Programming

Here are some of my coding efforts. They are all released as freeware and as such I offer no guarantee as to compatibility or stability!

 

Net Radio v1.11

This small application brings you internet radio onto your desktop. After moving from Vista back to XP (my PC at least didn't work well with Vista) I missed the radio player gadget that Vista provided, and I couldn't find an internet radio player that I liked - ultra small and simple. So I made one!

You can edit/add your own radio stations easily (read the readme) so you're not stuck with my choices. It can be minimised to the System Tray to clear the desktop taskbar if you like it clean, and it obviously remembers what station you last had, what volume you had it on and where on the desktop it was, so you can make a shortcut and put it in startup for a very simple net radio solution.

Download: NetRadio v1.11.zip, 235kb

 

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Binary Clock v1.0 for Pocket PC

This small application works on the Pocket PC platform and will display the time in a binary format

This application requires the eVB runtime files for your pocket PC, available from microsoft.

Download : Binary_Clock.zip 6kb

 

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Sudoku Solver v1.1 for Pocket PC

This application works on the Pocket PC platform and will generate sudoku puzzles as well as solve manually entered ones.

This application requires the eVB runtime files for your pocket PC, available from microsoft.

If you are running PPC 2002, the eVB runtime files might not be necessary. If you are running PPC2003 you should install them first.

If you can suggest any improvements to the Sudoku Solver, feel free to leave a comment in the guestbook or email me.

Now updated to v1.1! This a major change to the game. A full menu interface has been coded in, making room for a quick selection numberpad underneath the game grid. The game also plays as a wordoku game as well. New graphics and sounds included finish the polish on this game. Many new tweaks and improvements - read the readme for full details. The app has a full installer again, and the archive is quite large (1497kb) Installed on my HP IPAQ device it uses 664kb.

Now updated to v1.05! Thanks to all who suggested improvements to the game. Now there is an options screen where you can select the colour scheme of the grid and you can choose from 10 sudoku grids to play on and save to. You can also put underlined numbers in selected cells as an indication of guesses until you are ready to commit to them or erase them. It also locks out the original game cells to the player, so they cannot be altered by accident.

I'm also packaging this differently. Now it comes as a zip with a setup wizard that should work through activesync to install on your device (well, it works on mine :) ) Consequently the zip is much larger. This is needed as I need to make sure that the options file and 10 sudoku grid files are installed in the same place as the app, otherwise it will give errors as it loads up.

Feel free to suggest more improvements to the game, but as you can see I'm running out of space to put buttons at the bottom!!

Download: Sudoku Solver v1.1 1497kb

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