- WinClock,
a desktop clock program with "always on top" ability and simple alarm.
The program is written in Visual Basic 6 and the sourcecode may be downloaded also.
- WinSearch,
a file finding utility similar to the Windows Explorer "Find" or "Search" functions
(depending on your version of Windows). The reason why I wrote this program is because the built-in
Windows XP "Search" functionality seems not to work with any files whose type is not registered with
Windows or with any file association.
The program is written in Visual Basic 6 and the sourcecode may be downloaded also.
- WinGrep,
a Windows version of the common UNIX program "grep". For those non-UNIX types out there, grep is a
program that searches through one or more files, and returns the lines of text in those files where the lines
contain certain text (or a certain pattern of text). It is related in a way to
WinSearch
and alongside WinSearch can make a powerful text finding tool.
The program is written in Visual Basic 6 and the sourcecode may be downloaded also.
- QCCapture,
a Windows program that captures still images from digital cameras. I wrote this program because I wasn't
satisfied with the similar TimerShot program that Microsoft gave away in their Windows XP "PowerToys",
and I use it to capture the images for my webcam.
The program is written in Visual Basic 6 and the sourcecode may be downloaded also.
- Versions below version 1.2 of the program will only capture images from a variety of models of
Logitech QuickCam digital cameras. If this fails to build or run on your PC, it may require
you to also install the
Logitech QuickCam SDK that I used to
develop it. Note that Logitech have discontinued compatibility of the SDK with the QuickCam Pro 4000,
and QCCapture of versions below 1.2 will not work with the QuickCam Pro 4000. QuickCam models
up to and including the QuickCam Pro 3000 work fine, however.
- Versions 1.2 and above use the ezVidCap
control written by Ray Mercer to capture images. This allows it to work with any Video for Windows
compatible camera. It does, however, require that a portion of the program remain screen visible
at all times for the program to run as it is designed. Because of this, it makes its' windows
automatically "always on top". As with previous versions of QCCapture, the view can be collapsed to
a small window a fraction of the size of the main window to minimise screen real estate, however.
From version 1.3, this can be further reduced to an almost invisible square in the screen corner.
(Before I added this ability in version 1.3, I also found a program called
Ghost-It very useful for keeping
QCCapture screen visible, but allowing constant and unfettered access to any window underneath.)
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