A handy tool to look up Emojis • 03 Nov 2019
I recently took the habit of using more Emoji characters in blog posts and titles, because why not š¤·āāļø. In order to look up the most appropriate Emoji, I was always checking out theĀ official Unicode Emoji list. Unfortunately, that list...
Stuff to install on a new Windows PC • 17 Sep 2008
That is, the stuff I install on a new Windows PC. Since I need this list several times a year, why not make a blog post of it. As you will see,I have a more than average interest in video...
Lightbox for photo feeds • 03 Jun 2008
Because I needed it and I couldnāt find it: a tool to embed a Lightbox-based photo album viewer that uses an RSS photo feed as its input. It uses SimplePie RSS library, the Lytebox Javascript photo viewer, and RSS āphotocastā...
How much fuel do you pay? • 27 Dec 2007
My friend Henry asked me to calculate on a napkin how much I spent on fuel per month. I have a greedy car, but I live close to the office. Still I was quite surprised by the number I got....
id3.exe – ideal tool for tagging and renaming MP3 files • 29 Aug 2007
I want to mention a little tool that helped me out twice in the last week, and that I find very little info about online. Itās a Windows command-line MP3 file tagger and renamer called id3.exe. Since I forgot whereĀ I...
MRTG data in XML format • 15 Jan 2007
Get ready for a lot of acronyms in this post: āHow to create a good XML-based API for MRTG sensor dataā.
Easy web page mockup tool • 06 Sep 2006
Iāve just finished a tool to make web page mockups. The purpose: make a quick draft of what a web page should look like, so you can include a screen shot in an email or a specifications document. When a...
SUDOKU Solver tool • 07 Jun 2005
I have just created a tool to help solve the Sudoku puzzles: the forret.com Sudoku Helper. Iāve added it to my Forret tools directory.
Binary confusion: kilobytes and kibibytes • 04 Feb 2005
When I created my Bandwidth Calculator, easily the most popular web tool I ever made, I came across the following problem: in computer technology there is a habit of using kilobyte (kB) as 1024 bytes (as KB), megabyte (MB) as...
My online charmap of HTML character entities • 24 Aug 2004
Geeky as hell, but I need it quite often, and what better place to put it but here: the list of 250+ HTML character entities. Handy if you would want to write Ļ = Ā¾ ā¢ ā Ę(ĻĀ²) ā or...
Port redirection in Windows • 01 Jun 2004
We use port redirection/proxy often on our platforms. In the production setup, separate (Linux-based) servers take care of this, but for our development and testing environment, we need port redirection for Windows system. I generally use 2 command-line packages:
I recently took the habit of using more Emoji characters in blog posts and titles, because why not š¤·āāļø. In order to look up the most appropriate Emoji, I was always checking out theĀ official Unicode Emoji list. Unfortunately, that list...
My friend Henry asked me to calculate on a napkin how much I spent on fuel per month. I have a greedy car, but I live close to the office. Still I was quite surprised by the number I got....
When I created my Bandwidth Calculator, easily the most popular web tool I ever made, I came across the following problem: in computer technology there is a habit of using kilobyte (kB) as 1024 bytes (as KB), megabyte (MB) as...
