This page is software I wrote for myself. But if you find it useful, feel free to use it.
Remote control for a DirecTV DVRs
As the heading says, a remote control for a DirecTV DVR. If you are a DirecTV user, try this. I think you'll like it.
This is the only software on this page that is still under development as of June 2012.
Icon Dance Screen Saver V1.8
Download: IconDance.zip (45K)
or SetupIconDance18.exe (321K)
OK, this one is pretty silly. It is the Icon Dance
from Iconoid, in a screen saver form with some extra goodies added. It
is not a regular screen saver because it doesn't hide your desktop. It
just makes the icons dance.
The small zip file has no
install/uninstall program. Just unzip it to a directory and right
click in the icondanc.scr file then select Install. To uninstall it,
just delete the 2 files. Passwords are not supported. End it with a
click or key press. The SetupIconDance18.exe
program is the same thing with a full install/uninstall.

The Icon Dance screen saver does not work on NT 4.0.
You can run it in preview mode, but it will not run as a screen saver.
NB: It has come to my attention that there is a trojan
called Win32.IconDance. This is NOT that trojan. (Look at the source
if you are concerned). The IconDance screen saver does restore all
icons to their original postitions.
Software for real computers
The software, tips, and samples found on the The
ISPF and z/OS Tools and Toys Page are for real
computers; IBM mainframes, not Windows.
The ISPF Tools and Toys Page should be considered stablized.
CSS Formatter
Well, really it is just a web page, but it is self contained so there is no server requirement.
Rudimentary CSS formatter
Bookmarklet Editor
Another self contained web page; This one is useful for creating bookmarklets in Firefox and maybe other browsers.
A bookmarklet is a small javascript program that you usually click on from the links bar of the browser. It can do anything
from scan the contents of the page to completely reformat it or do much more. Examples are widely available on the web.
This page takes a bookmarklet and turns it into a 1 line program suitable for use in a link. It compresses out all blanks except from
quoted strings and "new Array" so be aware of that and add semicolons to the ends of javascript lines. Some samples are provided.
Bookmarklet editor
JavaScript Mazes
A small JavaScript to generate and solve mazes.
Killhost
Download: killhost.exe (18K)
Killhost is a tiny program to update your 'hosts' file to
include URLs of sites you don't ever want to see again. Once a site is
placed in the hosts file by killhost, it is effectively blocked. This
is a very simplistic approach to getting rid of 3rd party advertisements
while surfing the web (thereby improving load time and reducing 3rd party
spying activities).
The hosts file is a file that TCP/IP uses to resolve names.
It contains site names and their corresponding IP addresses. The nice
thing is that if you specify an address of 0.0.0.0 for a site then you'll
never reach anything... so if you put the name of a site in with an address
of 0.0.0.0 then your computer will never contact the actual site.
On Win9X systems the hosts file is usually located at C:\Windows\hosts
and for NT, 2K, XP systems it is normally at C:\Winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. Here
is a copy of my hosts file.
How KILLHOST works:
Killhost monitors the clipboard for any URLs starting with
http:// and when one is found, it puts up a small window in the upper left
corner of your screen:

From this window you can select one of 2 buttons:
Ignore: Don't save this URL in the hosts file.
Just hide the window.
KILL: Add this URL to the hosts file. The change will not be seen
until you restart the browser.
If you select Change Hosts File from the Edit pulldown,
the window changes:

From here you can change the file to which you want to
save the entries. Normally this is the hosts file.:
Browse: Search for and select the file with the standard
Windows 'open' dialog box.
OK: Accept the name listed.
Cancel: Don't change the hosts file name that is in use.
How you use KillHost
When you see an advertisement you don't want to see again,
you need to get it's URL into the clipboard.
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With Internet Explorer, you right-click on it, then
select the URL and press Ctrl-C to place it in the clipboard.
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In Netscape, right-click and select 'Copy Image
Location'. Once the image is in the clipboard, the KillHost
window will display in the upper left corner and will show the site
name portion of the URL.
Insure that the URL specifies something other than the
name of the site you are viewing!! Some sites server their own
images and this program can not be used to stop those images. This
program is intended to stop images from 3rd party sites. Press KILL
to add the site to the hosts file, or Ignore to do nothing with it.
If you block a site by accident, you can manually edit the
hosts file using Edit Hosts File from the Edit pulldown to remove
items. The format of the basic hosts file is very simple to
understand.
Killhost establishes a hot key of 'CTRL-SHIFT-H' to hide
or show the window at any time.
Killhost establishes a hot key of 'CTRL-SHIFT-K' to allow you to add host
names in IE6 cookie prompt dialogs. For example, if IE shows you a
dialog box like this:

and you decide you never want to access the thisbanner.com
site, you must move the cursor over the first paragraph and press
ctrl-shift-k. This will scan the paragraph for the site name and
then place it in the clipboard, thereby showing the window so that you can
kill it. Be sure to block the cookie until you exit and restart IE.
Killhost will run on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP
systems.
If you want to show your own image in place of other
images, such as a 1 pixel transparent GIF file, you must run your own web
server and direct requests to that server. For example, if you run
an Apache server on your LAN at 192.168.1.8, you can tell KillHost to
direct unwanted traffic there using the Set IP Address selection under
Edit. The web server must then handle document not found requests
(404) and return the gif file. Be sure to use absolute addressing,
which includes the http:// in the address. If you do not, Netscape
will crash and burn on cookie requests to blocked sites. For
example, in Apache, use
ErrorDocument 404 http://192.168.1.8/pixel.gif
You can, no doubt, find such a gif file by looking in your
existing web cache. I doubt anyone will have read this far into this
boring page, so, for the record, let me say that I think that fried
doughnuts are disgusting, and no household should be without a generous
supply of cream cheese.
You must have the Visual
Basic 5 Runtimes libraries, available from Microsoft, to run KillHost.