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Brokenlinks is a tool to help you find and track broken links on your website, namely URLs that no longer point to anything useful. It is a back end to the Xenu Link Sleuth broken link detector that compensates for Xenu’s weaknesses.


Updated: 2009-02-14

Displays all the fonts available toSwing in Java on the machine. Displays the fonts in a variety of styles, sizes and colours, rendered either with anti-aliased or plain.


Updated: 2009-01-23

Java code to converts number to words in any of 24 languagues. Useful for writing cheques or legal documents.


Updated: 2009-01-23

Displays all the fonts available to AWT in Java on your machine. Displays the fonts in a variety of styles, sizes and colours, rendered either with a Canvas or with a TextArea.


Updated: 2009-01-23

The Replicator lets you distribute large numbers of files to many people efficiently. The software automatically downloads just the changed files and deletes ones no longer part of the distribution.


Updated: 2009-01-23

Reverts files dates back if the files have not really changed. Also can be used to put files back to their original dates whether they have changed or not.


Updated: 2009-01-11

VerCheck checks websites for new versions of the software you use.


Updated: 2009-01-11

ColorSaver shares Color objects instead of creating new ones to cut down on the RAM and time needed to create Color objects. Profiling often shows the creation of too many Color objects is the cause of poor performance.


Updated: 2009-01-01

common utility classes that work under Java 1.1+ including:**BigDate:simplified date handling when you want dates without times..** ImageInfo: information about a GIF, png, jpg. **ImageViewer: component to display an image


Updated: 2008-12-16

Calculates when various holidays occur in any given year BC or AD. Designed to be cannibalised to include the calculation routines in your own programs. It can also be used standalone It currently calculates about 61 holidays.


Updated: 2008-12-03

Check that a server is sending the correct mime type for any given URL.Helps you check that a server, possible not even yours, is properly configured. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/mime.html to learn what MIME types are.


Updated: 2008-11-20

common utility classes that work under Swing Java 1.3+ that includes: CMPAboutJBox: a proper about box for Swing apps/JApplets that provides useful information and HybridJ : converts Swing Applet into an Application.


Updated: 2008-11-12

Submitter will submit your PAD *.xml program descriptor file to 16 websites. Compose your PAD *.xml file using a program like PADGen, then upload it you your website.


Updated: 2008-10-19

Read and set Windows file/dir times from Java: Create/LastModified/LastAccessed. Create time is when the file was first written. LastModified is when the file was last written. Accessed time is when the file was last read or written.


Updated: 2008-09-23

In Java, allows you to find out where the mouse in on the screen, even when it is not over one of your apps. This has similar function to MouseInfo.getPointerInfo in Java 1.5+. This class will work in any version of Java. It uses JNI and a DLL.


Updated: 2008-09-23

Pentium works in Java on Windows and Intel Pentium class and AMD CPUs to determine the CPUID information such as the vendor, brand/model, step, model, instruction set family, cpu serial number, and the RDTSC Time stamp register.


Updated: 2008-09-23

Set your PC Clock from an accurate atomic clock on the web.. You can put SetClock on your own website so that others can use it to correct their clocks without anyone having to install software.


Updated: 2008-09-23

Gets the 4-byte 32-bit binary volume serial number of a Windows disk drive assigned when it is formatted to provide and almost unique id.


Updated: 2008-09-23

CMOSSave CMOSRest CMOSChk restore corrupted CMOS from backup and check that CMOS has not been tampered with.


Updated: 2008-09-21

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.


Updated: 2008-09-19

common utility classes that work under Swing Java 1.5+ that currently just includes StringSearch to search forward and backwards for multiple targets.


Updated: 2008-09-09

http is a small library of Java classes to let you do HTTP CGI GET and POST to a server. It will also encode parameter pairs for you. It does nothing on its own. It is intended to be incorporated into your own programs.


Updated: 2008-08-22

Includes classes to let you copy, download and upload files from within a Java program. Also contains a command-line utility to download files. Usually you embed these classes in your own program rather than using them standalone.


Updated: 2008-08-10

JDisplay displays Java, HTML, bat, SQL, ini, csv, properties... files a variety of colours, fonts, sizes and weights to help make them more presentable. Why would you use it? For the same sorts of reasons you use colours and fonts in an IDE.


Updated: 2008-08-08

Consists of a pair of utilities that let you convert/strip/insert HTML entities such as _amp;- and _quot; from files converting them back and forth to their equivalent single characters


Updated: 2008-08-06

Converts text with many possible cleanups, including preparation of HTML and Java, aligning in columns, character set conversion, case converting, removing excess white space, removing blank lines, preparing regex expressions....


Updated: 2008-08-06

Cleans up HTML by converting appropriate ampersands to the equivalent !amp; entity.


Updated: 2008-08-03

Compresses HTML by removing unnecessary white space. Compacts HTML so that web pages are 20% smaller and hence 20% faster.


Updated: 2008-07-27

Displays all the timezones on 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 the default TZ.


