TinyApps.Org Newsletter Issue 3 - Oct 31, 2001
+++NEWS+++
0. I doubt many of you missed it, but
TinyApps.Org was mentioned on Slashdot. You
can find the article here:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/179205&mode=thread
and my post in response here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=22937&cid=2470624
1. The newsletter is now weekly (as opposed to
bi-weekly). For those of you who prefer digest
mode, it has been set to monthly. You can
change your subscription options here:
http://www.tinyapps.org/ezine.html
2. A "New" section for recently listed apps
was planned, but it has been decided to let
the newsletter serve that function (especially
as it is now published weekly).
+++NEW APPS+++
PopKi Popup Closer v1.4 [187k] +
http://ranfo.com/popki.html
Prevent popups without using a proxy
SAB 0.96 [93k] +
http://www.csis.gvsu.edu/~rubleyr/sab/
Filter out web annoyances. Linux version also
available.
swen 0.4 [79k]
http://www.glop.org/swen/
News ticker that lives in the system tray.
Grabs headlines from your favorite websites
TinyWeb 1.9 [182k] +
http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html
Small, simple and fast web server. Executable
size is 53k.
IamC 2.9.26R [198k] +
http://ppproject.com/
Simple IRC client
xchat 1.8.5 [633k] {S}
http://xchat.org/
Graphical IRC client for Windows and several
other OSs.
Sportcan port scanner [60k] +
http://members-http-7.rwc1.sfba.home.net/berns21/Sportcan/
Tiny port scanner that uses the familiar
Windows GUI paradigm
WinVi 2.90 [143k] {S}+
http://www.winvi.de/en/
Notepad meets Vi
WanyWord 3.00 [459k] {S}
http://home4.inet.tele.dk/jensguld/index.html
Text search with Boolean and Near operators
PhotoPlayer 2.8 [388k] +
http://www.unidreamtech.com/index.html
Slideshow generator
YASRT v0.1 beta 12 [890k] +
http://www.yasrt.org
Yet Another Simple RayTracer. Generates
realistic pictures from text descriptions.
Versions available for a wide range of OSs.
Metamorph 3D [578k] +
http://www.fascinationsoftware.com/FS/html/Metamorph.html
"Fast, sleek, little image morphing utility"
Cygwin-Lite [1280k] {S}
http://cygwin-lite.sourceforge.net/
UNIX-like command-line environment for
Win9x/Me/NT4/2000
RAMpage 1.6 [169k] {S}+
http://www.jfitz.com/software/RAMpage/
Display/free system memory
AppSwat v1.3.0.0 [8k] +
http://www.ddhomepage.nm.ru/html/appswat.html
Process terminator. Command-line termination,
system startup integration and an effective
termination mechanism
UpTime 1.0 [13k] +
http://opus80.com/discnode/uptime.htm
Displays up-time in a tooltip from the system
tray
Switch Off 1.7 [41k]
http://yasoft.nm.ru/eng/switchoff/
Scheduler for system shutdown, restart and log
off
Filemon [76k] {S}+
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml
Monitors and displays file system activity in
real-time
tube [0.25k] {S}+
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=3397
Yes, that's 256 bytes for a very cool intro.
traydesk v3.0 [10k] {S}+
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~crn/traydesk.html
Show/hide desktop icons, log on/off, restart
or shutdown - all from the system tray.
RandBG v1.01 [12k] +
http://kaltner.slickness.org/files.html
Random wallpaper changer. Supports bitmap and
JPEG (JPEG support via interface to active
desktop).
Triadex Muse Simulator 1.1 [22k] +
http://trovar.com/muse/muse.html
Create your own "music" in seconds
Moopeg 0.2a [64k]
http://www.moopeg.com/
Lightweight media player
SynFactory 1.01 [62k] +
http://www.syntiac.com/synfactory.html
Interactive Modular Software Synthesizer
XCALC 2.4 [141k] +
http://www.tordivel.no/xcalc/
RPN calculator with many modes
Convert 4.10 [152k]
http://joshmadison.com/software/convert/
Unit conversion program
Grapher 0.9 [208k] +
http://members.home.net/c1284j/grapher/
Graphs mathematical equations in any spatial
dimension above the first
TTH [310k] {S}+
http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/
TEX to HTML translator
REBOL/View [335k]
http://www.rebol.com/prod-view.html
Cross-platform, internet-oriented scripting
language by Amiga OS master Carl Sassenrath
+++FASTLOADING BANNERS+++
Frequent contributor cheeaun01 kindly sent in
an animated GIF banner (weighing 2.76k) for
folks to use when linking to TinyApps. As much
as I appreciated his kindness, I decided not
to use the GIF. Here is an excerpt from my
reply:
1.
As you may have noticed, the TinyApps "banner"
is not a graphic, but a simple HTML table. It
is only 545 bytes.
2.
"Because of modem compression, HTML will
download twice as fast for most people as
graphics. (eg: 20k of html will download as
fast as a 10k jpg)."
http://www.searchengineworld.com/misc/page_size.htm
3.
I want to conserve bandwidth whenever
possible, and would prefer people use text
links in most cases to help conserve the
Internet's finite resources.
4.
Some folks have a major problem with GIFs, so
I'd like to minimize my use of them:
http://burnallgifs.org/
The inspiration to use a text banner came from
InnerPeace.Org:
http://innerpeace.org/fastloadingbanners.shtml
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