Request a tiny custom app again

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Request a tiny custom app again

Neurozys: Apr 15, 2004

hyperborean posted:

Wow, it doesn't even give the same color for a word that appears twice in a phrase, even though a single word will give the same color every time. Weird

This reminds me of a useless app I would like to see, and that is color-to-sound. There are some of those, but they generate little more than noise. I want red to correspond to low tones and purple to high tones, so when I draw a pattern of colors in a line, it can actually make a melody. And if I import a picture, it could be segmented along both axes. The audio would be dictated by definable parameters (3 pixels=an 1/8 note for instance)

It could also go the other way, translating an audio pattern into a picture. It would of course have to be simplistic sound to make a discernible picture. Say the audio is a sequence of 100 notes, the resulting picture could be a 10x10 image, or 5x20, or whatever. Parameters would again dictate the note duration:pixel ratio.

Cross posting an interesting idea from the Web aps / programs that dont do anything useful thread.

http://www.tinyappz.com/wiki/Request:1178232701

# ? May 3, 2007 23:53

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ? Apr 25, 2024 06:21

Vanadium: Jan 8, 2005

Did anyone yet request an app that would download a web page, search all links (a href, embedded media, possibly imgs) and display them in a checkbox list that is filtered through a user-provided regexp, downloading all checked files on button click? :3:

# ? May 4, 2007 01:27

DLCinferno: Feb 22, 2003; Happy

Vanadium posted:

Did anyone yet request an app that would download a web page, search all links (a href, embedded media, possibly imgs) and display them in a checkbox list that is filtered through a user-provided regexp, downloading all checked files on button click?

If you use firefox:
http://www.downthemall.net/

# ? May 4, 2007 01:29

Vanadium: Jan 8, 2005

Ah, that is awesome. Thanks a lot

# ? May 4, 2007 01:57

b0lt: Apr 29, 2005

Powercrazy posted:

Ok this is a REALLY simple program that would help me out greatly, I just do'nt know how to handle the number of simultaneous connections......

I need a program that will telnet to a list of IP's preferrably simultaneously (no more than 30 or so if that matters). It will then login with the same login/password at every node. It can be something as easy as Login wait 3 seconds, password, wait 3 seconds. Then it will execute 2 commands with about a 3 second delay between them. The commands are "flmDeleteDb" and then "reboot."

http://www.tinyappz.com/wiki/Request:1178209455

I just coded a quick little program up: http://filesocket.com/download/e94MultiTelnet.zip
Drag a text file with a list of ips/hostnames into the executable, one on each line, and type in username, password, and the command you want to run, and it'll telnet to all of the hosts at the same time and execute the commands. Now that I think of it, that might not be such a good idea. Oh wait, .NET limits the thread pool to 10 at a time, IIRC. Also, blank passwords won't work. I'm running on something like 3 hours of sleep in the past 24 hours

b0lt fucked around with this message at 03:41 on May 4, 2007

# ? May 4, 2007 03:39

evilalien: Jul 29, 2005; Knowledge is born from Curiosity.

Sharkface posted:

http://slightlyprofessional.net/DirectorySplit.rar

does exactly what you asked. You can dry fire it to be sure you're not gonna gently caress anything up.

Vanadium posted:

I was beaten and I did not even get to the GUI yet

_{Also it probably is going to gently caress stuff up}

Thanks to both of you for helping! Sharkface, your program works beautifully.

# ? May 4, 2007 04:05

Neurozys: Apr 15, 2004

b0lt posted:

I just coded a quick little program up: http://filesocket.com/download/e94MultiTelnet.zip
Drag a text file with a list of ips/hostnames into the executable, one on each line, and type in username, password, and the command you want to run, and it'll telnet to all of the hosts at the same time and execute the commands. Now that I think of it, that might not be such a good idea. Oh wait, .NET limits the thread pool to 10 at a time, IIRC. Also, blank passwords won't work. I'm running on something like 3 hours of sleep in the past 24 hours

Congratulations, you've proved I don't know squat about filtering input for safe SQL queries. http://www.tinyappz.com/wiki/MultiTelnet shouldn't be returning an error any more.

# ? May 4, 2007 05:00

FeedbackBsr: Apr 26, 2007

Got another one which may be useful in stopping leeching and having to download only to upload a file by ftp prog

An addition to the Firefox context menu that allows me to save an image or file (exe/zip etc) to my own webspace (it logs in and uploads it to a specified folder, server info is added via the options menu) then spits out the URL of where it was put so I can copy+paste or do what I want with it...

