MichaelGraphics Software Tools    

• Most of the programs are entirely free of charge (no registration required). Otherwise registration for a small license fee after a 30 day free trial period.
  (For the details of the registration procedure see the online help function of the respective programs, help topic Registration.)
• Detailed online help. This help function is gradually being upgraded to the Windows 7 compatible HTML help system.
• User languages German and with most of the programs also English.
• All programs are frequently used by the author himself and thereby they will be constantly improved (check the dates listed in the Last update entries).
• All programs have been checked for viruses with the most recent version of Sophos-Antivir®.
• The development tool (Delphi 7) used for programming the majority of my applications has definitely never been infected by the W32-Induc.A virus.
• The setup files for these programs can be downloaded from this web site (see below) and for a number of them alternatively also from the mirror Software Informer.

Contents:

  Magnifier

• Magnification factor adjustable in the range 1x  to 12x
• Display of the screen coordinates of the mouse cursor position and of the RGB values of the pixel under the mouse cursor
• The magnified image can be copied to the clipboard as a bitmap
• Any number of mouse cursor positions and optionally also the RGB values can be digitized and saved to an ASCII text file or to a CSV file for data import by MS-Excel®
• Compatible also with a multi-monitor desktop

  Capture 2.0

• Captures all objects on the desktop incl. the mouse cursor (optional), tooltips and the task bar
• Clipping with single pixel precision provided by displaying a magnified image of the region around the mouse cursor incl. its screen coordinates and the width and height of the selected region
• Can be invoked by a user-defined keyboard shortcut (thereby displayed menus and most of the tooltips will remain visible)
• Capturing optionally time delayed without any keyboard or mouse action (even very volatile tooltips will thus remain visible)
• Optional additional saving of the captured desktop region as a BMP, GIF, JPG and PNG file
• Compatible also with a multi-monitor desktop
• Particularly suitable for writing manuals of any kind

  Screen Lid

• Suitable for covering any portion of the screen, useful e.g. in lectures and presentations
• All four corners of the rectangular lid can be indented independently
• Lid color adjustable plus a quick switching between black, white or the background color at the current mouse cursor position
• Transparency of the lid adjustable between entirely opaque and fully transparent
• Rectangular lid will always be the topmost window above all applications

  Screen Pointer

• Pointer for marking any position of the screen, useful e.g. in lectures and presentations
• Pointer size and orientation adjustable
• Pointer color adjustable plus a quick switching between black, white or the background color at the current mouse cursor position
• Transparency of the pointer adjustable between entirely opaque and fully transparent
• Arrow shaped pointer will always be the topmost window above all applications
• Several instances of the program can run independently at a time

  Ruler

• Both rulers can be moved across the desktop independently
• Transparency selectable between 0% and 90% in 10% steps
• Also useful for correctly setting the horizontal and vertical picture size of old fashioned CRT monitors

  ImgView 2.0

• Supported image file types: ANI, BMP, CUR, EMF, EPS, GIF, ICO, JPEG, JPG, PCX, PIC, PNG, PSD, PSP, PSPIMAGE, SCR, SGI, TGA, THM, TIF and WMF  (WMF safety gap taken care of)
• Rules for automatic resizing of images to fit the viewer window can be selected independently for images which are either too small or too large
• Optional automatic orientation of images according to the orientation information contained in the Exif meta data (above ca. 4 megapixels image size somewhat time consuming)
• Optional anti-aliasing (suppression of moiré effects with down scaled pictures)
• Loading speed of JPG files improved by a factor of 3 to 4 if compared to version 1.0
• Easy copying of images to the clipboard (EMF and WMF as a vector graphic and as a bitmap, all other image file types as a bitmap only)
• Easy printing of images (user-defined printer page layout)
• Supported languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Danish and Swedish  (derived from the language selected in Total Commander)
• From Total Commander version 6.5 onwards simplified installation by double clicking the download file  ImgView.zip
• User forum  http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=9976

