Shareware by Doug Clarke

Updated 11/17/05

Welcome to our future shareware page. I am in the process of updating this page with a group of applications that I hope you will give a try. These are applications I have developed that make both your Windows experience more pleasant and efficient as well as applications that may make your digital image collection and your music collection more accessible and fun to use. Many of my applications are designed to make using them on both a Laptop and Desktop simple and fast. They are also designed to work well on home networks as well as individual PCs

Please bookmark this page and stop by often. I hope to begin posting my applications very soon. I also will continue to add informational links at the bottom of this page related to items I think will make your PC and WWW usage more pleasant.

Please note that this list of applications are not simply tools I am thinking about creating. These are tools that I have been using for some time. I am simply fine tuning their appearance, help functions, personal options areas.

If you find that you would like to be notified when one or more of these programs I have listed as coming soon actually becomes available please drop an email to the email address below. Please be sure to put the program name and the word "Notify" on the subject line of your email

Please forgive me for not putting an actual "Email to" on this site. Please see my thoughts on spam near the bottom of this page.

Do_it is a combination of your web browser's favorites list, Window's Start Menu, and Window's program list. You simply add to it any program, folder path, or website address. You give that item a nick name and you are done. Do_it maintains a counter for each time you use a nick name so your favorites are always at the top of the list. You can search the list by scrolling, the down or up arrows, and even by letter. When your nick name is located a simple "Space bar" or "Enter key" press launches the item assigned to the nick name. 

With Do_it you can reclaim your desktop from all those shortcut Icons that litter your screen and still find the programs, websites, and folders you use often with a few clicks of the mouse or keyboard.

DAC_Menu is a program I wrote specifically for the Food Network website. I have found that it works well when retrieving recipes from other websites but a small portion of its function is designed around the format of "The Food Network printable page" feature of their website.

It can put hundreds of recipes at your fingertips and allows you to rate and comment on any one you try. The recipes are keyword searchable in either the title or body. You can print a recipe or simply a shopping list. You can even enter your own recipes. Over time you could end up with a very well managed and organized collection of recipes from all the great chefs the Food Network has to offer. You can even ask DAC Menu to only show the ones you have rated and commented on. Your comments can describe any changes in preparation that you found makes them more toward your liking or dietary needs.

Perhaps you are planning an event and you are not sure what you want to prepare. You can locate several recipes that might do the job and mark them as flagged. As the event gets closer you can look at only the flagged items and decide which one(s) fill your needs based on ease of preparing or perhaps what others might be bring to the party.

Of course if you have this program installed on your laptop these recipes can go with you everywhere you go. Nice for a RV

Dougs_Jukebox This application has already brought us hundreds of hours of commercial free music either from my home entertainment center, my desktop PC, or my laptop via the radio in my RV. My jukebox allows you to integrate your favorite music Ripping, CD burning, and graphics capturing applications directly into it so you can launch them when ever they are needed.

It is a full blown music player that allows you to create, save, or append playlists. Music can be played randomly or in the order they are selected. The program can be started and with two presses of the space bar or enter key can pickup where it left off on the current playlist. If you get interrupted for any reason simply press the space bar to pause the song and press again to start where you left off.

Re-creating a lost or damaged CD is as simple as copying the album contents to the burn folder and launching your CD burner application. If you scanned the CD insert and/or the CD label you can print them so you can duplicate the labeling fairly close to the original. Of course compilations are a breeze. My Jukebox keeps track of how many minutes of music are selected for burn and can even print out song titles with artists for compilations.

DAC_Memos is a new twist on the old idea of a reminder's program. The major difference is that it uses audio instead of the keyboard. Because you are simply recording at voice grade the mic in most modern Laptops and the inexpensive mic add ons for Desktops work just fine. It uses a 2 stage approach to capturing a reminder. The first is the "on the fly" method. You are in a hurry but do not want to forget an appointment or reminder that was just passed to you. You start the program, press the space bar to begin recording, press the space bar to end recording and press the space bar again to end the program.