Ideally something along the lines of the name "Save to Remote Server"...and have a progress bar at the bottom of Firefox...

http://tinyappz.com/wiki/Request:1178258710

# ? May 4, 2007 07:12

blahz: Dec 18, 2004

Revelations posted:

You're awesome, thanks. Now I can stroke my ego when people download my code!

Hey Relevations, I messed around with the program and I just had one problem. It doesn't seem to be doing any sort of linebreaking, so the output is kind of scrunched together. Besides that, the formatting seems perfect and it works great! Thanks

# ? May 4, 2007 07:33

JingleBells: Jan 7, 2007; Oh what fun it is to see the Harriers win away!

Snozzberry Smoothie posted:

I have a app request. I'd like a program that would allow me to control Windows Media Player on my Desktop machine from my PocketPC, over my wireless network.

Nothing fancy like playlists or anything like that. Just a simple Play/Pause/Next/Prev control, using the .NET compact framework on my Windows Mobile 2003 device. I'd assume the best way to do this would be to write a server app that sits on the desktop and waits for requests from the client app on the mobile device.

If someone writes this for me I'd be very happy, since it'd be ideal for parties.

Just thought I'd let you know I have this working, hopefully I'll have it all sorted on the tinyappz site either by end of lunch or when I get home from work, got actual work to do now :|

edit: lunchtime resulted in: http://tinyappz.com/wiki/WMP_Remote_Control enjoy.

JingleBells fucked around with this message at 23:05 on May 10, 2007

# ? May 4, 2007 11:09

Elendil004: Mar 22, 2003; The prognosis
is not good.

Elendil004 posted:

I am looking for somebody to look at an .mdi access file, and add some simple functionality to it. I don't really have a clue what's happening on the backend, and it's a peice that looks sort of hacked together so I don't want to delve in with my limited experiance.

Right now it takes input from a card reader, and according to a table i can edit changes a square from red to green. I want to be able to manually click the square to change it, and add a third color option.

Please if this is something you can take a look at find me on aim (cpthooksword) and I'll send you the file. Thank you.

edit: willing to toss a few tenbux for this becuase I need it in a quick fasion and it will make my life at work easier.

Last request I had was filled (by two seperate programs actually) pretty quickly, and very well done. I really don't know what a fair $ for the ammount of work this request would be but I certainly would want to compensate for efforts.

# ? May 4, 2007 17:04

Revelations: Nov 17, 2004; heh, that's me. i'm wilson.

blahz posted:

Hey Relevations, I messed around with the program and I just had one problem. It doesn't seem to be doing any sort of linebreaking, so the output is kind of scrunched together. Besides that, the formatting seems perfect and it works great! Thanks

This is kinda interesting. I'm using the \n character for linebreaks, which I believe is translated differently with different text editors/OSes. I thought that using this character would sort it automatically... I wonder if this is because I compiled it on a Linux box?

For kicks, can you try importing one of the output files into Word or OpenOffice where it will allow you to select the linebreak character? I just imported one I created on Windows XP and used the LF character only as the linebreak and it worked.

As for a permanent fix, anybody have a better suggestion than force feeding it CRLF? This results in double spacing in some editors.

Re-Edit: I got un-lazy and just did a check for Windows, and outputs accordingly. Hopefully that fixes it for you. Also Notepad still sucks and even with CRLF in Windows still shows long lines. Wordpad seems to suck significantly less, however.

Revelations fucked around with this message at 19:08 on May 4, 2007

# ? May 4, 2007 18:44

blahz: Dec 18, 2004

Revelations posted:

This is kinda interesting. I'm using the \n character for linebreaks, which I believe is translated differently with different text editors/OSes. I thought that using this character would sort it automatically... I wonder if this is because I compiled it on a Linux box?

For kicks, can you try importing one of the output files into Word or OpenOffice where it will allow you to select the linebreak character? I just imported one I created on Windows XP and used the LF character only as the linebreak and it worked.

As for a permanent fix, anybody have a better suggestion than force feeding it CRLF? This results in double spacing in some editors.

Re-Edit: I got un-lazy and just did a check for Windows, and outputs accordingly. Hopefully that fixes it for you. Also Notepad still sucks and even with CRLF in Windows still shows long lines. Wordpad seems to suck significantly less, however.

Sorry for the late reply, and yeah it seems to work fine in Word and Wordpad. Strange that it wouldn't work well in Notepad. Oh well, it works perfectly though, and just what I was looking for. Thanks a bunch!

