Newsletter Issue 11 - Jan 9, 2002


+++NEWS+++

1. Add Denmark & Peru to the list of countries
with TinyApps subscribers. Thanks to those who
wrote in to set the record straight. The
country list was generated using ListMaster Pro
from AnalogX, a near-legendary site which has
recently been rekindled:
http://www.analogx.com/

2. Screenshot links are now provided for many
apps on the Internet page:
http://www.tinyapps.org/internet.html

They are currently linked from a screen icon
(courtesy of QBullets). If you have any ideas
on a good text-based replacement for this icon,
please send your suggestion to:
screen@xxxxxxxxxxxx

3. Instead of suffering the Internet with yet
another forum, I have decided to refer
questions to Google and the alt.comp.freeware
newsgroup. If the questioner still cannot find
a suitable answer, his/her question will appear
in the newsletter.

4. IPic - A Match Head Sized Web-Server
http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
"The world's tiniest implementation of a TCP/IP
stack and a HTTP web-server... includes all
components of a complete computer on a single
tiny micro-chip (this includes the CPU (central
processing unit), memory, serial port interface
circuitry, and clock oscillator)." Perhaps one
of the most powerful aspects: costs less than a
dollar.

5. If you are looking for a computer/CPU fan,
these folks have impressed me greatly with both
their service and prices (not an ad - just a
happy customer):
http://www.vbd.com/


+++NEW APPS+++

REd [163k] +
http://freebask.homestead.com/red.html
"The Repository Editor" - transparency, always
on top, shrink dialog, more.

Clipomatic [96k]
http://www.mlin.net/Clipomatic.shtml
Clipboard cache program for text

SplitFile [18k] +
http://jituonline.freeservers.com/splitfile.html
Powerful yet small file splitter

Tree32 [21k] {S}+
http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/corel/790/softhtm/tree32.htm
Similar to DOS's tree.com, but with LFN support

JR Directory Printer [174k] +
http://www.spadixbd.com/freetools/JDirPrint.htm
Save/Print directory listings

Drive Rescue [1200k] {S}
http://home.arcor.de/christian_grau/rescue/index.html
"Find any lost and deleted data on your hard
disk even if the partition table is lost or the
hard disk has been quick-formatted... Second
hard disk is recommended for recovery."

Startup Control Panel [38k] +
http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
Control panel applet that allows you to easily
configure which programs run when your computer
starts.

CDP [15k] {S}+
http://www.scn.org/~ap/
*Very* small CD player - plays the CD and exits


+++MORE ON SCREEN RESOLUTION+++

Many thanks to all of you sent suggestions on
changing screen resolution via a batch file
shortcut. Here are some of the answers:

1. Raymond quickly uncovered ResSwitch
(requires MFC 4.2b DLLs)
http://www.naughter.com/qres.html
"Uses the command line sent to it to change the
screen depth & resolution"

2. From frequent contributor Angel:

Multires allows to be called from a bat file.
For that game that only runs in 640x480 in 256
colors, I have created a batch file such as:

multires.exe /640,480,8
rungame
multires.exe /restore
exit

That way, my son can click on the icon
(shortcut) pointing to the bat file, which will
change resolution automatically, run the game
without messing with display properties, and
when he is finished, all will be restored to
the regular settings.

More up to date information, as well as
complete parameter and config info can be found
online at
http://www.entechtaiwan.com/multires.htm

3. From Stefan at Perpetual Motion:
Resolution Changer
http://www.skst.com/perpetualmotion/download.htm
Change your display resolution while running
any application. If you have an application
that requires a certain resolution (e.g., many
children's programs require 640x480x256
colors), you can modify that program's shortcut
to something like this:
reschange.exe 640 480 8 "d:\freddi.exe"

4. John over at AsmSource quickly & kindly
coded Resize to take command line parameters:
http://source32.cjb.net/



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