I have created a new free online service called bl3nd. bl3nd.com is originally my personal blog domain, but I decided to do more with it. If you visit bl3nd.com, you will be allowed to enter a long URL and shorten it to something easy to remember. If you visit www.bl3nd.com, you will get my personal blog. The service, like all of my other stuff, is free to use. It costs money for hosting, and although I make money from this site by the ads, I don't have any ads on bl3nd.com. There are advertisements placed with javascript and can be blocked with adblock plus. If you find the service helpful, please consider donating. I hope it will be useful to everyone.

I have added my personal download manager to the site. I have named it Elifteg, which is GetFile backwards since basically, all it does is get files. It was originally written for myself to download a large amount of high resolution images from NASA's website. I figured it might be useful to someone else on the 'net, so I am passing it on to everyone. It is a very simple application that lets you drag and drop links from your web browser (both IE and Firefox work) and queue the files for download, or download them immediately. It has the ability to either download a single file at a time (to minimize the time to get each file) or download them simultaneously, or asynchronously.

Screenshot:

It currently does not have the ability to pause and resume downloads, although that is a planned feature. It also cannot accept any type of protocol except HTTP. I am working on an FTP addition to it, so that files can be downloaded from either of them. So if this sounds like something that might be vaguely useful to you, check it out and let me know how it works for you. If you find any bugs or crashes, please let me know! You can find some more information via the application page, or download the application directly from this post via this link.

I have a Zune. I don't like the Zune software. I use Winamp to play all my music on my system. I created some playlists for my Zune that I wanted to also listen to in Winamp. I didn't want to convert the playlist through Windows media player or perform any of the other cheesey hacks that are commonly used to convert the files. So I bring you... Zune Playlist Converter. Another original application by HazteK Software. For more information and a download, you can visit the information page, or you can download the application directly via this link: ZPL2M3U.zip. Zune Playlist Converter can convert a ZPL file into either a M3U file or PLS file, both of which are compatible with Winamp, along with many other players. And here is a screenshot:

Note: This application has been updated since this original post. It originally could only create m3u playlists, but can now create pls files as well. The new version is 1.0.0.2.

I just recently started using StarDock's ObjectDock application in Windows XP. I couldn't find an easy way to launch the "Run" command from the object bar, so I decided to write my own application that mimicked this feature. It is a very simple application, with very limited use. It is basically for people who don't know the Windows+R command or have those hot keys disabled on their system. It functions identically to the Windows "Run" command.

If you feel that this might be of some use to you, feel free to download it from the RunWidget information page or directly from this post.

Update: Version 0.0.2.0 is already available. I fixed a pretty significant problem with handling arguments and "quoted" paths like "C:\Program Files\StorURL\storurl.exe". It should be fine now, and is downloadable from the exact same place. Sorry for anyone who ran into this problem before I fixed it.

Today brings another update to StorURL. The newest version is now 2.6.2. The following things have been updated after being reported by a StorURL user:

• The search portion of the application is now functional again. I didn't even realize that this function hadn't been working for the last n updates. It now works as expected again.
• Fixed the scan link logging function. It now saves a log file if that option is enabled, allowing the user to view the log in the log viewer, or opening the scanlog.txt file in the Profile folder with a text editor.
• Fixed the problem with the "Scan all links in <category>" when switching from English to another language and then switching back.

The latest version can be downloaded from the information page, directly via this link, or the in-program updating function.