CleanEx – a blast from the past

I had an email recently enquiring about a freeware Windows application I wrote nine years ago called CleanEx. I was amazed people still use it, even more amazed it still works. Nine years is a long time!

CleanEx is a little shell extension to clean a directory of temporary files, originally conceived as a way to get rid of C++ compiler intermediate files. Here’s a rolling demo of it in action

CleanEx

CleanEx can be customised to add your own file groups too. I must have the sources around here somewhere, I’ll open it up if anyone is interested.

Download cleanex.zip (181Kb)

Usage of pastebin expiry feature

The new expiry option has been live at pastebin.com for over 24 hours, it’s been interesting to see the usage patterns. There have been just under 2000 posts in the past day, breaking down as follows:

  • 33% expire in a day
  • 64% expire in a month
  • 3% never expire

In a few days I’ll take a look at some of the “permanent” posts to see what other features might be useful…in meantime, feel free to make suggestions by commenting below!

Geograph covers 100,000 grid squares

Last night Geograph British Isles covered its 100,000th grid square. It’s just incredible that in just over a year we’ve got an image for 40% of the 1km grid squares in Great Britain. It’s also good to see that depth is being developed too – we’ve over 160,000 images in total, and it looks likely that number of images per grid square will only increase over time.

The growth has been remarkably steady – we’ve averaged around 500 new photos a day for some time now…

Submission Graph

It’s pretty impressive going for a site that has had a zero budget, and the end result is a wonderful, growing resource of Creative Commons licenced pictures and information.

A huge thankyou to the thousands of crazy individuals who’ve got the “Geograph bug” and go out taking the pictures. I salute you!