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Title: Anfy
Version: 1.4.5
Platform: All Windows, Apple & Linux
Download Size: 2.9MB
Rating: Tucows: 5 gold cows
Cost: Free for personal use, registration is 10-20 USD per domain – see below
Description:
Useful collection of over 40 JAVA applets that can be easily configured using the simple windows interface. Anfy JAVA spices up your web page with eye catching, cutting edge, high graphics applets.

Download From: http://anfyteam.com/%5B/url%5D

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All effects are very easy to set up. In the Windows versions there is a wizard for creating the applets in minutes. Effects include morphing, water, fractals, book-flip, fading etc.
Also available is Anfy 3D but I have no personal experience of this.

Registration gives you: All the “link” options enabled when applets are online. No pop-up credits window when applets are clicked online. Free customer support via e-mail. Free updates when new versions of Anfy are out.
Unregisterd, the applets run correctly and visualize all the effects even if you don’t purchase the regcode.
The only (minor) difference between registered and unregistered applets, is noticeable online, when applets are clicked with the mouse.
On unregistered applets, an external small window will appear, showing the name of author as credits: it can be closed, and the effects will not be interrupted. In addition, the “link” functions of the applets, which makes it possible to link to another page when the applets are clicked, are disabled.
Registration fees are on a per-domain basis – the more you buy the cheaper it is.

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I’m afraid I stopped using Java long ago. It’s too much trouble.

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On the evolutionary scale of web design, and in comparison to the skills of one such as yourself, I am but a mere amoeba.
Anything that makes me and what I’ve attempted look better, and with minimal effort, is a bonus.

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I have registered this applet for 2 of my web sites. It is just too easy to use!
While you do get a load of applets, realisticlly you may only find one or two that can be used tastfully on a web site. I happen to be able to use the water effects applets. very cool. It was well worth the $20 bucks for the couple I use, and consider the rest of them as freebies if i can use them at a later time on the same site. The 3D java picture menu box is pretty good to if it fits with the web theme. The gif display is good too. most of the others would be best use for a personal web page. Stuff that make you say “Cool!” but does not add to the content of the page.. The best part is the auto (wizard like) interface for setting them up for your own web pages. A big thumbs up for people who know nothing about java. Way cool!!!
Later,
Bruce

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Hey Bruce
Come on, man. Put your URLs where your typing finger is. If you’ve got Java applets working what’s your websites, so we can have a look?
Problem with Java is client-side : many surfers don’t have theirs activated, or have not updated the MS VM. I’ve even heard that it can break some browsers. Sure, it can be cool, but I’d rather people think ‘useful, informative, thank goodness I read this’ than’ cool, way out, how pretty.’ The perfect site would have ’em saying all of those, but I’ve yet to find one…
Once we’ve got this thread going, we can talk about the freebie offerings in J and jscript.

Cheers

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>>The perfect site would have ’em saying all of those, but I’ve yet to find one…

I’m hurt! What about the Lounge?

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*giving hugs…always the perfect site*

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Hang on, there! This ain’t no web site. OK, it’s got the dubbleyers but this is serios surfing. I din’ come here for no fun. I jus’ wanna lounge. Bes’ thing since that ol’ moonshine. It sho ain’t pretty, but, then, neither am I. Yer cain’t go comparin’ chalk an’ cheese. Even ah knows that.
OK skins is nice, but I don’ see no Flash, or Java ( bit o’ that script stuff, p’raps) or Shokwave.
Less keep it that way, huh?

Cheers yawl

Red

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Moonshine and the 1st of September…what a way to go

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What is with some people and their obsession with Flash? Do they think we all have Broadband? Guilty sites should be given some kind of ‘dirty mac’ rating, for the amount of your time they waste on pointless introductory animations.

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Don’t blame Flash – used properly it’s great. It’s just the idiots who mistreat it.
Similar arguements apply to frames…

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Flash can look great, but I usually go to a website to find something out – and it’s never appeared in a flash presentation! With 56k modem access, I have to sit and wait for anything up to 10 minutes for a flash animation to end before I even get the chance to navigate around some sites! I have never found flash anything but time wasting, but it definitely should never appear on a site’s frontpage.

