News archive

News - 18/06/2005

JPEG Saver 2.1 is here, and it contains a whole load of changes. The only really visible change is a new background mode, "Pile," which leaves the previous image on the screen and displays the new image over the top of it. The other changes are a couple of bugfixes, a HUGE rewrite to the code that decides where everything goes and how big it should be, and a new timer that should be a bit more responsive than the old one.

These latter changes are required for what I am going to be working on next: more and better text options, an optional clock that will update between images, and being able to control all these things from the dialog.

News - 20/05/2005

I'm finally releasing the "small utility" I mentioned below. It's called Shuffler and it will save and restore window positions and sizes. There are plenty of other utilities around that do a similar job, but after trying a few and not liking any of them I decided I should write my own. You can get it from the downloads page. Then when you don't like it, you can write your own too.

This release is also the first since I upgraded my compiler from Visual C++ 6 to Visual C++.NET 2003, so I'm not expecting Shuffler to work on Windows 95. Is anyone still using Windows 95? If you are, WHY?

News - 02/05/2005

JPEG Saver 2.0.4 - considering it's been three months since the last version, it doesn't seem like a lot has changed. I've changed the way transitions work, added a few new transitions, fixed a few bugs and added some support for systems with multiple monitors. Hopefully I'll find some time to start work on the bigger changes soon.

News - 23/03/2005

I'm releasing CRCDropper3 - I wouldn't call it completely finished, but it works OK and does more than CRCDropper and CRCDropper2 (multiple files, MD5, MD4, MD2, SHA1 support, command line options). I had planned to do more to it, but I've been working on JPEG Saver and another small utility that will be appearing here when I get around to documenting it.

News - 24/01/2005

JPEG Saver 2.0.3 released... There's another background type, "Image Copy", a few new transitions based on fading stuff, and another option in the Background tab for blending background images with the first background colour. Also, the fading transitions should now work on 24-bit DirectX screens - but I haven't got a 24-bit screen to test with.