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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

21/11/2022

JPEG Saver 5.22.1

If you are one of those people who like to wait for the .1 release, then this is the version for you. Actually, it's for anyone who downloaded version 5.22 as well because it fixes a crashy bug.

Metadata troubles

All the changes in this version are related to the metadata scan. The most important is that the screensaver was quietly crashing after completing the metadata scan at times. Not all the time though - only when it had already scheduled a burst of metadata to be scanned before the current burst had completed the scan.

The next problem was that the improved metadata scan in version 5.22 also meant it was quite slow to start up, which held up loading images, which in turn caused navigation to fail, staggered multi-monitor updates to not be staggered, and some other annoyances. I've split the startup into smaller parts so this won't be a problem again.

JPEG Saver 5.22

There are some big changes in this version. Unfortunately they are the type of big changes that happen behind scaffolding and when it is taken away you wonder what has actually changed. But believe me, these are big changes.

Big changes

The way JPEG Saver chooses the next image has changed a lot in this version. Previously, each change mode had its own code that would choose the next image, either by picking one at random or one from a shuffled list of images, or just the next in sequence. The new way uses a database table that contains the list of images to be displayed. Each of the change modes fills in the table with files in the correct order, and then the next image to load is picked from there.

But why?

For a start, this is a lot simpler. Each change mode now just contains enough code to fill in the image list table, and maybe some extra code to deal with sequential and folder lock modes.

JPEG Saver 5.21.2

I enjoyed that last JPEG Saver .1 release so much, I decided to have a .2 to go with it.

Windows 7 is still a thing

I'm not using it myself, but Windows 7 is still at large and there is no good reason why JPEG Saver should not work on it.

Unfortunately there were a couple of bad reasons why the last version didn't work on Windows 7, mainly my use of some path manipulation functions that don't exist in older versions of Windows. This version replaces them with something more widely supported.

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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All pages on this site are written in PHP. Titles and sub-titles use the Diavlo font by Jos Buivenga (exljbris), with CSS @font-face files generated by the Font Squirrel @font-face generator.

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Last updated 21/11/2022.