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FREEWARE

The Odd Box
A Collection of FREE Utilities





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The following programs are all software that I wrote for my own use, but may be useful to others. I also show some other freeware tools that are available.



Important!
These products are 'not for profit', no charge is made for current/future versions of this software. Users are however invited to contribute something towards the development and support of this software/site, which is funded out of my own pocket and from very kind donations from users.
So if you think I have done a good job and the software helps you, then please put $10 in the honesty box.



ToggleCaps

ToggleCaps is a bizarre but very useful program for anyone that uses remote access. If you remotely connect to a computer (using something like RealVNC) which has the Caps Lock key set, you cannot change the state of that key! So ToggleCaps is the answer, install it on the remote machine and run it to toggle the state of the Caps Lock key.

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ScreenGrab

ScreenGrab is a screen capture program. I wrote this a while back as a replacement for the Microsoft Photo Editor, but I never completed the documentation for it. It's quite intuitive though...


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Download the zip file from the Download link above, right click and select "Extract All...", to extract the executable. You can then delete the zip file. Done!

Some utilities above may require the Microsoft .NET Framework to be installed. If you regularly use the Microsoft windows update service, you may already have this. You can tell by pressing Start, open the Control Panel and then open Add or Remove Programs, scroll down the list and look for the presence of an item called "Microsoft .NET Framework", you need version 2 or higher. If this is not present, you can get it from the Microsoft site at the link below.

To download the .NET Framework
  • Click on the link below and download/install the "Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package";
.NET download site:  Microsoft .NET Framework 2
  • This version is for Windows 2000 Service Pack 3; Windows 98; Windows 98 Second Edition; Windows ME; Windows Server 2003; Windows XP Service Pack 2. (A version for other operating systems can be found at the same link).








Software available from this site are privately developed software utilities and are not supplied with any form of guarantee, warranty or commitment of future support. These utilities are made available from this website only. This software is used entirely at your risk, the author has no responsibility, liability or accountability for any loss or damage that may be incurred as a consequence of its usage, either as standalone utilities or when used in conjunction with any other software.

You agree not to copy, redistribute or resell this software.

All software is protected by international copyright law.

By downloading and using this software, you accept these conditions of usage.







The following software tools are not written by me, but are freeware and very useful.
WinMerge File comparison software from winmerge
Icon Edit A file icon editor written by mike-bouffler
Free Pascal A free Pascal compiler imaginatively called freepascal
Sea Monkey A web page editor from the seamonkey-project