Shirking Responsibility

Two new tiny portable apps for my USB drive. You might find one of them useful, at least.

• CurrPorts - There are many such apps and methods to view the currently open ports in Windows, including c:\netstat -a, but this is my favourite. It’s very feature-filled and is only 36.5K in size.
• TYPSoft FTP Server - Haven’t actually had a use for this while out yet, but I imagine that being able to temporarily set up an FTP server on someone’s system might be useful. Either that or I’m just really reaching now to find stuff to put on my drive.

I’m curious as to whether Zempt, my favourite posting tool for MT, also works with WP.

I guess I’ll find out if this post shows up. I’ll be happy if it does, it’s always feels so much faster loading up an app instead of opening your browser. Especially when you have as short an attention span as I do at times. I swear the times I’ve opened up Firefox to do one thing and instead end up going to my usual sites by reflex…

Update: Cool, I guess it does.

I was checking out the features in WordPress, which this site now runs, and I noticed that you can easily make several different link lists for your sidebar. Since I mostly post about software, I decided to make a list of links to software that I use or recommend to my friends.

It cycles randomly through a much bigger list, which I am still amassing. Man, I really do love software.

So ever since I got a laptop for Christmas I’ve been using my USB drive less and less, but I guess I may as well post a couple of other tiny apps that I’ve added to my collection lately.

• NetMeter - This is a really nice freeware bandwidth meter. The default tracking layout is a bit ugly, but once you set it up how you like, it’s perfect.
• Process Explorer - This has replaced PrcView on my drive as my process explorer of choice. Sysinternals makes some good stuff.

Ahhh, so much software downloaded since last I posted here. I must catch up.