Recently my web host migrated the HazteK Software to a new server with less than a week's notice that it was going to happen. If you find that any links are broken on the site, or downloads are not working, please let me know via the contact page so I can fix the issue.

Are you or someone you know considering ordering solar panels or a solar roof from Tesla? If so, consider using my referral link. By ordering through this link, you will be helping keep the software on this website free. Just a single referral will basically cover the entire cost of running this website for a year.

This is by no means an attempt to sell you something you don't want. If you are already in the market though, and don't have another referral link already available, you can use mine and help support freeware on the web! The best part is that this isn't a one-way deal, you will also receive an incentive to use the link. Friends and family who order Solar Roof or Solar Panels through my referral link can earn up to $500 once your system is activated.

Thanks for visiting my site and your consideration!

Howdy! Are you going on a cruise soon? Do you struggle to figure out which excursions you want to do in each port of call? Do you wonder how to best allocate your time when in port for a long time? My new tool will help you do that. It builds out a helpful table from the excursions you are interested in, and you can check to see what overlaps, and what doesn't. From there, you can mark your favorites and figure out how much it's going to cost for each port. It's a fun little tool I built because I was getting annoyed building spreadsheets to do this for me for each trip. Now it's mostly automated an easy to use! If you like cruising and want to plan your excursions a bit better, hopefully this tool will help you out! Check out the Cruise Excursion Planner out now!

Update: Whoops, the registration link was broken. It should be fixed now!

My music collection is strewn all over my various hard drives, and I've been required to bring along all of my external drives every time I travel to/from my job, now that I am back in the office a few days a week. It was frustrating to lug those around regularly, and so I worked to migrate all of my music to my internal storage on my laptop. One drawback to this process was that some of my music was already on the internal storage, but those same files also existed on my external drives, which were really hold overs from my previous computer that I never merged. Because of this, when I migrated all my music together into a single Winamp playlist, there were a lot of duplicates. While it doesn't make a big difference if the same song is on a playlist of 3000+ songs, it annoyed me when it would play the same song twice in a short period of time when on random, just because it was in the list twice. Just like that, Playlist Cleaner was born. I know it's a pretty specific niche tool, but I figured it would be good to share with the two or three other people in the world who also maybe have this problem and search the web to solve it.

Another recent tool I've built is Network Profile Editor. This came about after a conversation with a co-worker on why her network was labeled as "Frontier873" even though she was on campus and definitely not connected to a Frontier network. I did a little research and found that the only way to rename profiles was to edit the registry manually. It worked, but seemed like a lot of work for such a small convenience. I took a few hours to work on a simple application to let us modify our network profiles without digging through the registry. It's just a cleaner interface to the same end goal. Since this seemed like something that others have wondered about in the past, I decided to package up the tool and release it on my site.

StorURL has a popular feature called Tree View mode which lists all bookmarks in a simple tree structure that is easy to navigate. Because it was so popular, but slightly annoying to use within the application itself, I came up with this new solution: StorURL Mini. It is basically just the Tree View mode broken out into its own application. This means once you have a basic database setup with the full application, you can just use this for day-to-day bookmarking purposes.

If you like using StorURL to manage your bookmarks, and prefer the Tree View mode over the standard desktop mode, then you may want to give this new application a try! This application has been built using the .NET 4.8 framework and the latest NuGet packages, so it will be easier to maintain and keep up to date in the future. Since this is a brand new application, if you find any bugs or issues, please let me know.

Happy mini bookmarking!

I recently needed to test whether a TCP connection could be made between a monitoring server and one of the servers it is monitoring. Because of limited visibility into IP routing and firewall rules, I was unable to verify what was causing the connection issue it was having. The monitoring server didn't have a telnet client installed on it, so I was unable to quickly use that to verify whether a socket connection was possible. Since I didn't have admin rights to install the client, I whipped up this little portable tool called TCP Checker. It let me figure out very quickly whether it was a transport layer issue or an application layer issue. I cleaned it up a bit, and added some prettiness to it, and now it's available for you to download as well. If you ever need to quickly determine if your firewall admin is blocking you from doing something, this tool can help you diagnose. :)

When developing websites or applications, sometimes you want to match colors or even just figure out what color is being used. There are many tools out on the market, both for pay and for free that will let you select any color on the screen and display its properties. Color Picker is one of those tools. It doesn't do anything any better than the others out there, but it is very, very simple. It only does one thing, and hopefully does it well.

If you are interested in using such a tool, and you aren't one for excessive functionality, give it a look and see if it will work for you. If you aren't in the market for something like this, thanks for visiting, maybe something else around here might be of interest to you. Any way you slice it, I hope you have a great day.

I recently was required to "upgrade" from Windows 7 to Windows 10 when I got a new computer at work. For the most part, Windows 10 is not too bad, but there are a few annoyances that come along with it. One of them, for me, is the new calendar when you click on the taskbar clock. I don't like the way the calendar scrolls one week at a time. In Windows 7, the calendar scrolled one month at a time when using the mouse wheel, which is much more preferable.

So after searching the web and trying various registry hacks that no longer work with the latest builds of Windows, I decided to fix the problem myself. After a few hours of hacking away at Win32 API stuff, I have come up with Old Clock! Yeah, real original name, I know. But the gist of it is that it's an old clock for your new version of Windows. Nothing fancy, minimal resources, the way I like my widgets.

If you are interested in this new tool, feel free to check it out on the application page. If you have any suggestions or comments, feel free to contact me and let me know!

I've decided to revamp the HazteK Software website to make it a bit slimmer. I've noticed that the old Wordpress site has been dog slow lately, and I felt like I could increase its speed a bit by narrowing it down to just the things the site needs.

If you find anything wrong or broken on the site now that it has been switched over to the new one, please let me know via the Contact page. Any bug reports will be greatly appreciated.