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The new release of PhotoResizerQt fixes a major bug and adds a lot of minor cleanup to the user interface.
Choose One Photo
Now that I’ve put up some new shareware programs on Source Forge, software sites have started to “recommend me”. They must be employing folks in a far off country to do some simple tests and an automatic virus scan and then put the page on the site. The problem is that I’m not sure they link back to the Source Forge site so that updates are evident to users.
PhotoResizerQt
There’s a new release of PhotoResizerQt. The major change is a new PhotoOpenDialog that provides a preview of the photos. Here’s the original post.
PhotoOpenDialog with preview at 96 pixels
The preview image size can be changed to, 96, 128, or 256. (more…)
SiteProbeQt is a program to monitor your websites, or other websites, and to log their up/down times.
SiteProbeQt Main Window
Add a list of sites, then click Start Monitoring and minimize the program. Each event is logged
Update: Update: Program fixed now. The problem was some plug-ins that process images. These DLLs were not supplied since the program finds them with a non-standard way if you have the Qt toolkit installed. The program and the installer is now fixed to install those plug-ins too.
Update: This program fails on Win XP Sp3. I’m investigating why this is, but it appears to be a bug in the QPixmap class of the Qt Library. I’ll fix the program as soon as possible. You can follow the discussion in this post.
Friends of mine have their digital cameras and need to resize their photos to send over email. All the programs I’ve found on the web are either too complicated with way too many options for a novice computer user or strange to use like the program that you rename to change the size of the photo and then drag and drop photos onto it to resize the photos. I have designed a very simple program to resize either one or several photos.
Resize a Photo
I recently wrote a program to test my new computer. I wanted to test the wattage range and cooling of the new processor so needed a program that would keep all the cores of the processor busy. The Core i7-950 is a 4 core processor with Hyper-Threading which means that there are a max of 8 threads. Since AMD provides server processors with up to 12 threads so the program has a maximum number threads of 32. I use the HWMonitor program to monitor temperatures and wattage if your processor supports it.
I have started using Google calendar and now I want to analyze the events that I’m saving. Google provides a calendar, but no tools to analyze the events on a calendar. Also they only provide iCal format export of the calendar and no way to move the calendar to Google Docs.
An iCal importer for Open Office Calc would have the widest appeal and widest platform support.
I have written a simple importer for Open Office 3.1.1. I have not tested it on other versions of OO.
You can download it here: iCal_Import_04
After an Import
Do you have a bunch of stuff starting up when you boot that you don’t need?
Get it under control.
My daughter and I had a problem and we found this little startup control panel. Just the thing that really ought to be built into windows:
This allows you to check and uncheck the programs that start and all the various types of items are available to set.
This is a link to the Watch 4D program, which is different than the Watch 3D program. Watch 4D includes source.
Scan a whole disk, or just a directory tree, and find out where the space is being used and by which files. Oddly enough, tthe Windows 95 / NT Explorer has no such feature, or WinXP for that matter. The most you can do is watch the status bar for each directory as you navigate.
Here’s a program that will let you manage your hard drive space and efficiently clean up your files.
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The PakZip program solves two problems…
- Building ZIP files for game programs such as Quake that use ZIP as their archive format.
- Building distribution archives when an installer is not appropriate.
Synchronize files between two folders, drives, computers or backup files to offline media including removable hard drives and CD/DVD RW.
Features New for Synch 3
- Supports CD/DVD RW drives, including verify.
- Threads rather than idle-loop operation provides better performance.
- Substitution allows easy redirection of drives and network paths.
- Options to remove empty directories after files are deleted.
- Options to provide handling of files with no extensions.
- Sizes and positions of windows and column widths of lists are saved and restored.
Here’s a link to the original WW pages for Geodesic if you want more information.
The Geodesic program displays shapes of various styles and allows the objects to be examined in various colors and lighting styles. All the object types can be modified with various parameters.
The program can export the objects in OBJ [Wave] format for import into your favorite 3D rendering environment.
Here’s a link to the original WW pages describing Watch3D an OpenGL program I developed a while ago to import and convert objects.
Here’s a link to the Gemstones program. It creates gemstone objects of several styles, displays them and exports them for other 3D programs to use.
I am releasing the source in case you would like to learn how it works and modify it. I would appreciate it if you would let me know of any interesting modifications that you make.
Enjoy,
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