BruntonSoft Software

The following software is available for download and is supplied without charge. This software is covered by copyright and all rights are retained by:

I'm always interested in feedback. Please drop me an e-mail note if you have suggestions or comments. To this point, I've decided not to require registration as part of using the software here. However, if you send me an e-mail indicating you're using one of my programs, I will send you notification of updates as I post them to this site.

All my software is designed to run with Windows XP or Windows Vista. It has not been tested on earlier versions of Windows.

Note: Possible Installation Woes

I have noticed some problems with some installer programs and I'm experimenting to find the one that can properly grab the necessary DLL and manifest support files. If you discover a program that will not install on your system, please contact me and I will attempt to remedy the situation. Currently I am using Inno Setup Compiler (Inno homepage) and it appears to be working correctly. Some of the older programs have not used this compiler and there may be some glitches.

I have also been including an update module in all of the programs I have been working on recently. In most cases, there is an option to have the program check for a newer version automatically. The check may also be done manually from the About dialog box or Help menu.

PicMailer Updated

Email clients allow pictures to be attached so we can send them to family, friends and colleagues. Some email clients do make it easy and straight-forward to adjust the size of the pictures being sent so they don't use too much bandwidth or exceed the recipients' mailbox limits. However, some email clients make this process much more convoluted than necessary. Similarly, image editors offer to save images in an email friendly format, but that is also overkill just to send pictures. PicMailer simply sends smaller formats of selected images to one or more email recipients allowing for a variety of image sizes. Download PicMailerSetup (Version 1.500 November 2009)

OnTime

OnTime is a utility for accurately setting the computer's system clock with an international time server. The set of 116 time servers listed with Microsoft are polled to determine which are available and if so, the delay associated with communicating with each of them. The time server with fastest connection is used to set the system clock. The clock can be set automatically when Windows starts, at predefined intervals and/or manually. A simple reminder can also be set. You can download OnTimeSetup (Version 1.015 June 2009)

PostIt Updated

PostIt is a utility for maintaining a website. Files that are usually posted together as a set to a website are selected and the set is given a name. The FTP information of the receiving website is associated with this set of files and whenever there is a change, the full set can be posted to the website. All sensitive FTP account information is encrypted for security when it is saved to disk and access to the information can be set to require password authentication. You can download PostItSetup (Version 2.040 October 2009)

ISee

This is an effort to create a relatively lightweight utility to view images. Run the program to initially create a "SendTo" link. Subsequently, right-clicking an image file will open ISee to view the image. Download ISeeSetup (Version 1.0 June 2008) 

ColourGrabber

There have been quite a few occasions in which I needed the numerical value of a colour beyond the simple standard colours of Black, White, Red, Orange, Green, Olive, Navy and Blue (etc.). To obtain just the right shade of colour it's often not a named colour at all. One of the best ways to get the colour required is to find it somewhere on the screen, often in use by some other program.

While I know there are many colour-picker programs available, I thought it would be more interesting to create my own. One of the unique aspects of ColourGrabber is that it will export the numeric colour value in a variety of program-friendly formats. Download ColourGrabberSetup (Version 1.0, August 2008)

PList

Password Management: Updated June 2010

PList (Version 2.61) is a utility that helps to maintain the plethora of passwords many of us have. The information is strongly encrypted using Huffman compression, sufficient to thwart anything but serious, professional attempts to decipher. While the RCMP and chartered banks should probably look elsewhere most of the rest of us will find it extremely secure. The software includes a password generator with options to allow or require upper case letters, lower case letters, numbers or punctuation. Passwords can be generated based on the words in a sentence. Password management is essential with any more than a couple of passwords and/or accounts to maintain. Encrypted password files can be posted and retrieved from remote site, facilitating password maintenance on multiple machines. A text file of passwords can be imported to facilitate efficient data entry.

Version 2.6 adds the ability to email the information about an item and the ability to copy all an item's information to the clipboard (rather than only the password; the ability to copy just the password still remains).