  Panoramio Photo Wizard

• Choice of 4 different photo sizes: 1=thumbnail (max. 100 px), 2=small (max. 240 px), 3=medium (max. 500 px), 4=original (as uploaded by the user)
• Mode 1: Access by photo index and display of the photos only (very fast with photo sizes 1,2,3)
• Mode 2: Access by photo index and display of the photos with additional information incl. the views in Google Earth® and Google Maps® (noticeably slower)
• Mode 3: Access by user index and display of all photos (thumbnails) of the respective user registered with Panoramio® (also slow)
• Separate favorite lists for both photos and users
• Optionally automatic skipping of photos removed from the data base
• Simple printing and copying of photos to the clipboard
• Display of the Panoramio statistics data of single photos or of the entire photo gallery of a user
• Warning: This program is at high risk to cause susceptible users to develop some severe form of addiction (med. Google Earthritis).

  Media Player

• Supported audio file types:  AIF, AU, CDA, MID, MP3, SND, WAV, WMA
• Supported video file types:  AVI, MPE, MPEG, MPG, WMV
• When playing audio files, the image field disappears and the title number and the current play time are displayed in the Windows task bar
• Automatic resizing of the image display to fit the media player window
• Aspect ratio of the image display either automatic or fixed 4:3 or 16:9
• Video playing also in single step mode (suitable for displaying fast motion videos in classroom)
• Easy copying of images to the clipboard as a bitmap

  Equation Editor Wizard

• Fast change of the font type and the font size
• Automatic rescaling of all dependent sizes and spacings after changing the font size
• User-specific definition of all proportions and settings
• Compatible with all MS-Office® versions from Office 95® up to Office 2003®
• With VBA macro for starting EquationEditorWizard directly from within MS-Office®

  Index Wizard

• Enables a user to copy individual words or phrases quickly and easily from a text file into an index file (file formats RTF)
• Lists words or phrases alphabetically in the index file
• Entries in the index file can be listed on two levels, either as main entries, normally individual words, or sub-entries under a particular main entry or ‘headword‘, e.g. as usage examples
• Helps teachers to prepare lists of relevant vocabulary from a given text
• Helps learners to copy the important vocabulary and phrases from a given text
• Helps authors and publishers to edit text material and prepare glossaries
• Compatible with all word processing programs capable of editing RTF files
• AN ABSOLUTE MUST FOR ANY COMPUTER-LITERATE LANGUAGE TEACHER !!!

  Wire Frame Graphics

• MS-Excel® like table with six columns for entering the Cartesian coordinates of the line start and end points and one extra column for supplementary information
• Saving of the Cartesian coordinates of the line start and end points to ASCII files with an MS-Excel® compatible CSV like format
• Display of the wire frame models drawn to scale with user-selected scale factors
• Azimuth and elevation angle of the viewer adjustable by means of two trackbars or by mouse, optionally automatic rotation around the vertical axis
• Projection modes: Parallel projection and vanishing point projection
• Display modes: Drawn to perspective and three-dimensional stereo or anaglyph image (red-green glasses required)
• User-defined colors of the background and of the graphics elements
• The graphics can be printed, it can be saved to an EMF or BMP file and it can be copied to the clipboard both as a metafile vector graphic and as a bitmap

  Polarization

• Azimuth and elevation angle of the viewer adjustable by means of two trackbars or by mouse, optionally automatic rotation around the vertical axis
• Amplitudes of the horizontally and a vertically polarized transverse wave and phase shift between these waves adjustable by means of a trackbar
• Time t manually adjustable between 0 and the period T by means of a trackbar and automatic sweep (SingleSweep and AutoRepeat modes)
• Display of the two partial waves, of their superposition and of the resultant vector in the reference plane can be activated/deactivated
• User-defined axis labeling, colors and line widths and proportions of all graphics elements
• The graphics can be printed, can be saved to an EMF or BMP file and can be copied to the clipboard both as a metafile vector graphic and as a bitmap
• Suitable for demonstrations in lectures and as supplementary material for students to download

