http://freeware.the-meiers.org All the updates to my Freeware page will be posted here Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:26:02 PDT FeedMe, by the Nowhere Man (http://thenowhereman.com/hacks) Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:25:15 PDT http://freeware.the-meiers.org#CoolTerm 1315880715 NEW FEATURES:<br>- New Connection options window with multiple pages.<br>- The connection options now display port information for the selected port.<br>- It is now possible to change baudrate, byte format settings, and flow control settings while the port is open.<br>- Added the option to specify additional baud rates via a "baudrates.ini" file. E.g. any baud rates that are known to be supported by the hardware that are not listed in the popup menu in the connection settings dialog can be added to a "baudrate.ini" file that resides in the same directory as CoolTerm.<br>- Added the option to specify additional serial ports via a "ports.ini" file. E.g. any devices such as /dev/tty.xxx devices on OSX and Linux that CoolTerm can not enumerate can be added to a "ports.ini" file that resides in the same directory as CoolTerm.<br>- Added the option to add timestamps to data captured to text files.<br>- Added a keyboard shortcut to connect/disconnect.<br>- Added option to replace TAB key presses with a configurable number of spaces (default = 4).<br>- Added option to enable/disable capturing of local echo of transmitted data in capture files.<br>- Added an option to keep the capture file open while capturing is in progress (default) or close it after writing and re-opening when new data arrives. This allows other applications to read the capture file while capturing is in progress.<br>- Added status LEDs for TX and RX to indicate activity related to sending and receiving data.<br>- Added preferences option to disable all menu shortcuts (on Windows and Linux only) in order to allow sending CTRL characters via the terminal. On Mac, the keyboard shortcuts use the Command key and thus don't interfere with CTRL characters.<br>- [MAC] AppleScript BETA: Added basic AppleScript handling for the most important terminal operations such as loading a settings file, opening/closing ports, and reading/writing data. The AppleScript functionality, while included in CoolTerm 1.4.0, is currently in public BETA , to allow a broader audience to beta test this feature and provide feedback. Refer to the attached "AppleScript ReadMe.txt" file for more details.<br>- [LINUX] Making LINUX version (unsupported) available.<br><br>IMPROVEMENTS:<br>- Made significant improvements to the code that processes received data, including changing architecture of the receive buffer to a circular buffer to improve efficiency and stability.<br>- Made significant improvements to the code that transmits data, including changing the architecture of the data transmission to be more asynchronous in nature to improve the responsiveness of CoolTerm during transmission of large text files, particularly with XON/XOFF flow control enabled<br>- CoolTerm now opens a progress window whenever the length of the text to be transmitted exceeds a certain threshold, and not only when text files are sent. <br>- Flow control settings are now displayed in the terminal window as part of the port configuration string. For XON/XOFF the state is displayed, i.e. XON or XOFF.<br>- Added error messages to alert the user of errors that occur while attempting to open the serial port.<br>- Added check to warn the user if multiple files are dropped onto the CoolTerm window.<br>- "Send String" windows can now be resized.<br>- It is now possible to send CTRL characters when the terminal is set to Line Mode.<br>- Improved code for Line Mode to ensure that a pressed key is captured even if the command line didn't have the focus.<br>- Changed behavior of the status LEDs to better reflect the state of the signals. A green LED turned on now means that a signal is "active", the LED turned off means that it is "inactive".<br>- Changed the default state of DTR when a port is opened to "active" to conform with common practice, with the exception of Windows platforms when DTR flow control is enabled, in which case the default is "inactive" in order to avoid serial port errors.<br>- Improved handling of file IO errors when sending textile or capturing received data to textiles.<br>- Improved handling of file IO errors when reading and writing settings files.<br>- Improved error reporting. Crash reports will now include information about all open terminals.<br>- Slight change to the behavior during setting the break signal in that no characters are being read from the receive buffer. Received characters will be read after the break signal has been cleared.<br><br>BUG FIXES:<br>- Fixed a bug that would show an error message when the user chooses cancel in the capture file save dialog.<br>- Fixed a bug that threw an exception when opening the connection settings on a system without serial ports installed.