©1996-2012 Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products| What’s An Amanuensis? | The Oxford dictionary defines amanuensis as “one who writes from dictation or copies manuscript; literary assistant.” In other words an amanuensis is an intelligent scribe who helps you compose words or music. You don’t have to give her all the details. She is quite capable of filling them in for you. I use the term mainly to describe a program that helps you write programs. You tell it in general what you want and it fills in the details for you. I have written many amanuensis Applets, most of which help you write Java code. You give them just a few bits of information about what you want and they fill in the details generating the reams of code Java requires to specify the same thing. Some of the Applets on this page, such as the Canadian Tax Calculator, and the Biorhythm calculaltor are not really amanuenses. | ||||
 | American Sales Tax Calculator | Calculates American state and local sales taxes. If you are a business, you don’t have to collect sales taxes from people in other states unless you have a business presence in that state. In that case, you must collect just the state tax, not the local tax. 2012-02-14
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 | Available | WhoIs to tell you if a server is up/available. Also tell you the IP given the host or the host given the IP. 2012-02-14
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 | Biorhythms | Enter your birthdate and this Applet and it will calculate your biorhythms. It compute your 23-day physical, 28-day emotional, 33-day intellectual and combined cycles. The combined cycle is sometimes called the luck cycle. 2012-02-21
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 | Brace Balancer | This Applet will help you find out where in your Java, C, C++, Pascal, Modula etc. source code you have mismatched {} [] (). It works by displaying your program with coloured backgrounds that encode the nesting. 2012-02-14
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 | Canadian Sales Tax Calculator | calculates Canadian GST, HST and PST sales taxes. 2012-02-22
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 | Power Cost Calculator | This Applet will compute how much it cost for the electricity to do various tasks depending where you live. It displays the cost is your local currency. 2012-02-14
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 | Coal Extinction Calculator | This Applet should help debunk a big “true lie” that the coal lobby has been telling. They say there is enough coal to last 200 years. This is true only if consumption stays absolutely flat, not even increasing to account for additional population. This is not very likely to happen. As you can see by playing with the spinner, everything depends on just how fast we increase consumption. 2012-02-14
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 | Comparable/Comparator Cutter Amanuensis | generates Java source code to implement custom Comparable or Comparator interfaces for comparing or sorting. 2012-02-19
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 | Conversion Amanuensis | generates Java source code to convert any of the basic 16 Java types into any of the others. 2012-02-14
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 | Credit Card Validation Amanuensis | Applet to validate credit card numbers and determine which of the following credit card companies issued the card: Amex, Diners Club, Carte Blanche, Discover, enRoute, JCB, MasterCard or Visa. 2012-02-14
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 | CurrCon Currency Converter | CurrCon Applet displays embedded prices in any world currency. 2012-02-19
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 | Email Masker | a signed Applet to help you hide email addresses from spam harvesters by converting them to *.png files (like *.gifs but smaller), for posting on websites. 2012-02-14
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 | Encoding Recogniser | Applet help you discover the encoding used to write a file. 2012-02-14
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 | Encodings | Applet to display all the encodings (character sets) supported on your browser/Java. 2012-02-14
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 | Esperanto Tradukilo | Crude translator Esperanto to English and back. 2012-02-19
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 | File I/O Amanuensis | The File I/O Amanuensis generates sample Java source code to read or write the console, a sequential file, a random access file, a String, an array of characters, an array of bytes, URL, HTTP CGI GET/POST, Socket or Pipe. It shows you how to read or write ASCII-8-bit characters (plain or locale-encoded), Unicode 16-bit characters, raw bytes, big endian binary, little endian binary, or serialised objects, buffered, unbuffered or GZIP compressed. 2012-02-14
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 | FontShower Amanuensis | Shows you the Swing fonts available to Java, and what they look like in various styles, sizes and colours, with and without anti-aliasing. Also an AWT version with hex/decimal ColorChooser. 2012-02-14
