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Bvckup – Simple, Sexy and Fast Backup for Windows

Riyad Kalla — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:57:03 +0000

What happens when you take a software developer with an inherent love of good design, sit him down in front of his computer with a code editor open and tell him to code… code like a gentle angel! Well, you end up with Bvckup… pronounced “Backup“, but I will continue to call it “Buh-vackup!” in [...]

FourSquare Mayor Checkin Program w/ Source Code

Riyad Kalla — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:23:32 +0000

Update #2: This application now has an official software product page with all the links for download, usage and source code. If you just want to download the program and run it, scroll down the Download section below. Thanks! Background A few weeks ago we wrote about Mayank Lahiri’s working FourSquare checkin hack that allowed [...]

New AJAX Binary-to-Text and Text-to-Binary Converter Released

Riyad Kalla — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:21:24 +0000

Along-side our other slew of handy AJAX utilities, we have just released a new Binary-to-Text and Text-to-Binary online utility. This utility is as easy to use as the others, just decide if you want to convert binary to text or text to binary, select the respective tab and then past your original text in the [...]

AJAX SHA-1/256/384/512 Hash Generator Released

Riyad Kalla — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:55:13 +0000

In addition to the other handy AJAX-enabled utilities we released, we’ve just added a SHA (1, 256, 384 and 512) generator utility to the collection. Enjoy!

Slick JavaScript Color Picker Utility

Riyad Kalla — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:49:43 +0000

I find myself on Google searching for “color picker“s a lot more often than I ever thought I would; you really never anticipate how often you want to double-check how a color looks, or what it’s hex code is when you are messing with CSS. Dion Almaer tweeted a link to a great JavaScript color [...]

AJAX Base 64 Decode/Encoder & MD5 Generator Utilities

Riyad Kalla — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:35:55 +0000

I would like to announce the launch of a couple new AJAX-enabled online utilities that software developers might find handy: Base64 Encoder/Decoder MD5 Generator For those interested the utilities are written using the Play! Framework (Java) and JQuery/JQuery UI and the Base64 and MD5 generation is backed by the Commons Codec project. These utilities are [...]

kallasoft SmugMug Album Downloader Announced

Riyad Kalla — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:10:16 +0000

kallasoft would like to announce the initial release of the SmugMug Album Downloader. The purpose of this software is to help you download your albums from SmugMug onto your local machine on Windows, Linux or Mac. Comments and feedback welcome!

PS3 2.5 Firmware Adding Screenshot Capability

Riyad Kalla — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:22:56 +0000

CVG is reporting that the 2.5 firmware update for the PS3 (coming somewhat soon, weeks? months?) will add the ability to grab screenshots of whatever you are playing. I imagine this will need to be some magic set of keystrokes to do so, because right now not every game pauses the action when you hit [...]

Simple Virtual Desktops on Vista – Desktops 1.0 Released

Riyad Kalla — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:04:33 +0000

Virtual Desktops in Vista has been a sore point for massive multi-taskers since Linux made virtual desktops cool 114 years ago and Apple took it mainstream with OS X 10.5 and Spaces. We’ve been on the hunt for a good Virtual Desktop application for Vista for quite a while; we wrote about Vista/XP Virtual Desktop [...]

Quick Feedback on Bandwidth Usage with constat

Ray Gomez — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:21:52 +0000

Are you running multiple servers, and having a hard time tracking where all your bandwidth is going? Maybe you just want a quick view of how efficient your new music streaming app? You are in luck, there is a useful little utility called constat that can help track down rogue bandwidth hogs. The utility gives [...]

PS3 Adds YouTube In-Game Video Uploading

Riyad Kalla — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:36:06 +0000

This is awesome news over on the YouTube Blog sent in by Ted Regulski. It looks like Sony has partnered with YouTube/Google to include game-video upload capabilities into the PS3 that any game title can take advantage of. The APIs enhancements will be available to all PS3 developers to take advantage of and will seamlessly [...]

Create Customized Windows Vista ISO with vLite

Riyad Kalla — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:51:15 +0000

For the folks that have used nLite with Windows XP and love it, stop right there… vLite is for Vista and works just as awesome. For folks that have no idea what nLite or vLite are, they are these badass programs written by Dino Nuhagic that are used to take the install files for Windows [...]

Windows Utility: Process Lasso

Riyad Kalla — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:27:50 +0000

Grant Gochnauer sent along a heads-up to a pretty kick-ass little Windows utility application named Process Lasso. The purpose of Process Lasso is to manage the priorities and CPU-quotas of all running processes to make sure your computer stays responsive, even in times of trouble (e.g. a single process runs out of control and pegs [...]