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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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News

30/06/2025

JPEG Saver 5.40

This is another release that improves things without adding much. It fixes a couple of bugs too.

Better logging

Logging was something that JPEG Saver could do, but it was very limited and inefficient. For this version I have made it more efficient and more capable, so I can actually make more use of it in the future.

Because of this, I have added the existing logging options that were previously only available by editing the config file into the debug dialog. You can set the log file location, enable logging of image/video loading and transitions, and toggle logging altogether.

JPEG Saver 5.39

It's only been a couple of weeks since version 5.38 was released, but version 5.39 fixes some quite annoying bugs and ticks off an item that has been on my to-do list for about two years.

Background information

The background modes that use a folder of images have been getting more and more clunky over the years, and version 5.38 made things worse. I decided the best way to fix it was to address item #618 from my issue tracking software: “Store background images in main database”.*

In previous versions JPEG Saver was scanning the background images folder into a temporary database at each startup. It was slow and inefficient, especially if you had a lot of background images. Version 5.38 made things worse somehow, though I didn't waste any time trying to figure out why and went straight to the long term solution.

JPEG Saver 5.38

Over time I add more and more stuff to JPEG Saver, and it eventually slows things down. So every now and then I have to spend some time speeding things up again. This is one of those versions.

I feel the need…

There are several things I have done in this version to make things run faster. I won't describe them in detail because none of them are very interesting, but the upside is that the initial file scan should be faster and changing between images should be faster. Also, the time JPEG Saver takes to build the file list at the start of each run should be shorter.

No colours anymore

There is one new option in this version, “Greyscale images” on the Position/Resize tab. It makes JPEG Saver display all the foreground images or videos in greyscale. It doesn't affect anything else.

Sections

JPEG Saver - A screen saver for Windows that displays JPEG, PNG and BMP images.
SVGGraph - A PHP library for generating SVG graphs.
TagCanvas - An HTML5 canvas-based javascript tag cloud.
CRCDropper - A drag and drop CRC32 calculator.
CRCDropper2 - Another drag and drop CRC32 calculator.
CRCDropper3 - « see if you can guess what this does ».
TrayBlank - a small utility for starting the screen saver from the system tray.
Shuffler - a small utility for managing windows.
Snow - a web page background snowfall, using the HTML5 canvas element.
Glowspot - an attempt at replicating Chrome's glowing tabs in HTML and Javascript.
March - a configurable Javascript clock using an HTML5 canvas.

Contact me

If you want to contact me, my email address is at the bottom of the Readme.txt file or PDF in any of the zip files, or in the source of Javascript files, or you could try to figure it out from a combination of my name, (graham) this domain name (goat1000.com) and the @ sign.

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Last updated 30/06/2025.