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I had a need to look at how long it was taking for pages to load in a browser so I’ve started work on BrowseSpeed.
The theory is that the program logs the time when the browser starts to navigate to a page, the time when the document is completely loaded and tells you the difference. It also logs the url that is being browsed to so that you can see what is really going on (helps for framed pages). This is far from a polished app but might be useful for some.
BrowseSpeed

Updated: It was pointed out to me yesterday, while England were losing impressively, that ScoreGrabber didn’t work. The BBC went and changed to the structure of their site without asking me! I’ve updated the program and a link is below….

I wrote this little application during The Ashes 2006. It goes to the BBC website and gets the ‘ball-by-ball’ score and then changes the active window title to show the score. For those that really need to know about what is going on in the world of cricket
The application has the option to change the URL as I also found that it was working during a football match once, the you just need to get the right URL from the BBC.

This is in VB6 and probably needs updating.

ScoreGrabber

Here is the application I wrote to help with my home beer brewing process.
As you can see from the Original Gravity and Racking Gravity it shows you the amount of CO2 released and hence the amount of alcohol produced. It assumes a standard quantity of beer brewed (see all good recipe books).

This one can be downloaded here . This app is written in VB6.

For a while I had a Solsuno watch from Zeon Tech. Well, I still have it but the battery has run out.
I thought it might be interesting to have a desktop clock application that worked the same way as my watch. Odd really but there you go,

You can get an msi installer for this here . This app is written in VB6.

Just a quick post to keep it ticking over. When I get chance I will post up some of the software that I’ve written. None of it is rocket science but all of it has been useful to me at different times. Things that will be uploaded

NABAZTAG controller software – not updates anymore but was working when last looked at
Mortgage Calculator – showing graph of outstanding debt plus impact of regular overpayment
Alcohol Content- Calculates beer alcohol % based upon starting and ending gravity (assumes a set volume some improvement here)
EncyptDecrypt – as you can guess an app to encode strings using either a default key or userspecified
PasswordKeeper (or some other nice name) – once I remember how I coded it first time round

There are other bits and pieces I just need to find them. Some of these were in vb6 originally, although I’m only coding in .net v2 now.

Here is the Disk Size Explorer I mentioned previously. The en-US directory needs to be in the same place as the .exe. This is also in .net v2 so you will need to install the framework.

DiskSize

If you select the drive of your choice and hit the green arrow it will look through the drive and give you a nice pie-chart showing where your disk space has all gone. I like it.
It is not my work and I’ll post the source code if anyone wants it (unless I can remember where I got it in which case I’ll post a link)

Update: Thanks neo for reminding me where I got it from. It was www.codeproject.com . It is great work by Troy Gleason

I was looking for a way to see which part of my hard disk was hogging all the space.  After looking through some apps and some code I remembered some example vb.net code that I was looking at some time ago. Disk Size Explorer gives you a quick overview of space taken as a proportion of your total. Once I get a compiled version working standalone I’ll upload it for anyone that wants a copy.