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I mentioned recently that news was slow because I've been working on some new programs. Well, here's the payoff. :-)

I just posted Universal Extract 1.3.. This is a pretty substantial update, adding support for quite a few more formats and improving support for existing formats. Although the interface still looks the same, a whole lot of improvements were made "under the hood".

Download links and an updated format support table can be found on the Universal Extractor main page. Details about improvements in this version can be found in the Universal Extractor ChangeLog.

Enjoy!

I added a new script to my software page. Inno Setup CLI Help is a set of functions in Pascal that can be included in any Inno Setup installer to display command line usage information to the user when /? is passed to the installer. This help information includes both common parameters available for all Inno Setup installers, as well as the components and tasks that are unique to each installer. The purpose here is to educate the user and make it as easy as possible for him to automate and/or customize installation to suit his needs.

Full details, a screenshot, and download links are available on the Inno Setup CLI Help page.

I just posted my latest application to my software page. extractMHT will extract individual components from MHTML (*.mht) files, which is a "web archive" format commonly used by Internet Explorer and some other apps to save web pages as a single file.

Full details and the download link can be found on the extractMHT web page.

For those of you that have noticed the lack of updates of the past week, I just wanted to let you know that I'm still around. I've been spending just about all of my free time working on a new app, as well as updates for Universal Extractor and AutoFLAC. They're not yet complete, but keep an eye out for more announcements in the next few days.

I've added one more script to my software page. This shell script will convert audio files compressed with a lossless audio codec such as Monkey's Audio or Shorten to the FLAC. The key feature here is that instead of simply transcoding the file to FLAC, it'll preserve and migrate any tag information as well.

Additional details can be found on the Convert to FLAC home page.

Please also note that this is essentially an extension of the apetoflac script I posted last week to handle more input formats. Since this script completely supercedes apetoflac, I've removed all references to it from the apeinfo page and simply link to Convert to FLAC instead.

I've added a new application to my software page. Get Album Art is a PHP script that does exactly what you'd expect - it locates and downloads the CD cover image for any given album.

Details and download links can be found on the app's home page.

I made some significant updates to the RSS news feed for LegRoom.net. Among the changes:

• Feed is now fully RSS 2.0 compiant
• Each item now includes time posted
• Each item now includes its category
• Greatly improved the XSL transformation (used to define how the feed is displayed in web browsers
• HTML content is now rendered properly
• XSL should now render correctly in Mozilla/Firefox, IE, Opera, and Safari

The updated feed can be viewed here.

I've updated my Bookmarks page. This list primarily consists of a new Music category, listing my favorite artists, unofficial fan websites, digital audio information, and various other resources. Feel free to check it out if this sounds like something in which you're interested.

I had to take LegRoom down for most of the day on Friday, but as of about 5:30pm everything should be up and running again. The reason for the outage was that I accidently deleted some important files on the server late Thursday night, and had to immediately power down the server to prevent any further data loss. Needless to say, the server had to remain offline while I worked to recover my files.

I was, very fortunately, able to recover most of my data. It was a very long and painful process (and in fact I still have a lot of work to do before I'm finished), but I'm just lucky I was able to recover as much as I did. Let this be Yet Another Reminder - always backup your data!

I've added a couple new applications to my Software page. apeinfo is a Linux CLI program to display tags and format information about APE (Monkey's Audio) files. apetoflac is a shell script that automates conversion of APE files to FLAC files, including tags.

As usual, more details can be found on the applications' information page.