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We usually focus our indices on recent and popular applets. However, there are many 'sleeper' applets that have aged well over the months. This archive page contains links to applets (and applications) that have been recently updated and applets that deserve another look.

BS Slide Show
BS Slide Show supports both gif and jpg image formats, uses a text file for configuration, can be resized to your needs and presents your images without a flicker!
20021112

ICalendar
Time to start decorating for the holidays, and what better way than with a time-released, interactive Christmas applet!
20001114

PackedPieChart
PackedPieChart is a 3D animated PieChart applet that allows you to present information with cool special fx! The full version now also supports URL links, i.e., now you can optionally click on pie slices to go to another URL for more information, etc.
20010604

ScrollUp
Updated! This is a Java scrolling applet with several cool features that can enhance your web site.
20011221

Touchup
Touchup is an image processing applet for displaying JPEG images on web pages. With a few clicks, visitors can adjust images to their machine and viewing conditions. Just click on the button that appears when you mouse over the main image.
20020123

QuothBar
Let your visitors see the news, a random quote, linked quotes ... the choice is yours. Messages and links are pulled from a text file and can be displayed in order or randomly.
20010108

Mosaic
This cool app transitions between images with a mosaic effect.
20021115

CFade
A really cool crossfade between images!
20010801

BookFlip
Transition between images with this cool animated page flip applet!
20010713

Advanced Horizontal Scrolling Text Java Applet
A horizontal text scroller that offers full control over colors, font faces, font sizes, font styles and timing. This update supports mailto links.
20011211

AnfyPaint
A complete paint program with freehand and geometric tools! Comes in plain vanilla or use your own background image!
20010810

Lithic Calendar
Updated! Looking for a fast-loading applet to provide some functionality to your site? This calendar applet may just be the ticket! The calendar shows a different image for each month, and users can go backwards or forwards in the calendar year. 19990112

VisualScrollFx
This text scrolling applet loads fast, is smooth, features fades, swipes and many other slick visual effects...and adds some class to your page!
1999

Java Extended Ticker (JET)
More than a simple ticker, Jet is like a browser with additional functionality. It supports unlimited layers, each with individual properties and behaviour. Any component can perform a command sequence to control the behaviour of any layer, a JavaScript call and/or a hyperlink - even events can be handled by event macros.
20011022

NavMenu Pro NE
Compact vertical menu interface with multiple level sub menus. New in this version - menu rollover image support and international fonts support.
20001120

AnimatedTreeControl 4.0
Updated: A small size, robust tree view applet. Uses XML well formed document for tree structure description. Allows separate icons for different tree items, background image and smooth animated branch collapsing and expanding.
20000726

aWebCalendar
Updated! Add professional looking calendars to your website with WebCalendar from Stupid Tuesday. This easy to use application not only creates the calendar but writes the html for your webpages!
20010314

Advanced Typewriter Scroll
A highly configurable vertical text scroller - news ticker featuring smooth scrolling, highlighted URL links, optional border, configurable margins ,and background image and more. The scroll content can be loaded from a separate text file or parameters.
20010904

Lovemeter
Are you a Love magnet or not? Test yourself! Fill in your name, and watch the meter go up... or not. Also test if you and your partner are a match. (Results should not be taken too seriously.)
20000407

AppletFile
AppletFile is a set of Java applets that can be used to enhance file upload and download capabilities on your Web site. Using standard Web browsers, users can upload and download multiple files using predefined paths to automate the process as much as possible.
19981007

Glitzer
Updated! A Sparkling-stars-glitter-spray mouse trail, now with a background image! Definitely cool!
20011003

jChatBox
Updated: jChatBox is a JSP Chat application (free for non-commercial sites). Server side is 100% JSP (Java Server Pages). Client side could be HTML/JavaScript, Applet or Flash.
20010412

BannerMan
Updated! Transition between banners, or images of any size, with these awesome special effects!
20000120

PackedPieChart
PackedPieChart is a 3D animated PieChart applet that allows you to present information with cool special fx!
20010604

EasyCharts
EasyCharts is a complete library of java charting components, applets, and servlets, that enable programmers to add charts and graphs in java and web applications with just a few lines of code.
19990915

StringWalk
Updated! A sweet little (6kb) news/link ticker.
20011120

SiteBrowser
A highly customizable navigation applet that can be configured for tree or horizontal menu layout.
20000309

BMTron
A Tron game with hi-tech graphics for 2, 3 or 4 players; play against the computer or a friend. Avoid running into the wall, opponent's tail or yourself!
20011106

Image Viewer
Awesome image viewer with thumbnail and full size mode. Easy to install with configurable skin color!

