Aw dawg, this is just my whateva-whateva site.

See:
http://djlizard.net/software/dial-a-fix/

As of right now, I have one application: Dial-a-fix.
It's pretty stable, for being an alpha-test, and it will be updated next month probably. It will remain free forever. Anyway, I would like to eventually make a few 'killer apps' that I could make money from. Problem is, I don't know what kinds of programs people need right now. Any ideas? I want to make *something*, I just don't know what. I'd probably charge in the range of $1-$10 (USD) depending on how 'killer' my app is. :P

Snippy: Hotkeyable, memory resident program that can take cut-outs of the screen that you select with your mouse, copy them to the clipboard, and even save as PNG, TIFF, JPG, or GIF.

http://bhelpuri.net/Snippy/

Four thumbs up.

Holy shit, this site is amazing. Try to use Firefox if you can, it is probably most compatible. Ironically, I got a report that the site worked like crap in OS X itself [but it was from ToastyX, and nobody cares what ToastyX thinks] Oh, and I'm referring to the site itself, not the OS X total conversion kit that makes Windows look like OS X. I hate all those OS X theme packages because they always get something wrong, and the Aqua theme only looks good on Mac; it looks like shit on Windows.

See it:
FlyakiteOSX

WTF? What a shitty name. Even worse than "XP".

Update – 07-25-05 (mm/dd/yy):
According to The Seattle Times, Microsoft is stepping on the toes of fellow Redmond software developer, Vista.

Microsoft, in a huge changeup from the norm, has decided to default Office 12 to save its files in OpenXML format. The files will no longer be binary, no longer proprietary. This is astonishing to me. :P

Sysinternals is one of my favorite tech sites, because their utilities are simply genius [and without them, my job would be 10x harder], and Mark's blog is fun to read, because he explains issues he has in-depth. He almost always uses a Sysinternals program to bail himself out of a sticky situation, so it's kind of a nice self-serving blog (in a good way) ;)

I don't know much about Bruce, but I bet he's a genius too. Microsoft respects the hell out of those two, and so do I. Sysinternals products are mentioned, and even recommended, in numerous MSKBs.

Visit Mark Russinovich's blog here: http://www.sysinternals.com/Blog/
Visit their utilities section, too. Specifically, Autoruns and Rootkitrevealer, which are two amazing pieces of software that just keep getting better.

Go here.

cdtray is a small program I wrote for a friend. It's pretty crappy. You even get to see a console window for a moment while the drive opens. All it does is open and close whatever drive you tell it to. That's what he wanted, that's what I gave him. I'm sure I could have made it prettier. I didn't. It was a 5-minute program. :)

To Protocol: the link has been fixed. You can now find the cdtray program here. In the future, please leave comments on an existing post rather than writing a draft post ;) [I fixed the problem that allowed you to do that in the first place].

Syntax examples:
cdtray.exe open D:
cdtray.exe close E:


The [lame] source code! :

program ejectcd;
uses
 SysUtils, MMSystem;
var
 str, str2: string;
begin
 if (ParamCount < 2) then halt;
 str := lowercase(trim(ParamStr(1)));
 str2 := 'open cdaudio!' + uppercase(trim(ParamStr(2))) + ' alias thedrive';
 mciSendString(PAnsiChar(trim(str2)), nil, 0, 0);
 if (str = 'close') then mciSendString('set thedrive door closed wait', nil, 0, 0);
 if (str = 'open') then mciSendString('set thedrive door open wait', nil, 0, 0);
end.