AnAppAday is one blogger/programmer’s month long project where he created one app per day for 30 days straight. Using the pseudonym “The software Jedi” he did this during the period between 9/15/2006 and 10/14/2006 and published it on a blog.
I was searching Google for something (I now forget what) and stumbled on this blog. Needless to say I was immediately intrigued by the apps on offer and started downloading and testing. Check out the apps section here or click on any of the individual app posts in the list below.
My favorite app is probably the “Jedi Window Dock“, a simple tabbed window that can accomodate any open windows or apps that you would like to remove from the Windows taskbar (see screenshot above). Very handy if, say, you have a lot of open folder windows that you would like to cluster together in groups, or you’re working with multiple command line or console windows that you would like to tidy up. You can dock any kind of window from any app, although I found that Internet Explorer windows can behave strangely once they are docked/undocked (e.g. they minimize and might not maximize if you click on them in the taskbar).
Here’s a list of links for all 30 apps:
- Day 30 – Google Any Text
- DAY 29 – Big Ben
- Day 28 – Broadcast Clipboard
- Day 27 – Code Saver
- Day 26 – Jedi Digg ** Interesting
- Day 25 – Jedi Honey Pot
- Day 24 – Input Prank
- Day 23 – RSS Text to Speech
- Day 22 – Jedi Window Dock ** Interesting
- Day 21 – Jedi Speak
- Day 20 – Command Line C#
- Day 19 – Jedi Image Shacker
- Day 18 – Mouse Heat Map
- Day 17 – WPM Tray
- Day 16 – QuickKill
- Day 15 – Task Scheduler
- Day 14 – Missile Command
- Day 13 – Connection Monitor
- Day 12 – Polar Bear Tracking
- Day 11 – Graffiti Wallpaper
- Day 10 – Jedi Concentrate ** Interesting
- Day 9 – Jedi Visual Studio IRC Add-in
- Day 8 – Jedi Console
- Day 7 – Google Wallpaper ** Interesting
- Day 6 – RDP Manager
- Day 5 – RSS Alerter ** Interesting
- Day 4 – Base64 File Encoding
- Day 3 – Moo Prank
- Day 2 – Time Management
- Day 1 – Screen Broadcaster
- Day 0 – Torian Magnifier
Note that the source for all of the apps is made available, and that most of them will require that you download the the MS .NET Framework 2.0
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