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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

21/10/2026

JPEG Saver 6.0

Here is version 6.0, after eight years of 5.x. There are some quite big changes in this version, but they are mostly internal and the interesting stuff appears quite small in comparison.

Windows 10?

Windows 10 is now required to run JPEG Saver 6. I have tried to support Windows 7 (and 8, I suppose) for as long as possible, but it has just become too difficult. Recent 5.x releases probably didn't work on Windows 7 either, but that was not deliberate.

What this means for me is that I don't have to restrict my use of newer APIs any more, or dynamically-load DLLs to see if the newer API is available before attempting to use it.

JPEG Saver 5.48

This version adds support for a new file type and a few small improvements in various places.

JPEG XL

JPEG XL (file extension .jxl) is a relatively new image file format, supporting lossy and lossless images, alpha channels, and animation. The changes in JPEG Saver 5.48 should support all of those things.

If you haven't seen a JPEG XL file in the wild yet, it doesn't really surprise me. Web browsers have some limited support for them and newer Apple hardware produces them, so I expect they will grow in popularity some time soon.

JPEG Saver 5.47

Since I added animated GIF support in the last version, I thought I should add support for other types of animated image next. So that's mostly what this version is about.

APNG but not MNG

Version 5.47 supports playing APNG files - these are PNG files with some extra data and more frames to make them animated. APNG is a bit better than animated GIF really, since PNG files support a full alpha channel and animated GIF only supports a single transparent colour.

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.

About this site

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 21/10/2026.