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Tor AutoSwitcher is a free utility that automatically switches Tor  to a new identity every 10 minutes. The time interval is configurable. In case you’re wondering what the hell “Tor“ is and why would anyone care about “switching” their identity, here’s a relevant quote from the Tor article Wikipedia: Tor is a system intended to […]

There are two things that I do every morning, right after turning on the computer. First, I read the latest strip of Schlock Mercenary. Then I check my Google AdSense earnings for the previous day. It’s the perfect mix of business and pleasure, and a great way to start a new day. But enough about […]

Don’t you hate it when programs hang or crash? I find it especially annoying when a background application like an IM client or a bandwidth monitor silently crashes – sometimes I only notice the problem hours later when I’ve already missed a bunch of messages. I’m sure you’ve encountered a few “Not responding” errors and […]

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.

The UIF to ISO converter GUI is another little program I’ve made recently. 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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]