Software Galore

Hello Readers!

I’ve been creating lot of programs lately, and guess what? It is all freeware, meaning anyone of you can use if for free! :D
Here is a rundown of the apps.

You may find bugs in some of them, if you do, please comment telling what the bug is or tweet me on twitter at ‘beeboent’

So, the first program I created is called ‘PicSwitch’ What inspired this application is in Windows 7 they have themes and the background of the desktop can change. I took that idea and ported it to Windows Vista and XP(in XP it uses more system resources than in Vista) Basically how it works is you download the application, install(obviously) and then when you start it up, you go to settings, pick the desired folder with the pictures you want(I chose a folder with all these Windows 7 wallpaper I got from Windows 7 Center) Then you set how long you want each picture to stay on for, a minimum of 5 seconds(I have mine set to 10 seconds) and then you just enjoy your desktop that keeps changing! :) It also has a ‘Pause’ feature and a ‘Next Picture’ feature. I just added a feature that will detect if the image is smaller than the screen resolution and if it is then it will center the image if you have it set to stretch the images.
Here are the links to download:
PicSwitch.zip
PicSwitch.msi

The next one, My first IE Add-on is called ‘IEColour’ And the main focus of this is to provide IE Users an add-on that is a colour picker so that they can click a colour(using a magnifying glass) and get the RGB and Hex code for that specific colour. Thanks to ‘nd1279’ of' ‘CodeProject’ for the color picker program. Basically what I did was took his excellent work and ported it into an IE Add-on. It was a simple straight forward piece of work.
Here are the links to download:
IEColour.zip
IEColour.msi

The last one, and most recent, is an Add-on for IE again that sends tweets to your twitter page, so if you find something on a browser page you can quickly tweet about it. Very handy, except I can’t set the source variable in the app. Which is a pain. You may notice a few bugs in this one, but they may only be minor ones as I’m sure I’ve got all the major ones. :)
With this program you install and then reopen IE and then you have a little birdie near the top of the browser, when you click on it you will be taken to a dialog box(Please tell me in comment if you like it dialog or not) and there you have to click setup, to put in your username and password which is in a secured area. And then you can start tweeting away, the tweet box is a Rich Textbox and recognizes urls as you type them so there is no need for html tags.
Here are the download links:
TwIEter.zip
TwIEter.msi

Please comment back with suggestions and bugs and feedback in general telling me what you think.

I hope you enjoy these three programs, if you do you can buy me a coffee! :)

Remember you can follow me on twitter at ‘beeboent’
And also remember to check out my website, if you want a custom application just contact me.

Thanks for reading!
God Bless!

PicSwitch

A few days ago I wasn’t feeling very well so I got onto my computer and decided I should make something to pass the time. I decided to create a program that will switch the background picture of the computer however many seconds you want it to, and will load the pictures from a specified folder. The first version worked great but it could be made better and it started off using 30MB of memory and it kept going up. So I created a new one that allows you to specify between ‘Tiled, Centered, or Stretched’ also prior to this version I was storing all my settings in a text document and getting them with a StreamReader like this

string str1 = reader.ReadLine().ToString();

I then switched to storing the settings in the Registry and I cut my memory usage costs in half to 15MBbut it was still going up every time the picture changed. SO I then did it again made little tweaks to it, found out that the image wasn’t being disposed of from the temporary image object. So I called an Image.Dispose(); and that solved the problem. Now the app runs within the 6 to 8MB range depending on the size of image that is on screen.

Here is a link to try it out I compiled it for x86.
Here is the link to the MSI:
http://tinyurl.com/ddr7hd
Here is the link to the zipped archive
http://tinyurl.com/d6vnwh

If you get a network error while installing, you need to unzip it prior to installation.

Have fun and please tell me what you think, and post any suggestions for a new version. Share it with family and friends.

If you liked this program please support it by making a donation.

March 8th 2009

So a quick short post. Not much happening, we had a home show over the weekend. Got a bunch of inquiries, which is good. :)

So from the poll I conducted on this blog I found that 71% of the readers eat food(that is over half the readers.) Very interesting. Wouldn’t you say?

This post is brought to you by…

Gabriel Hounsome of Beebo Enterprises.

Told you it’d be short, that is why I chose today as the title. :)

Well I'd better go now have a goodie everyone!! :)
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Dios Bendiga!