Recently I've had a thought about the way people are "helped" to learn new things and about how easy it is to have no idea what you're doing, while doing it. In programming you are going to run into issues, some people battle it out against the issue and some people ask for help from others, but both these routes result in the person learning. Even when the person is running into issues, they are still learning, they still know what everything does and how to do it next time.

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MaxCap is software I developed to fulfill a need, I had found image capturing software that was lightweight and I had found image capturing software that was advanced, but I could not find a middle ground. So I created it. Download here

Features:

History system showing links to all your images
Built in autoupdater with 3 different modes of updating
2 Options for image uploading (Upload or copy to clipboard) 
Region selection for where you want to capture
Notification displaying after
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Counter is a quick application I wrote to allow me to set alerts and keep track of time. This program allows you to set two separate time alerts with a custom message. When the alert is triggered you will be pulled out of any application (Even if it's fullscreen) and shown the message. If no message is entered, it uses the default one. The program also has a stopwatch feature for timing events. Download here

Features:

Custom alert messages - Incase you forgot what the alert is for, you can
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Planetside 2 manager was created simply because no other application existed. At the time there were no applications because the API was private, however a few select sites Planetside Universe being one of them, had access to it and were using it on their site. This application uses data scraping to retrieve information from their site. Maybe one day I will re-write it to use the official API. Download here

Features:

Username stat lookup
Comparing of two user's stats with difference
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This project was to get to know game programming and it do so fairly well. This is the only one of my projects that is incomplete and it is only incomplete because half way through development I ran into a bug in OpenTK to do with cursor focus, this caused all sorts of issues for the project and after finding out OpenTK had last been updated in 2010, I ceased development of the project. Never the less, the AI is done and most of the game is, but it may be hard to play due to lack of polish.  Read More..

Steam sales manager is another program I created because of the lack of it already existing. It is... One of my less pretty applications (Not that the other are particularly pretty) but it is strong in functionality. The program will allow you to view all sales on steam currently. Download here

Features:

Lists all games on steam right now
Supports region selection to see prices for your area
Supports shop lists, so you can choose what shops you want to see deals from (As you can buy steam
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I created this application because I was suffering from CVS (Computer vision syndrome), basically it has two options hardcore or core mode. Hardcore mode locks you out of your computer until you've spent twenty seconds looking away (Obviously if you actually look away or just wait 20 seconds is down to you), Core just reminds you that you need to. Download here

Features:

Two levels of reminders
Counter so you know when it's been twenty seconds
Hidden application only shows when you need to
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At my college I have to use VS2008 portable because they don't have VS2010 installed on all their machines, so with this in mind I made a program that changes the version inside the SLN file. This means that 2010 projects should work on 2008 and so on. Download Here


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My good friend David created a chatbox for the website XboxMb but he did not create a desktop application for it, so I went ahead and created one for him. Download here

Features:

Lists what everyone is saying in the xboxMB chat
Account rank support
Account privileges support (Mod/Admin displayed)
AFK support (Shown with *)
You can type messages to the chat so long as you're logged in
@'ing support
User list
Can double click someone's name in the userlist to start a private tab with
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DownloadAction (Originally named steam download manager) is an application that will automatically shutdown, hibernate, logout or hibernate your computer after it finds no difference in size after two intervals. The application is designed to be a customizable as possible so you can change pretty much everything. Download here

Features:

Auto action activated after no change
Customizable interval
Customizable action
Warn setting to confirm you want to continue with the action, before doing
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This project was more for fun than anything else, a friend of mine told me that If I wanted something to do, I could try making a video game on a winform using System.Drawing and I accepted. The challenge was fairly simple other than one setback where I had to figure out a bug with the drawing, but then again the game is fairly simple to make in the first place. 
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This application generates a 16x16 (Customizable, via code) grid in which it randomly generates a crossword. I wouldn't recommend trying to complete one because they are really, really hard but if you think it's worth a shot go for it! Download

This application features:

Random word selection
Random word reversing (Reverses the order of the letters in the word)
Random orientation selecting
Dynamic generation system, can easily be changed by changing _Size
Dynamic word list (Can be populated
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After hearing a lot about "Flappy Birds", how much of a rip off it was and how easy it was to create, I decided to have a go myself. This is my first go at any random world generation (Even if it is fairly simple at that) so be gentle! 

