My Freeware
This page contains an assortment of programs that I've knocked together in my moments of sanity in this insane world. There are also some PHP scripts, some compilations of web graphics, mobile phone pictures and animations and javascript. The graphics available for download from this page have been compiled by me from freely available resources on the Internet and to my knowledge they are feely distributable.
Unlike politicians - there is nothing hidden in any of my software. There are no viruses, malware, spyware, trojans, back doors or worms. No changes are made to your registry, no files are created or changed in your Windows directory and no data is sent over the Internet - and that's about as safe as it gets!.
Please Note
Virus detection programs are constantly updated and occasionally these programs show false positives for harmless software.Unfortunately software developers like me are the ones to suffer. If you are unsure, then try using another anti virus/anti spyware program, or one of the many on-line scanners available. And feel free to search Google for "virus false positives", you may be quite surprised to find out just how many "false positives" virus software finds!!
I reiterate again - there is NOTHING harmful in ANYTHING on my site!!
Please feel free to distribute for free, anything you download here.
Windows Stuff
- Text Magician
- Edit text files the easy way. Join or split files while adding, deleting or replacing text, change to upper or lower case, capitalise all words or the start of all lines, add text to the start or end of lines, remove leading or trailing spaces, add or remove blank lines, remove text blocks, alphabetise lines in file(s), split files at specified lines or text or into a specified number of files, works on multiple files and on files of unlimited size. I wrote this for my own use after I couldn't find a program to do what I wanted, it's extremely easy to use with a simple interface.
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- The Price Of Freedom
- This is an EBook of my Father's War Diary, it is on-line from my home page but I thought that I'd also make it available for everyone to download. My father was in the British Royal Artillery and was taken prisoner by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in February 1942. He was a P.O.W. for three and a half years in the infamous Changi P.O.W. camp and also on the "Death Railway" in Burma, while there he managed to keep a diary hidden from the Japanese, so this is his story which I think needs to be told.
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- HTML Stripper
- An extremely easy to use program to strip all javascript and html tags from a web page. Can also remove leading spaces, tabs and blank lines so that you end up with a much neater file. I couldn't find a simple program to do what I wanted so this is the result and it even works properly.
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- Lotto Calculator
- Check a list of Lotto draws and find out whether any winning numbers appear in any in previous games, find out the odds for any Lotto, Powerball or Keno, run the simulator and see just how long it takes to win, includes just under 200 optimized wheeling systems, check the winning numbers against your wheeled numbers.
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- Simple Budget
- A very simple, no frills, but functional program that itemises all of your expenses plus your income and then shows you how much money you have left each week, fortnight, month and year. No complicated instructions or interface, start entering data as soon as the program has loaded. Fully functional with no restriction.
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- Simple Password
- A simple to use password manager to store all of your internet passwords. Encrypts your data file, optionally password protect the file, option to save data as plain text, simple one click editing, drops to system tray for quick access. Completely free and fully functional.
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- Search Page
- All the search engines you need, MP3 - Metasearch - underground - dictionary - CD covers and more. Plus anonymous proxy test - anonymous surfing - ping - traceroute - NSlookup - whois etc. Just set up this html page in your browser as your home page and you have all the search info right at your fingertips. (I haven't found the inclination to update this for a while now, so a couple of the links may have changed.)
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- The Jokebook
- This is something that I put together over a couple of years and if printed, is the size of a decent sized book. It contains jokes of ALL descriptions covering just about every topic possible. if you enjoy laughing at the human species then this is just for you. This is in html (web) format and has been set up with an installer, so just click and enjoy!
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- Smiley Vault
- A tad under 1,800 animated and still smiley gifs. Express your emotions in emails, web pages, letters etc by adding a smiley. There are glad, sad and mad ones - grumpy, jumpy and frumpy ones - happy, rappy and crappy ones - there are even smilies driving cars, flying planes, with hats, talking, crying, sighing and dying. This is in html (web) format and has been set up with an installer, so just click and enjoy!
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- Javascript Vault
- The largest offline archive of javascripts you'll find. Over 700 assorted scripts in 17 categories set up to run straight from your browser. Something for everyone from easy to advanced users. Buttons, menus, graphics, text, redirection, cookies, messages, scrollers, forms and more. Set up in html pages so that you can easily try the scripts without any messy editing. If it ain't here, then you probably don't need it.
