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When I was in school (well, i still am)... I mean, when I was still a baby in computers, I made a simple program that resembled the notepad, using BufferedReader and BufferedWriter classes.

Today I recalled that code and added a notes widget in mach4. Its similar to the notes widget in windows sidebar. I need to think and come up with more ideas.

Find it in the screenshots...

mach4 1.02 GUI

The lock screen. You enter a password and it slides up unlocking the screen. Of course the background image can be changed.

The notes widget. write anything and it will save it automatically.

pre-alpha Splash Screen

mach4 1.03 about window

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Added some interesting new features, like:

-running command line commands.
For example:
user writes 'cmdexec-dir'. It opens the cmd window and displays all files and directories in the current directory.

-appending user entered string to execution parameters.
For example:
user can write 'g-mach4', to Google the phrase 'mach4'.
this will simply launch the url 'http://www.google.co.in/search?q=%%t' where %%t is replaced by the user entered value after the dash.... read more

Time to convert thinking to reality.

Starting with making an INI file reader in java.

I am using INI files to store settings and other data for mach4.

About mach4:
mach4 is (to be) an application launcher that will launch just anything based on the text you would enter. My design will be to have a single text field and a button for the user to enter text.

It will open

1. any application
2. any file
3. any webpage
4. and much more... (but I am yet to think.)... read more