I have developed a small window application called “FlashCard” which can be used as learning aid using response system.

Flashcard or flash card is a piece of paper which has question on each card and an answer overleaf. Flashcard can be use to learn vocabulary, formulas, foreign languages, technical or domain terms etc. This system was developed to maximize efficiency of studying memorization-intensive subjects.

This application is small capsule like interface occupy very little space of your screen. I usually run this application at top-center of the screen. Application reads questions and answers from pipe (|) separated text file, and its display those question and respected answers sequentially or randomly.

FlashCard Screenshot

You can select option to display those questions sequentially or randomly. Right click on capsule, and check/uncheck the popup menu “Random Order”.

FlashCard Popup Menu

You don’t need to run any kind of setup to run this application. Just unzip the attached flashcard.zip to any folder and run the .exe file. Application will ask you to provide path for flashcard text file (which will have all questions and answers). And thereafter, application will display those question and answers in the small capsule.

If you want to create your own flashcard text file, you just require any text editor. Open your favorite text editor and write down your question and respective answers separated by pipe (|). Please read ReadMe.txt for more details.

I developed this application in Delphi 5. I choose Delphi as it generates native binary (EXE) which require no depended DLLs to run and thence, perfect development environment to develop small utility applications.

I hope you will find this learning aid useful. If you are facing any problem or have any suggestion please do feel free to contact me.

Download: FlashCardv1.zip

Attached zip file also contains English vocabulary FlashCard file as an example. You can add more FlashCard files like this in your repository based on your requirement.

Here is the small Favlets which can assist you to post links at DOTENET portal. Simply drag below hyperlink to toolbar of your browser. It will create a bookmark link at toolbar clicking on which can post current page to DOTENET portal.

Favlets: DOTENET: Submit
(drag this link to browser’s toolbar)

Here are small tutorials on installing Favlets in your browser:
How to use favlets
Bookmarklets – Browser Power
About Bookmarklets

How to use this Favlet? It’s just a matter of click now. If you find any article, post or blog useful simply click on the favlet at toolbar, this favlet will then navigate you to the submit page with URL, Title field already entered. Now you only have to provide description and tags. To further reduce navigating between source URL and DOTENET, you can follow these steps:

1. After finding any useful link, select abstract summary of article or post. If you want to provide your own description, skip this step.
2. Click on the “DOTENET: Submit” favlet. You will be redirect to submit page.
3. Provide tags in submit page. And you are done!

Please do let me know if you are facing any issue to submit post.

UPDATE: I have modified this favlet to send selected text of source article/post to DOTENET submit page. You now just have to select text and click on this favlet.

Its give me immense pleasure to announcement .NET portal – DOTENET (URL: www.dotenet.com). It’s “Digg” style web application dedicated to .NET and relative technologies. This portal will serve as central hub to share articles, tutorials, blog post etc.

When I was planning to create this portal two months back, I was sure that first release of this project will have minimum “must to have” features and later I will add features which are “good to have”. And that’s why you will notice many blank pages on this portal. These blank pages are place-holder for features which I will add in coming weeks (depending upon available bandwidth).

The desired goal of creating a community portal cannot be achieved without your active participation. Please register yourself to this portal and share any article or post which you think useful to .NET community. If you find any existing link useful in DOTNET portal, please vote for that link so that link can be push to popular segment.

As you continue participating in this portal, please keep in mind that this community portal needs your feedback to remain alive. Please provide your feedback/opinion/suggestion to this post

URL: Home Page
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