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Select text with your mouse (left click, then drag), then middle click to paste. Handy feature from the *nix environment for Win32. Check it out: [http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/nt/TXMouse/]

While looking for Drupal templates, I stumbled upon a nifty utility to generate anti-aliased rounded corners via JavaScript.

Check it out on Steven Witten's blog at acko.net.

Like a lot of programmers, I'm very... meticulous... when it comes to writing code. I detest looking at malformed code, and will reformat it -- if not refactor completely -- at the first opportunity. But, like a lot of geeks, I'm lazy efficient, so I use a class of utilities called beautifiers to help maintain my code (well, other's code, but let's not get snarky).

I've used HTML Tidy to clean up gnarly web pages...

I've used Jalopy to clean up mangled Java code...

I've even used a relatively ancient Visual Basic 3.0 one back in the day. The name escapes me, but it was in 1995 and I remember I paid $100 bucks for it. Given the nature of the code I was working with, it was worth it.

After googling awhile, I stumbled across a yacc version and a couple of on-line versions here and here. The former on-line one has some Delphi source available for download -- too bad I haven't used Delphi for years.

So, why is it so difficult to find an open source SQL beautifier similar to Jalopy or HTML Tidy?

When I get an opportunity, I'll have to knock one out.

While entirely focused upon utilities, xtort.net is the kind of site I had in mind when I started putting together this site (especially my long-neglected wiki).

xtort.net offers daily updates of hundreds of pages which list thousands of complimentary software programs for Windows.

I've been working with Crystal Reports quite a bit lately, and this looks interesting.

Crystal Reports Exporter

Rainy's Rainlendar is one of the best calendar utilities around.

NuonSoft's ShellEnhancer is pretty handy, but the last time I tried it, it had "issues." It's now in 2.0b stage, so I'll have to check it out again.

Tugzip is a HELLA-FAST compress/uncompress tool. Think WinZip or UltimateZip in terms of speed and ZipGenius in terms of price.

Definately worth the 3.7mb download.

Well-written software can be life-changing... Well, that's a bit much, but if you spend as much time in front of a monitor as I do, it can be time-saving at least.

Here's a few packages I don't leave home without. Literally -- they're on an Iomega Micro-mini USB Drive that's attached to my keychain. I'm lusting after the 1GB version so I can put a full-on cygwin distribution on it.