Below is a selection of utilities I wrote for 32-bit Windows systems. If you run into problems with any of them, or if you're looking for someone to create an application along these lines, let me know.

Since the Well is concerned about security issues of unencrypted telnet access, my Telnet Data Link (TDL) program for batch access from Windows to the Well's conferences and e-mail facilities is no longer available for downloading. The Well's tdl.ind conference is the place to go for discussion of its new secure version SDL.
(Contact me if you're interested in this encrypted-transmission SSH version.)

You can also download a program called Messager. Run it with a "command-line" argument (for example, from Scheduled Tasks) and the program will display the argument, both in its window and when it is minimized on the Windows taskbar. It's useful for reminders ("Pay the electric bill" or "Set clocks ahead for Daylight Savings Time"). The compressed zip file contains a user guide (messager.txt) and the installation setup files.     Download Messager Zip File

For Visual Basic developers, I have some open-source tools available at SourceForge.

One is a class module to read and display EXIF data from a JPEG file (such as date and user comments) which can be incorporated in a VB project, and a wrapper form to demonstrate its use:   Exif-reader

Another is a slide-show program which uses the class, for automatic (like a screen-saver, but technically not one) or manual display of image files:   PicShow

ShapeDance is a DirectX 3-D display program that illustrates lighting, matrix transforms, textures, and triangle lists, fans, and strips as well as other user-selectable options to demonstrate DirectX coding with Visual Basic:   ShapeDance