# ? May 4, 2007 23:28

ate shit on live tv: Feb 15, 2004; by Azathoth

b0lt posted:

I just coded a quick little program up: http://filesocket.com/download/e94MultiTelnet.zip
Drag a text file with a list of ips/hostnames into the executable, one on each line, and type in username, password, and the command you want to run, and it'll telnet to all of the hosts at the same time and execute the commands. Now that I think of it, that might not be such a good idea. Oh wait, .NET limits the thread pool to 10 at a time, IIRC. Also, blank passwords won't work. I'm running on something like 3 hours of sleep in the past 24 hours

Thanks for the effort I'll try this monday at work.

# ? May 5, 2007 00:55

Neurozys: Apr 15, 2004

Maybe it's just my lack of webmaster experience - but isn't it a bit odd that the top search query for tinyappz.com so far this month is "brahmin porn" ?

Edit: Also, Inquisitus posted http://www.tinyappz.com/wiki/Sleepy_Dust in another thread.

Neurozys fucked around with this message at 22:06 on May 6, 2007

# ? May 6, 2007 21:50

Elendil004: Mar 22, 2003; The prognosis
is not good.

I don't want to keep using this thread, but where would it be advisable to make a thread for my editing work on the MS Access file?

# ? May 7, 2007 12:12

Neurozys: Apr 15, 2004

Elendil004 posted:

I don't want to keep using this thread, but where would it be advisable to make a thread for my editing work on the MS Access file?

What's the worst that could happen?

# ? May 8, 2007 03:26

memknock: Jul 4, 2002

A program that will convert any hex value in decimal value and vice versa. But it will only be working with values that are less then one.

So I would want to enter in 1BCA but it would really be 0.1BCA and I would want it to spit out the Decimal version.

And another small program that would do the opposite, if I entered a decimal version (like above, it will always be less then one) it would give me the HEX equivalent.

These do not have to be separate programs, they can be part of the same interface as long as both can be entered.

# ? May 10, 2007 14:17

Frank Zappa: Feb 6, 2004; Electric Aunt Jemima - Goddess of Love

This looks like a really neat thread!

I don't know if this qualifies as an app, but...

I'd like a way of being able to right-click in an explorer window, and in the context menu, have an option to "select random item" or "select random file." (Not open it, just select it.)

# ? May 10, 2007 15:06

Fastbreak: Jul 4, 2002; Don't worry, I had ten bucks.

So it would open the folder in a new window and have a random file selected?

# ? May 10, 2007 15:09

DLCinferno: Feb 22, 2003; Happy

memknock posted:

A program that will convert any hex value in decimal value and vice versa. But it will only be working with values that are less then one.

Can't you just use calc.exe to do this? Enter the hex, switch to dec, and then multiply by whatever (.1)?

# ? May 10, 2007 15:51

Neurozys: Apr 15, 2004

DLCinferno posted:

Can't you just use calc.exe to do this? Enter the hex, switch to dec, and then multiply by whatever (.1)?

umm, no.
Your method:
x1 = 1
1 * 0.1 = 0.1

Actual solution:
x0.1 = x1/x10 = 1/16 = 0.0625

Your method:
x1BCA = 7114
7114 * 0.0001 = 0.7114

Actual solution
x0.1BCA = x1BCA / x10000 = 7114 / 65536 = 0.108551025390625

calc.exe doesn't handle hex values with a decimal point

Neurozys fucked around with this message at 17:03 on May 10, 2007

# ? May 10, 2007 16:10

DLCinferno: Feb 22, 2003; Happy

Neurozys posted:

umm, no.

Ahh, gotcha.

# ? May 10, 2007 16:23

slow hands: Feb 5, 2005; we slow hands

I would like a tiny app that turns the "Enhance Pointer Precision" option from the Mouse settings in the control panel on and off.

# ? May 10, 2007 16:46

Happycataclysm: Jan 11, 2005; The Fun Machine Took A Shit and Died

memknock posted:

A program that will convert any hex value in decimal value and vice versa. But it will only be working with values that are less then one.

So I would want to enter in 1BCA but it would really be 0.1BCA and I would want it to spit out the Decimal version.

And another small program that would do the opposite, if I entered a decimal version (like above, it will always be less then one) it would give me the HEX equivalent.

These do not have to be separate programs, they can be part of the same interface as long as both can be entered.

I hope you like the internet!

http://steve.sensecreative.com.au/dechex/

Meanwhile, I got:

"Fatal error: Call to a member function getArticleID() on a non-object in /home/.pikaboo/noahwh/tinyappz.com/extensions/AddApplication.php on line 200"

When trying to add the application to the wiki...

# ? May 10, 2007 17:48

Neurozys: Apr 15, 2004

slow hands posted:

I would like a tiny app that turns the "Enhance Pointer Precision" option from the Mouse settings in the control panel on and off.

