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🆓JLearnIt 6.4 Released

Screenshot of JLearnIt

JLearnIt 6.4 has been released.

JLearnIt is a multilingual dictionary sorted by categories that helps you learn the vocabulary of another language progressively (each word has a level of use). The languages available are English, French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Italian, Hebrew, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Hungarian, Russian, Latin and Czech.

What’s new:

  • Easier to install: Dmg signed and notarized for Mac OS X, Homebrew and WinGet support
  • UTF-8 is used for reading and writing files
  • Bug fixes

https://www.jlearnit.com

Japplis Website Optimizer 4.0 Released

Screenshot of Japplis Website Optimizer

Japplis Website Optimizer 4.0 has been released.

Japplis Website Optimizer is a set of tools to improve your static website pages. It includes shrinking and compressing your html, javascript, css files, adding width and length for your images, replace text based on templates.

What’s new:

  • Each month, the first 1,000 processed files are free and don’t need a license key.
  • Now that the first 1,000 processed files are for free, Website Optimizer Lite will be removed.
  • Faster to read files
  • Added replace between tags optimization (HTML, CSS & JavaScript)
  • Added support for properties in replace between tags
  • Added support for @property.name@ to replace text
  • Fixed replacing tokens with content from a file.
  • Use html, htm and xhtml as default html extension when not defined
  • Fixed documentation on how to replace tokens with the content from a file.
  • Fixed keep last modified time of the file
  • The destination file will be overwritten if the tokens.properties has been modified.
  • JavaScript and CSS will be optimized in a .min.js or .min.css if destination directory is the same as the website directory.
  • Fixed loading and saving is done in UTF-8.
  • Fixed optimize JavaScript was using css extension.
  • Avoid overriding file if no changed is performed on the HTML file.
  • Upgraded YUI Compressor to version 2.4.9.
  • Upgraded Jericho HTML to version 3.4.
  • Many more user interaction small improvements.
  • New website url: https://www.japplis.com/website-optimizer/

It’s also based on a new application framework:

  • Main window always on top
  • Transparent main window
  • Skins (More than 20, including many dark themes)
  • Define proxy to access internet
  • Feedback form
  • New about dialog
  • See changes
  • Check for updates
  • Show licenses
  • Show system infos, including logs
  • Installers include a recent Java Runtime
  • Dmg signed and notarized for Mac OS X

🆕Control Dashboard 1.0ß Released

Control Dashboard monitoring 2 websites

I’m pleased to announce the release of a new freeware: Control Dashboard.

Control Dashboard is a user interface that helps you monitor resources.

Possible resources for controls:

  • Websites
    • time-out
    • status code
    • content contains text
  • Files
    • exists
    • does not exists
    • recently modified
  • Program execution
    • success
    • failed
    • output contains text

The control can be automatically run at a specified interval time.

Control Dashboard can be downloaded for free for Windows, Mac OS X or Linux at https://www.japplis.com/control-dashboard/.

Discotheek 1.3 Released

Screenshot of Discotheek

Discotheek is a freeware that transforms your monitor into a spotlight.

What’s new:

  • Fixed incorrect size when multiple monitor with different screen sizes.
  • Option to have main window always on top
  • Option to have transparent main window
  • Skins (More than 20, including many dark themes)
  • Feedback form
  • New about dialog
  • See changes
  • Check for updates
  • Show licenses
  • Show system infos, including logs
  • Installers include a recent Java Runtime
Demo of Discotheek 1.3

https://www.japplis.com/discotheek/

Dictaphone 1.0 ß Released

dictaphone freeware

Dictaphone is an audio recording freeware for Windows, Mac OS X or Linux.

What’s new:

  • Added Java Lame 3.98.4 for MP3 encoding/decoding
  • Added export audio to HTML (wav or mp3 base64 encoded)
  • New icon
  • New website

New application framework:

  • Main window always on top
  • Transparent main window
  • Skins (More than 20, including many dark themes)
  • Define proxy to access internet
  • Feedback form
  • New about dialog
  • See changes
  • Check for updates
  • Show licenses
  • Show system infos, including logs
  • Installers include a recent Java Runtime
Screenshot of Dictaphone

https://www.japplis.com/dictaphone/

Decoration 5.0 Released

Decoration 5.0 has just been released. Decoration is an image batch processor. Layer effects on top of each others and apply the effects to multiple images.

What’s new:

Effects:

  • Added EdgeBorderFilter effect
  • Added RandomDecoFileFilter effect
  • Added CollageFilter effect
  • Added possibility to pass a color gradient instead of a plain color for some filters.
  • Added new ways to merge image with current image for Image Over project
  • Added option to draw outline of text
  • Added inner shadow option in drop shadow effect
  • Improved computing size of text
  • Improve speed to detect if rotation of image is needed
  • Set upright effect will keep the Jpeg quality if it’s the only filter
  • Fixed Rescale filter for transparency
  • Fixed some filters (like Crop) not working correctly with % or ‰
  • Fixed Border to not accept gradient as not supported
  • Fixed Gradient Frame to always set the gradient based on the image size
  • Fixed applying gradient to text sometimes incorrect
  • Moved Scratch Weave effects to the Texture category

User Interface:

  • Keep history and bookmarks for Add from web field
  • Keep history and bookmarks for “Save in” field
  • Added copy and paste button to filters list
  • Added apply only selected effects and apply all but selected effects toggle buttons
  • Possibility to drag the image in the preview to other applications (hold the shift key)
  • Improved quality of rendered image in preview
  • Added remember chosen images and text over restart
  • Button Generator : Add text filter with name if not already added
  • Possibility to use %DECO% in output options rename suffix to specify the name of the last used deco file
  • Fixed choosing bold and italic for a font problem
  • Fixed update preview after preview & cancel in edit effect

Application:

  • New website
  • New website location: https://www.japplis.com/decoration/
  • New logo created with Decoration
  • New licensing model: 100 processed files free each month
  • New application icon
  • New location for processed YupRight images: Decoration app directory/yupright-processed-photos.txt
  • Cleaned up code by refactoring long methods
  • Upgraded from java-image-scaling 0.8.5 to 0.8.7 Snapshot (May 2022) and license from LGPL to BSD
  • Upgraded JHLabs Filters library from 2.0.235 (2008) to 2.0.236 (2022)

New application frameworks:

  • Main window always on top
  • Transparent main window
  • Skins (More than 20, including many dark themes)
  • Define proxy to access internet
  • Feedback form
  • Better error reporting
  • New about dialog
  • See changes
  • Check for updates
  • Show licenses
  • Show system infos, including logs
  • Installers include a recent Java Runtime
  • Mac OS installer is now dmg file signed and notarized

Japplis Watch Pro Released

Japplis Watch Pro clock on Windows

Japplis Watch and Japplis Watch Pro version 1.5 has been released. This is the first release of the ‘Pro’ version.

What’s exclusively in the pro version:

  • Gradient or image as background
  • Partial support of WatchMaker watch faces to show time
  • Command line option to hide tabs or create your own panel
  • Possibility to hide the menu

What’s new in Japplis Watch:

  • Better installer for Mac OS X: signed and notarized dmg and Homebrew
  • winget install for Windows
  • Many bug fixes
  • Updated application framework (> 700 changes)
WatchMaker watch face showing in Japplis Watch