The game is pretty easy, you get score by going through the gaps between two sets of pipes, you die if you hit the pipe. I made this in GameMaker 8.1 so there isn't much to be impressed by, although the entire thing (Beyond sprite creation) was code which I Read More..

This is a basic application, you choose an image file, it converts it to a bitmask using version one of the algorithm I made for my game engine. I really just made this so that a friend of mine, doing the graphics for an upcoming game, can test the sprite masks to make sure there aren't any obscurities. 

If you want anything adding to it like resizing (Currently fixed for my small sprites) then please contact me. Otherwise, enjoy! Download with source



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Another tool I made for my game engine (Oh I do like making tools!), the SpriteSheet creator takes an input of as many files as you want and generates a sprite sheet (One image after another) for all the images. It has a few features, not much compared to other tools out there, but I didn't need all the stuff the other tools had! Download with source

Features:

Sprite sheet generation (Duh!)
Offset support
Custom row and column image split up support
Background colour support
Image scaling




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While writing an upcoming project, I needed to debug information. Now the .Net just in time debugger is great, but it's not convenient for checking values as they change in live. So I wanted to make a debugger, the information it displays updates every 100ms. This caused huge issues, when you set the text property of a TextBox or RichTextBox the caret position is reset and I was displaying a ton of information, so scrolling back to the top of it isn't acceptable.

I did a bit of research into Read More..

During the development of my game engine, I discovered that System.Media.SoundPlayer had a nasty catch, it was simply hooking into a PlaySound function that Windows implements and that function only supports a single sound. Because of this I had to move onto a better player, System.Media.MediaPlayer, but this made me come toe to toe with another nasty problem, the lack of looping support. So I went along and implemented looping through the MediaEnded event and some simple functions.

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This project is the largest project i've created so far and the first one to be completely documented and designed for future use. It is a GDI+ based library for creating games with many different helper classes and features put in to make the game development process as easy as possible.

I created the game library because I wanted more experience in C# and had very few ideas for software, but knew that game development is infinitely more complex than most software development, making it a Read More..

This is what I originally made my game engine for, it was going to be a clone of DinoCap, a silly IOS game I have enjoyed from time to time in my spare time. I was really enjoying it, but unfortunately the person who was supposed to do the textures for the game couldn't deliver and I suck at graphics so I called it quits for that project. But I already had the base systems for a side scrolling shooter in place and I didn't want my time to be a complete waste so I re-developed the game (After Read More..

This project started out more of a proof of concept than anything else and really still is. I see snake created all the time, hell I love snake! But one day while playing it on a mobile device I noticed that the developer had tried to make everything as pretty as possible and it was damn pretty, but it was still grid based.. The ugly movement system of snake head moves, last child moves into the gap between the snake head and the 2nd child (Curr 1st).

So I set out to make a grid free snake, Read More..

My oh my, what fun I've had with Java recently.

For one of my upcoming projects (Yes I actually have been working on stuff, just a bit busy getting used to 9 hour work days right now) I have been working in Java due to the fact that C# is only cross platform for web applications and this is a desktop application.

Part of this project is a server and what does a server need to do? Run from the command line. This means that the entire server application and all its output go through the Read More..

EasyTV is a project I've been working on for some time now, it was originally designed to be a replacement for Sky TV as the quality is bad, the price is high (And ever increasing) and the content I actually want to watch on TV isn't even on there anymore since everyone and their mother has their own £10/m subscription service to "get all content" now.

You may be asking yourself, why would you choose Java for this project? Your history shows you clearly love C#, so why go to the anti-C#? Read More..