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- GIF Vault
- Over 7,500 32x32 GIF images (mostly 16 col) all categorized and ready to put in a web page. All images are set with a transparent background and are mostly around 500 bytes in size. An easy install setup has been included and when installed will load the various pages into your browser. These images are also the right size to easily be converted into Windows icons. Images include cartoons, computer, household, building, Sci-Fi, space, smileys, music, animals, insects and much more.
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- Web Graphic Animation Vault
- 5,269 absolutely free animations for your website. All categorized and set up in html pages to run straight from your browser. Use them in web pages, presentations or just for your kids to have fun with. This is probably the largest free colection of gif animations that you will find on the net. 82 categories to choose from - 3D, @signs, Adult, Aliens, Angels, Animals, Antennas, Arrows, Astrology-Astronomy, Atomic, Babies, Books, Candles, Cartoons, Cartoon, Kids, Clocks, Clowns, Comic, Book, Warrior, Compass, Computer, Construction, Counters, Cowboys, Dancing, Dividers, Dots, Dungeons-Dragons, Email, Fairies, Famous, People, Fans, Fire, Fireworks, Flags, Flashing, Lights, Food, Games, Ghosts, Holiday, Home, Appliances, Homes, Hospital, Humanparts, Idiots, Indians, Info, Keys and Locks, Kitchen, Logos, Magic, Marriage, Medievil, Miscellaneous, Money, Monsters, Music, Nature, Numbers, Odds, Office, Orbs, People, Planets, Religious, Scales, Searchlights, Skeletons, Smileys, Snowmen, Sport, Stars, Startrek, Taps and Baths, Telephone, Tobacco, Toilets, Transport, TV, Wacky, War, Windows and Doors.
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- Web Graphic Vault
- Over 5,000 assorted web graphics and picture fonts to jazz up your web page. Why waste time downloading one picture at a time when you can instantly have thousands of graphics at the tip of your fingers. These are categorized and set up as a web site on your computer, so it's very easy and simple to find just what you want and best of all -- they're free! There are animals, banners, stars, cartoons, flowers, dots, insects, roadsigns, backgrounds, seamless backgrounds and more.
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Mobile Phone Stuff
- Nokia Logo Vault
- 4,000 logos, 1,348 picture messages and 70 startup logos for Nokia phones. Jazz up your dull looking screen, replace that drab Nokia operator logo. All you need is a data cable and a shareware program to make use of any of these logos.
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- Mobile Phone Wallpaper Vault 1
- 278 wallpaper backgrounds (128 x 96) for mobile phones. Just load the included html file into your browser to view all of the images. The images are usually transferred to a mobile phone via a cable connecting your phone and computer, infrared, bluetooth and the appropriate software or via a WAP site (internet).The files in this archive were compiled from various sources on the Internet and are all believed to be freely distributable.
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- Mobile Phone Wallpaper Vault 2
- 932 wallpaper backgrounds (128 x 128) for mobile phones. Just load the included html file into your browser to view all of the images. The images are usually transferred to a mobile phone via a cable connecting your phone and computer, infrared, bluetooth and the appropriate software or via a WAP site (internet).The files in this archive were compiled from various sources on the Internet and are all believed to be freely distributable.
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- Mobile Phone Wallpaper Vault 3
- 395 wallpaper backgrounds (128 x 160) for mobile phones. Just load the included html file into your browser to view all of the images. The images are usually transferred to a mobile phone via a cable connecting your phone and computer, infrared, bluetooth and the appropriate software or via a WAP site (internet).The files in this archive were compiled from various sources on the Internet and are all believed to be freely distributable.
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- Mobile Phone Wallpaper Vault 4
- 1,000 wallpaper backgrounds (174 x 132) for mobile phones. Just load the included html file into your browser to view all of the images. The images are usually transferred to a mobile phone via a cable connecting your phone and computer, infrared, bluetooth and the appropriate software or via a WAP site (internet).The files in this archive were compiled from various sources on the Internet and are all believed to be freely distributable.