DAC_Memos creates an entry using the date and time of the recording along with the title of "TO BE NAMED". When you have a few moments you can listen to the new entries and manipulate the title to reflex the date and time when this reminder becomes due, the person or member it is for, the type of reminder it is, and a brief description of the contents. Most of the items you add to this title are taken from drop down lists that you add to as needed while refining the titles.

When you want to review your schedule you simply start the program and the lists of things to do are shown in chronological order. You can select specific members and time frames. You can play and append recordings. You can also archive or delete them as you go. You can even email the recording to people.

I even use the mic at my desktop or laptop to record (I tell the person on the phone that I am doing so) a phone conversation when the person calling is passing detailed information to me. I simply put my cel or desk phone on speaker.

If you are using DAC_Memo as a diary or simply want to keep these recordings for a long time, DAC_memos will tell you the meg's of space they are taking up in either the archive or active folders. All you have to do is burn a copy of the items you care to save to a cd and then you can safely remove them from your PC.

DAC_Memos can be integrated with Dougs Jukebox so if you are listening to music but want to record a memo a simple click of an icon pauses the jukebox and brings up DAC_memos. When DAC_memos is closed the jukebox picks up where it left off. I added this because my laptop and Dougs Jukebox are the primary source of my music enjoyment when I am driving about.

DAC_Events is a simple little tool I created for timing things. It can be used to set a timer based on hours and/or minutes til, set a timer based on a time within 23 hrs and 59 minutes from the time you set it, or be used as a second or second/ten of second stopwatch.

Multiply copies of this program can be launched and each one gives you the option of naming it.

I intend on integrating this with DAC_Memos so that when DAC_Memos is run in the early AM it can launch event timers for today's reminders.

Gallery_By_DAC is yet another simple little tool that takes advantage of your digital picture collection. It can be used 3 ways. First is as a stand alone program that you can start and it will begin a never ending slide show of your digital images until you press a key or move the mouse, Secondly you can tell it you want to select an image from your collection to set as a new desktop background. It will change the show time to a few seconds and begin the slide show. When you see the image you want simply left click and tell it to make that picture your desktop. Lastly you can add the program to your windows screensaver options and activate it as your default screensaver for windows. Adding it to windows is a simple mouse click.

NetSync is one of my more powerful tools. Netsync has several responsibilities, Many of which are automated by simple "scripts" that can be universal to the network or specific to the PC running them. Its primary responsibility is "BACKUP". Of course today's computers are extremely reliable. Hard drive crashes and total PC failures are not nearly as predominate as they were a few years ago, BUT they do still happen. I love the "GEEK" Squad commercials.

Netsync can take a big part of the sting out of a PC failure. Here are some highlights about netsync's capabilities.

StillNMotion This was my first major application and because it was, It might take a while to get it to the point that I want to offer it to the public. Some friends that use it today enjoy it's function as much as I do but before it gets offered for sale I need to go back and visit several issues involving the help and presentation. It is a classic representation of an application that was written with one thing in mind and then added to repeatedly. I realized while adding to it that I should give users the ability to select the image editors, scanners, and other image related applications, and allow them to pass their pictures to those applications rather then trying to invent my own. It still serves very well as a viewer, organizer, and overall central control point for all your digital image collection. It also lays the foundation for other CD and Web related applications that also need some refinement.

Future Offerings I stumble across things all the time that I think I can make easier or better then what I see offered on the WWW. I hope to get into new ideas just as soon as I can get the items I want to offer now up on this site. If you have ideas or wishes for things that you think would be nice to have please feel free to email me at the address below.

Here is a list of some entry level blurbs I have put together. I hope they can help you in your education about your PC. I will add to this list now and then so please book mark us and come on back now and then.

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How to capture a path for a program or folder

Personalizing the windows settings for your PC

How to use the Windows Task scheduler

A little about home networking and data files

Some insight into security when using the WWW

Some thoughts on the important info on your PC

What is a Path (in computer jargon)

What about CD and DVD R vs RW

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