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 | Holiday Calculator | Calculates when various holidays occur in any given year BC or AD. Designed to be cannibalised to include the calculation routines in your own programs. Also calculates the nearest weekday to any given holiday. 2012-02-14
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 | ISBN Amanuensis | Interconverts, tidies and validates ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 ISBN numbers by ensuring the check digit matches and the group is valid. Also inserts dashes in the right places. Used for tidying and proofreading references to ISBNs in HTML or other documentation, e. g. converts 013625666X to ISBN-10: 0-13-625666-X and ISBN-13: 978-0-13-625666-3. Valid ISBNs don’t always have the dashes in the same places e.g. : 0-13-625666-X, 0-9600688-8-0 or 1-56592-269-7. 2012-02-16
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 | JDisplay Program Listing Presenter | Display Java source code listings (and also HTML, bat, btm, SQL, ini, csv, and *.properties… files) in a variety of colours, fonts, sizes, and weights to help make them more presentable and readable on a website. 2012-02-14
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 | Learn To Count | Converts numbers to words, e.g. -12345 to “minus twelve thousand three hundred forty-five”. Works in Bahasa Indonesia, Binary, Decimal, Dutch (modern, old and banker’s), English (British, North American and ordinals), Esperanto, French, German, Hexadecimal, Icelandic, Martian, Metric Metric Prefixes (grams), Norwegian, Octal, Polish, RAM (bytes), Roman Numerals, Swedish or Tagalog. Useful to learn to count in a foreign language. The InWords package classes are also useful for cheque writing or legal documents. 2012-02-14
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 | MASM Balancer | This Applet will help you find out where in your MASM Microsoft *.asm assembler program you have mismatched segment/ends macro/endm proc/endp or if/endif. It works by displaying your program in tidied form with coloured backgrounds. 2012-02-14
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 | MimeCheck | a signed Applet to find out just what MIME types a server is sending for a given URL. 2012-02-14
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 | Network Webcam Viewer | Networkcam Applet views a JPG webcam stream. 2012-02-14
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 | Official Encoding | tells you the canonical (official) name for any alias encoding. Also shows you sample characters available with that encoding. 2012-02-14
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 | PAD Submitter | Summits your PAD xml program descriptor file to 223 PADsites. 2012-02-22
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 | Password Generator | generates unguessable passwords. 2012-02-14
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 | Living Love Pathways Amanuensis | generates advice to help you solve personal problems or other emotional problems such as dealing with your fear and anger surrounding terrorism and war. Based on Ken Keyes Jr.’s Twelve Pathways. 2012-02-15
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 | Quoter Amanuensis | Converts raw text to cooked HTML. It will help you write HTML, especially HTML that talks about HTML or Java. It can be useful forcreating Javadoc that mentions the tags needed to run the program or that quotes Java source which makes common use of < > and &. It takes raw text and converts HTML’s reserved characters such as & < > and " and converts them to their cooked entity forms & < > and ". It also converts accented and special characters to their cooked forms, e.g. © to © and the é character to é It also does many other text transformations. 2012-02-19
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 | The Replicator | Propagates files to many sites efficiently. Does not require server side code, just a standard HTTP server. 2012-02-14
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 | Republican Insults | Insults you much the way a Republican poster on the newsgroups would. Watch out! Foul language. 2012-02-14
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 | SetClock | Sets your PC clock from an accurate atomic clock. 2012-02-14
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 | Surrogate Pair Amanuensis | Converts 32-bit Unicode codePoints to 16-bit surrogate pairs for Java String literals. 2012-02-14
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 | TimeZones | Applet to display all the TimeZones supported on your Java. Also tells you the default TimeZone, and whether daylight savings in currently in effect. 2012-02-14
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 | Vercheck Version Checker | Checks if any applications have released new versions. 2012-02-14
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 | Wassup Amanuensis | tells you the Java System properties, such as vendor, JVM version, TimeZone etc. It also runs as an application which will tell you many more facts. This is a signed Applet. 2012-02-14
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