I have recently noticed that a significant amount of TrueIP users have set their update time to an unrealistically low value, which is causing servers to slow for others. I would like to request a few changes be made if possible. Firstly, while I originally included an update page on the futurec.net domain, it is not longer available. There have been hundreds of thousands of requests to this page that no longer exists which are needing to be redirected to something like myip.dnsomatic.com. Recently, there have been firewall rules being put in place on the server to drop all connections from repeat requests from the same IP address. If you still have the www.futurec.net/trueip.php source setup as your primary IP, please change it to myip.dnsomatic.com, which provides the same service. Secondly, please increase the amount of time between refreshes if you are using a high speed connection like DSL or cable. Your IP address most likely doesn’t change more than every 15 minutes. If you are on a very flaky dial-up connection, then it probably doesn’t matter too much if you are requesting it every few minutes, since some of the requests would fail anyway.

With these changes I think that people will have a better experience with TrueIP and the server admins will have an easier time with connections to their servers.

Thanks

It is very basic in what it does, but it works great. It works exactly as if you had the pandora.com website open in your browser. It sits quietly in your system tray and plays back your music. Other than that, it doesn’t do much. It won’t show you what song is playing in a tool tip or anything like that, as there is no API for Pandora. You can view that information in the main window though. If you feel that you would like to try it out, feel free to download it and check it out. As usual, you can download it from the application’s information page or directly from this post. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know by posting them to this entry.

Enjoy.

FileGen Free is an application that helps you quickly generate large amounts of files for testing. It was designed to help debug applications that run into issues on large amount of file system based databases such as StorURL. After seeing a cool application that generated tons of data for SQL databases at work, I got the idea to build this application for testing. It has helped me debug some problems with large amounts of Favorites databases, since I don’t personally keep thousands of favorites in StorURL, I memorize most of my favorite websites.

As always with my free applications, you can download it from the information page or you can get it directly from this post. Note that this is an initial release. If you find any problems, please let me know and I will try to fix them as soon as I possibly can.

From=
To=
Subject=
Message Body=
Attachment(s)=
Add=
Open Text File=
Insert Text File=
Settings=
Keep open after sending=
Send=
Send a message=
Server=
Port=
Secure Connection (SSL)=
Server requires authentication=
Username=
Password=
Composition Font=
About=
Cancel=
OK=
Add new entry=
Name=
Address=
Delete=
Save=
Address Book=

And that’s it! I can take the values and plug them into the translated file and include it with the next release. Note I will do some quick fact checking on the values to make sure there aren’t any swear words or anything, as long Babelfish clears it, I’ll clear it.

-Joey

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It currently does not have the ability to pause and resume downloads, although that is a planned feature. It also cannot accept any type of protocol except HTTP. I am working on an FTP addition to it, so that files can be downloaded from either of them. So if this sounds like something that might be vaguely useful to you, check it out and let me know how it works for you. If you find any bugs or crashes, please let me know!

You can find some more information via the application page, or download the application directly from this post via this link.

On a side note, since I do not plan on upgrading to Vista myself, I cannot support the use of any of my free software on that operating system. Someday, in the future, possibly after service pack 2 or 3, I may upgrade, but for now, the only operating systems I can truly state that my software works on are Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003. Oh, and some of the applications written in VB6 will run under WINE.

-Joey