  Dispersion

• Time t manually adjustable between 0 and the period T by means of a trackbar and automatic sweep (SingleSweep and AutoRepeat modes)
• Ratio of phase velocity and group velocity manually adjustable in the range between 0.33 and 3.00
• Wave function (ordinate labeling):  voltage V, electric field E or gauge pressure p
• The graphics can be copied to the clipboard both as a metafile vector graphic and as a bitmap
• Suitable for demonstrations in lectures and as supplementary material for students to download

  Reflection and Transmission at an Impedance Mismatch

• Time t manually adjustable between 0 and the period T by means of a trackbar and automatic sweep (SingleSweep and AutoRepeat modes)
• Ratio of impedances Z2/Z1 manually adjustable in the range between zero and infinity
• Wave functions (ordinate labeling):  voltage/current, electric/magnetic field or gauge pressure/velocity
• Display of the reflection and transmission coefficients for amplitude and power and the voltage standing wave ratio, all calculated from the impedance ratio Z2/Z1
• The graphics can be copied to the clipboard both as a metafile vector graphic and as a bitmap
• Suitable for demonstrations in lectures and as supplementary material for students to download

  Oscillator Differential Equation

• Homogeneous oscillator differential equation of a mass-spring system of the type  m·d²x/dt² + k·dx/dt + D·x = 0  and other variants
• Friction force laws:  F = µ·m·g  (dynamic friction)  or  F = k·v  (friction in a Newtonian fluid)  or  F = k·v²  (friction in a turbulent flow)
• Spring force laws:  F = D·x  (Hooke's law)  or  F = D·x²  (no realistic modell)  or  F = D·x³  (transversely displaced mass between two springs in line)
• Parameters: Mass m, friction constant µ or k, spring constant D, total time tMax, time interval dt, initial displacement xo, initial velocity vo
• Button to restore the default settings
• Numerical solution using a second order Runge-Kutta integration
• Graphical display of the resulting function
• Short help text from a pop-up menu opened by a right mouse button click or with the F1 function key
• Automatic language selection between English and German depending on the operating system language
• The graphic can be copied to the clipboard both as a metafile graphic and as a bitmap
• Suitable for demonstrations in lectures and as supplementary material for students to download
• Sample solution of a student C++ programming project

  Arithmetic Trainer

• Operations addition, subtraction, multiplication and divison can be activated/deactivated individually
• Ranges of the operands and results can be chosen between 10, 20, 100 and 1000
• Operands and results unsigned or signed
• Operator symbol for multiplication and divison selectable
• Assessment of results by affirmative/non-affirmative sounds and smileys possible
• Display of all settings related controls can be activated/deactivated
• Versions available with MP3 audio files (for Windows 2000/XP/Vista®) and with WAV audio files (for Windows 98/ME®)
• An arithmetic trainig program for somewhat older school kids providing much more elaborate functionalities can be found at http://www.rechenfuchs-abakus.de (in German only).

  Event Logger

• Logging of all Windows messages sent to the EventLogger main window
• Logging of all keyboard, mouse and timer events related to this window and its child components
• Acquisition of all parameters of these messages and events and of their temporal sequence
• The log can be edited by the user (for entering commentaries etc.)
• The log can be copied to the clipboard and saved to a log file
• Optional child window listing all documented Windows messages (name and numerical value)
• Utility for the software development and for engineering educational purposes

