If you like to note down your works and want to be notified on time, probably you will love this application.
You have to specify the date, time and task. The program will remind you when time elapses. Some people whom I met wanted to have such a program. Try this freeware and tell me if you need any improvement in its code. Made it in a few hours and haven't tested it properly but it should work fine.
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Simple Downloader software

I recently completed a program, Simple Downloader for downloading files with resume support. There are several programs like Download Accelerator which can do this job, but most of them are advertisement supported and install browser helper objects and toolbars. I was planning to make a GUI for wget, but later wrote the program without using wget.
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Through the looking glass - explained

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?


(cel from Disney's animation, Alice in Wonderland)

Studying a child's mind is comforting but in it there are also many things like punishments, manners, division, and don't talk unless we speak..

Alice in the story had learnt about punishments and was thinking to punish her kitten but then remembered that she was the one who had done more mistakes than the kitten
and if she was to be punished, she would probably not be given dinner for 50 days!

Alice like all children however preferred the punishments to not making mistakes.

The half asleep Alice who was half talking to herself and half talking to the kitten imagined a place inside the looking glass house which was supposed to be gentle and as pleasant as Alice was.
But the fear for punishments, and the too much manners that were taught to her confused her and made the wonderland different from the wonderland she had imagined.

The Alice in the story is an allegory of childhood which is lost by the cultural and moral conditioning of adulthood.

In the whole of the story, Alice plays a game of chess, which is actually played by unknown hands and Alice merely plays her part.

Alice initially starts as a pawn and wants very much to become the queen. She succeeds in becoming the queen at the end but discovers that there is actually no fun in becoming the queen because the crown on the head doesn't feel comfortable. Also she finds out that the people around her are actually drinking her health.

Alice manages to escape from the looking glass house at the end which makes a good ending to the story but it is likely that most children don't escape their looking glass homes.

I have many times felt that it is terrible to see children growing up, and at least it is not a wonderful event that should be celebrated.

The following passages from the prefatory poem 'To the child of the pure unclouded brow' are noteworthy and convey a similar message.

I have not seen thy sunny face,
Nor heard thy silver laughter;
No thought of me shall find a place
In thy young life's hereafter -
Enough that now thou wilt not fail
To listen to my fairy-tale.

A tale begun in other days,
When summer suns were glowing -
A simple chime, that served to time
The rhythm of our rowing -
Whose echoes live in memory yet,
Though envious years would say 'forget'.

Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread,
With bitter tidings laden,
Shall summon to unwelcome bed
A melancholy maiden!
We are but older children, dear,
Who fret to find our bedtime near.

Without, the frost, the blinding snow,
The storm-wind's moody madness -
Within, the firelight's ruddy glow
And childhood's nest of gladness.
The magic words shall hold thee fast:
Thou shalt not heed the raving blast.

The metaphors 'voice of dread', 'the frost', 'bitter tidings', 'the blinding snow', 'unwelcome bed', 'raving blast', 'storm-wind’s moody madness' for adulthood are different from 'childhood's nest of gladness' and 'silver laughter'.

It it is very clear from the last two passages that the author wants children to listen to his story before they are taken away by the voice of dread (adults) and are ordered to unwelcome beds (marriage).

The grown up people usually consider childhood as an inferior version of adulthood. We often times see people using phrases like "You are not a little boy anymore", "You are not a little girl anymore" which indirectly encourage the kids to grow up and forget their childhood.
It is also not uncommon to find the elderly dreaming of their grandchildren to come with their husbands and wives.

But actually as children always like to play and never like to go to bed, likewise, the grown ups are afraid of their bedtimes (death). This statement also suggests that we (as grown ups) and all our beliefs and principles are of little worth because we are still afraid of our bedtimes.

The author wants the readers (children) not to pay attention to the raving blast (society) and he expects his magic words to protect them from the voice of dread.

The concluding poem 'A boat beneath the sunny sky', ends with
Ever drifting down the stream, Lingering in the golden gleam,
Life, what is it but a dream?

These poems have been criticized by many, but according to me, they portray the importance of childhood.

doll

For the simple in heart,
For the children, grown up,
And for the children of childhood.

Drawn in pen and colored with Photoshop.

Classmate

I had made a webapp, classmate, with my friend kira before a few days to show to kids how to make simple web applications. They have recently added an online status indicator to it. It is nice to know that they are getting interested in programming. I haven't done programming for many days, the programs available on the site are quite old.

I am thinking to implement a hosting panel like application using ASP.NET.