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.

This is one of my favorite utility tools. PowerMenu is the collection of extensions to the window control menu come in really handy when I work with lot of applications at a time. This tool will add more options to windows control menu in addition to standard restore/move/size/minimize/maximize menu items.

Here are the listing of extensions:

Priority > Changes the priority of the window’s parent process
Transparency > Changes the transparency level of the window (Windows 2K/XP only)
Always On Top > Makes the window sit on top of other windows even if it doesn’t have focus.
Minimize To Tray > Remove the window from the task-list and places the window’s on the system tray.

Usually my taskbar always filled with many applications every time. Some of these “always needed” applications like explorer, CVS client, textpad etc. remains open all the time. That results to very cluttered taskbar. So with PowerMenu tool, I can move to applications to system bar and make my taskbar more cleaner and manageable.

Tool Name: PowerMenu
Url: PowerMenu

I have also created a small batch file and placed it into the Startup folder so that I don’t have to run it every time. Batch file contains following command:

PowerMenu.BAT
"E:\Utilities\PowerMenu\PowerMenu.exe" -hideself on

Thanks Thong Nguyen for this handy tool!!