  RS232 Wizard

• Monitor mode for logging data protocols and sender mode for sending logged or generated protocols
• In the monitor mode, data logging in the form of an ASCII text or as a hex dump
• Time tagged logging of a maximum of eight data streams, easily discernible by their channel-specific font properties (type, style, color etc.)
• Start of the data logging triggerable on user-defined trigger words
• Optional display of time tags, channel IDs and of the control characters <CR> and <LF>
• Provisions for entering user commentaries anywhere in the protocol
• Logged protocols can be saved and loaded as TXT files and as WinWord® compatible RTF files
• With schematic diagram of a simple adapter for tapping and logging the bidirectional communication over an RS232 line
• This adapter also allows for the manual insertion of short sequences of ASCII characters or bytes into the tapped data streams
• In the sender mode, at user-defined time intervals sending of a data stream which had been previously logged or loaded from a file
• In the sender mode, transmission of ASCII text protocols as a text data stream and transmission of hex dump protocols as a binary data stream
• In the sender mode, the transmission of any number of slave program instances can be synchronized to the timer of the master instance
• Optional automatic detection of device changes at runtime (plug-and-play)

  Update

• Creates backup copies on any storage medium (CD-RW, DVD-RW, ZIP disc, external hard disc, file server in a network etc.)
• Synchrionisation of subdirectory trees or of entire volumes of two computers (e.g. PC and notebook)
• Selection of the entry points in the subdirectory trees of the backup source and destination drive
• Selection of the file types to be copied
• Selection of the file types to be ignored
• Backup either of the specified source directory only or recursive backup of the entire subdirectory tree below the specified entry point
• Provisions to skip specified files or subdirectories in the backup process
• Provisions to log a protocol of the backup run with selectable reporting features
• All functions of the program can also be controlled by command line parameters and switches (automated backup using batch files)

  Address Book

• MS-Excel® like table with freely configurable columns
• Quick navigation with alphabetic tab register plus sorting and find functions
• Print-out formats DIN A4 landscape and DIN A6 portrait for filing in a ring binder as a small, handy address book
• Easy copying of the address part of a data set to the clipboard (formatted ready for pasting into a letter)
• Double-clicking a cell containing a phone number (subscriber line or mobile phone) will start the dialing of this phone number (optionally with with a selectable call-by-call dialing prefix)
• Double-clicking a cell containing an e-mail address will invoke the composer of the default e-mail client (the clicked address will be automatically copied to the address field)
• Double-clicking a cell containing an Internet address will invoke the default web browser (the clicked address will be copied to the address field, if necessary automatic login to the Internet)
• Import and export of the address lists also as CSV files (for data exchange with MS-Excel®)

  Mortgage

• Inputs: Initial loan, nominal interest rate, total monthly rate or initial repayment rate, repayment interval, extra repayments and inflation rate
• Results: Annual expenses, interest sum, interest sum corrected for inflation, sum of expenses, sum of expenses corrected for inflation, remaining loan and term of the loan
• Table listing the remaining loan and the time line of repayments at monthly intervals (can be copied to the clipboard as plain text)
• Graphic showing the remaining loan, the interest and the repayment (can be copied to the clipboard both as a metafile graphic and as a bitmap)
• Printing of the inputs, of the results, of the time line of repayments and of the graphic
• Saving of the inputs, of the results, of the time line of repayments (to a TXT or CSV file) and of the graphic (to a BMP or EMF file)
• Helpful in preparing for negotiations with banks and for critically checking their offers

  Alarm

• Choice of the operation modes waiting period (relative to the start of the program) and time of day (absolute time)
• Times adjustable in the range between  0 minutes  and  24 hours  or between  00:00  and  23:59 o'clock
• After the waiting period has elapsed a user defined message text will be displayed and a sound file can be played (supported audio file types:  CDA, MID, MP3, WAV, WMA)
• Context pop-up menu to select the operation mode, to activate the sound and for choosing the user language and the sound file 

  Terminator

• Maximum daily login time selectable in the range between 1 min  and  23 h 59 min 
• The total daily login time can be split into several sessions per day (cumulative time measurement)
• Choice of two actions after running out of login time: logout or shutdown
• Autostart of the program at login time

  Runs Forever

• Also suitable as an introduction to the Windows® task manager

  Speedy Gonzalez

• This program (or a link to it) should be copied to the autostart directory of your worst enemy only !
• But it is entirely harmless to users who can handle Windows® and its task manager without a mouse only by keyboard inputs.

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