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I just now learned that Karen Kenworthy, the author of a great number of excellent tools , is dead. All my heroes are dying.

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I’d like to thank the outpouring of support for this great programmer and person. Though I did not know her myself, I feel strongly about this topic and am glad it has attracted readers.

Whenever you act as a consumer — use a piece of software, watch a video or read an article or just a comment — and it brightens your day or informs your life, please think about leaving even the smallest reply. These matter more than you may ever realize.

One moment of your writing will impact uncounted hours of a person’s future efforts. One minute of your time will brighten years for another. If all we have is kindness, maybe that’s the one thing that another might need.

If something matters to you, then you matter to it.

  • 2022-07-10 – Joe Winett stopped maintaining Karenware.

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prcview.com (gone as of 2016-02-12, archive)

Command line utility allows automating common task like figuring out if particular process is running or killing a running process on scheduler. Has a GUI version.

I’ve never really used it, but it’s stayed in my toolkit because it’s under a megabyte.

  • Tested PrcView GUI 3.7.3.1, commandline 3.10.2.1, on 2014-04-24 on Windows 8.1, updated recently.
  • Tested PrcView GUI 5.2.15.1, commandline 3.11.1.1, on 2016-02-12 on Windows 10, updated recently.



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https://web.archive.org/web/20190603053234/http://www.ivanheckman.com:80/allsnap/

Like a good Linux window manager, allSnap allows Windows’ applications to snap to the main screen area or to one-another.

That is, when dragging or resizing a window, it will try to cling to a nearby window. This makes it easier and faster to adjust windows “just right”.

  • Works on 32 and 64-bit Windows.
  • Run both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions to cover all applications.
  • 2017-09-01 – 1.5.0 beta on Windows 10 64bit

    • It’s been working just fine for some time now.
    • The website is gone.
  • As of 2016-02-11, it hasn’t been updated since 2010-07. (source)

FossaMail-logo.png

Linux email clients >

https://web.archive.org/web/20150114084355/www.fossamail.org/

An email client and RSS client made by the developers of Pale Moon. Based on Thunderbird, the Mozilla email client.

Meh, I’m not sure I like it very much.

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Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
wildstar-online.com

A space-western-esque MMORPG whose most interesting elements are movement in combat and a light/comedic tone. Oh, and player housing for the girls.

Meh. Just meh. I gave this a good shot, but the gameplay and interface are just shit.

I got to level 10. TEN and gave up. It was quite fun until I did a dungeon. I was told to keep playing until I did one, and .. well.. it failed miserably.



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Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://heroesofthestorm.blizzard.com/en-us/

A MOBA which also has good bots.

Like all the other “safe” games Blizzard has created, Heroes of the Storm is an accessible MOBA (Multiplayer online battle arena) game. It’s pretty, plays well, and os reasonably fun. It has excellent bots to beat up for a chill game. Voice support makes it great.

I play a bunch of it, and like it. I don’t PvP. The versus AI started out being really boring but improved a lot over time.

  • aka HOTS
  • abandoned – It’s officially on life support
  • Full ultrawide support, even in windowed fullscreen. It’s a big difference.



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