talking calendar (version 1.1)
This is a small universal calendar program with only a few features.
It has only about a dozen or so holidays in it, but it can handle dates
for just about anything since the current calendar began up to the year
9999, and it shows dates in a month at a time display. You can move by
month, day or year, and the documentation on how to use the program is
included with the download, so hope it works for you. If it doesn't,
that's ok too, as always, feel free to pass it along to someone else
who might be able to use it.
This version fixed a bug in the calculation of father's day, it was using the wrong sunday.
It also won't show holidays if you go back past their official start in the U.S.
dir zip
Dirsip is a program that will compress all the subdirectories in any
given directory into their own zip files. It doesn't (currently)
handle subdirectories included in any directories it compresses, (I.E.
the main directory is level 1, and anything under that is level 2,
which the program does handle, but anything under one of those
directories would be considered level 3, and it won't handle those).
It will happily compress as many directories as you have, so if you
have source directories, with each directory being a different project
(like I have), then this program provides a quick way to create backups
of all those projects with a single command..
pdf to text
This program will extract the text from any pdf file (that isn't
protected), and place it in a text file with the same name as the
original pdf file.
It's not able to handle every pdf file you throw at it, and it won't
handle those with complicated formatting, but it should handle most
things you need turned to text as long as they are relatively simple
conversions.
The documentation has download links for the xpdf program this one
calls to do it's actual work.
disk size
A simple program to show disk size in various units
(bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terrabytes), and is easier to
get to than the control panel where that information is usually found.
Youtube Downloader User Interface
is a program to add a graphical interface to the youtube-dl program
(though it works with wget and curl as well) for downloading youtube
videos. It can also if desired download other files as well. You can
paste in your urls (one per line), and it will then proceed to download
each in turn until it's complete. A complete log is now kept of all
the downloads, so you can see what has been downloaded. Hope this helps.
Softcon Reader is a program to read
epub books. At the moment, it's pre release software, so expect
bugs.
It is a work in progress, so it has limitations on what epub files it
will work with properly, but it does provide a nice simple interface to
reading epub format ebooks.
I'm fairly confident I've squashed a majority of the bugs in this
release, (pre-10), so if there aren't any reports of game stopping bugs,
this version of the program will become version 1.0 for real.
This release fixes a few bugs, such as removing several files from consideration that shouldn't be listed in the
viewable files list, and releasing timeslices back to the os preventing it from monopolizing the cpu when it's
in the background tasklist after a crash.
This version adds support for content.opf files, and even fixed a bug in parcing of said opf files that would
sometimes cause it to be unable to find the files in question.
As always, let me know if you find errors, other than the scripting error messages that come up with certain
epub files. I thought I had that problem solved, but apparently not.
The only solution I've found for this particularly annoying problem is to hold down the alt-N keys for a second
or two, which seems to get past all of those messages. You'll likely need to alt-P to go to previous files in
the epub file, until you're back where the book started, but it's a crude work-around for the scripting error
notifications.
This problem doesn't seem to appear if you've previously opened the book and read a chapter or two, but I
guarantee nothing, I've seen too many badly formatted epub files for that.