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have been planning this one for a while and shoud also be adding comments back this weekend all going well.
its not great quality,fucked it up due to resolution but coudnt be bothered messing to find the right size,spent ages on that background in GIMP.

current wislist for tortie web browser

just a quick post to write down the current wishlist for tortie,it will all be added to the browser...if...am able to do it,not sure how complex the code is at the moment.

• cookies/history to allow users previously used websites to show up and to save passwords.
• tabbed browsing,to make browsing easier.
• a section of helpful and useful websites for cat owners internationally,as well as some humour cat sites to.some sites will be health related, information on how to get free or reduced cost vet treatment for example,catster will be the default site it goes to but it will be changeable.
  
• a status bar thingy at the bottom of the browser,which says the current webpage that is loading-or if indeed it isnt-all the browsers have this.
• a custom application icon.

and will look into the possibility of a making embedded/included chat client,or IRC client.

tortie web browser- pre alpha stage

yep,got another program on the way,though will probably spend a lot longer on it in pre alpha stages than had done with tom cat PV.

the tortie web browser is,again-cat themed,with a cat icon [which may change at this point to a different icon] and will be especially aimed at cat enthusiasts with lots of kitteh sites built in for ease of use,and perhaps more kitteh functions depending on whether can think of any.
a bit like mark webbers HF browser probably,not got that far ahead yet.

hoping to have some sort of adblocker built in,but might not be possible given all the disability issues have got with programming,will keep looking for ways around it if so,as adblocker shoud be standard now days.

tortie WB has not been compiled yet,its running only in VBs debug mode,but have got a few screenshots of it starting to take shape,so hope anyone who sees it doesnt find their eyes to offended by it.


-here is the browser after testing a website in it for the first time,but before had added a address bar/buttons,plus size isnt right either.



here is the browser on full expanded size,bottom part of it was looking to wide so have adjusted it,still showing with no internet surfing functions.



finally,here it is with a highlighted address bar and a go button,plus have customised the sizes a bit more including the bar at the bottom so it isnt so thick.

anti virus vs anti virus

^this is a quite recent screenshot that had taken of an AVG virus warning,norton and its anti virus eh,like a drunken relative; cant take it anywhere.
























*screenshot is not faked,no graphics programs were involved in their trickery,though may have compiled a un FUD keylogger server with that name,finger slipped.
norton AV/IS is just FUD malware anyway so it might as well be on the scan.

first program ever coded [edited]

thought woud never be able to do it,but had slightly changed tactics a bit and have finally made first ever program.

it is basic of course,but had made it more so for practice than for full public release.

Tom Cat Picture Viewer

the tom cat picture viewer was made in VB [visual basic],and being a cat fanatic had not only dedicated it to them but also added a kitteh icon as well.

its a handy little program to have for just viewing pictures if windows explorer ever fucks up like it has done on own laptop before due to some driver issue,so it may be of interest to others- dont know.

its functions are-

• open and view pictures [obviously].
• clear the current picture.
• stretch the picture into a better position.
• change the GUI background colour to suit the colours of the picture being shown.
• close the application.

here is a screen shot:
sorry,used paint to save it-coudnt be bothered waiting for GIMP to open on dads pc as am due to go home and dont know when staff are coming.
have changed the background colour to pale blue and opened a icanhascheezburger image with it,for an example.

screenshot of the taskbar logo [probably obvious which one it is]:


virus scan

for the paranoid out there,here is the completely clear virus total scan of the tom cat picture viewer:
http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=3506101ef66b3f5320f745cba57ca4f91bccd853fb8f4c98c856351ae38d0ef7-1304433017


download

the prog can be downloaded from here:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ao4n9w5w6ccvi6x/TomCatPictureViewer.exe


thanks a lot if anyone downloads and tests it!
if anyone who tests it wants their name put in the program in the next version, please email:
rda.rider at gggg mail dott comm.


[PLEASE NOTE]

tom cat PV has .NET framework four dependencies,if are getting a runtime error upon installing this, it just means are using an older .NET framework.
it can be easily updated here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa569263