Attest

Constantly place customers & data at the heart of your decision-making: https://www.askattest.com

Studio Fortress

My friend runs a website containing a portfolio of his games creations. http://www.studiofortress.com/index.php

Some software I use

I use these tools regularly and thought they might be useful for others.

• Google chrome for web browsing, quickly overtaking firefox. Website: http://www.google.co.uk/chrome
• Although the updates to javascript in new versions of firefox are pretty useful, especially if you're running websites that utilise it a lot e.g. GWT based sites. Website: http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/
  
• For Sony Ericsson phones, myphoneexplorer is a fantastic utility allowing you to control your phone using your computer. Website: http://www.fjsoft.at/en/ 
  
• Unlocker is very useful for discovering which program is using a file: http://www.filehippo.com/download_unlocker/
• Lock hunter is a similar tool to unlocker, but works on 64 bit systems. Website: http://lockhunter.com/
  
• CCleaner is a great tool for cleaning your computer, temp files, registry, uninstalling software and more. Website: http://www.ccleaner.com
• The K-Lite codec pack + media player classic plays pretty much everything. Website: http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm
• windirstat is a fantastic utility to help analyse your hard drive usage giving all sorts of break downs and a graph of files, very handy. Website: http://windirstat.info/
• Avast is the best free virus scanner I've ever used. Website: http://www.avast.com/
• And Comodo is the best free firewall I've ever used. Website:http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/download_firewall.html

XL Airways Project

Here's an out of date link, XL airways went bust some time ago, I'm sure it had nothing to do with us:
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/information_technology/report-100033.html
as reported on:
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/news/2007/XLAirwaysTalk/

Harvard Referencer 1.5

A slight update to the Harvard Referencer.

Users can now specify that the text fields used to input data to the program are cleared after making a reference. This can be turned off in the 'properties' form, see below.




I have also added another example reference with more than one author to help make the fact that you need to separate author names with a colon clearer.



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System Requirements

Windows® XP/2003 Server/Vista with .net Framework Version 2

Gmail Add on 2.5.5

Slight update to the Gmail Add on as pointed out by a user there was a floor in the implementation of the options program used to specify new addresses and browsers. This is now sorted.

Thanks for your help and as always I'm open to being contacted about any of my programs for suggestions and so forth.

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Gmail Add on 2.5

Another update:

You can now choose the browser that the Gmail Add on links to so for instance you can have Internet Explorer as your default browser but set Gmail to open in Firefox.

It is highly recommended that you uninstall any previous versions you have of this program before installing this update.

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Again this improvement to the program was suggested by a user. If you have any suggestions please email me and I'll be very interested to hear you ideas.

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System Requirements

Windows® XP/2003 Server/Vista

Gmail Add on 2.0

Another update to the Gmail Add on: it now supports users who use googles "Google Apps".

Either at the end of install or after, the user can specify what domain they would like to use, i.e. when someone clicks on the Google Mail icon on the start menu, which url it takes them too.

Simply go: Start -> All Programs -> Gmail Add on -> Domain Name Changer
then enter your chosen domain in the box and click "Change"

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System Requirements

Windows® XP/2003 Server/Vista

Gmail Add on 1.5

An update already! It's only been out a day.

Users using the classic start menu can now have the Gmail icon displayed.

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System Requirements

Windows® XP/2003 Server/Vista

Gmail Add on

The gmail add on allows users to add Gmail - Google Mail - to the start menu.





Right click on the start bar -> Properties -> Start Menu -> Customize -> select "Google Mail" in the email link box.


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The original concept for this program was by Matt Carter
The Gmail icon was created by *weboso see - http://weboso.deviantart.com/art/Gmail-Icons-10297734

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System Requirements

Windows® XP/2003 Server/Vista

Defrag App Version 2.0

I have updated my defrag application to allow users with RAID to manually add their drives to the list.

The program gets your computers drive names by doing a DriveInfo.GetDrives(); call (part of the .net framework) however when drives are in RAID each drive does not have a name and the DriveInfo.GetDrives(); method throws a IOException. This new Defrag App handles the exception by opening a dialog where the user can add their drives manually.

There have also been some other slight aesthetical updates


System Requirements
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Screenshots

Manually adding drives



When you've added the drives, click done





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System Requirements

Windows® XP/2003 Server/Vista with .net Framework Version 2

Harvard Referencer

Long time no update:

I have been working on this application for some time, it's still not finished, but I wanted to release it as it is.

While at university I have had to write essays and including references to material that you have used is essential yet complicated. I heard people complaining about the difficulty of the Harvard Referencing system and decided to write an application that does all the formatting for you, all the user has to do is input the data.


Quick tutorial:

1) The user enters the data from the book/journal etc into the appropriate textboxes
2) Click "Make"
3) Copy the references into another document - either right click > "Copy" or Edit > "Copy all"
Or you can go File > Export to word document.

Alternatively you can print directly from the program, the options for the can be found under "File > Print Reference list"


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Screenshots

The main view of the program



Preferences




External Links:

For a general guide of how to use the Harvard Referencing System see:

http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.htm


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System Requirements

Windows® XP/2003 Server/Vista with .net Framework Version 2

My Defrag Application

The Defrag Application allows the user to defragment each of their hard drives, including USB flash drives, through the Windows® command line automatically without the need to input drive name.

Known Issues

At the moment this app doesn't work with RAID arrays, I'll fix it soon

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Screenshots



The default view of the program.



The programs options, you can select which drives you which to defragment, and you can chose if you want the computer to shutdown when the last drive has finished.



The label at the bottom of the program refreshes the list of drives, if you plug in a external hard drive or flash stick which you want to include in the defragmentation run, click this label to add it to the list



The programming running


Command line automation

Some users may find it useful to run this program automatically, for instance, if they wish to schedule the defragging task for after office hours.
To do this pass the command "auto" to the program and it will defrag each hard drive without user intervention.

E.g. Run >"C:\Program Files\Tony Hunter\Defrag App\DefragApp.exe" auto

Including "shutdown" in this line will tick the "Shutdown when done" checkbox and the computer will turn off when it is finished.


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System Requirements

Windows® XP/2003 Server/Vista with .net Framework Version 2

Case Changer

My first program to add to this blog, Case Changer allows the user to convert text from upper to lower case and the reverse. Although this sounds mundane, it can be quite useful, for instance, if you type a long important sting without realising caps lock is on

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Screenshots



The Default view of the program



You can stretch the lower textbox out to view the output easier


Program Options

The user has three options when converting text:
- Automatic
Using this option does a number of things. If 'FULLY UPPER CASE' text is inputted 'fully lower case' text will be outputted and visa versa. If text made up of a combination of upper and lower case letters the output will be the string converted to the majority case, for instance 'HEllo' becomes 'hello'.

- From caps to lower
This option forces the text to lower case

- From lower to caps
This option forces the text to upper case


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System Requirements

Windows® Windows® XP with .net Framework Version 2
or
Windows® Windows® 2003 Server with .net Framework Version 2

About me and this blog

I'm a first year Computer Science student and I wanted a place to publish the programs I have written, and so, here we are. I was considering using a wiki but I decided against it as this blog system seems pretty good.


When downloading any programs the user must be aware that he/she downloads at their own risk and that they may not redistribute the applications under the pretence that they belong/were created by them.

Other than that I hope you enjoy what I upload to this blog, please feel free to leave comments or email me with problems and suggestions.

First Post

Hi, this is my first post, expect more to come soon