For anyone interested:
When I uncheck that option, the following registry changes are made:
HKCU\Control Panel\Mouse
"MouseSpeed"="1" -> "MouseSpeed"="0"
"MouseThreshold1"="6" -> "MouseThreshold1"="0"
"MouseThreshold2"="10" -> "MouseThreshold2"="0"

However, simply changing the registry doesn't seem to make the change take effect. Presumably something else needs to be reset as well.

Happycataclysm posted:

I hope you like the internet!

http://steve.sensecreative.com.au/dechex/

Meanwhile, I got:

"Fatal error: Call to a member function getArticleID() on a non-object in /home/.pikaboo/noahwh/tinyappz.com/extensions/AddApplication.php on line 200"

When trying to add the application to the wiki...

What did you put for the Application Name? The script tries to create an article with that name, so if you put in some crazy characters it may not work.

Edit: I assume you use "Dec <> Hex" - the < and > characters are invalid for wiki article names. I put in a check for the error you encountered.
Edit 2: http://www.tinyappz.com/wiki/DecHex

Neurozys fucked around with this message at 21:56 on May 10, 2007

# ? May 10, 2007 18:08

memknock: Jul 4, 2002

Happycataclysm posted:

I hope you like the internet!

http://steve.sensecreative.com.au/dechex/

Meanwhile, I got:

"Fatal error: Call to a member function getArticleID() on a non-object in /home/.pikaboo/noahwh/tinyappz.com/extensions/AddApplication.php on line 200"

When trying to add the application to the wiki...

nice, can i get the source to this?

# ? May 10, 2007 18:22

Dead End: Jan 30, 2006; by Ozma

I would like an app for Windows that will connect to a pop3 email account (configurable), save all attachments to a local folder (configurable), then delete all messages on the server and not store them locally, and then do this at an interval (configurable). Nothing more. Preferably sitting in the task bar with a little gui for the configurable variables.

Thanks!

http://tinyappz.com/wiki/Request:1178827880

# ? May 10, 2007 21:11

The Aphasian: Mar 8, 2007; Psychotropic Hops

Azmerod posted:

I was bored at work so I went ahead and filled this request. Just a warning not to use huge images because windows doesn't seem to happy about moving around a partially transparent window.

http://www.tinyappz.com/wiki/Acetate

Sorry for the delay, but thanks. Very useful.

# ? May 10, 2007 21:39

Sharkface: Apr 20, 2002

Stares At Floor posted:

I would like a program that on launch:

1. Waits for 10 seconds.
2. Disables the IEEE1394 controller.
3. Waits for 5 seconds.
4. Enables the IEEE1394 controller.
5. Prompts if the device is enabled.
6. Gets user input (yes or no).
6a. If yes, quits.
6b. If no, returns to step 2.

I wrote a batch file that does this, but I would like a win32 app that runs at startup.

Is that tiny enough?

Thanks...

the win32 part makes this tough. the only way to do this is through WMI and typically, the folks who write drivers dont' include disable/enable commands in their drivers. would a .net app work?

# ? May 10, 2007 22:36

Happycataclysm: Jan 11, 2005; The Fun Machine Took A Shit and Died

Neurozys posted:

Edit: I assume you use "Dec <> Hex" - the < and > characters are invalid for wiki article names. I put in a check for the error you encountered.
Edit 2: http://www.tinyappz.com/wiki/DecHex

Correct! A very 3am mistake. Thanks for that.

memknock posted:

nice, can i get the source to this?

Source is now on the wiki page: http://www.tinyappz.com/wiki/DecHex

# ? May 11, 2007 01:22

Rap Guy

Oct 21, 2006

Watch yo shit fall like Rome; I'm immune to all viruses

I get that cocaine; it cleans out my sinuses

I'm up in the boonies, many hours away from home, with my laptop and my cell phone. I realized as I was a block down the street from my house that I didn't have my phone charger, but, big deal, I thought, I can hook it up to my computer and charge over USB. Now, I've set this up on my desktop at home, using a driver from the internet, but the problem is, my drat phone ran out of batteries on the way up, so even though I have the driver installed, I can't get my computer to recognize my phone, so it won't start charging it up.

I want someone to write something that forces power out through a USB hole to charge my Razr V3. I'm on Vista. The battery seems to be 3.6V.

# ? May 11, 2007 01:58

Not really: May 9, 2007; I like my pokemon round, plump and smelling of ass

A Firefox add-on that will allow spell checking in a XUL field would be nice,http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2166689Its for the Firefox mod SALR. I'm not program savvy at all so i have no idea how you would go about this.

