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www.Rarst.net

http://www.Rarst.net

Blog about software that just works (preferably while being freeware and portable) and IT-related web resources.

Added on: Jul 26th, 2008
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Rarst
Listed in: Software Internet
Tags: Software freeware web portable

Recent Posts

Twelve months blogging milestone

Posted on Wednesday July 8th, 2009 at 10:00 in blog, goal, milestone, thoughts, traffic, web

Three, then six, then nine months had passed and so I am here at first birthday of Rarst.net blog. Honestly feels like any other day. So let’s see how this year went for my blog and my readers. :) Readership In these twelve months (actually eleven...
Do publishers like syndication as much as readers?

Posted on Monday July 6th, 2009 at 10:00 in content, information, interfacelift, pipes, reader, rss, syndication, thoughts, web

Last week I wanted to do a post on Wallpaper Juggler which is nice wallpaper changer, that I remembered for ability to download and store images from Interfacelift. Turned out developer had fallout with Interfacelift and download function is broken s...
Simple plain text to HTML conversion in AutoIt

Posted on Sunday July 5th, 2009 at 10:00 in autoit, convert, html, regexp, script, text

I had recently posted about minimalistic Q10 text editor for writing. My only gripe with it that for all benefits of plain text it needs cumbersome reformat when pasted in Windows Live Writer. So I decided to make AutoIt script to remove manual part ...
Asus Express Gate – fast OS or useless toy?

Posted on Saturday July 4th, 2009 at 10:00 in asus, expressgate, Firefox, hardware, Linux, Software, splashtop

Took me a while to get to it (says something about how appealing idea is) but today I tried Express Gate function on my newish Asus motherboard. Express Gate (aka Splashtop) is light Linux distribution integrated with hardware to provide fast boot in...
Change interface language in auto-detecting GTK apps

Posted on Friday July 3rd, 2009 at 10:00 in command line, console, gimp, inkscape, script, Software

I was somewhat puzzled by encountering few apps (GIMP and Inkscape for which I had recently posted link to excellent tutorial) that defaulted their interface to language of Windows installation and gave no option to change it. It can be quite inconve...