This app allows you to google the selected text from any application. Well, not "any" application. While a couple more hours of enhancements could have made it stronger - it currently works from within any textbox or richtextbox control. To activate it, press Ctrl-F11 after highlighting the text. This will cause your default browser to open with the search performed. The application resides in the systray as a red "G", and can be exited from the context menu.

Expect some mods to come out for this one to improve it's ability!

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Download the source here

May the source be with you

Nothing much to say. It resides in your systray. It sounds like Big Ben.

On the hour, every hour. Thanks to our British friends for requesting this app, and basically giving me the night off! THANKS Cowx!

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Download the source here

May the source be with you.

This is a simple little app that monitors your clipboard, sends the contents (text only today, sorry - someone will mod it) via UDP multicast to the specified group multicast IP, and puts the data in the remote PCs clipboard. In summary, when you copy from one pc, you can paste on the other. It works great - and I know plenty of people who will use this at the office.

There are other apps like this, but they tend to be point to point instead of multicasting. The point to point apps whine when one client or the other go down, and take extra configuration. Plus, this one is good for any number of PCs.

The only issue I've had with it is that my WIFI router, and Daemon's, seems to not send UDP multicast packets over the waves to clients. The other direction works, the wireless NIC in the pc does send the packets, and they get to the router and broadcast. Thus a machine on WIFI seems to be able to send the clipboard, but not receive. I'm unclear on whether this is per spec, or just a "feature" of our routers.

No special key combos are needed to use the app - it monitors the existing keyboard and broadcasts it. Double click the systray icon and you can set the group IP, the port, and the TTL. If you don't know what these mean, tinker only with the port to separate yourself from other clients on your network.

No configuration is needed unless you want to seperate yourself on your LAN from others that may be running this. Just start it on both PCs, and it takes over from there!

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Download the source here

May the source be with you

**** Code updated - fixed issue causing screen saver not to exit

It's a screensaver, for code! It displays the *.cs (HAHA) code contained in the subdirectory and randomly changes every 30 seconds (I think... It's late...). Download the app, extract all files to a directory, and right click the ".scr" file. You should have "test" and "install" options - which work as advertised.

The download includes ALL AnAppADay.com source code flattened into the subdirectory. So out of box, it'll display all my code. I wanted to make it scroll the code and such, but I'm pooped. I didn't screenshot as it's a pain to screenshot a screensaver. It's late and I haven't slept in a while. Enjoy!

Download the screensaver here
Download the source here


Download DaemonCollector's modded version here (don't blame me)

This sweet mod makes the text for the code type itself onto the screen. It also has configuration options for text color, and code location. While the "debug" mode didn't work for me (Vista B2), word has it that on XP enabling that feature causes it to open random binaries and print the ASM! Wow!

Stick your hands into my honey pot by clicking here. What you'll see is a google map of the world, and everyone else who has stuck their hands into my honey pot.

How's it work? A simple .NET 2.0 client application resides on my machine which receives the HTTP connection, records your IP, and serves you a google map page along with the location of everyone else who has requested the page. The data is NOT persisted between application executions - so if I turn off my laptop, no more honey pot.

To run this application on your own computer, you'll need:
- A static IP, or DNS name (dyndns.org or no-ip.com are good for this)
- A Google API key (get it here)
- To edit the HTM file included with the application to have your google API key.
- To port forward port 15632 to your machine (sorry hard-coded, late night!)
- To execute the application on your machine
- To invite people to visit http://[your IP or DNS]:15632/

To shut down your honey pot, just right click the systray icon (blue target with yellow center) and choose Exit.

View my honey pot here (same as honey pot link above)
Download the binaries to run your own honey pot here
Download the source here

See that button on the right that says "PayPal..."? It's a neat little button/graphic, eh? Ever wonder what happens if you click it? Me too.


Download Chris's modded version here (don't blame me)

I added a configuration window to change the Port while the program is running.
I also added in an "Admin" page that will list the IP's of anyone
hitting your honey pot inside a message balloon, modify the
"AnAppADay.JediHoneyPot.AdminPage.htm" to change how it looks.
There is also an option to set the location of the admin page,
"http://site:port/adminpage/", I'd recommend it be changed to
something unique so that only the owner can see the admin page, that
too is able to be changed while the program is running.

Both text boxes in the configuration window have tooltips.

I added a tool tip to the Notify Icon, now it shows "Total hits: 12 -
Unique hits: 8" on mouse-over, just a simple count of how many hits
the honey pot has gotten so far.

Tonight's application runs silently in the background, and screws with the keyboard input. Typically I do a screen shot, but in this case, there is nothing to screen shot. Instead I'll write the pledge of allegiance below, with the args 20 10 2 passed to the application:

Ÿ I!pledge alegiance to the flg,"of te unjed states of amekca.# ¢¢And# o he rrepubic, ffor wwhich it stnds one ation, UgE GOD, with libey, aandjustie for aall

It has 3 different styles of achieving this prank:
Replace - replaces the pressed character with a psuedo-random replacement.
Consume - consumes the pressed key (does not get pressed).
Repeat - repeats the pressed key.

This application should be run from the console, and running with no args provides a brief help box. It's named "ankey.exe" so it won't look too obvious in task manager. You can rename it anything you'd like (but the Utils DLL must remain the same). The three args are the settings above. Run it with 500 500 500 to really trick people into thinking that their keyboard is broke. Run it with 20 10 2 to piss people off completely - but they'll know something is up!

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Download the source here

Then, the Jedi commands you to click the PayPal donate button on the right. 24 free applications in 24 days... You can at least throw a dollar in my hat!