AUTOMATICALLY
CREATE MSI
FILES!

This is the
most popular
download on
my site by
far!

This free program is used to automate the building or updating of any windows installer databases (usually .MSI files). This program can also largely replace most peoples use of the ORCA utility.

This tool makes use of the PPWIZARD processor and therefore allows for complex build time importing and dynamic generation of windows installers.

You may also want to look at my "MSIDIFF" tool which can dump or compare windows installer databases (result is actually understandable).

This command line tool (start this vbscript via "cscript.exe") allows you to extract photos from a VCARD file containing any number of contacts. It tries to name the pictures with the contacts full name (FN tag), if that fails it will get it a generic name.

It will extract the photos into a "$ExtractedPictures$" subdirectory off the "current directory". If it already finds a picture with the same name it will rename the previous photo with the date of that file so that a history of contact photos revisions will be kept.

Note that Google itself doesn't export photos but your Android phone's people/contact app does export pictures when creating vcf files.

This phone handles PHOTOS that begin with "PHOTO;ENCODING=BASE64;JPEG:" or "PHOTO;ENCODING=BASE64;PNG:", if there are other formats in your vcard files send me an example of a contact, create a dummy one if you wish and I'll look at updating my app to handle it.

This product is no longer supported, you can still download it if you wish to try it. If it fails and you know how to tweek things then it won't be too hard to do. If you have an Android phone then I recommend you download "myUsage". If you have an iPhone, sorry to hear that :-), then I think that its also available there given the Android app looks like an apple one.

OptusUsage is an "offline" meter tool which periodically logs on to Optus (you specify how often) to monitor your bandwidth with the results being displayed on your desktop's background (click for example along with its configuration).

On my multiple monitor setup I have it placed on the bottom right of the left hand monitor. You can alter the text size, font and color as well as add other information you may be interested in monitoring. The data displayed includes peak and off peak used and left amounts and percentages.

It can optionally speak the main details to you as well so you know when the information has been refreshed. The installer creates a schedule (and shortcuts) for you to update as often as you wish.

I used to use UsageAgent (UA) while on BigPond, unfortunately it doesn't work correctly on Optus (Australia) and as the many so called alternatives (and UA "fixes") didn't work well either, I decided to write something that works for me.

Some current limitations:

• The left over values assume that your rollover day is 1, which I think is the case for most people, let me know if thats not the case and I will fix this at some stage.

• I plan on looking into making it a SideBar gadget as a possible learning exercise.

This free program is used to disassemble or compare MSI installers or other Windows Installer databases.

This free program is used by e-Zine! magazine and the OS/2 Supersite as a html preprocessor to generate their html.

This preprocessor can be used to generate HTML (and rexx or other) code from source files. It supports commands such as "#include", "#define", "#if" and much more.

I maintain two differing homepages (this is one of them) from the same source, all the html you are seeing has been processed/generated by this program. Note that the '#if' processing is very powerful and that you can execute any rexx commands and use the output (all the file sizes and dates where provided were automatically calculated by this program). The #define command supports parameters and conditional generation of code.

As a rexx preprocessor it allows you to easily create header files of standard routines so that you never need to duplicate source code again! I have made some source routines available for #include in your programs. Rexx code is packed by default so that your input can contain many comments and be spaced out with most of this being removed from your runtime.

Note that this program can be used for virtually any file type and not just html & rexx. Some people use PPWIZARD macros to develop AWE def files and someone uses it with PHP.

This free program is used to validate URLS, it will report all links such as those that would generate a page not found (404) as well as pages that have moved.

Note that I also use it (via a PPWIZARD add-on) to indicate when a link was last checked and whether it was OK or not (in my link pages).

Extracts file version information out of EXE, DLL and other executable files:

SYNTAX
~~~~~~
StrFInfo[.EXE] ExeDllOcxFileName  [Property1  [Property2 ...]]

COMMON PROPERTIES
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
FileDescription  FileVersion     InternalName  OriginalFileName
ProductName      ProductVersion
CompanyName      LegalCopyRight

Properties are generated to stdout in the order supplied, one per line.
A value of "FAILED" means a propery did not exist.
A scripting language such as REXX, PERL or VBSCRIPT would normally be used
to parse the generated (redirected) output.

A return code of 0 or 1 means that some properties exist.
A return code of 1 means that NONE of those you requested exist.
A return code of 2 means that the file does not exist.
Any other return codes probably mean that STRINGFILEINFO is
unavailable, not all executables will have the information.

Fix
for
the HTML
version

The download is quite large because there is a lot of graphics and sound (the code itself is only about 30K of this!). I think variety helps to keep children interested. No two screens (or program runs) will ever be the same.

The HTA version covers the whole screen and has no browser controls to maximise safety (of your computer!). It also ensures that the mouse does not go off the screen (a common fault with most kids games).

This game has a theme of animals (the download also shows you how you can create your own variations - for example shapes). Graphics (quite a few being animated) are randomly selected and placed in random positions, every minute the screen is redrawn. The number of graphics displayed depends on screen size and the size of the graphics already selected. When the mouse is moved over a graphic the appropriate sound is produced and a "tooltip" description is displayed.

You can specify on the command line how it should process the input in determining what the programs return code will be.

The user chooses the option from the context (right click) menu of any directory and your chosen browser will display all web graphics files sorted in name order and full size. The images size, height and width are also displayed.

Should work in Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP.

As the Windows (cygwin) port as supplied on the "official" site is extremely difficult to set up (my opinion) and SITECOPY is such a useful tool I have packaged it up so anyone can be using it in a matter of minutes (the download is a setup program and once site/ftp information has been entered you can start using it).

Has been tested on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT and 2000. For Windows 95, 98 and ME you must install into the C:\SC directory due to operating system as well as sitecopy restrictions. An session should already be established before running.

The program uses SAPI 4, WINXP installs SAPI 5, now thanks to the amazing intelligence of the MS blokes SAPI 5 can't handle code written with an previous versions) and so out of the box this program won't work with XP. You will need to install SAPI 4 (you can have both installed at ones), download and install in order:

1. http://sayzme.sourceforge.net/spchapi.exe
2. http://sayzme.sourceforge.net/msttsl.exe

This utility allows you to display text in different colors in console batch files etc. In fact it goes one better than ANSI codes, if the output is redirected then the output will not contain color codes (which tend to make the output harder to read)!

No device drivers ("ANSI.SYS" etc) are required.

In Windows 95, 98 and ME you can change the color of the text on the CTEXT.EXE command line but it may or may not stick for longer (ie its flakey). In Windows NT, 2000 and XP it will also set the color until it is changed again.

Tested on Windows 2000, should work on 95/98/ME as well.

This program has a number of options, including a search capability.

An example is included in the documentation which shows how a CM/2 response file is tailored after a few simple questions have been answered.

There are some limitations under regina. These are not major.