SpaceFlight
The free StarFlight applet was one of the first applets to simulate a real flight through a starfield! Control your flight direction with the mouse over the applet. Source included!

Multi-Pic Slide Show (formerly called ImgShow)
This slideshow applet has had a face lift, a new name, and some awesome new features!
20000922

ImageViewer
Zoom, Zoom, Zoom! That's what you'll be saying when you see this customizable grid image viewer that zooms thumbnails to full size with the click of a button. Supports .jpg files.
20010205

Sonali Calendar
Updated! A handy, customizable calendar, suitable for printing! Add your own background image.
20020114

Touchup
Updated: Touchup is an image processing applet for displaying JPEG images on web pages. With a few clicks, visitors can adjust images to their machine and viewing conditions.
20020123

Black Jack
This Black Jack applet has a nice layout, uses Casino rules, and is available in two languages, (English and German).
20000804

AwtCalc
A simple calculator. Great for those who want to learn java. Source is included!
20010116

Newsticker
Updated! A horizontal scrolling text effect that features user click and drag. Highly configurable, easy to set up.
20000607

SearchMe!
Search Me! is a client side search facility that can be added to Web pages. It searches Web pages set by the webmaster for keywords required by the user. As it requires no server side cgi scripts, it is ideal for sites built on a budget whose Internet service providers do not allow server side processing.
20010221

NavWinButton
Updated! Internet Explorer type menu applet. Versatile and easy to configure. Use with or without images!
20000912

NavPop
Updated! NavPop is a window menu system that pops over your normal html page,freeing up space on the page for more information to be displayed. Once initiated, the menu window will "hang around", until it is deliberately closed, or the initiating frame is replaced. The menu can be moved, minimized or pushed behind the browser to reveal underlying content.
20000918

Glitzer
Updated! A Sparkling-stars-glitter-spray mouse trail. It's bigger, faster, needs less CPU-time and has lots of parameters! Definitely cool!
200110093

NavMenu Pro NE
Compact vertical menu interface with multiple level sub menus. Easy to configure with no images required.
20001120

Fennex BlackJack 2
Updated! Nice blackjack applet, customizable to English or Deutsch. Registered version includes a highscore keeper.
20000804

1 Awesome Java Tree
Updated! An awesome tree menu that emulates the Windows Explorer type of Treeview control but with many different effects to choose from. The applet comes with an easy-to-use Parameters Editor so you don't have to change the parameter values yourself!
20011112

X_MenuT
Updated! A nice tree view menu. Colors, fonts, icons and target frames are all customizable.
20010115

PopupVideo
Updated! Remember seeing music videos with popup messages? Well, this applet is Popup Video! You can create your own popups on any pictures you have easily!
20001226

NavMenu Pro NE
Updated! Compact vertical menu interface with multiple level sub menus. Easy to configure with no images required.
20001111

RealChat
Updated! A chat software package that features colored text, pictures, sounds, emotions, multiple rooms, private messages, user created rooms, administrative manager, console, file logging, and more! The package includes client and server software.
20000515

AdvPanorama
Updated! A very flexible panorama applet that requires no plugin! Button controls make the applet interactive allowing the user to adjust speed, delay, zoom, and more!
20001009

QuizMaster
Updated! Create a quiz on any topic, (IQ, science, celebrities, pokemon...), in a matter of minutes! (Time frame does not include the creation of custom images). Questions and evaluations can show different images! Highly configurable!
20010731

MoonStar
Updated! MoonStar 2 is a fast-thinking game of skill. Control your colored worm and destroy colored blocks by making horizontal, vertical or diagonal rows of 3 or more.
20000714

apPopupMenu
Updated! apPopupMenu pops up anywhere, over HTML content, frames and even go over the browser window! Highly configurable.
20001226

BannerManPro
Transition between banners, or images of any size, with these awesome special effects!
20000120

AutoList
A simple to use, Java based, list view control. Presented as a small size applet, it was designed for displaying database query results. It is completely XML driven, both the configuration and the list data are represented in an well formed XML document.
20010625

ScrollText
A small (4kb) horizontal scroller that scrolls both ways. Very easy to configure and free! Source included!
20010702

jChatBox
jChatBox is a JSP Chat Application that supports private messages. System user can open and control many chatrooms as well as manage users (list, ban, kickoff), manage blacklist, generate transcripts and apply chatrooms parameters. Chatrooms are easily customizable and be extended by designers or programmers through the jChatBox API.
20010412

