NANY 2023: ENTER NOW!
The NANY 2023 event is now closed.
If you are a coder, any new program (or addon) that you have released in the previous year, which is freeware/donationware for home users is eligible.
And if you are not a coder, you can still participate by helping coders with ideas and testing.
To join in the adventure, visit: The NANY 2023 forum section.
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It was driving me madIt was driving me mad. My laptop would sporadically run at 100% CPU utilization and lock up. It defied all attempts at analysis as the PC was seized and I couldn't do anything. Only a hard reboot was possible, but on rebooting the problem was gone.
Eventually I solved it with a superb little utility called Process Tamer, written by "Mouser" over at Donation Coder. Process Tamer is a monitor that watches the CPU utilization of all running processes. Once the usage of a single process gets above a certain level (by default 70%) Process Tamer reduces the usage by lowering the process priority.
It's a simple idea and Process Tamer implements it immaculately. With Process Tamer installed, the next time the problem occurred on my laptop it didn't totally lock up but rather just ran very slowly. This allowed me to do a quick diagnosis. The problem turned out to be simple but non-obvious. Two programs, Diskeeper and X1, had been accidentally scheduled to start at the same time and were getting into an embrace of death. It was unexpected, as these two normally peacefully co-exist. Simply re-scheduling the programs to start at different times solved the problem.
I couldn't have solved the problem as easily without Process Tamer. However Process Tamer has much broader application than just this kind of problem.
It's a great tool for preventing any one program from hogging your processor. Every user has experienced the situation where their PC has been slowed down to the point of being unusable, by a background program such as a desktop search program, that starts and takes all the resources. Process Tamer will stop that from ever happening again.
I was so impressed with Process Tamer that I've permanently installed it on my laptop. It takes only around 6MB of memory space and its own CPU usage is so low I could barely measure it.
Process Tamer is available for free from the Donation Coder site. They use a novel licensing system: you have to register to get a free license key which allows you to download any number of programs on the site. This key lasts six months after which you must return to the site to download another free license key. After a year you are given a permanent license. Alternatively, you can make a once-up donation of any size and get a permanent key straight away. It's a clever and ethical way to encourage users to recognize the work done by freeware authors and I support it fully. I donated generously and I hope you do too.
SelectoSurf - Open plaintext URLs flexibly from any program;------------------------------------------------------------------
; Select plaintext in any program and hit the hotkey (ctrl+space) ; If the text looks like a url or website name (like donationcoder.com), it will be opened. ; otherwise a google search will be conducted with the phrase. ; urls will be cleaned of unnesc. punctuation and split-lines will be merged. ; ; Compiled exe and .ahk source script included. ;------------------------------------------------------------------ There are a lot of scripts that do this kind of thing, but i still thought it would be nice to have another that people could customize.
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THE N.A.N.Y. CHALLENGE - New Apps For the New Year UPDATE: All N.A.N.Y. programs (over 20 of them!) are now online as of January 1st, 2007 ! Discuss the programs on our forum: Here. Read about the project on: ShellCity.net. Read about the project on: CybernetNews.com. Read about the project on: ghacks.net. Here was my challenge to DC members with coding skills: "Join me in pledging to release a new program/utility/game on JANUARY 1st, 2007 to celebrate the new year! We will give out fun prizes (custom dc mugs celebrating the event or something like that), for all coders who live up to their pledges." If you see a NANY program you like, send a few donation credits to the author! (click gold coin next to their name) |
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AutoFTPWHAT IT DOES:
What do you do when you need to upload files out of a directory at intervals? Sure, there are several FTP programs out there, but most of them are pretty large, and are made for attended FTPs. What this FTP program does is very simple. It allows you to configure a directory, a server to ftp to, and an e-mail address. Using the windows scheduler, you can schedule a job for the program using the /run:<configuration name> parameter. Then when the job executes, everything in the local directory is uploaded to the remote directory, and an e-mail stating the success or failure of the job is sent. |
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VDesktopsIt's a simple virtual desktop manager. Almost as simple as it gets!
It is limited to 4 virtual desktops: 3 "normal" virtual desktops and one (named as 0) where all the windows appear. It is mostly hotkey based, although it has a minimalist gui too. The hotkeys are defined as follows: windows + 0: show desktop 0 windows + 1 / 2 / 3: show corresponding desktop windows + left / right: show next desktop windows + shift + 1 / 2 / 3: add window to that desktop windows + c: show the "changer", which allows you to change desktops using only the mouse. Now... Why did i make it? 2 reasons:
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FastNavKeys Too fast for your own keyboard? Now your can beat Windows' keyboard buffer!
Speed up the navigation keys (or any other keys). |
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A Dark and Deadly PathA Dark and Deadly Path is a super tiny little audio game engine (can be used to make audio-only one switch games too). This was an unofficial entry into the contest that was not eligible to win any prizes, as it was written by one of the organizers (mouser). It works like the old Dragon's Lair LaserDisc game [1], or like those "choose your own adventure games [2], but is audio only and involves no graphics. An author narrates a story/game is an audio story where the reader/play must make choices along the way by pressing a key on the keyboard. The choices may have to be made rapidly in quick succession within a narrow time window which can add an element of panic to the story - and make it a particularly appropriate device for suspense stories. Audio files are normal .mp3 files that an author records with standard software. The game script is an .xml file with a format to be described in a separate file. Download: Here.
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