Updated: 2008-06-13

Java classes you can use standalone or embed in your own programs to Read, write, align and pack comma, tab and semicolon-separated variable files, commonly known as CSV files.


Updated: 2008-06-04

Scans multiple files looking for a REGEX pattern, and summarised what it finds as a CSV file. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/regex.html for how to compose them.


Updated: 2008-06-04

Calculates American sales taxes state and district for some states.


Updated: 2008-06-01

Calculates Canadian sales taxes: GST HST and PST. Works either as an application or as an Applet that needs to run in JDK 1.3+ capable browser.


Updated: 2008-05-15

Check a Java jar to make sure all the javac -target versions of the class files are what you expect.


Updated: 2008-04-21

Calculates and displays biorhythm graphs. Enter your birthdate and this Applet and it will calculate your biorhythms. It computes your 23-day physical, 28-day emotional, 33-day intellectual and combined cycles.


Updated: 2008-04-06

Displays a variety of decorative borders. Shows off what you can do with Swing..


Updated: 2008-04-06

A crude translator Esperanto To English and English to Esperanto. It works by looking up words in various dictionaries on the web. It mindlessly translates word for word.


Updated: 2008-04-06

PWS (the pathway amanuensis) helps you with personal problems. You describe your problem and it prescribes some sage advise based on Ken Keyes' twelve pathways from the book Handbook To Higher Consciousness.


Updated: 2008-04-06

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.


Updated: 2008-04-05

Helps you proofread, interconvert, validate and tidy ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 (International Standard Book Number) references in your HTML or other documentation. It validates the checkdigit, inserts dashes, interconverts ISBN-10 and ISBN-13.


Updated: 2008-04-04

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.


Updated: 2008-04-03

Wassup let's you know what's up with your Java environment. It will tell you the System Properties, as many as the Security system will let you peek at. This includes such things as which JVM is running, which version of Java, which vendor.


Updated: 2008-04-03

Generates insults typical of those posted by Republicans in the alt.politics.bush newsgroup. Java Applet that can also be run as an application. You can run it without installing it at http://mindprod.com/applet/insult.html


Updated: 2008-04-02

I/O teaching tool that generates sample Java source code to do 378 types of I/O to read or write the console, a sequential file, a random access file, a String, an array of characters, an array of bytes, URL, HTTP CGI GET/POST, Socket or Pipe.


Updated: 2008-04-02

Help determine a file's encoding by displaying it wth any of the supported encodings in hex and in decoded characters.


Updated: 2008-04-01

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.


Updated: 2008-03-26

Split large text/html files into smaller files. I find it much faster and more accurate than cut and paste. You embed commands in the big file telling it which pieces of it are to go where, then let Splitter do the work.


Updated: 2008-03-21

Produces PNG files (image files similar to GIFs, but smaller) that contain your email address. When you post them on your website, it is harder for spammer to harvest them.


Updated: 2008-03-11

The CreditCard Validator will help you tell: (1) if a credit card number is valid (2) which credit card vendor handles that number. It validates the prefix and the checkdigit. It does *not* contact the credit card company.


Updated: 2008-03-06

LinkedList is replacement for Java Vector class. Classical doubly linked list. Faster that Vector for insert/delete, but slower for indexed access. The interface is modeled on java.util.Vector.


Updated: 2008-02-18

Blout removes extra blank lines from a file, collapsing multiple blank lines down to one. It also ensures the file has a final CrLf. Blout in not that bright.


Updated: 2008-01-05

SPLICE splices bits of files together e.g.Uses for SPLICE: 1. excising a section of a file. 2. replacing a section of a file. 3. inserting a section into a file. 4. extracting a section of a file. 5. appending a section onto a file.


Updated: 2008-01-05

Plays one or more of the Standard Windows sounds, triggered purely from the command line. use: [honk] - Plays the default system sound. [ honk SystemStart SystemHand SystemQuestion]


Updated: 2008-01-04

RGrow resizes fixed length records e.g. [RGrow.exe MyFile.seq 500 600 ] padding binary zeros. Will also truncate records. These are not the old and new sizes of the file, but of the fixed length records in the file.


Updated: 2008-01-03

Converts spaces to tabs in an ASCII text file. Assumes tab stops are 8 columns apart. Don't use it on word processor files. C source included. Copyrighted by Canadian Mind Products.


Updated: 2008-01-03

converts tabs to spaces in an ASCII text file Don't use it on word processor files. Assumes tab stops are 8 columns apart. Also trims ^Z and corrects any malformed CrLf line endings. C source included.


Updated: 2008-01-03

BootSave saves/restores the master boot sector on the hard disk. Suite of three utilities BootSave, BootRest and BootChk


Updated: 2008-01-02

Used to test your computer's Unicode support and your font's support for particular characters, or as a learning to to explore the Unicode character set. Displays in Courier, TimesRoman, Symbol, Dialog and Helvetica.


