Desktop Applications

Sorry, desktop applications have been temporarily suspended for various reasons. Please try back in a month or two.

What has been available in the past:

ProcedureEater	Video-based procedure reader, displays a procedure one step at a time, with text and video, and optional audio, with the intelligence to ask appropriate questions, remember the answers, then not present steps that are not relevant. Written in java, worked great, but procedure development was accomplished using an xml editor - not exactly user friendly. I may redo this one using flash - we'll see. Cross-platform.
DirectoryUtility	Traverses a directory tree, allowing folder selection using simple masks or regular expressions, file masks same way, then allows you to specify folder and/or file renaming and/or copying and/or file-contents search-and-replace, etc. The coolest thing to me was the 3 modes: 1. Show folders and files subject to being modfied, 2. Test - show exactly what will happen to each one if you do it for real, and 3. Do it for real. No undo. User interface was a little messy - may be back. Was hoping to have it set up so user could specify custom operations in a scripting or expression language - that never happened. Cross-platform. I still use this one regularly.
CharacterUtility	Text and character conversion and information. I used it alot but never got polished. Cross-platform.
TimerUtility	Windows only - Multiple timers that could be set for various things - the one I use the most is system shut-down, so I can go to sleep to Internet radio :-)
ClipboardUtility	Windows only - I've written scripts for folder/file processing and text manipulation - user can also write custom scripts in javascript or vbscript. Has partially replaced DirectoryUtility.
FileSplitter	And assembler - Never use it anymore since I have implemented HTTP upload on my website. Used to be good for splitting a file for email transmission. Cross-platform.
JarExplorer	Allowed one to explore a jar file like a zip file. The newest version of winzip does this now so its obsolete.
SendEmailToList	I wrote this for a friend - he loves it and uses it regularly to send emails to a list of several hundred people, without which his ISP thinks he's a spammer. (He's not) I use online mailing list web-apps so this is of no real use to me.
FileOfSize	A simple utility to create a bunch of files of increasing sizes - useful for filesize testing of email attachments and uploaders.
FileAccessHelper	A utility to probe a computer for network and local file access restrictions. Helped debug applications that worked on one system and not another due to file access permission issues. Not for hacking, really.
FTPAutomator	Good to have before off-the-shelf FTP clients incorporated similar functionality.