Need to know the time in Tashkent? Or if it's daylight in Dakar? This simple application gives you the current time, daily sunrise and sunset times, and longitude and latitude for a large number of locations worldwide. You can even save the current window view as a JPEG. New version! Change the current time zone display with a right-click or "control"-click in the map. Also, choose whether or not to display locations representing the time zones, or latitude/longitude lines. Download the Universal Binary for PPC and Intel-based Macs. (file size: 1.6M)

Remember when you were a kid and you played with those gears and circles and made various spirals by rolling one inside or outside the other? Well, now you can do it with software! These curves are called trochoids (specifically hypotrochoids and epitrochoids). This simple application makes it easy to make these curves in varying colors and sizes and shapes:

In addition, the curves can be saved as PDF files for import into other programs like Illustrator or Photoshop, with or without the colored background. Download the Universal Binary for PPC and Intel-based Macs. (file size: 56K)

Okay, it's kind of a one-trick pony, but I happen to think it's sort of fun. It's a clock! But it's a different kind of clock: it's a binary coded decimal clock. The time is encoded with the colored squares. The red square are the hours, the green are the minutes and the blue the seconds. In the picture on the left, you can see the optional decimal clock display and the optional row value display. On the right, the application is just showing the binary coded clock. Download the Universal Binary for PPC and Intel-based Macs. (file size: 74K)

This is a simple little program that calculates the focal length multiplier for a number of digital SLRs. I basically picked the four cameras at random: Nikon D-100, Canon EOS-10D, Canon EOS-1D, and Sigma S9. If you'd like another camera model added, contact me at the email address in the Read Me file, and I'll add it for you. Download the Universal Binary for PPC and Intel-based Macs. (file size: 64K)

This is a small program to calculate the current Greenwich Mean Time. It's available in three (count 'em!) versions: Mac OS X Carbon (file size: 60K), Classic MacOS PowerPC (file size: 141K), and Classic MacOS 68k (file size: 123K). Important note:The Carbon version is only for Mac OS X. It will not run under earlier versions of the Macintosh OS.

I've been working on this program for a while. Not only is it handy for looking up dates, it will tell the sunrise and sunset if you have the location set correctly on your computer. It displays and prints monthly calendars over a range of approximatey 60,000 years. Finally, you can save a note for a date. You can also export an HTML calendar for posting on the web if you like!

I've made it available for Classic MacOS PowerPC (a 108K download) and Classic MacOS 68k (a 106K dowmload).

NOTE: The OS X version is available to download (a 154K download). Featurewise, it is very incomplete, but I find it useful, so I decided to go ahead and make it available. When I started working on the OS X version, I was working about 40 or 50 hours of overtime per year at my regular job. Now, I'm working 300 to 350 hours of overtime in a year, so I don't have as much time to work on it. Printing, saving notes, and saving HTML calendars are not implemented yet. It's quite stable, but if you have any problems with it, please let me know at the email address in the Read Me file. This release has been tested with Mac OS X 10.1.5 through 10.4.3 without problems.

I wrote a little program for choosing "browser safe colors". To be honest, I imagine this isn't a very necessary program anymore, but I leave it here in case someone would find it useful. It just shows a palette with the 216 "browser safe" colors. You choose one, and then copy it to the clipboard. Then you can paste it in to any other text editor you'd like.

It's only available as a "fat binary" for Classic MacOS, but it's very small (about 25K), so get Browser Safe Colors now.

My first real program was called Analog Clock. Basically, it just reads the system clock, puts up a window, and draws a clock along with the day and date. It's only available for Classic MacOS, I decided not to try to compete with the very nice clock in Mac OS X!

When I made it, I might have gone a little crazy, because despite the fact that it's really a very small download, I made three different download options: PowerPC only (a 35K download), for 68k (a 34K download), and a fat binary (a 42K download) which will run on either one. It's been tested back to System 7, though it does require Color QuickDraw, so it won't run on the original Macs.