Though only the alpha version has been released, HotSheet is already useful for retrieving syndicated news feeds from around the Web and going to the news items in which you are most interested. It is also a good demonstration of how easy installing and running a Java application can be.

FourColor is a simple program to display comics stored in .CBR (a.k.a. .RAR) or .CBZ (a.k.a. .ZIP) formats. At present it only does the basics of letting you load a comic and flip the pages, plus it has a couple of different ways of viewing the pages.

The first portion of a project to build a set of programs to create cards for collectible card games (CCGs), maintain collections of those cards, create decks, and play CCG games over the Internet.

Presentations to teach subjects like Ant and Log4J to developers not currently familiar with the technologies.