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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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Screws 1.3 (Downloads: 241)
CMP Screws and Screwdrivers draws eight types of screw heads. CMP Screws and Screwdrivers draws eight types of screw
heads. It is a teaching example for how to use Java Canvas,
fillRect, fillOval, fillPoly and AffineTransform to draw.
Java source is included for you to cannibalise.
It draws 8 types of screw heads.
To run as an application, type:
java -jar C:\com\mindprod\screws\screws.jar
adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is....
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TimeZones 1.9 (Downloads: 220)
Displays all the TimeZone on your machine supported by Java Displays all the TimeZoneon your machine supported by
Java, with their standard time and daylight saving time
offsets from GMT, along with the their ID (programmer) names
and display names. It also displays UTC time, local time, and
your default TimeZone and whether daylight savings is
currently in effect....
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Converter 5.5 (Downloads: 416)
How to Interconvert any of the Java primitives. Conversion Amanuensis. Conversion teaching tool. Shows you how to convert any of the 17 basic Java types into any of the other. Conversion Amanuensis as your side whenever you need Java code to convert anything to anything else. Runs an as Applet or application.
To install, Extract the zip download with WinZip, available from
winzip.com (or similar unzip utility) into any
directory you please, often C:\ -- ticking off the (user
folder names) option. To run ...
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Password 1.7 (Downloads: 553)
Generates random passwords that are hard to guess. Generates random passwords that are hard to guess. It uses a crytographic quality random number generator. The passwords are generated locally in a Java Applet. They are never transmitted over the Internet, even in encrypted form.
You can also run it as a standalone program, invoking it with
java com.mindprod.password.Password
or
password.jar
You can also run it online at the mindprod.com website without installing it....
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FontSaver 1.4 (Downloads: 250)
FontSaver shares Font objects instead of creating new ones. FontSaver shares Font objects instead of creating new ones to cut
down on the RAM and time needed to create Font and Font peer objects.
Profiling often shows the creation of too many Font objects is the
cause of poor performance.
See the source code for how to incoporate it into your own programs.
It does nothing on its own....
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Official Encoding 1.1 (Downloads: 175)
Discover the official name of any given Java encoding. Official Encoding will tell you the official name of any given Java encoding and whether it is supported by Java. It will also display some of the characters available with that encoding.
Prerequisites:
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.
Installing:
Download source and compiled class files to run...
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FileTimes 1.9 (Downloads: 266)
Read and set Windows file/dir times from Java: Create/LastModified/LastAccessed Java class library to get/set file and directory times: Create/LastModified/LastAccessed. For Windows only.
Create time is when the file was first written. Modified
time (sometimes called lastModified) is when the file was
last written. Accessed time is when the file was last read
or written. Checking its date, looking at its attributes or
checking to see if it exists does not count as reading it.
Get/Set Windows Fil...
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HunkIO 1.7 (Downloads: 263)
Java classes to readEntireFile, create a temp file etc. Java classes to include in your own programs. They let you read or write a file in one fell swoop into RAM. It also includes createTempFile method that is more convenient to use than Sun's File.createTempFile. It also includes PrintWriterPlus that converts linefeeds to platform specific line feeds even when they are embedded in data.
Why the three linked ball logo? It symbolises processing a file in line-sized chunks....
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CurrCon 4.5 (Downloads: 591)
CurrCon displays prices in HTML in users' home currency. Currency Conversion Applet.
CurrCon is an Applet you embed in your HTML
to display prices in a variety of world currencies
defaulting to the user's country.
It usually works in conjunction with the htmlmacros
pre-processor to insert the necessary Applet calls,
though you can do it manually.
Shareware for non military use only.
Registrants get help setting it up....
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KeyPlayer 1.5 (Downloads: 385)
Java Keystroke and Mouse Event Tutor / Keyboard Diagnostic. Java Keystroke and Mouse Event Tutor / Keyboard Diagnostic
Application to let you experiment to learn how mouse and
keystroke events work. Output appears on the console.
Just click the mouse or hit keystrokes and watch what details
of the events generated.
To install, Extract the zip download with WinZip, available from
winzip.com (or similar unzip utility) into any
directory you please, often C:\ -- ticking off the (...
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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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Submitter 16.4 (Downloads: 1074)
Submitter will submit your PAD *.xml program descriptor file to 199 PADsites. Submitter will submit your PAD *.xml program descriptor file to 199 PADsites.
Unlike other submission programs, it submits only to PADSites
that welcome automated submissions. Compose your PAD *.xml file using a
program like PADGen, then upload it you your website. Then enter the URL
of your website directory where you upload pads and the name of the pad
itself e.g. hypotheticalprogram.xml, then hit SUBMIT. It also has a ...
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Tabin 5.3 (Downloads: 252)
Converts spaces to tabs in an ASCII text file. Converts spaces to tabs in an ASCII text file
Usage:
TABIN.exe Myfile.txt
Assumes tab stops are 8 columns apart. Don't use it on word
processor files. C source included. Copyrighted by Canadian
Mind Products. May be freely distributed and used for any
purpose except military. It has been rewritten in C from
Pascal for extra speed. Users of previous versions should
take care to delete the old TABIN.COM...
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Base64 1.9 (Downloads: 302)
Java classes to encode/decode Base64 and Base64u Base64 is a freeware way of encoding 8-bit characters using
only ASCII printable characters similar to UUENCODE.
UUENCODE embeds a filename where BASE64 does not. You will
see BASE64 used in encoding digital certificates, in
encoding user:password string in an Authorization: header
for HTTP. The spec is described in RFC 2045.
Don't confuse Base64 with x-www-form-urlencoded which
is handled by java.net.URLEncoder.encod...
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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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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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