Updated: 2008-01-02

To tidy, sort, prune and dedup a JP Software Take Command/4NT/4DOS hidden descript.ion file. These files are used by the DESCRIBE utility to track what your various files are for.


Updated: 2008-01-01

Used to accumulate values by category. It might be useful for example in a billing program to accumulate hours by various categories. It could be used to count how many times various words occurred in a document.


Updated: 2008-01-01

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.


Updated: 2008-01-01

HeapSort is an implementation of Williams and Floyd classic HeapSort.


Updated: 2008-01-01

QuickSort is an implementation of Tony Hoare's classic recursive QuickSort.


Updated: 2008-01-01

RadixSort is a fast internal sort written in Java that mimics a card sorter.


Updated: 2008-01-01

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.


Updated: 2008-01-01

ShellSort is a simple sort suitable for 2000 or less elements. It sorts using a comparision routine you provide to compare two elements to be sorted.


Updated: 2008-01-01

Java Keystroke and Mouse Event Tutor. 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.


Updated: 2007-12-19

Wavelength creates Color objects given the wavelength or the frequency of the light rather than the usual RGB or HSB. instead of: Color c = new Color(255, 0, 0); use the frequency in nanometers, and gamma 0.0. .. 1.0. (gamma is intensity/brightness.)


Updated: 2007-11-27

Prepare googlesitemap.gz a Google Spidering sitemap. To speed spidering, and ensure the most important files get spidered frequently, Google has created a system where you leave a compressed catalog of all your files on the website for it to find


Updated: 2007-09-26

Spinner consists of source for classes to add hex and formatted dollar input/output for Java JSpinner to your own Java programs.


Updated: 2007-09-08

Java classes to let you create a custom utility to find and delete all junk files on your machine. This program requires some elementary Java programming skill.


Updated: 2007-08-27

FilenameFilters you can use in your own Java programs with File.list( FilenameFilter f ). They can also be used standalone as fancy dir commands. Also includes CommandLine to parse command line and collects directory trees.


Updated: 2007-08-27

The bulk emailer program allows you to send the same email to a long list of people. Unlike competing products, it does not require you to run any code on your ISP's server. The price includes customising the program to your needs.


Updated: 2007-08-21

SortedArrayList is an ArrayList that keeps lists sorted with minimal work. Merge lets you merge/prune two SortedArrayLists in any of 32 different ways, e.g. union, intersection, update...


Updated: 2007-07-28

Restore old MSDOS or PCDOS floppy backups Canadian Mind Products Restore works under all versions of PC and MS DOS from 2.0 to 7.0 and will restore diskettes created by DOS BACKUP 2.0 through 5.0. It runs fine under Windows or OS/2.


Updated: 2007-07-21

DeDup is a Java command-line utilty for removing duplicate lines in text files. The dedup process compares adjacent lines only. It does not sort first. The comparison is case sensitive. It removes adjacent indentical lines.


Updated: 2007-06-24

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 and PrintWriterPlus.


Updated: 2007-05-24

Little-endian replacements for DataInputStream, DataOutputStream and RandomAccessFile. They work just like DataInputStream, DataOutputStream and RandomAccessFile except they work with little-endian binary data.


Updated: 2007-05-24

Sound lets you mathematically create sounds in Java. You define your sounds in terms of 16-bit linear code for the waveform, -- an array of samplings. The U_Law.class will then convert that to (or from) *.AU mu-law 8-bit encoding format.


Updated: 2007-05-23

Java classes to include in your programs. Includes: HTMLArrayComparator.java compares two arrays of Strings of HTML, ignoring embedded tags. HTMLComparator.java compares two Strings of HTML, ignoring embedded tags.


Updated: 2007-05-22

Fast string search (indexOf) using the Boyer-Moore algorithm. Incorporate this class into your own Java programs to rapidly search strings. Boyerr-Moore is about twice as fast as String.indexOf when the string you are searching in is 2K.


Updated: 2007-05-21

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 passwords.


Updated: 2007-05-20

Applet to list all supported encodings (character sets) supported by your browser/java.


Updated: 2007-05-16

a Java Applet that lets you a view video stream from web cameras that servers present as a series of still jpg images.


Updated: 2007-04-19

See what browsers and programs are sending to an HTTP Server. Simple server just dumps whatever it receives on the console.


Updated: 2006-03-06

Windows *.ini file verifier, tidier and sorter. Tidies and sorts windows *.ini files, ones that look like this: [section] | ; a comment | item=value; | To use: | java.exe -jar ini.jar C:\somedir\somefile.ini UTF-8


Updated: 2006-03-06

Check a Java jar to make sure all the javac -target versions of the class files are what you expect.


Updated: 2006-03-06

calculates the prime numbers 1..N, tells you if N is prime etc. Prints tables of primes. Computes the prime just below or above N. calculates the prime numbers 1..N, tells you if N is prime etc.


Updated: 2006-03-06

The Transporter acts like an electronic secure courier to deliver your data and documents in encrypted form safe from prying eyes or those who would tamper with them.


Updated: 2006-03-06