NASA has created some beautiful imaging of the moon using photos taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LRO in orbit around the Moon. Quite clear because the moon has no atmosphere.
MoonMagic uses your internet connection to display the images from NASA in real time, but does not save the files on your computer.
There are 8784 images, one for each hour of 2024. Detailed moon TIF files 5760 x 3240 pixels.
Be sure to click the ANIMATE MOON checkbox to set the moon in motion. You can adjust the animation speed by changing the HOURS PER STEP dropdown from 1 hour to 24 hours per step.
Use the calendar to select any day of the year.
Use the SHOW dropdown to select one of FIVE viewing options: Moon, Horizontal Chart, Orbit, Globe, Vetical Chart.
This is a 32-bit program and will run on Windows ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, 8, 10, and Windows 11. It also runs fine on 64-bit systems.
This program is free, but a $10.00 donation is requested. You can pay with
PayPal
or mail a
check.
PayPal also allows you to use a credit card even if you have no PayPal account.
The program works fine even if you do not pay for it. There is no time limit. It will run forever. It is fully functional. No features have been removed. There are no nag screens. It contains no spyware, no advertising.
FileView
Check The Contents of a File
FileView is a FREE program. Donation of $10 is requested but not required. All features are enabled. No time limit. No advertising. No spyware.
If you are in Windows Explorer just select the file and right click and use the "Send To" and then select "FileView" as shown here:
It pops up the information screen shown above. It does this without leaving Windows Explorer.
You can also run FileView as a stand-alone program from the FileView desktop shortcut and it will allow you to select the file to view.
FileView can read the basic information such as size and date of any file type. If you click the "Get Extra Info" checkbox the program will display all of the unique extra information in the file header for that particular file type. It can read extra information for these types: ANI, ARJ, AVI, BMP, CAB, CUR, EXE, GIF, ICO, JPG, JPEG, MP3, PCX, PNG, SCR, TTF, TXT, WAV, ZIP.
This is a 32-bit program and will run on Windows ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, 8, 10, and Windows 11. It also runs fine on 64-bit systems.
This program is free, but a $10.00 donation is requested. You can pay with
PayPal
or mail a
check.
PayPal also allows you to use a credit card even if you have no PayPal account.
The program works fine even if you do not pay for it. There is no time limit. It will run forever. It is fully functional. No features have been removed. There are no nag screens. It contains no spyware, no advertising.
Lock
Lock your computer when you step away
FREE program. Donation is requested but not required. All features are enabled. No time limit. No advertising. No spyware.
The Lock program can do these 3 things:
1. Lock your computer.
2. Shut off your monitor
3. Start your screensaver.
The basic program locks your computer and shuts off your monitor.
You can use optional command-line switches to turn any of these actions on or off:
Lock
Locks your computer and powers off your monitor.
Lock /L
Locks your computer.
Lock /P
Powers off your monitor.
Lock /S
Starts your screen saver.
Lock /L /P
Locks your computer and powers off your monitor.
Lock /L /S
Locks your computer and starts your screensaver.
I have a link to this program on my desktop so I can shut off my monitor when I step away from the computer.
This program started with experiments to write a program with a very small file size. Final file size is 49 kilobytes and this includes a built-in icon. You can download the program using this link:
Copy the file to a folder and create a
desktop link
to it. There is no installation program nor help file.
This is a 32-bit program for Microsoft Windows operating system. There is no Mac version. It will run on Windows ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, 8, 10, and Windows 11. It also runs fine on 64-bit systems.
PREF - Programmer's Quick Reference
ASCII Reference Chart & More
FREE program. Donation is requested but not required. All features are enabled. No time limit. No advertising. No spyware.
Around 1987 there was a program called PREF that was included with TurboPower Pro programming tools. It was a 16-bit DOS program that made an on-screen chart like this:
On the right are codes to produce colored text when viewed through an
ANSI.SYS
driver included with
DOS
. On the left were codes for
ASCII
characters used in all versions of DOS. The slider on the left allowed you to scroll down through all 256 ASCII characters. I find this chart useful in programming even today so I made a version for windows and it looks like this:
Copy the file to a folder and create a
desktop link
to it. There is no installation program nor help file.
This is a 32-bit program for Microsoft Windows operating system. There is no Mac version. It will run on Windows ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, 8, 10, and Windows 11. It also runs fine on 64-bit systems.
Turbopower Software went out of business in 2003 and released all of its tools as open source. The Pascal source code for the original PREF 16-bit program for DOS can be found
here
.
Show CPU
A Really Tiny Program
FREE program. Donation is requested but not required. All features are enabled. No time limit. No advertising. No spyware.
Using inline
assembly
code in
Delphi
(object pascal) I constructed a very tiny program. The showcpu.exe file is only
20,480
bytes.
The entire source code is shown below.
The
inline
assembly code is between the
Asm
and
End
statements highlighted in red. This section gets the identification information from the processor using 3 calls of the
cpuid
instruction.
In the old days (of the original IBM PC series) any program could grab complete control of the entire PC and execute assembly code right down on the iron, on the physical processor. This has obvious security issues. Nowadays, in Windows, such code gets executed in an isolated "playpen" on a virtual processor. The code can still do damage, but it cannot subvert Windows and take control of the PC.
It is a
console program
meaning it appears in a standard Windows text-only terminal window.
The characters, on some lines, after the
//
characters, are comments, and not executed.
The source code:
----
Program showcpu;
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}
Function GetCpu : String;
Var
A2, B2, C2, D2 : Array[0..3] of Char; // create array of 4 char variables of 4 bytes each named A2, B2, C2, D2
A3, B3, C3, D3 : Array[0..3] of Char;
A4, B4, C4, D4 : Array[0..3] of Char;
File Name ..... showcpu-signed.exe
Bytes ......... 30,432
Time Stamp .... Oct 27, 2021 - 11:53:32 AM
CRC ........... C7FF2936
SHA-256 ....... CAC551535FA59980415B75774C040612185026AA77BF8EBED9E79F2796009613
There is no installation program nor help file. To keep it as small as possible, there is no icon in the file.
This is a 32-bit program for Microsoft Windows operating system. There is no Apple, phone, or Linux version. It will run on Windows ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, 8, 10, and Windows 11. It also runs fine on 64-bit systems.
These programs are completely free with no time limits, no nag screens, no advertising, and no spyware. They do not write to the hard drive or registry. They do not access the web. They do not install any other programs. They do not make any changes to your system other than the ones described in the documentation above.
I do accept donations. The PayPal links below are for a $10 (Ten US Dollars) donation but you can send more or less if you like.
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PayPal
to:
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