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VerCheck 4.4 (Downloads: 342)
VerCheck checks websites for new versions of the software you use. WHAT IT IS FOR
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I used to check over a dozen websites each day to see if new versions of the software I use had been released. This was time consuming and error prone. VerCheck automates this
process by checking the websites of the programs you use to see if the version numbers have changed. It comes preconfigured from the factory with 64 applications.
HOW IT WORKS
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For each applica...
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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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Pluck 1.0 (Downloads: 206)
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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Align 1.6 (Downloads: 252)
Aligns data in ASCII text files into neat columns. ALIGN aligns data in ASCII text files into neat columns.
Also converts comma-delimited files to columns with 2 spaces
between each column. Input fields must be separated by
commas or white space. Fields may contain spaces if they
are enclosed in single or double quotes or C comments /* ...
*/ or //. The best way to understand this program is to try
it on a COPY of any ASCII Text file, especially one that
contains badly al...
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Boyer 1.5 (Downloads: 257)
Fast string search (indexOf) using the Boyer-Moore algorithm. Fast string search (indexOf) using the Boyer-Moore
algorithm. Incorporate this class into your own Java
programs to rapidly search strings.
use:
import com.mindprod.Boyer.Boyer;
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Boyer b = new Boyer("dogcatwombat");
int where = b.indexOf("cat");
or
int where = Boyer.indexOf("dogcatwombat","cat");
Boyer-Moore is about twice as fast as String.indexOf wh...
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Tabout 2.7 (Downloads: 231)
converts tabs to spaces in an ASCII text file. converts tabs to spaces in an ASCII text file
usage : TABOUT Myfile.TXT
Don't use it on word processor files. Assumes tab stops
are 8 columns apart. Also trims ^Z and corrects any
malformed CrLf line endings. C source included.
Copyrighted, but may be distributed freely and used for
any purpose except military....
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Untouch 2.4 (Downloads: 439)
Reverts files dates back if the files have not really changed. Documentation on the original student project outline
mindprod.com/projects/untouchproj.html
This explains how it works and some of its uses.
Untouch supports the following command line switches which appear
before the directories.
-c or -clear = clear history first and take current file times as the new revert-to point.
-f or -force = revert files back to previous dates whether they have changed or not.
-h or -help =...
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FontShower 2.9 (Downloads: 499)
Displays all the fonts available to Swing in Java. Displays all the fonts available to Java on your
machine. Displays the fonts in a variety of styles, sizes
and colours, rendered either with anti-aliased or plain.
FontShower displays the fonts available on *your* machine
to *Java*. Other people will have different fonts installed
and will see different selections available via Java on
their machines. Your browser will see a slightly different
set of fonts than Java ...
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Entities 3.1 (Downloads: 626)
Utilities to convert/strip/insert HTML/XML/XHTML entities Consists of a pair of utilities that let you
convert/strip/insert HTML/XML/XHTML entities such as _amp;- and _quot;
from files converting them back and forth to their
equivalent single characters !amp; and !quot;. It handles the HTML 4
entities such as _hearts; as well as decimal _#123; and
hexadecimal _x#123; entities.
You may us this package as standalone
utilities, or use the classes in your own programs
to...
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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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FileIO 6.1 (Downloads: 589)
Generates sample Java code to do 617 types of I/O. I/O teaching tool that generates sample Java source code to read or write the console, a sequential file, a random access file, a String, an array of characters, an array of bytes, URL, HTTP CGI GET/POST, Socket, resource or Pipe. It shows you how to read or write ASCII-8 bit characters (plain or locale-encoded), Unicode 16-bit characters, raw bytes, big endian binary, little endian binary, or serialised objects, buffered, unbuffered or gzip compressed.
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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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Masker 1.9 (Downloads: 292)
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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Primes 1.4 (Downloads: 480)
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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Batik 2.2 (Downloads: 502)
Java to let you create a custom utility to find and delete all junk files. Java classes to let you create a custom utility to find and
delete all junk files on your machine. Use one of the three
scripts supplied as an example, to create your own XXX.java
source code file then compile and use to rapidly clean your
drive of junk.
This program requires some elementary Java programming skill.
To compile
E:
cd \com\mindprod\batik
javac *.java
to run, make s...
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Amper 1.9 (Downloads: 427)
Safely converts ampersands to !amp; entities In the following, pretend ! is an ampersand. PAD files don't let me give literal examples. Amper converts ! to !amp; in HTML files and back, but does not convert it when the ! is already in an entity e.g. !lt; !thetasym; !eacute;
The main use for this is to pass HTMLValidator verification of your HTML, which is very picky about !, especially inside URLs.
As a side effect, it also ensures all your comment delimiters balance.
It ...
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Mouse 1.4 (Downloads: 269)
In Java, allows you to find out where the mouse in on the screen In Java, allows you to find out where the mouse in on the
screen, even when it is not over one of your apps. This has
similar function to MouseInfo.getPointerInfo in Java 1.5+.
This class will work in any version of Java.
It uses JNI and a DLL, so it only works on Windows.
You must install the nativemouse.dll somewhere on the path.
Then your programs can find out the x and y position of the
mouse, [(0,0...
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