User:Dastrout

D. Strout is a programmer, webmaster, and website creator from southern New Hampshire. At present, D. Strout owns and operates three websites: DStrout.net, a personal site, U3Applications.com, a site providing free applications for the U3 Platform, and SpamLot.net, a free disposable e-mail address site. As these sites are all free to use and do not display advertisements, they are believed to be independently funded by D. Strout. D. Strout is not known to reveal a first name or gender, and most often goes by the username dstrout on various online forums.

Websites
D. Strout is mainly known for being a website developer, currently maintaining 3 known sites. These sites are hosted on a server in New Jersey. Following is a list of the websites that D. Strout maintains. D. Strout is not a website designer, and as such sites maintained by D. Strout all use free templates available online.

DStrout.net
DStrout.net is D. Strout's personal site. It is seldom changed, and presents a brief biography on the home page, a contact form, and links to the two other sites maintained by D. Strout.

U3Applications.com
U3Applications.com is a site that freely distributes applications for the U3 Platform. It currently hosts 32 apps, all free and mostly open source. These have been downloaded an average of approximately 1600 times, according to statistics shown on each application's page. The most downloaded app is KeePass. The applications are sorted into 6 categories, displayed on the sidebar of each page of the site. These categories are "Development", "File Management", "Internet", "Media", "Messaging", and "System Utilities". An additional pseudo-category, "All", displays all the apps hosted on the site.

Spamlot.net
SpamLot.net is a free disposable e-mail site. It is AJAX-based, with a message interface that automatically reloads and opens messages asynchronously. The site, however, seems to be for the most part not maintained, as the home page displays a note stating that certain features of the site are non-functional, and that problems may or may not be fixed.

Other Projects
Apart from websites, D. Strout has been active at one time or another in certain other projects.

Scrollbar Colorer
Scrollbar Colorer was a freeware, open source program that created proprietary CSS codes that could be used in Internet Explorer to display colored page scrollbars. It featured a simple interface that included seven text boxes to control the seven different scrollbar elements, each including a color picker. The program could also parse scrollbar code out of CSS files and code, upload generated code to the now non-existent Scrollbar Colorer website to be saved as a .css file, and show a regular-sized demo of the scrollbar as it would appear. D. Strout no longer appears to maintain it.

Login Learner
Login Learner is another free open source program that D. Strout maintains. It is designed to present math problems to computer users upon login that users must solve before using their computers. It is intended to be installed by parents on children's computers. The type, number, and difficulty of the problems can be controlled by the user with the parental password. The current version is a beta version, and does not include an installer or updater. These have been promised by D. Strout in the next version, which will be non-beta and is expected in early November.