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Othello

The Othello program was written over twenty years ago as a small hobby project. It has been rewritten a number of times in different languages and with different graphical user interface toolkits as I have used it as an exercise project when learning those new things. The current version is written in Java and uses the Swing GUI toolkit. There is also a version for handheld devices (mobile phones). You can use it for free and study the complete source code if you are interested in that. You can find it and read more about it here.

Mobi

This will only be of interest to people who play chess and want to play with other people over the Internet. There are several sites on the Internet that let you connect to a server and play games with other chess players and thousands of chess players do this regularly. For doing this you need to have a client program that you usually download and run on your computer (for some servers there are clients that you can run directly in your web browser if you like). But for the Free Internet Chess Server and the Internet Chess Club there has never existed such a client for ordinary mobile phones as far as I know (there are versions for handheld computers) until now. It has been tested on a number different phones and is now available for free download. You can read more about Mobi and how to get it here.

Finding your way to sports facilities in the Stockholm area

Having childer who engage in a lot of sports activities means that you frequently have to take them to places you have never been to before. Sometimes it can be difficult to find out exactly where to go as you get no exact address and even when you do and find the right place it is not always easy to find the right entrance when you for instance are looking for a gymnasiun in a school building. I have started to build a database over sports facilities in the Stockholm area which contains exact GPS coordinates to entrances as well as parking lots. GPS coordinates are of course helpful if you own a GPS navigator, but even if you don't you can use them to find exact locations in maps or aerial photographies that you can find on the Internet. You can go to the database and read more about it here (this part of the site is in Swedish).

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