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Tiny Apps

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pkz204g.exe-my-personal-favorite dept.

box2321 writes: "There's a time and a place for large and feature-filled software. And there's a place for tiny apps - in fact, there's tinyapps.org. This is a mighty-fine resource for free and shared Win/DOS programs that weigh in under 1.44 MB. I learned of TinyApps from a pleasant source."

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  1. Irony by Swaffs · · Score: 0, Troll

    Does anyone else see the irony (and perhaps the futility) in creating a site devoted to tiny apps that run on the most buggy and bloated OS known to man?

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  2. 700KB? Tiny? No. by Bowie+J.+Poag · · Score: 1, Troll



    700KB for an HTML tag stripper? Come on. .

    Even Tinyapps' apps are somewhat bloated. Pong in 52 bytes -- Thats tiny. Not to mention, I wrote a full-featured image viewer for X11 that fades in any image from black, holds it according to a user-specified number of seconds, and fades it out. Its fast, flexible, well documented, and bug free. It has support for images as small as 1x1 to 32767x32767 in any depth, supports nearly a dozen different image formats, has wildcard support, scaling support, a controllable fader speed, and a verbose mode tossed in for the hell of it. Total weight of the binary? ... 19KB.

    Here's a tarball with the source and a precompiled binary, if you want it. Slideshow 1.1.

    Cheers, and yes, PROPAGANDA is still running,

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