just below or above N.
It is useful in computing optimal Hashtable sizes.
Java source included....
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 Borders 1.5 (Downloads: 234)
Displays a variety of decorative borders. Shows off what you can do with Swing. Displays a variety of decorative borders.
Shows off what you can do with Swing.
To run as an application, type:
java -jar C:\com\mindprod\borders\borders.jar
adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is.
The picture frame icon represents the various decorative
borders you can put around your Swing panels....
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 Encodings 1.6 (Downloads: 249)
Applet to list all supported encodings (character sets) supported by Java. Applet to list all supported encodings (character sets)
supported by your browser/java.
To install, Extract the zip download with WinZip,
(or similar unzip utility) into
any directory you please, often C:\ -- ticking off the (user
folder names) option. To run as an application, type:
java -jar C:\com\mindprod\encodings\encodings.jar
adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is....
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 Encoding Recogniser 1.2 (Downloads: 210)
Help determine a file's encoding by displaying it wth all supported encodings. Encoding Recogniser will help you determine what encoding was
used to write a file by displaying the file in hex or and
decoded characters in any of the encodings supported by
Java.
This program runs under any OS,
(e.g. Win2K/XP/Vista/OSX/Linux/Solaris/Vista64/AIX...) so long as you have
Java version 1.5 or later installed.
To install, Extract the zip download with WinZip (or similar unzip utility) into
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 Rgrow 1.3 (Downloads: 211)
RGrow resizes fixed length records padding or chopping. RGrow resizes fixed length records e.g.
RGrow.exe MyFile.seq 500 600
will grow each record from 500 to 600 bytes by padding binary zeros.
Will also truncate records.
These are not the old and new sizes of the file, but of the fixed length records
in the file. If you increase the record size, each record will be padded
with nulls. The entire file will grow as a result.
This program may be freely copied and us...
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 Pluck 1.0 (Downloads: 205)
Scans multiple files looking for a REGEX pattern, and summarised what it finds. Scans multiple files looking for a REGEX pattern, and
summarised what it finds as a CSV file.
java -jar C:\com\mindprod\pluck\pluck.jar "\.[a-z]+\." E:\temp\temp.csv E:\somedir
adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is.
The first parameter is the regex pattern. See regex in the java glossary
for how to compose them.
The next parameter is where the output in to go. use the
wo...
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 Esper 2.4 (Downloads: 310)
A crude translator Esperanto To English and English to Esperanto. A crude translator Esperanto To English and English to
Esperanto. It works by looking up words in various
dictionaries on the web. It mindlessly translates word for
word.
(1) First download and install the lastest Java JRE
(2) Using WinZip extract the
files into the default com\mindprod\esper directory.
(3) Create a shortcut setting by right clicking the
desktop and selecting new shortcut.
<...
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 CMOSSave 4.6 (Downloads: 338)
Check CMOS for corruption and automatically restore it. CMOSSave CMOSRest CMOSChk restore corrupted CMOS from
backup and check that CMOS has not been tampered with.
Naive users sometimes meddle with CMOS settings. We need a
fast way to put the scores of subtle CMOS configuration
settings back the way they were.
Power surges can corrupt CMOS. We need a way for a naive
user to quickly restore all the CMOS settings.
If the battery fails, the contents will be los...
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 Holiday Calculatior 4.7 (Downloads: 738)
Calculate when 66 holidays occur in any given year. Calculates when various holidays occur in any given year BC or AD.
Designed to be cannibalised to include the calculation routines in your
own programs. You might use it to prepare paper calenders well in
advance or electronic calendars. You might also use the logic in computer
programs that compute payrolls, bus schedules, or club meetings. You
might use it in writing novels or researching historical events. It can
als...
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 Dedup 1.5 (Downloads: 230)
Java command line utility to removes duplicate lines from text files. DeDup is a Java command-line utilty for removing duplicate
lines in text files.
The dedup process compares adjacent lines only. It does not
sort first. The comparison is case sensitive. It removes
adjacent indentical lines. It replaces the original file, so
do a backup first. You can dedup 1 to N files in one
execution, just put their names on the command line.
DeDup deletes blank lines from both the beginning...
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 AmericanTax 3.8 (Downloads: 448)
Calculates American sales taxes state and district Calculates American sales taxes, state and district.
Java Applet that can also be run as an application.
Requires Java version 1.5 or later.
Java source code and sample HTML included.
This version computes by adding sales tax to a base price.
It also works in reverse given the total paid working
backwards to get the tax and original price. In other words
it will tell you the sticker price to make somet...
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 FontShowerAWT 2.9 (Downloads: 331)
Displays all the fonts available to AWT in Java. Displays all the fonts available to AWT in Java on your
machine. Displays the fonts in a variety of styles, sizes
and colours, rendered either with a Canvas or with a TextArea.
FontShowerAwt displays the fonts available on *your* machine
to *Java*. Other people will have different fonts installed
and will see different selections available to Java on
their machines. Your browser will see a slightly different
set of fo...
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TradeTrakker 2.93: Powerful investment tracking program to automatically track stocks/mutual funds
AbleFTP 11.10: AbleFtp - FTP client designed to automate and run 1000+ FTP tasks a day.