An applet from the University of St. Andrews that allows you to upload an image of someone's face and then perform one of many possible transformations to it, such as 'Manga Cartoon', 'Baby', 'Drunk' and 'Apeman', usually with weird and funny results.
VisualRoute is a graphical traceroute test to any IP address, which can help identify network performance or routing problems and identify IP address locations.
Well, despite the fact that we've had more than 3 kids in the house playing this against each other on several occasions, I didn't know that Runescape runs as a Java applet until Gary mentioned it last week.
Not much of a business case for this applet, but it helps to demonstrate the wide variety of uses for Java applets: this is the Super Mario Brothers game in an applet.
A page displaying a video of a Linux Magazine speaker about Apache 3.0, but the window displaying the video is a Java applet, which is surprising as Java's multimedia support has been less than impressive for a long time.
JScreenFix is a very useful Applet: it rapidly turns on and off random pixels to prevent monitor 'burn-in' and to fix 'stuck pixels' on LCD monitors. If you've had stuck pixels you'll know how annoying they can be - run this applet for 20 mins and you should get rid of them. How cool is that?
Project Scenegraph aims to provide scenegraph functionality at the Java level, and has a few cool JavaFX demo applets using the SceneGraph API.