NavTool
Updated! A compact menu interface with 'popup' sub-menus.
20000426

AScratchNWin
Now with new Scratch and Win capabilities The 'percent' parameter allows you to specify the probability of a 'winning' item being displayed. The registered version includes a construction kit for the look and feel of the scratch and win, sound fx, ability to use an image (such as a coin) for scratching, plus much more!
20000303

SearchToHTML
The SearchToHTML applet performs a simple text search of the files you specify in its parameters. It writes out the results of your searches as HTML in a separate frame or a new window.
19990615

SlickTree
Updated! It's all in the name. A tree applet with a really slick mouse over.
20010703

Magic Text Scroll
Updated! Magic Text Scroll is a horizontal text scroller that scrolls two or more lines of text from left to right or right to left, at different speeds, in different font colors, at the same time!
20000626

Color Picker
ColorPicker is a simple hexadecimal color code generator.
20010321

HorizonMenu
A highly configurable navigation applet which fades in additional information about each link. Size, colors, rows, columns, button styles, target frames and language are all adjustable to fit into your site. Several examples included.
20010417

NavWinButton
Internet Explorer type menu applet. Versatile and easy to configure. Use with or without images!
20000912

ABCMenuMan
Fast loading menu applet that allows you to easily create mouseover effects, with as many menu items as you want!
20000328

BillsClock2
A complete re-write of the original BillsClock applet, one of Java Boutique's original applets ca. 1996, updated to support often-requested features, such as custom clock face images, chime on the hour and half-hour, plus the ability to optionally synchronize the time display with a network time server.

TF IFX
TF IFX is a 100% pure Java 1.1 image-manipulator. There are lots of filters and other tools and effects, such as chrome, gold, metal, plastic, glass-sphere, pyramid, cube, waves, color controls, blur, 3D effects, rotate, spot lights, resize, crop ... etc.)
20000915

NavBar Deluxe NE
NavBar Deluxe NE is the latest version of NavBar Deluxe and contains several new features which makes it easier to configure and maintain.
20000720

GraphApplet
Graph applet is a Graph Drawing Calculator with advanced features. GraphApplet supports juxtaposition, which means you can write your expressions just as you would on a piece of paper.
19990415

Anfy
Anfy is a suite of 40 Java applets, capable of generating very impressive special effects at a low price.
20000503

HorizonMenu
Not your standard bubble text. This cool little applet fades additional info in from left to right, on mouseover. Updated!
20010417

FreeData2
FreeData2 is a free database applet with which you can add a simple searchable database to your Web site without any need for server-side scripts.
20000202

apMenu
Create menus with impressive mouseover and color-fade effects. This small, (~4kb),applet offers 12 killer fade animations, is easy to configure and is free!
20000831

apPopupMenu
apPopupMenu pops up anywhere, over HTML content, frames and even go over the browser window! Highly configurable.
20001226

NewsManPRO
The NewsManPRO is an exciting new web site design product that allows you to easily create professional news listings on your website.
20001024

RKBlackJack
Most online card games eliminate a lot of the intricacies of the games they're based on. But RKBlackJack is a very complete blackjack game with the ability to check player actions against the correct Basic Strategy!
19991210

NavMenu Pro NE
Compact vertical menu interface with multiple level sub menus. Easy to configure with no images required.
20001111

X-MenuS
A cool little menu applet that changes state on mouse-over.
20010214

NavBar Deluxe
NavBar Deluxe is the successor to NavBar. Multiple level sub menus have been added to cater to professional web developers.
20000720

SecretPass
Password protection without static HTML or a text file! The applet redirects to a file of the same name as the password. The password itself is not stored anywhere - leaving hackers with nothing to find! Three wrong tries sends you to a "wrong password" page.
20000919

The Mandelbrot Set
Be amazed at what the Mandelbrot fractal looks like up close... really close. Try zooming in on areas that contain two or more colors. Source included!
20001020

MimBounce
This is a configurable menu Java applet that can take infinite images and bounce them around. When an image is engaged, it is raised to the front, changes its color, activates draggable mode, and reduces bouncing speed.
19990823

Thumb
Just another menu bar, complete with clickable buttons.... and the finger to push them!
20000306

AScratchNWin
This free applet has been updated to allow improved Scratch and Win capabilities for your website! The 'percent' parameter allows you to specify the probability of a 'winning' item being displayed.
20000303

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