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Want to black out certain areas of the screen while watching a video? You can use the "Fine Adjust Black" Tiglet more than once to hide things you do not wish to see. To view a video in full screen with this Tiglet, you may need to hide the Taskbar (Start->Settings->Taskbar, then check "Auto-hide..." and uncheck "Keep the taskbar on top...").

Automate appliances in your home with a Parallel port relay board and use Pp1 Parallel Port Controller to switch the relays on/off via your PC's parallel port. Control lighting, fishtanks, swimmimng pool heating, hydroponics, and more, plus it can all be done remotely from a web browser.

Flash Movie Player is a freeware standalone player for Shockwave Flash (SWF) animations, based on Macromedia Flash Player plug-in. In addition to all Macromedia Flash Player abilities, it has a lot of extended features, such as animation rewinding, advanced full screen mode, .exe projectors support and playlists. Moreover, Flash Movie Player can extract flash movies from .exe projector files and save it in SWF format and has hotkeys for all frequent operations for convenient viewing of flash animations.

A calculator for working out the length of Scalextric slot car tracks, calculates the difference between each lane of a circuit.

MorsePlay uses text to play morse code through the computers internal speaker. Speeds can be adjusted. Sound pitch can be adjusted. Text files can be loaded or text can simply be typed in. A bitmap is produced that contains the morse code in dot-dash format. Bitmap colors can be changed. MorsePlay also contains a morse code chart for reference. This is a great program for those wanting to practice their morse code receiving skills. This program has only been tested on Windows 98 but may run on other versions.

Alternative Windows is renowned as the Internet's Premier site for free illustrated instructions designed to help you make your own soft furnishings including curtains, pelmets, valances, tie backs, bedding and bed drapes, cushions and beanbags. Here you can learn the basics of sewing techniques, how to measure up for your window treatments together with fabrics and their uses. The site is updated monthly with new content, you'll want to add it to your "Favourites"!

f/Calc is a calculator for photographic formulas. These formulas are at the heart of many interesting questions about the technical side of photography. You could compute these functions by hand, but they range from tedious to difficult, even with a good scientific calculator. When you let f/Calc do the hard work, you gain an intuitive feel for what the results mean, because you can quickly try new input values to see how they affect the result.