wsTaskborg Taskbar Organizer

October 1st, 2006

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 [...] Continue Reading…


Two interesting ideas

September 25th, 2006

If you’re ever out of ideas for new projects/things to research, you might find these topics interesting :

Arithmetic coding/compression
Many compression algorithms, such as Huffman, work by assigning codes to chunks of data and then writing those codes to output file. Chunks that are often encountered get short codes, [...] Continue Reading…


Hiding from NT TaskManager

September 21st, 2006

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 [...] Continue Reading…


The Living Image Project

September 20th, 2006

It’s finished! :)
This is a social experiment, an artificial intelligence project, an online digital art generator and many other things. It’s a place where digital images are generated based on the collective opinion of all visitors.

It’s similar to the GeneticArt demo by Mattias Fagerlund, except images are placed [...] Continue Reading…


Renaming a running EXE

September 14th, 2006

Did you know that under Windows 2000/XP (and possibly others) it is possible to rename the exe-file of a running program? Furthermore, you can even move it to another folder, provided it is still on the same drive. The application will then appear in the Task Manager with the [...] Continue Reading…