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There’s a useful script that you can use to reset your WordPress admin password if you have forgotten it and the “normal” password recovery methods - e.g. using the “Lost your password?” link on the login page - don’t seem to work. It’s a standalone script (not a plugin) and doesn’t require you to be [...]

Last.fm does not have out-of-the-box support for global hotkeys, so I created a simple tool that will let you control the Last.fm for Windows app through global hotkeys. Download it here.

A small WordPress plugin that will let you easily edit your username from within WordPress. Useful if you want to change it to something other than admin. The plugin is compatible with any version of WordPress from 2.0 to 2.6.

As you might know, when you log in to a WordPress blog a session cookie is created that serves as a kind of authentication “key”. This is what lets you stay logged in and access various areas of the dashboard without having to enter your password every time. However, if a hacker was to get [...]

I thought it would be handy if I could get the various DA notifications (deviantWATCH, new comments on your deviations, etc) as a RSS feed, so I created a PHP script that can log into a DA account and generate the feed. It creates three feeds -

New deviations from your deviantWATCH (with thumbnails!).
Messages (e.g. [...]

I’ve created a simple plugin based on an idea somebody posted on WordPress Extend Ideas -
Right now, when you’re drafting a Wordpress post in WP 2.5.1, the “Save” and “Publish” buttons are right next to each other.
It’s generally a bad thing in user interface heuristics to put a destructive or non-undoable action (such [...]

As part of a little side project, I’ve written a script that determines the most “dugg” and most “buried” Digg.com comments for the day. It can also find the discussion thread that contains the most diggs. Only popular submissions are checked for comments.
I’ve put it up at TheBestOfDigg.com. The idea is to post the best/worst [...]

I’ve written a simple text summarizer that can find the most important sentences in any given (English) text and produce a summary of the specified length. It would be pretty easy to adapt the PHP script to other languages, too.

I’ve gotten some interesting feature suggestions for my link checker WordPress plugin since I released the last version several months ago. During the last week I finally got around to implementing some of them. Enjoy
What’s New
Making broken links look different
There’s now an option to add a “broken_link” CSS class to known broken links. [...]

I decided to put a person name database I found to good use and make a person name generator. Here it is! The generator uses Markov chains. Most of the source code is available for download.

I’ve started up two longterm projects at the same time (one is top secret linkbait stuff, the other just top secret ), so I don’t have much time/ideas for new posts at the moment. Irrespective of that, there is one plugin that I have been working on and testing for a while - my [...]

Recently I made a converter GUI for daa2iso. Now I’ve decided to follow up with another similar tool - the UIF to ISO converter GUI. It’s almost the same as the previous one, except that it operates on files with the UIF extension. You can use this simple tool for converting UIF files to the ISO format.

This is a simple graphical user interface for the DAA to ISO converter. The original converter tool requires that you know how to use command-line utilities - and many users do not. That is why I made a simple Windows interface for it. You can download it (and the converter) here.

Recently I needed to put some style definitions and a JavaScript function in a post on another blog that I have. I wasted several hours trying to do this, because WordPress insisted on putting backslashes in front of my apostrophes, inserting superfluous <p> or <br /> tags in place of newlines, and generally breaking my HTML in various horrible ways.

In the end I decided to just go and write a plugin that would let me put any code or script in my posts and display it to the visitor unmodified.

There are lots of search engine plugins for Firefox, and it’s easy to make a simple search plugin for your own site. That’s why it came as a bit of a surprise that I couldn’t find any search engine plugins for searching the currently open site. So I created one. Download it here.

This plugin extends the plugin update notification feature introduced in WordPress 2.3 by adding an “update automatically” link to update notifications. When you click the link, the new version of the corresponding plugin is downloaded and installed automatically. It also lets you know which plugins have update notifications enabled.
Update 06.04.2008 : Version 2.0.1 with much [...]

The Broken Link Checker Wordpress plugin has been updated to version 0.2! Here’s what’s new -

Link checking algorithm has been improved and shouldn’t generate false warnings anymore.
Links that are discovered to not work will be re-checked again a few minutes later. This is useful if the link only appeared to be broken due to a [...]

No matter what your blogging style, your posts will give your readers a hint or two about what kind of person you are (which is good). Blog Personality Analyzer is an unusual “personality test” that will analyze your personality based on your blog’s content… yep, the only thing you need to do is enter your [...]

I’ve created an online tool that displays the sites that received the most votes (diggs) during the last 7 days.
Features

The classic Top 10 list.
The huge Top 100 list.
Sites ranked by the total number of diggs received on all stories submitted in the last 7 days.
Click the “Popular stories” column heading to rank them by [...]

Some time ago I created a WordPress plugin that can cloak affiliate links automatically. Today I’m releasing a new version, with all-new feature(s)!
The main improvement I’ve implemented is “static link cloaking”. The previous version of the plugin could only cloak links that you’ve actually used in a post, which is inconvenient if you want to [...]

Sometimes, links get broken. A page is deleted, a subdirectory forgotten, a site moved to a different domain. Most likely many of your blog posts contain links. It is almost inevitable that over time some of them will lead to a “404 Not Found” error page. Obviously you don’t want your readers to be annoyed [...]

I’ve created a plugin for WordPress that can cloak outgoing links in your posts and/or pages (note : if you’d rather have a more general link cloaking tool, take a look at Link Manager).
Features

Choose what to cloak - all links, only the links you specify or no links at all.
Choose where to cloak - posts, [...]

I’ve recently released the Ticker Editor - a shareware application that can be used to create pretty much any kind of ticker. Visit WS Tickers to learn more.
While building this application I came accross some of the problems many programmers are likely to encounter when doing a “serious” project.

Creating help files
If your application is [...]

This project has been going for a while, so I’ve decided to write a short overview of the results seen so far. If you don’t know what’s it about - The Living Image project is a website where anyone can vote for one or more digitally generated images. Those pictures are created by artificial neural [...]

This is a proof-of-concept Invaders-style game where the invaders are controlled by neural networks and each new wave is evolved by genetic algorithms. This is made possible by DelphiNEAT library. I’m also using the GR32 library for semi-fast 2D graphics and PNGDelphi for PNG loading.
Actually those “neat” invaders are initially quite dumb and the game [...]

This week I’ve mostly been trying to figure out how the taskbar works in Windows XP. As a result, I created wsTaskborg - a freeware utility that lets you organize your taskbar buttons by dragging them around and grouping/ungrouping them as you wish. You can read more about it and download it at http://w-shadow.com/wstaskborg/.
I will [...]

Here and there, people keep asking - “How do I hide my process in Windows NT/2000/XP?”. Nearly everyone knows how to do that on Windows 95/98, but there is no definite answer for NT-based systems. So today I’ll give you a short summary of four methods that can be used to hide your process on [...]

This is another idea I have had for a while. I use Wikipedia nearly every day, and every time I encounter an unknown word or concept, it’s the first place to look for it. So I thought it would be more comfortable if I could just select the text to be searched for, press some [...]

This is more of a proof-of-concept that I created, but still pretty neat - it’s a text editor that stores the text in it’s own exe-file, compresses that text and optionally encrypts it. And it’s just 93 KB in size and doesn’t require installation!
Useful for… storing passwords, maybe Source code is available, so it [...]

If you are a programmer you have probably encountered a situation when the program you are debugging suddenly enters an infinite loop or somesuch and starts consuming 100% CPU resources. Sure, you can press Ctrl-Alt-Delete and kill it from Task Manager, but it takes ages because everything is slooow and sometimes you’d just rather hit [...]