NANY 2009 PROGRESS REPORT - The Volunteer Voice - December 22

The NANY Challenge for 2009 has just over a week to run until the official release! The NANY Challenge is DonationCoder's annual Software Challenge where coders of all experience levels are challenged to pledge a New Application for the New Year and release it on January 1, 2009. This is not a contest where the entries are judged to see who has written the best programme, but a fun celebration to create something new: all entrants who honour their pledge "win" a NANY 2009 Mug.

Entrants post Teasers, Pre-Releases and their final Release on the NANY 2009 Forum, and currently 28 of our 38 Pledgers have either posted a Teaser or Release already! It's a great place to get a sneak preview of the upcomming applications, offer functionality suggestions and even help by beta testing the pre-releases.

The Pledge Deadline has already been extended once, but we're still getting enquiries from coders wanting to Pledge their commitment to this year's Challenge. If you know a programmer who you think would get a kick out of participating in this fun event, please let them know!

Teaser / Entry Focus

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Lacuna Launcher
Have you ever wished you had more control over the way applications are launched? Maybe setting a delay for launching applications at start-up? How about spacing out the launching with a pause in between each one? Or control the order in which applications are opened? Or perhaps you just want to launch many applications with a single shortcut? Lacuna Launcher will allow you to set a group of files to be opened with a single shortcut by creating a text file with the paths to all the files you wish to open. You can include applications (.exe), shortcuts (.lnk), internet shortcuts (.url), images, music, movies, anything that is a file on your system that you wish to open. You can also set an initial delay time that it will wait before opening files, as well as a pause time that it will wait between files it launches.


CrazyLittleFingers
Bub's are curious, bub's like to imitate.  You're always amazed at the way bub copies the things that you do, and laugh when you see her with one hand one the keyboard and one on the mouse like a true fps'er, but at the same time getting quickly frustrated because 'nothing' is happening.  And then she hits the magic combination to hack into the FBI, delete some important files and shutdown your computer. The solution is CrazyLittleFingers.  The aim of CrazyLittleFingers is simple, lock out all the keys on the keyboard, except for one that lets you exit the program, and remap each key to provide a reward for bubs exploration. For example, pressing 1 on the keyboard, might get the program to display a 1 and say 'one', pressing g might change the background to the colour green and display a picture of a goose (or a green goose).


AutoCursorMove
Auto Cursor Mover is a program that lets you set up a loop of actions for the cursor to go through and enter text if necessary. Features: Left Click, Right Click, Middle Click, each with Double Click option, or No Click; Customizable wait times between cursor actions; Text box for text to be type after a click event; Customizable wait times between each key press; Test button to test settings for a specific cursor action; Viewable list of cursor actions; Emergency Stop Key - Scroll Lock; Cursor Jump or Slide option (globally for all cursor actions); Save and Load for lists of cursor actions Tray Icon Support


KeyDB
KeyDB is a small portable application that will securely store web passwords. Features: Small and fast; Portable; Encrypted password files; Sort and filter items for quick retrieval; Copy to clipboard; Launch URLs from KeyDb; Random password generator; Ability to archive items.