Download PListSetup (Version 2.61 - June 2010)

Advanced Touch Program: Updated

One of the traditional utilities in the programmer's toolbox was a little program called "Touch" to change the date of a file to the current date and time. Touchie provides a Windows interface to the traditional Touch program and additionally allows the user to modify the file date and time to any valid values, change file attributes as well as renaming and deleting files. Files may be modified either individually or selected as a group. Please note that this program is a successor to the program GuiTouch. Download Touchie (Version 1.1 March 2, 2009)

Music Tablature:

Tabulature enables the user to enter musical notes by their standard names (e.g. F#) and display the music in the tablature for any fretted stringed instrument. Custom tunings can be defined and saved. The displayed tablature may also be printed. This program effectively translates any melody from sheet music to fretted instrument tablature. Download TabSetup

PictureRun - Image Slide Show Creation:

There are a number of programs that will produce slideshows of images and allow them to be saved on a CD. I became frustrated, however, that I was not able to easily arrange the order in which the images were displayed. I knew I could set the order by laboriously renaming files, but that seemed extremely cumbersome. I therefore wrote PictureRun to address this problem. PictureRun allows play lists of images to be created, saved and played. It also organizes the process of collecting the files needed for an autorun CD of the desired images. PictureRun can display most image formats including many digital camera RAW images Download PictureRunSetup (Version 1.3 - January 2008)  

Desktop Wallpaper Changer:

August 29, 2008

The program name Dewacha is derived from Desktop Wallpaper Changer. Dewacha groups images by theme providing a way to select sets of desktop wallpaper to match your mood or interest. Wallpaper can be changed when the program starts, at set intervals or manually. The wallpaper image can be tiled, centred or made to fit the screen resolution. Version 1.5 adds the proper scaling of images that are taller than they are wide and allows the desktop background colour to be set. At the present time, Dewacha is only available for Windows XP with Active Desktop enabled and Windows Vista. With version 2.5 most image file formats are supported. It has been tested with JPG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PNG, PSD (Photoshop) and Nikon RAW (.nef) image files. Download DewachaSetup.exe (Version 2.601, August, 2008)

PicNamer: Updated

Version 3.100

June 2010

This program is designed to facilitate renaming digital photographs. Images can be renamed individually or in sets. The new names can use a base name in conjunction with a counter and the file date, arranged in any order. The counter may be started at an arbitrary starting point and the counting symbols can be numeric (001, 002, etc.) or upper or lower case alphabetic (_a, _b, or _A, _B etc. up to a maximum of 676 {_zz}). Images may be rotated and simple file management functions can be accomplished including folder creation and deletion, file movement and deletion.. PicNamer works with most image files.

PicNamer uses a three pane interface to display the folder structure (top left), the contents of the folder (bottom left) and the selected image (right). The image pane has a context menu (as do the folder and file panes on the left) that provides actions to be taken on the displayed image such as rotation or renaming.

The image description, an EXIF tag, can be added or modified. This information is typically displayed on picture hosting sites such as Picassa.

Version 3.0 adds some image editing (brightness, contrast, circle overlay to highlight a feature within the image. It also adds provision for setting the Author/Artist EXIF tag to indicate who took the picture. This tag information is displayed in Windows Explorer. Finally, some minor bugs were also addressed. Version 3.1 provides the option to crop and save a portion of the image.   Download Version 3.1 (PicNamer3Setup.exe) (June 2010)
 

QuickStop Utilities:

QuickStop consists of four small separate programs:
QuickStopConfigure,
QuickStopShutDown,
QuickStopRestart and
QuickStopLogOff.
QuickStopConfigure sets up the desktop and QuickLaunch shortcuts to the other three programs. Launching QuickStopShutDown, QuickStopRestart or QuickStopLogOff immediately shuts down or restarts the computer or logs the current user off the system. The QuickStop Utilities have been designed to work with Microsoft Vista. Download QuickStopSetup (Version 1.0 May 2007)

Software Acknowledgements:

I have been assisted in these projects by the on-line community, notably through The Code Project (http://www.codeproject.com)

I also use the graphics library, ImgSource, from Smaller Animals (www.smalleranimals.com)

For an Installer I use Inno Setup Compiler developed by Jordan Russell (http://www.innosetup.com)