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- Mobile Phone Wallpaper Vault 5
- 904 wallpaper backgrounds (174 x 132) for mobile phones. Just load the included html file into your browser to view all of the images. The images are usually transferred to a mobile phone via a cable connecting your phone and computer, infrared, bluetooth and the appropriate software or via a WAP site (internet).The files in this archive were compiled from various sources on the Internet and are all believed to be freely distributable.
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- Mobile Phone Screensaver Vault
- 681 animated screensavers (120 x 160) for mobile phones. Just load the included html file into your browser to view all of the images. The images are usually transferred to a mobile phone via a cable connecting your phone and computer, infrared, bluetooth and the appropriate software or via a WAP site (internet).The files in this archive were compiled from various sources on the Internet and are all believed to be freely distributable.
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- True Tone Sound Effects
- 922 assorted low bitrate MP3 sound effects that you can use in your mobile phone. Why be like everyone else with a plain, dull piece of music for your ringtone. Now when your phone rings you can have the 3 stooges speak, hear laughs, musical instruments, sirens, gunshots or just about anything else you can think of. Just imagine how everyone on the crowded bus will stare at you when your phone sounds like a flock of seagulls, a toilet flushing or a machine gun.
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PHP Scripts
- Voting Booth
- This script will allow you to have multiple polls on one page and show the results in the form of a coloured bar with percentage on the same page your visitors use to vote. You can have any number of answers for each poll and IP logging means that no-one can vote more than once in any 24 hour period for each poll. It's quite simple to set up and is fully customisable to suit your website.
Examples are included and a working setup can be seen on this site by using the navigation menu at the top right corner of this page.
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- Random Image
- An extremely simple script that will show a random image (gif, jpg or png) from a directory that you specify. Only one variable to change (your picture directory) and the directory is hidden from visitors so that they can't mass download all of your pictures. This script is ideal for random banners, funny pictures, cartoons, web graphic displays and about a zillion other uses, just use your imagination to make a fun, entertaining site. A few pictures have been included to get you started.
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- Random Text
- Another extremely simple script that will read one line at random from a text file and display it in your web page. Two text files are included to get you started - "snippets.txt" and "didyouknow.txt", but you can make up as many text files as you like and just change a simple variable in the script to match. This would have to be one of the simplest but effective scripts around (apart from the previous script).
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- Data Backup
- Backup any number of files of any description and compress them into one file for a quick and easy download. This is ideal for backing up game scores, counter files, log files or any files from anywhere in your server space.
Full setup instructions are included.
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- Counter Plus v1.1
- An easy to setup counter that will record the date your counter started, the total unique visitors, current number of visitors online, most visitors online (including the date), visitors yesterday, two days ago and three days ago. There is an invisible counter to include in all pages and another counter that will also provide a fully customisable display of your data. With only two variables to set up this script can be up and running in 5 minutes.
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- Downloader v1.1
- A file download script that will only allow files to be downloaded from selected hidden directories. An unlimited number of files are easily added complete with a download counter for each file, a total download count, downloads yesterday, two days ago and three days ago. A simple display can be added to any page to show X number of top downloads.
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DOS Programs
- Business Manager
- I originally wrote this for the old Commodore 64 many, many years ago and ran our Video/Computer business on it, then I decided to port it to the PC (this was before Windows was popular).
You can run a small business using this program and it will print out sheets adequate to give to your accountant including monthly and yearly income and sales, individual and total expenses summaries and profit and a loss sheet. It's extremely simple to use and fairly "stupid proof", but I haven't had the opportunity to thoroughly test this PC version although I do not believe that there are any serious bugs in it so I thought I'd make it available to anyone who could use it. All data is saved in plain text files and a data backup facility is included.
Please note that this program was designed using the DOS "LPrint" statement and may only print through DOS using a serial port printer.
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- Tell Time
- This is designed to teach anyone how to tell the time using an analogue clock. The circular clock face is displayed with the hands at random positions, you must type in the correct time. Can be set for a random 60 minute selection, or a random selection in multiples of 5 minutes. (5, 10, 15 etc)
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- Spell It
- A simple program incorporating speech to teach anyone to remember, and spell words. Words are randomly selected from over 13,000, you must then remember the word and type it in. Aimed at any age and for anyone having trouble spelling.
