It's time for the results of our annual programming challenge. The coders on our site were asked to:

• Release a new freeware/donationware program of any kind, by Jan 1, 2008
• It must not have been released prior to Dec 1, 2007

Some of the programs are rather specialized and whimsical, some are just a little silly, and substantial and serious.  But you'll probably find something that you find useful.

Do you have an mp3 collection? Use "WTF!? Music Info" to generate charts showing the statistics of your collection.  Do you need help staying motivated to keep to your new year's resolutions? Try "Point Motivator", an innovative motivational tool and tracking diary.

Congratulations to all the programmers who participated.  As always, if you find a program you like please consider making a small donation to the author.

Hi all!  Here's a little app that'll give you the lo-down on your music collection.  Shows stats based on artist, genre, or year.  I intend on building this this up in the future, but for now it's a neat little app to let you know what you got.

Point Motivator is an application to help motivate you to do the things you want to do.

• More info: here.

Features:

• Focuses your attention on a tangible reinforcement "score" that provides immediate feedback about your actions.
• Provides an intuitive visual display of your progress over time to provide positive reinforcement.
• Lets you configure tasks and their associated value, and share these configurations with others.
• Lets you set up rewards you can "purchase" with your earned points, to provide additional motivation.

Click2LogIt is a way to keep track when events occur. It runs as a tray icon and clicking on the tray icon will log the date & time to a log file. Along with the datetime stamp a user-definable notation is made.

The impetus for this program was a coding snack idea posted by 222fbj.

This is an online web application that will allow you to estimate the value of your money (United States Currency only right now) in a coin jar.

Web Address: http://www.coincalc.com/

KeyCounter is a small app that keeps track of how many times you press any key you've added to its list.  It falls into the useless but kind of cool stats category.  It was originally written upon request from a friend but I have since fleshed it out for NANY.

Features:

• You can build out a list of only the keys you want to count.
• Auto save and reload of your keylist and counts.
• Export current list and counts to CSV format.