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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

05/12/2025

JPEG Saver 5.44

This is a version with a bunch of small changes and fixes in it, so it should hopefully improve things for most users.

Bordering on the ridiculous

The first change was the third-oldest item on my to-do/issues list, added back in 2018. I've added the option to set an alpha value for border items. Don't ask me why it has taken so long to get this one done - it was pretty simple to do when I actually decided to look at it.

Having done that, I realised that testing the new border setting was a bit tedious - to help with this I have added a preview display box for borders so you can see the effect immediately without having to close the dialog.

JPEG Saver 5.43

There isn't much new in JPEG Saver 5.43, but it does fix a few things. It's also the first version I have compiled using Windows 11, so please report any new weirdness if you come across it. Or even any old weirdness - if there's weirdness, I should fix it.

Optional options

The only really new thing in this version is a command-line option that lets you override options from the config file. I don't expect this to be useful for the average user, but it should allow me to create scripts for testing various features that I would otherwise have had to either use the config dialog to change, or edit the config file, or use lots of slightly different config files.

The option is /o for “override” or “option”, it should be followed by an option in the same format as a line from the config file, and it can be used multiple times:

TrayBlank 1.13

This is something unusual - a new version of TrayBlank.

What's new?

Not much, just a couple of small improvements. I have actually been tinkering with TrayBlank on and off for the last few years, but this is the first time I have done something that seems genuinely useful

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 05/12/2025.