<br>- Fixed a bug the displayed an error message when the user cancelled out of the "Send Textfile" dialog.<br>- [WIN] Fixed a bug where the removal of a serial port adapter could cause an exception when starting a connection.<br>- [MAC] Implemented a workaround for a known RB bug where the baudrates 3600, 7200, 14400, and 28800 baud would not be set correctly and default to 57600 baud instead. Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:39:44 PST http://freeware.the-meiers.org/index.html#BatchTouch 1294810784 Improvements:<br><br>- Added a preferences option to automatically check for updates at startup.<br><br><br><br>Fixes:<br><br>- Fixed a bug that caused a StackOverFlowException when serial port devices were unexpectedly removed from the system, e.g. when a USB serial adapter was unplugged while the terminal was connected to that device. The error handling for this situation has been improved.<br><br>- Fixed a bug that caused an OutOfBoundsException when a serial port device failure occurred during enumeration.<br><br>- Fixed a bug that resulted in incorrect formatting of long crash reports.<br><br> Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:55:57 PST http://freeware.the-meiers.org/index.html#BatchTouch 1293587757 New Features:<br>- It is now possible to have default settings loaded at startup. If a default.bts settings file exists in the application folder of BatchTouch, it will be applied at startup.<br>- It is now possible to specify date offset in days, months, and years.<br>- It is now possible to enter values for date and time manually.<br>- Added special function "Set Modification Dates to Creation Dates".<br>- Added special function "Set Creation Dates to Modification Dates".<br>- Added a menu item to save current settings as default settings.<br>- Added an option to automatically check for updates at startup.<br><br>Improvements:<br>- Improved calendar display.<br>- Improved GUI help tag texts.<br>- Improved exception handling and error reporting<br>- Improved handling of command line arguments.<br><br>Fixes:<br>- fixed a bug that retrieved incorrect settings from the GUI.<br>- Fixed a bug which would cause user defined time values to be overwritten after selecting a new date via the calendar display. Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:52:13 PDT http://freeware.the-meiers.org/index.html#CoolTerm 1288317133 What's new:<br><br>New features:<br><br>- Added a transmit line delay option which adds a specified delay after certain characters such as new line characters (configurable).<br><br>- Added a transmit character delay option (configurable).<br><br>- Added a "Connection/Send Break" menu item for sending serial breaks.<br><br>- Added the option to play a notification sound after a text file has been sent.<br><br>- Added auto-connect feature.<br><br>- Added the .hex file extension to the "Text Files" file type set (for the "Send Text File" dialog).<br><br>- It is now possible to have default settings loaded at startup and when a new terminal window is opened. If a default.stc settings file exsists in the application folder of CoolTerm, it will be applied to new terminal windows.<br><br>- Added a menu item to save current settings as default settings.<br><br><br><br>Improvements:<br><br>- Pressing ENTER or RETURN in the connection settings dialog now envokes the "Ok" button, even if a textfield is currently selected.<br><br>- Pressing ESC in the connection settings dialog now envokes the "Cancel" button, even if a textfield is currently selected.<br><br>- Pressing Shift+ENTER or Shift+RETURN now invokes the "Send" button in "Send String" windows.<br><br>- Improved handling of command line arguments.<br><br>- The values for "Receive Buffer Size" and the character and line delays are now limited to a range from 0 to a maximum value (2,147,483,647 and 10,000, respectively).<br><br>- When a "Send String" window is opened, the text field now receives focus automatically.<br><br>- Improved exception handling and error reporting.<br><br>- Improved behavior of the command history buffer and menu.<br><br>- GUI improvements.<br><br><br><br>Fixes:<br><br>- Fixed a bug that allowed opening multiple "Save As..." for the same Terminal window dialogs on Windows.<br><br>- Fixed a bug that could cause a StackOverflow on serial port errors due to calling port.flush<br><br>- Fixed bug that could cause a crash when sending empty strings via a "Send String" window.<br><br>- (Win) Fixed issue that would allow the terminal window to be activated via the taskbar when the connection options window is open.<br><br>- Several minor bug fixes. Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:34:19 PDT http://freeware.the-meiers.org/index.html#BatchTouch 1270798459 What's new:<br><br>- Made the file list wider and added columns for modification and creation date.