Not really fucked around with this message at 03:17 on May 11, 2007

# ? May 11, 2007 03:06

Fishhook: Jul 15, 2004; The specter of me reflected

Not sure how hard this would be, but I'm looking for a very simple .jpg viewer.

Display .jpg pictures in the directory full screen, one picture at a time. (shrunk or expanded as needed to fit the resolution would be nice feature also), the mouse scroll wheel changes between pictures. it only needs to do the current directory, escape closes the program.

I know there are programs out there that do that (plus more) such as Faststone Image Viewer, but I was just wondering if there were something even smaller (and free for infrequent use in a commercial setting).

# ? May 11, 2007 06:42

Neurozys: Apr 15, 2004

Fishhook posted:

Not sure how hard this would be, but I'm looking for a very simple .jpg viewer.

Display .jpg pictures in the directory full screen, one picture at a time. (shrunk or expanded as needed to fit the resolution would be nice feature also), the mouse scroll wheel changes between pictures. it only needs to do the current directory, escape closes the program.

I know there are programs out there that do that (plus more) such as Faststone Image Viewer, but I was just wondering if there were something even smaller (and free for infrequent use in a commercial setting).

http://www.irfanview.com/

# ? May 11, 2007 06:59

Copernicus: Jun 16, 2003; To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

I'm looking for a MAC Address Generator

I need a program that allows me to write in 1 MAC Address and have it generate x quanity of MAC Address starting from that.

So, if I wrote 00-1A-07-00-3E-7C and told it generate 1000 it would end at 00-1A-07-00-46-4B and i'd have all of the numbers in a text file.

I'd like there to be dash between the digits for readibility.

Is this a hard program?

# ? May 11, 2007 07:06

theodop: Dec 30, 2005; rock solid, heart touching

Copernicus posted:

I'm looking for a MAC Address Generator

I need a program that allows me to write in 1 MAC Address and have it generate x quanity of MAC Address starting from that.

So, if I wrote 00-1A-07-00-3E-7C and told it generate 1000 it would end at 00-1A-07-00-46-4B and i'd have all of the numbers in a text file.

I'd like there to be dash between the digits for readibility.

Is this a hard program?

Not at all, I'll do this one now.

# ? May 11, 2007 07:15

memknock: Jul 4, 2002

Rap Guy posted:

I'm up in the boonies, many hours away from home, with my laptop and my cell phone. I realized as I was a block down the street from my house that I didn't have my phone charger, but, big deal, I thought, I can hook it up to my computer and charge over USB. Now, I've set this up on my desktop at home, using a driver from the internet, but the problem is, my drat phone ran out of batteries on the way up, so even though I have the driver installed, I can't get my computer to recognize my phone, so it won't start charging it up.

I want someone to write something that forces power out through a USB hole to charge my Razr V3. I'm on Vista. The battery seems to be 3.6V.

Check https://www.modmymoto.com they tend to keep up with that.

# ? May 11, 2007 15:01

Lexical Unit: Sep 16, 2003

Copernicus posted:

So, if I wrote 00-1A-07-00-3E-7C and told it generate 1000 it would end at 00-1A-07-00-46-4B and i'd have all of the numbers in a text file.

Isn't 0x1A07003E7C + 1,000 = 111,786,606,204 + 1,000 = 111,786,607,204 = 0x1A07004264; then why 00-1A-07-00-46-4B?

Anyway, because I was bored (sorry theodop) I did this for *nix.
http://www.tinyappz.com/wiki/MACGen

So to use it like in your example you'd do:
$ g++ MACGen.cpp -o MACGen && echo "00-1A-07-00-3E-7C" | ./MACGen 1000 > macs.txt
To get a list of MAC address from 00-1A-07-00-3E-7C to 00-1A-07-00-42-64 in the file macs.txt.

I guess if you didn't want a *nix tool, then maybe theodop can still help you

# ? May 11, 2007 20:54

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ? Apr 25, 2024 06:21

EC: Jul 10, 2001; The Legend

This is a last-ditch effort for me. I've been trying to find something lightweight and simple that will take all of the items in a Exchange 2003 Public Calendar and put them into the local calendar in Outlook. It seems MS doesn't have a way to do this natively (which I simply cannot believe and wouldn't believe if I hadn't looked for the last couple of months), and the programs that DO have this feature also sync everything under the sun and want large amounts of $$$ for the privilege. Would something like this be possible?

# ? May 11, 2007 23:48

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Request a tiny custom app again

«‹›72 »