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Welcome to Goat 1000 - this is where you'll find some of the bits and pieces of software that I cobble together for fun. Please feel free to download them and try them out. All this stuff is freeware, no guarantee that it will do anything, etc. (though if it does fail to do anything, please let me know!)

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15/10/2024

JPEG Saver 5.34

Another new version of JPEG Saver without much new stuff in it, but it does have a couple of useful features added.

AVIF by magic...

Adding AVIF image support was pretty simple once I had figured out how to compile dav1d - the libheif library does all the hard work, and JPEG Saver was already using it for HEIC images.

Open with...

The interactive options dialog now has a new button in it called “Edit apps…” which lets you set up applications that will be used for opening files from the screensaver. If you don't set up any applications, then JPEG Saver will continue opening files using the default Windows applications the same way it did before.

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02/09/2024

JPEG Saver 5.33.1

Here's a quick update to fix the false positives that some virus scanners were reporting for the last couple of versions. I wasn't expecting it to be this easy to fix, which is why this update is coming so soon after 5.33.

Failure to launch

The virus warnings were not caused by the main JPEG Saver screensaver, but by the small utility I included for launching it in desktop helper mode. I've fixed it by removing the utility - the installer now installs a second copy of JPEG Saver that checks its own filename and uses that to decide whether to run as a screensaver or the desktop helper.

Why the trojan identification?

As far as I can make out, the launcher is flagged as a trojan because it starts the screensaver and passes in an argument.

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28/08/2024

JPEG Saver 5.33

This new version took longer than I wanted and has less new stuff in it than I wanted too. But here it is anyway.

Flipping HEIC

Support for loading HEIC images was really easy to add using the libheif library. It still took me two weeks though, because I thought it would be a good idea to use a package manager for a change. Until now I have been manually compiling the libraries that JPEG Saver uses, which can be quite a pain.

Enter vcpkg

vcpkg is a simple, easy to use package manager that works with Visual Studio and makes it easy to add, update and manage dependencies.

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