<br><br>- The new columns show the modification and creation dates of each item after they are added to the list and after they were changed by BatchTouch.<br><br>- Added preferences Window.<br><br>- Added option to preferences window to show/hide the date columns in the file list.<br><br>- Added option to preferences window to disable warnings before changing dates.<br><br>- Settings can now be saved and retrieved.<br><br>- It is now possible to drop a file or folder onto the "New date:" group box to set the new date and time automatically to the modification date and time of the dropped item.<br><br>- It is also possible to drag and drop an item from the file list to the "New date:" group box to set the new date and time automatically to the modification date and time of the dropped item.<br><br>- Added a "Special" menu to provide access to special functions.<br><br>- Added a "Set Folder Date to most recent content" special function. This option sets the modification date of all the folders to the modification date of the most recent item inside them. This is done recursively, from the bottom to the top of the file hierarchy.<br><br>- Added special function for pre-dating all items to the oldest item in the list.<br><br>- Added special function for post-dating all items to the newest item in the list.<br><br>- Improved the calendar display in the "Set date and time" dialog. There now separate up/down arrows for month and year. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:47:40 PST http://freeware.the-meiers.org/index.html#CoolTerm 1266608860 What's new:<br>- Added "Line Mode" to the communication settings. In "Line Mode" a line of typed text will not be sent to the serial port until the Enter key is pressed.<br><br>- Added "History" which is available in "Line Mode" the up and down arrow keys can be used to select previously typed lines.<br><br>- Added a receive buffer size limit option.<br><br>- Added handling of the bell character (ASCII code 7), which can be enabled through the communication settings.<br><br>- It is now possible to open the communication settings and edit certain options while the serial port is open.<br><br>- The viewer mode (plain or hex) is now saved as parameter in connection settings files.<br><br>- The size and position of terminal windows is now saved with connection settings.<br><br>- Fixed bug that converted occurrences CR+CR+LF strings to single spaces on Windows. Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:53:19 PDT http://freeware.the-meiers.org/index.html#AlbumEnabler 1250841199 What's new:<br>- Changed application name to "Album Enabler for Cooliris(R)" and changed icon to comply with trademark usage and restrictions. Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:40:05 PDT http://freeware.the-meiers.org/index.html#MathSheetGenerator 1250304005 What's new:<br>- Added support for writing math sheets as PDF files.<br> Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:58:54 PDT http://freeware.the-meiers.org/index.html#iConStruct 1247939934 What's new:<br>- Fixed a bug that caused filenames to be truncated to 31 characters on Macs.<br><br>- Added capability to drag icons and masks out of iConStruct to other applications that support picture or file drops.<br><br>- Added a Preferences dialog for certain settings such as the type of items dragged from iConStruct (picture object or picture file)<br><br>- iConStruct now remembers the color settings in the preview pane between application launches.<br><br>- Improved nearest-neighbor scaling for original images with transparency.<br><br> Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:11:58 PDT http://freeware.the-meiers.org/index.html#CoolTerm 1247886718 What's new:<br>- Separated option to handle backspace characters in ASCII view from option to convert non-printable characters.<br>- Changed character used to display non-printable characters to a period (ASCII code 46) for better compatibility and consistency across platforms.<br>- Changed short cuts for "View/Autoscroll" and View Mode menu items to avoid conflict with other menu items such as "Edit/Select All".<br>- Windows build now associates .stc files with CoolTerm.<br>- Minor bug fixes. Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:47:05 PDT http://freeware.the-meiers.org/index.html#CoolirisEnabler 1247276825 What's new:<br>- Changed name to Cooliris Enabler (from PicLens Enabler) to reflect the name change of Cooliris, Inc.<br>- Changed icon to reflect change of Cooliris, Inc. Logo.<br>- Added option to add custom logo to gallery.<br>- Added option to add Cooliris launch button to index pages.<br>- Cooliris now remembers the text field values between launches. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:08:00 -0700 http://freeware.the-meiers.org/index.html#CoolTerm 1246327680 What's new: <br>- Added option to handle backspace characters in ASCII view to Connection Settings. <br>- Fixed bug in SendString that prevented typing 8 in hex mode. <br>- Fixed bug that printed the wrong character for cursor down key when ConvertNonPrint was enabled. <br>- Added a "Check for Updates" Menu item. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:29:07 -0700 http://freeware.the-meiers.org/ 1245364147 What's new: <br>- Added an option to the connection settings to automatically terminate string sent from "Send String" windows with a configurable "Termination String", such as e.g. a linefeed etc. <br>- In ASCII view mode, all incoming "New Line" such as CR, LF, CR+LF, are now properly displayed as line breaks. <br>- Added an option to the connection settings to convert non-printable characters to generic dot characters in ASCII view. <br>- Added 'View' menu with menu item to switch between Hex and ASCII viewing. <br>- Moved 'Clear Data' menu item to 'View' menu. <br>- Added an 'Autoscroll' feature, accessible via the 'View' menu to enable/disable automatic scrolling of received data. <br>- Changed menu shortcut key for "Cycle through windows" from "0" to "`". <br>- Added code to produce an audible alert (system beep) when characters are typed while the serial port is not connected. <br>- Added a 'Help' button to the toolbar Tue, 19 May 2009 14:52:00 -0700 http://freeware.the-meiers.org/ 1242769920 CoolTerm is an easy-to-use terminal for communication with hardware connected to serial ports. Tue, 5 May 2009 23:38:07 -0700 http://freeware.the-meiers.org/ 1241591887 What's new: <br>- Added feature for creating movies. <br>- Removed controls from timer window and made the timer controllable via menu items. <br>- Added capability to set starting time with 1 second accuracy. <br>- Added option to customize colors. <br>- Added clickable "Run Status" icon. <br>- Added built-in help. Tue, 5 May 2009 23:15:07 -0700 http://freeware.the-meiers.org/ 1241590507 What's new: <br>- Changed name from "Egg Timer" to "Egg-Time Counter" due to an existing app with the same name. <br>- Improved graphics. <br>- Added Color options. <br>- Added option to suspend screensaver while timer is running <br>- Removed controls from timer window and made the timer controllable via menu items. <br>- Added option to display timer in fullscreen mode. <br>- Added clickable "Run Status" icon. <br>- Added built-in help. Tue, 5 May 2009 22:31:07 -0700 http://freeware.the-meiers.org/ 1241587867 What's new: <br>- Moved the font settings to a dedicated preferences window <br>- Added alternate symbols for divisions and multiplications to choose from. <br>NOTE: Not all symbols are supported by all fonts. Switch to a more compatible symbol if the font selected is not capable of displaying the symbols correctly. <br>- Removed the equal sign from the math problems. <br>- Added the option to autimatically calculate the limits for the result. <br>- Improved the User Interface. <br>- Improved page layout. <br>- Added an option to include a Name Field at the top of each generated Sheet. <br>- Bug fixes. Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:27:07 -0700 http://forums.the-meiers.org/ 1240608427 The forums are online. Currently there are categories for Freeware, Open Source Projects, and Other Topics <br>There is a separate RSS feed for forum updates. Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:26:18 -0700 http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/10913730 1240593978 MathSheetGenerator for Windows got approved by Versiontracker Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:26:17 -0700 http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/10913732 1240593977 Egg Timer for Windows got approved by Versiontracker Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:56:17 -0700 http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/10913530 1240466177 VisualTimer for Windows got approved by Versiontracker Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:00:00 -0700 http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10913251 1240113600 VisualTimer for Mac got approved by Versiontracker Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:00:00 -0700 http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10913252 1240113600 Egg Timer for Mac got approved by Versiontracker Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:00:00 -0700 http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10913250 1240113600 MathSheetGenerator for Mac got approved by Versiontracker Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:00:00 -0700 http://freeware.the-meiers.org/ 1240102800 MathSheetGenerator is a simple utility for educators and parents to automatically create sheets of simple math exercises for elementary school children. Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:00:00 -0800 http://freeware.the-meiers.org/ 1236139200 What's new: <br>- Added support for saving transparent PNG images. <br>- Added support for wider mask edges. <br>- Improved nearest-neighbor scaling algorithm. <br>- Added a help button.