Pebblesoft

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Here you'll find some free cross-platform computer programs: two refreshing online games (some thinking required!), an online tool for formatting plain text, an XML source-code formatting tool, and a fun program that determines the best way to distribute gifts in a gift exchange.

Each program is offered as is, with no liability assumed by Pebblesoft or the author of the program.

The online programs are easy and fun to use. All that you need is a reasonably modern Web browser. For the games (Pebbles and WordRecall), your browser must have JavaScript enabled. It's usually enabled by default.

ElegantXml is contained in a platform-specific Zip file. Unpack the appropriate version to a convenient location, and then have a look at the readme file.

Computer-Aided Gift Exchange is contained in a Zip file. Unpack it to a convenient location. To run the program, make sure that you have Java version 1.6 or later installed on your system. Then just run the file named ComputerAidedGiftExchange.jar. (For example, you could run the program from the command line by entering java -jar ComputerAidedGiftExchange.jar.)

Online Programs

WordRecall is a matching game that uses words. You can be creative in thinking of associations to help you remember which words are where.

PebbleWrap is a very useful tool for wrapping (or unwrapping and then rewrapping) lines of text, attractively indenting paragraphs and lists, making flowing columns from single-column text, and making great-looking tables from delimited text.

Downloadable Programs

ElegantXml performs intelligent pretty-printing on each well-formed XML file within a specified directory tree or on a single such file.

Computer-Aided Gift Exchange calculates which distribution of gifts maximizes the joy for a group while taking the individuals into consideration as well. The program takes as input each participant's rankings for the gifts and determines which distribution of gifts, out of all possible arrangements, is the best.