Bijou is a database of Queen information. It contains lyrics to all of their songs, as well as chart positions, biographies of the band and the 'famous' Bijou quote game :)

On July 25th, 1999, I officially stopped work on Bijou and released the sixth beta of version 4.0 for users to download. I had been programming it for almost two years, and I had sadly lost the motivation to carry on with it. What started off as a personal project to keep myself occupied in the three months of free time I had after completing my GCSEs, has now become a widely used program throughout the Queen community on the internet, accumulating thousands of downloads - an achievement I am proud of.

You can download the v4.0 beta 6, which is overall a better product but the quote game remains unfinished. Bijou v3.2 is also available to download if you fancy playing a working version of the game.

If Bijou crashes asking for vbrun300.dll, you need to download the file into your Bijou directory.

The source code is available if you email me (the address is not so hard - take my first name and the domain name of the site and you're about there). It is rubbish, badly written archaic code. Perhaps you fancy a challenge ;)

As a final note, I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who has supported, downloaded and enjoyed Bijou right from it's conception, to those who have written to me with constructive criticism and praise, to the beta testers of v4.0, and anyone else who helped out in any way.

Mousetrap is allows you to restrict the mouse pointer to defined coordinates on the screen. I wrote it because Grand Theft Auto III on a multi-monitor setup doesn't work properly - while playing the game, the pointer drifts onto the other screens and can cause crashes if the mouse button is pressed (GTA Vice City and San Andreas don't suffer from this problem). Using Mousetrap the mouse can be stopped from moving outside of the main playing area. However, you may find another use for it :)

This is version 1.1, which adds command line options and the ability to minimize to the tray.

How to use:
You first need to tell Mousetrap what size area you want to restrict the mouse pointer to. You can either ask the program to detect the screen size, which will try and get the size of the primary display. This should work ok unless you're playing 3D games, which is when it tends to fall over. If you have an alternative size you want to use, alter the X and Y settings in the box below instead.

This may be all you need, however there are more options. If you are finding that the mouse tends to momentarily go into places where you have asked it not to, and this is causing problems, then adjust this setting may help - it basically constricts the mouse by a further amount of pixels. I set this to 10 for GTA3.

The status window brings up a separate window that you may wish to put onto another screen in a multi-monitor setup, that shows you the current mouse X and Y coordinates as well as the detected screen size, so you can see if using the Detect Screen Size option will work for you.

Finally, the top left coordinates sets where the mouse pointer should originate from. 0,0 is the top left position of the primary monitor, but you may want to start the mouse restriction area somewhere else.

If you have Mousetrap activated and you can't get back to its window to turn it off by using the mouse, then press Alt+Tab until Mousetrap is the foreground window, and then press Alt+S to switch it off, or Alt+X to exit.

You now have the option to minimize Mousetrap to the tray. This was added quickly as a request, so you need to be careful how you use this. If you minimize to tray while Mousetrap is activated, and your settings won't let you reach the tray with the mouse, then you will be in trouble (the only way out would be to ctrl-alt-delete and End Task via the Task Manager).

There are two command line options. /on will switch Mousetrap on automatically when it launches, and /hide will minimize it on startup.

If you need to alter Mousetrap's settings manually (or if you want to completely uninstall it), the settings are in the registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\Mousetrap.

Mousetrap contains code by Scott Seligman.

This simple program makes the scroll lock light on your keyboard toggle on and off repeatedly. I wrote this because I have a computer that I use for a local web server and occasional test rig, but it can be a bit unreliable. I can see if it has crashed by seeing if the scroll lock light is continuing to flash - if it has stopped, it's time to poke the reset button.

How to use:
There is no user interface. You can run the program "as it is", and it will toggle the scroll lock light every two seconds by default. If you want to change the speed, add a figure as an argument in milliseconds. You can have an alternative blinking effect by putting an 'a' on the end of the command line.

Examples:
To toggle the scroll lock every second: scroll lock flasher.exe 1000
To toggle every half second with alternative blinking: scroll lock flasher.exe 500 a

You would probably want to put a shortcut to the program in the Startup menu.

To quit the program:
In Windows 9x, press the Control Alt and Delete buttons together, and on the menu that appears, find Scroll Lock Flasher, and click on End Task.
In Windows 2000/NT, press the Control Shift and Escape buttons together, click on the Applications tab, select Scroll Lock Flasher and cilck on End Task.