They could be desktop backgrounds

 I have recently been sorting through over 200GB of images in my OneDrive. 

"That's a dank meme - move it to 'memes'" 

"That's a duplicate - delete!"

"That's a blurry mess - delete!"

"That's a photo taken by my mum, with someone's head cut off and a thumb over the lens - keep it!"

"That's of an ex - defo delete!"

During my exploration of my camera roll folder, I encountered many images that could have been desktop backgrounds, and perhaps in a parallel universe indeed there are.

An old family photo (very old)

I now present them to you, gentle reader, for you to do whatever you like with them. Each image has been shared here because it is either prominent in its unusual texture, vibrant in colour, or otherwise just a good desktop. Please feel free to do whatever you like with them. Set them as desktop backgrounds on your PC, phone, or tablet. If you are reading this in the future, then perhaps set one as the background of your Human Molecular Decimation Breakdown, Transportation, and Relocation device.

Suckers!

Sure, some of the images need cropping, rotating, or otherwise passing through some image editing software, but they are provided free (as in 'free' chips, AND 'free' as in do what you like) under the Creative Commons Zero license.

The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of his or her rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.

You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

I will be adding more images as time goes by, so please have a look and let me know what you think.

If you enjoyed this post, then you might like to see this random post, or just play the 'best 2D, text-based adventure game'. Your call. See you next time.

"The best 2D, text-based adventure game"

I have been updating Have Spell Will Travel.

HSWT is a text-based adventure game of fantasy questings and kobold killing. The peaceful village of Merripond is in danger from the evil machinations of the wizard Warren Fogbender. YOU choose from one of over two hundred characters with a unique set of abilities. As you progress through the quests you will face countless challenges. Each challenge requires you to test one of your abilities - with a catch: you do not know which ability is the best to use in any given situation. Sure, you might have a good Sorcery ability, but maybe your opponent is wearing their anti-magic underpants today?

Only luck, practice, and a little intuition will guide you. Success will mean that you are closer to your goal. Failure results in pain, poisoning, curses, the indignity of returning to the village empty-handed... or worse!

Decisions, decision...

I have been developing HSWT since the summer of 2015, and I trust you enjoy the latest updates.

What's new?

Zombies! Plenty of new zombies. But do not fear! The Temple of the Frog have started their own line in cheap holy water, which they will sell to you for a small sum of six gold coins.

One of several new baddies waiting to make your quest difficult today.

There are also new locations, objects, and a new trap in The Dungeon. I have also tweaked the user interface and some of the game mechanics in the interest of game balance.

Objects in HSWT modify your stats, in one way or another.

...and, did I mention new quests? Well, you will have to try it out yourself.

Play Have Spell Will Travel now.

That's all folks. Do let me know if you enjoyed it. If you have, then you might also like to read my other HSWT posts.

This app auto-saves your Windows clipboard

Last time I introduced Doctor Clippy - a tool for saving your Windows clipboard to a text file. It was only upon completing the project that I realised that there was something missing.

Windows Clipboard before the release of Windows 3.1

Instead of manually saving the clipboard every time you press 'copy', most people will want to be less selective (read 'lazier') and wish the program automatically saved the clipboard every time they press 'copy'.

Introducing Captain Clip! This program runs in the background auto-saving your clipboard. Every time you press CTRL+C or 'copy', the program copies the text into a text file for you - whether you want it or not.

You are limited to ten thousand bytes of data with each clip (the program will truncate otherwise) and you get a fresh new file every day so you can see what you have been copying easily throughout history.

Download Captain Clip now (version 1.1.1.2)

If you enjoyed this post, then once you have recovered yourself, you may wish to look at some snakes or just something at random.

This tool saves your clipboard to a file

Have you ever wished there was an easier way of copying multiple sections from one document or webpage?

Doctor Clippy is a tool that performs just one job. Every time it runs it saves the contents of your Windows clipboard to a text file. Need to plagiarise a website? No problem: CTRL+C, then run Doctor Clippy. Do you need to cherry-pick the latest article? No problem: CTRL+C, then run Doctor Clippy.

Text that has been copied is saved to a time-stamped text file. With a slight tweak to the configuration settings, text can instead be appended to the end of a single file (all your clips in one place).

You can also specify the location that Doctor Clippy uses to save your clips.

DOWNLOAD DOCTOR CLIPPY NOW

If there is more interest, I will add functionality to save images and anything else that makes it all easier to use. For now, follow the above links to try the first version.

Want more like this? Really?! Well, if so, you might be interested in The NO-NONSENSE CLOCK OR Why you are probably writing dates wrong.

See you for more fun and games in the future.