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If you’re talking about those stupid ‘splash’ pages that just say ‘enter here’, they shouldn’t appear on any website – no matter what was used to make them.

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One of my w3t buddies uses Flash the way it *should* be used. Go to his Message Board and have a look at *his* Smilie Panel.

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OK, it’s not all bad then, I concede.

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It’s also a brilliant replacement for animated gifs – with SOUND! Have a play with the Insane flash Animator

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Mum…sound?…I didn’t hear anything…or did I miss something?

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Try the Interactive Sheep on the Samples page. It’s a hoot!

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BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
The black one must be a Sheepdog.

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Hi Eileen
You’ve really got my curiosity peaked and even more so because the site you refer to is in Spanish and I can’t make heads or tails out of it – where can I find the smiley panel there???? I’d really like to see Flash used as it “should be” since I am no great fan of Flash as it is generally used on websites.

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It’s right there on the page I sent you to. It’s the form for posting a message so you should be able to infer what it all says by comparing it with ours.

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Ok, for those of you who think seeing is believing….
Here is a couple of URLs
This one uses a water ripple affect. Very simple and low key.
If the client does not have Java enabled, then a static image is displayed.
http://www.zipjackumbrella.com/cafebeach/amerocafe.htm

If you want to play in the water, try this one.
http://www.zipjackumbrella.com/info/info.htm
It fits in with the web site and offers some mindless entertainment for at least 5 to 10 seconds.

The only java app I can think of that would fall into the “informative” group would be a ticker tape applet. “ohhh yes! we all *LIKE* those!” (yes, anfy does have a couple also…)
Almost all others offer ‘Eye candy’ or user navigation.

The Anfy apps. can be used without paying for them. Of course users will get a credit window when they click on or use the applet on any site other than a local drive. So for a personal/family web site, this group of apps. can be used without spending a dime. For a comercial web site, its worth the 20 bucks to have a fist full of applets (40) that are simple to use and I didn’t have to write or debug the code. The programmer and designer who wrote them has been writting code since 1988, working with C++, Assembler, Amiga and DOS ‘of olden days’. He and his team is heavy into Java, virtual reality and realtime 3D. The 20 bucks is worth his expericence and knowledge to have apps that work.

Go here to see all 40 examples or download the apps.
http://anfyteam.com/anj/index.html
Of course not all of them are winners. Some are just creative, some are very single purpose, and some are even cheesy. YMMV.

Later,
Bruce

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Nice water ripple effect. Talk about low key, if I hadn’t known what to look for, I’d never have known why the page took so long to download! I still say, it’s the thing to use, once the majority have affordable access to broadband; but most of the planet pays per second to access the net at less than 56kbps. I have unmetered access (and little patience); but 49 333 is as good as it gets on a standard phoneline and I have to put up with AOL’s bloatware to get that. My mother lives in France – a generally technologically sophisticated nation – and unlimited internet access is just not an option. If you can’t get it in most of Europe, you can imagine the chances in most of Asia or Africa.

The internet is supposed to be a global, frontierless phenomenon. That doesn’t work if half the sites are effectively inaccessible to half the world.

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Forgot to add the J

I haven’t tried any of them but if your interested
try this for some J
http://www.thejmaker.com/

Regards,
Bruce

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You mention that the small window that contains the author and credits can be closed in the unregistered version. Does this mean permanently or each time the code is run? In other words, do the credits show every time, then have to be closed by someone viewing the site?
I’m interested in the book flip slide show but don’t want to shell out the cash nor have anyone see the small window. So far I haven’t spent a cent on my website. Perhaps that’s evident, but I’m having cheap fun.
Thanks for an interesting thread.

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From what I recall, if you click on the ‘animation’ the credits pop up and have to be closed. This would apply each time it was clicked on.
If you don’t click on the window, nothing happens.
Again from memory, if you don’t have the registered version, you can not turn-off the hyperlink on the image (that calls up the credits), but if you do have the registered version, you can select to either have no hyperlink, or link it to whatever you want.

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Sorry guys, but
“Die, Java, die!”.

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