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- Wordlister
- This program will create word lists from any text file. It reads a text file and then creates a text file of words with a user selected length of a minimum of 3 to 9 letters per word. Ideal for creating lists for spelling programs. (eg the previous program - Spell-it).
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- Times Tabler
- A Simple but entertaining program to teach anyone their times tables. Learn them in sequence or random order. Keeps a score chart so you know which tables need work.
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- What Happened
- An amusing program to provide info on your date of birth. Interesting celebrity birthdays, what happened on the day, the month and year of your birth. Plus your Astrological outlook and Numerology.
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- Keno 1997
- This is based on the Keno game found in the "Pokie" machines used in South Australia. The payouts are similar, but this provides a random payout instead of the 85% payout of the "Pokies". Provides a running total of games played, credits won, credits remaining and a percent of credits won against games played. Also provides for a "PowerKeno" win.
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- Toss-Up
- Interested in gambling or the law of averages, then try this. This will simulate flipping a coin in the air and betting on whether it lands on heads or tails. A silly bit of nonsense that produces some interesting results.
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- Net Timer
- Keep track of your on-line Internet time with this easy to use program. Records the date and time each time you log on and off plus your total time remaining. Ideal for those who have a casual access account and have intermittent access.
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- Simple Budget
- Exactly what the title says. Enter all of your expenses and the amounts by week, month or year, then enter your income and see exactly how much money you have left to spend each week. An easy way to see if you are living above your means.
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- Credit Card Master
- A simple to use program to tell you how much interest and how long to pay off your credit card. Just enter the annual interest rate, amount borrowed, monthly payment and see how much you REALLY pay the bank.
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- Mortgage Calculator
- An easy to use program to work out how much it will cost you for any loan. The interest is calculated daily on a loan of up to $9,999,999 with weekly, fortnightly or monthly payments.
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- Convert-it
- Another boring program to convert lots of stuff to lots of other stuff. Metric - Imperial, length, volume, area, speed, time, temperature, weight, fuel consumption, binary, hex, octal and decimal. Plus a neato bonus of converting English numbers to Roman and vice versa. This also includes a lot of ye olde Imperial stuff (peck, bushel etc).
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- Private Words
- This will encrypt/decrypt any text files that you want to keep from prying eyes. Create a "private key" to decrypt your files and a "public key" that others can use to encrypt text files to send to you. Only you have the "private key" that will decrypt the files. Can also be used with a password to encrypt/decrypt text files on your hard drive.
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- Even File
- This will import a text file, find the length of the longest line and then insert spaces so that all of the lines are the same length, then write a new file with evenly formatted lines.
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Bits 'n Pieces
- Who's on First?
- Anyone else remember the old movies of Abbott and Costello? This is without a doubt the funniest sketch ever, it's a very good quality MP3 file of their live radio broadcast when they did the famous "Who's on first?" sketch. An html file with all of the lines is included so that you can read it as they speak. Even if you've never heard of them before you must download this and hear it and if you don't get a chuckle from it then you've got more problems than you know.
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- Security Sign
- Ever wondered what makes someone think twice about breaking into a house?
Is it the alarm system in the house?
Or is the warning sign on the window?
Not too hard to work out, is it? Here's a BMP image you can print that will give you security warning labels to put on your windows. It's a fictitious Security company and you don't have to have an alarm installed, but the imbecilic morons who break into houses won't know that. I made this sign for my home and it looks the same as the real thing.
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- The Hacker Crackdown
- This is the free electronic version of Bruce Sterling's highly successful paperback book. It is the most fascinating real story you will read about computer hacking. Anyone remember 8 inch floppy disks, 300 baud modems, BBS's, green screen monitors and no internet - welcome to the early eighties.
This is a book about cops, and wild teenage whiz-kids, and lawyers, and hairy-eyed anarchists, and industrial technicians, and hippies, and high-tech millionaires, and game hobbyists, and computer security experts, and Secret Service agents, and grifters, and thieves. This book is about the electronic frontier of the 1990s. It concerns activities that take place inside computers and over telephone lines.
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