Refrigerator - Add your own pictures, fridge magnets and reminder notes to yourself.
Make Your Own - Use your own pictures and mp3 files to make your own screen saver.
Steam Rally - Steam Engines on display in a Kent Rally.
Custom Countdown - Add your own pictures and music.
Red Rum - A famous race horse.
Dove - An animated dove.
Completely Pointless - A completely pointless screen saver.
Fireworks - Fireworks exploding on your desktop with sound effects and classical music midis.
British Olympic Champions - Great Britain's medal successes at Sydney 2000.
Balloons - Pictures of real hot air balloons floating back and forth.
Beanie Countdown - Count down to a favourite event with Beanie Babies.
Space Countdown - Like the above screen saver but with a space theme.
Monty Python - Celebrating 30 years of Python.
Apollo 11 - Man's first step on the Moon.
Trucks - Pictures of favourite 18 wheelers.
Noughts & Crosses (TIC TAC TOE) - Go on give your computer a treat.
WrestleFever - A special saver featuring many of your favourite wrestling stars. Includes several midi backing tracks such as "Eye of the Tiger", "We are the Champions", "We will Rock You" etc.
Tea For Two - A screen saver made by my son Richard with a little help from me. Typically British Tea Break is the subject and includes many familiar midi backing tracks.
Fawlty Towers - Screen Saver of this classic British TV Sitcom. Includes loads of soundbytes.
1997 - A review of some of the main stories of 1997.
My Programs & Why I Make Them
I started to produce educational programs and games for my ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - also called ADD) son Richard, when he was excluded from school and I had to teach him at home. It meant giving up my career in the Insurance Industry but I don't regret it for a minute. I stopped dealing with car and property insurance claims and became Richard's full time carer. Until he started college, I helped out doing voluntary teaching of Information Technology to kids at his school. In the past I have done many jobs including road sweeper, cleaner, painter, decorater, plumber, electrician, cinema doorman, clothes shop assistant, bus driver, milkman, insurance claims manager, gardener, petrol pump attendant (in the days before self service), chef, waiter and general fixer of just about anything.
I put my first games up on the web in 1996 and now they are used all over the world in homes, schools, colleges, adult education centres etc. Many parents and teachers of ADD/ADHD children have told me they really work for these youngsters, in fact all those with special needs. Particularly gratifying is the feedback I get from teachers and carers of adults with special needs saying that my no frills simple to use programs really help and are so popular. The fact that I don't use fluffy bunnies and other pre-school type graphics means they can be used by any age group without the feeling that it's only small kids that need to learn the basics. My view is that we all have special talents and if you are not so good with reading, writing or maths, just means that you are more gifted in other areas such as art, music, sport, dance etc. I'm quite good at making programs but I'm rubbish at sport. Does that make me stupid?? I don't think so.
When I started putting my downloads on the internet, they were all freeware. With the rising cost of hosting popular free software and the fact I am no longer a full time carer, I have to make a living somehow. This is not a bleeding heart story but the fact is, and other carers should take note if you are not already aware, when you try and get back into the job market, employers don't seem to be interested in experience anymore, just young inexpensive, often part time labour. So now I charge a website membership fee, which I thought was farer to low income families, rather than charge for each program. I hope you will agree that the one off cost for over 200 programs and all future ones I make, is a very good deal, rather than many software companies that require you to re-mortgage your home, or get a loan to buy just one.
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