The Armory

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Here you can find any utilities you might need, including interpreters for Japanese text, unziping utilities, and several other things.

Here are some useful utilities plus short descriptions.

The Gif Construction Set allows you to make animated gifs.

MapEdit is the program that I used to make the image map on my page.

NJWin lets you view Japanese( as well as Chinese and Korean) text on the web. It's the simplest and easiest program I've found to do this. If you have MS Internet Explorer, you don't need this, just use the Windows Update to install all the Japanese fonts and even the IME if you want to type in Japanese.

Hex Workshop is a really useful little Hex Editor. You can do marvelous things with it.

WinZip and WinZip95 are the best programs to unzip archives of nearly any kind. And with the LHA(65K) program you can even unzip lha files(a favorite archive format in Japan).

For view massive amounts of images(I have upwards of 3000 in some directories), nothing beats ACDSee, it lets you use your mousewheel(if you have one, and you should) to flip through images, and has an excellent image browser which can display whole directories with thumbnails.

Winamp is the ultimate sound player, it just plain rules, if you have more than 1 song on your computer in virtually any format, you need this software.

Quicktime has a crummy interface, is buggy and annoying, but is the only thing that can play MOV files, which are one of the best compressions formats around for video.

For playing other types of video(asf, mpg, avi), nothing beats a good up-to-date copy of Windows Media Player.

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