Free programs, apps, and utilities

This is the place where you’ll find the fruits of my programming labor. Some of these are useful utilities, and others are just me having fun. I leave it up to you to determine which are which.

Gibberish Generator

Gibberish Generator is an iPhone app that allows you to generate random nonsense phrases, and then tweet or email them to your friends. I can't imagine a more useful app, can you?

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This is freeware for your own personal use. This software may not be repackaged or sold. This app is for entertainment purposes only. If you have questions or problems, feel free to contact me.

Available:

Now available from the Apple iTunes Store.

Robo Haiku

Haikus are the Japanese poetical form usually composed of a 5 syllable phrase, followed by a 7 syllable one, and finished with another 5 syllable phrase.

This app randomly generates English-language haikus that are bizarre, humorous, and sometimes cynical, and can be tweeted or emailed to your friends.

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Additional info:

This is freeware for your own personal use. This software may not be repackaged or sold. This app is for entertainment purposes only. If you have questions or problems, feel free to contact me.

Available:

Soon available from the Apple iTunes Store.

Older programs/utilities

While playing with Apple's Dashboard I came up with a few totally useless Widgets of my own.* Gibberish is a nonsense phrase generator that takes buts of phrases and throws them together, kinda a MadLibs for the computer age.

Haiku is similar, but instead generates random haikus.

I hope that you find them useful (although I’d be amazed)...

* Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is required. If you’re using Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget’s icon in the Widget Bar to open it. If you’re using a browser other than Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, unarchive it and place it in /Library/Widgets/ in your home folder. show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget’s icon in the Widget Bar to open it.

Unpremultiply2003.lsc is an Image Filter LScript that unpremultiplies a Lightwave rendered image. In addition, if it encounters a light effect like a lens flare that has no alpha, it generates one based on luminance.