Many thanks to the following folks who kindly responded to yesterday's request for help:

Benjamin, Fritz, Michael, Micronsite agenzia webmastering, Laurent, Steven, Uwe, Norberto, and Mike Mills.

The logo which was ultimately selected is from Micronsite agenzia webmastering, and can viewed here. So far, it seems to work perfectly in every major browser, even when the text is resized. Please let me know if your browser has any problems. Thanks!

I am working on moving TinyApps to a CSS-based layout, and am having a few problems with the logo (found here), namely:

• Looks perfect in Firefox, Opera, and Safari, but awful in IE (unless text size is set to "smallest")
• Does not resize well in any browser but Opera (increasing font size in Firefox results in the text overflowing)

If anyone can help with this, or just with general tips on transitioning the site to CSS, please let me know. UPDATE: Many thanks to all of those who kindly wrote in. Micronsite agenzia webmastering has sent a version which works perfectly in all major browsers. It will be posted here shortly along with credit to everyone who took the time to help. Thank you.

Shareware is rarely mentioned on TinyApps. Not that there is necessarily anything wrong with it (especially considering that there is no such thing as "free" software), but usually there are better freeware alternatives.

However, such is not the case with Aid4Mail. This mailbox converter/archiver is simply without parallel. Though suffering from an unfortunate activation and verification system, Aid4Mail can do far more with mailboxes than any other app I've seen.

Despite being over 1.44mb (and therefore not qualified to be added to the program listings), it has been reviewed for two primary reasons:

1. There is simply no other app (free or fee) that has the same functionality
2. For years, Eric Fookes has generously given away one of the most popular text editors for Windows, Notetab Light. Several years ago, he kindly made a version for TinyApps readers: tiny_notetab.zip

You can read the review here.

Pravin kindly wrote in to inform us of his app, Yammy (Yahoo Messenger Archives Decoder), which decodes and displays archived Yahoo Messenger conversations. Screenshot

"Detailed discussion of DiamondCS' ProcessGuard, a tool designed to generically protect your sensitive and critical processes from being tampered with by all sorts of malware."

The phrase "pre-IPO biotech trade secrets" may very well become the next "all your base are belong to us":

1. Berkeley laptop thief is scared out of his wits by professor
2. Teacher Caught Lying To His Students, Boing Boing Takes The Bait
3. Pixel reenactment
4. ABC News: Professor Exaggerates Risk During Stolen Laptop Tirade

UPDATE 1: ABC has yanked this story - perhaps they got a call from a certain pre-IPO biotech company ;-) However, here is a quote from the story and a screen capture of the headline at Google News

UPDATE 2: Paul Jones (who is to thank for salvaging the quote mentioned above) is also following this story. The sources keep disappearing... I'm beginning to suspect that a certain pre-IPO biotech company is in cahoots wit^^$*~$))^- NO CARRIER

UPDATE 3: The ABC News story lives! Thanks to Google cache and Justin's kind email. Page 1 | Page 2

UPDATE 4: The official Berkeley webcast of Prof. Rine's class has been edited to remove his laptop comments, so here they are in QuickTime format.

Angry IP Scanner 2.21 [109k] {S}+ Pings a range of IP addresses and optionally resolves hostnames, scans ports, returns NetBIOS info (computer name, workgroup name, currently logged in user and MAC address), and saves results to CSV, TXT, HTML, XML or IP-Port list files. Don't miss the plugin page, especially David Bingham's MAC Address via ARP protocol. (While settings can be saved to the registry, this is not the default behavior.)  

floppyswop.co.uk - "A place for sharing any files small enough to fit on a conventional floppy disc (1.44meg High density), art, media, sound, noise, its up to you, all files are hosted here for taking and swopping." (via ME-L)

Joe kindly wrote in to tell us about his patched version of jhead (covered on April 1st), which is capable of outputting EXIF data in XML format. Open source, with binaries available for Linux and OS X.

Nothing Better Than Death - Insights from 62 near-death experiences. Buy from Amazon or download the PDF for free.

iBackup 3.1.0 [516k] Simple backup/restore utility with scheduling support for OS X. Free for personal use.  

New HOWTO posted: Help yourself, your fellow beings, and the planet

Help Me with Firefox Popups has a number of helpful posts on how to block the latest popup and popunder ads plaguing Mozilla Firefox.

Andrew Parker kindly sent in a very cool alternative to the two Japanese language tools featured yesterday: Rikai.com displays the reading and definition of any word in a tiny popup box:

jBrowse is an Internet Explorer plugin which adds furigana and word definitions to Japanese web pages. It can also be used as a two-way dictionary and kanji locator (search by radical, stroke count, pronunciation, meaning, jouyou level, or JIS number).

Original page:


Page with furigana inserted:


Page with word definitions:


If you do not or can not use Internet Explorer, this site offers instant online rendering of furigana, though the output is a bit harder to read:

nLite - Build custom Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 install CDs with integrated service packs, hotfixes, and drivers while excluding unwanted components (Media Player, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, MSN Explorer, Messenger, etc). Requires .NET Framework 1.1.

Bjorn kindly informs us of Indeed.com, which is, as he so succinctly puts it, "basically the Kayak.com of job hunting sites."

Kayak.com is a very simple yet thorough travel search engine. According to About.com, Kayak "searches more than 100 major airline, hotel, and travel sites. From those it can access prices and itineraries on more than 550 airlines and 85,000 hotels - and then Kayak gives users the options of booking directly from the travel supplier of their choice by clicking on a supplier's direct URL, calling the travel provider's tollfree phone number, or booking via Orbitz or Onetravel.com."

BeOS fans can still listen to virtual (void). (via Aldoblog)

jhead 2.3 [94k] {S}+ Extract/modify digital camera setting information from exif JPEG files, strip unncessary data, more. Precompiled binaries available for Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris.    (via Mike Mills)