Software

Always On Top Text – Post On Screen 1.0 Beta Released

I’m pleased to announce the release of Post On Screen 1.0 beta.

Post On Screen showing text above a spreadsheet

Post On Screen will show a text on top of all other windows.

You can choose

  • Your text (of course)
  • The font
  • The colors (unique or gradient)
  • Animated gradient speed (0 for static)
  • Text transparency
  • Text size (Font size will adapt to the text window size)
  • Position

Post On Screen is freeware and works on Window, Mac OS X and Linux. You can download it at https://www.japplis.com/post-on-screen/

Ant Commander Pro 4.0 beta released

The first public available of Ant Commander Pro 4.0 file manager has been released. You can download it for free at https://www.antcommander.com.

Ant Commander Pro file manager screenshot
Ant Commander Pro Dual table

The main advantages compared to a standard file manager:

  • Smart incremental search (e.g. */ & .java & <5days & > 10 kb & ![junit])
  • Basic Git support
  • Detect (and ask) file conflicts before file operation (like copy/move)
  • Support local file, zip, jar, tar, gz, bzip2, ftp, ftps, sftp, webdav, ram, lst, http(s)
  • Multiple split panels in each tabs
  • Panels: Terminal, SSH, Text editor with syntax highlight
  • > 40 skins
  • Runs always on top, translucent, on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, embedded in IntelliJ IDEA, Android Studio, Eclipse, NetBeans

Better JSON formatting with Japplis Toolbox 5.1

Japplis Toolbox 5.1 has been released.

Japplis Toolbox is a free desktop software (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux) with more than 50 text utilities.

What’s new:

  • Better JSON formatter (faster, can handle more text, better formatting)
  • New utility: sort by regular expression
    • In case you don’t want to sort by the start of a line, you can specify a regular expression group and it will sort the lines by it
  • When Live is selected, operation is executed on every valid change of the pattern
  • Improved showing Swing properties: border UI applied to view, input keys and actions shown for InputMap UI
  • Loading and saving files use UTF-8 encoding
  • Various bug fixes and small improvements

Japplis Toolbox Pro 5.1 has also been released.

What’s new:

  • Added option in settings to unpack gz files
  • Added option in settings to disable/enable line wrap for input and output text area

JSON formatter

Japplis Toolbox JSON formatter

JLearnIt 6.3 Released

JLearnIt 6.3 has been released.

What’s new:

  • New ‘complete unknown’ mode in practice options to ask for word missing translations
  • Save action no longer show the file chooser (use Save as for the file chooser)
  • Log practice answers
  • Various improvements and bug fixing in the application framework
    – Improved memory usage
    – Various fixes for the applet mode
    – Show the license if not already done

https://www.jlearnit.com

Japplis Toolbox 5.0 released – Free Text Utilities

More than 50 text tools in one free software, Japplis Toolbox 5.0 has been released.
All text processing is done on the local computer to avoid leaking company data.

Here are the tools:

  • Encoding / Decoding: URL, Base64, XML, Query parameters, Hex, Hexadecimal numbers, Binary numbers, ROT13, ROT47, Unicode, Morse, Cyrillic, Volapuk
  • Lines: Sort, Reverse, Shuffle, Number, Delete duplicates, Trim spaces, Extract words, Join, Sort by length, Remove empty, Delete 1 out of 2, Count occurrences, Format HTML/XML, Format JSON
  • Pattern: Prefix, Suffix, Keep regular expression (regexp), Remove regexp, Keep lines, Remove lines, Split regexp, Contains regexp, Replace regexp, Date to long, Long to date
  • Text Characteristics: Character count, Word count, Line count, XML validate, Hash code, MD2, MD5, CRC32, Adler32, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, SHA3-512
  • Properties: Java system properties, Java Swing UI Defaults, Computer environment properties
  • Characters: Character in specified font, Hexadecimal value based on specified character encoding, Decimal value, Character name, Character category
  • Find in files: Find regular expression in specified files, Show file names, Show found line numbers, Show number of occurrence found

There are more than 50 changes in this release: window always on top, translucent window, new About dialog with more info, new settings dialog, multiple skins including a few dark themes, replace operation in pattern and Cyrillic to Romanian encoding decoding.

Japplis Toolbox is available as freeware for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux: https://toolbox.japplis.com/

 

Multilingual Dictionary JLearnIt 6.2 Released

I’m pleased to announce the release of JLearnIt 6.2.

JLearnIt is based on 4 parts

  • On the left side, you’ll have the word categories and their subcategories. You can select the whole list or just a specific subcategory.
  • You have a table view where you can select which languages to show in the selected category and you easily search for words with the toolbar field.
  • You have a practice part where the software will ask you for translation based on the category and the difficulty level chosen. It will also know which answers were the most correct to more often skip the word you already know.
  • You have a search part where it will show the words found and not found in a specified language as you enter text in a text box.

What’s new (compared to 6.0):

  • Gender for noun has been added for 5 languages
  • Made contribution easier
  • Improved search as you type
  • Based on a new application framework
  • Many bug fixes and small improvements

Japplis Watch 1.0. Free Time Related Utilities.

I’m pleased to announce the release of Japplis Watch 1.0.

Japplis Watch 1.0 is a freeware for Windows, Mac and Linux.

It includes:

  • Clock
  • Timer
  • Stopwatch
  • Time zone
  • Calendar
  • Server time
  • Countdown to date
  • Pomodoro / HIIT

Customization:

  • Font
  • Font color
  • Background color
  • Time and date format
  • Font size can be proportional to window size
  • Window always on top
  • Window semi-transparent
  • Dark theme support

Why would you want to use Japplis Watch ?

  • You want to see the time to be always visible in a corner of your screen in a bigger font and semi-transparent window
  • You started a pomodoro and you want your colleagues passing by to know when it finishes
  • You have a meeting at 4 pm PST and you are in a different time zone so you would like to know at what time the meeting is for you