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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

Explore yummy cache of Opera alternate download

Posted on Wednesday September 2nd, 2009 at 10:00 in Software, download, ftp, opera, browser, archive, torrent

So while millions (two) of people enjoyed final release of Opera yesterday, I spent evening in new round of getting hacked and bookmarking WordPress security plugins. Anyway Opera servers were taking serious beating and I got interested in @Opera twe...
FreeFileSync – spiffy sync app

Posted on Monday August 31st, 2009 at 10:00 in Software, portable, automation, file, sync, command line, freefilesync

Samer had covered FreeFileSync at Freeware Genius and his review was practically glowing. I hadn’t touched my setup with SyncExp in a long time so was little bored with it. So, FreeFileSync – portable, open source (and glowing) tool to sync files...
Dapp Factory – scrape sites to numerous formats

Posted on Sunday August 30th, 2009 at 10:00 in rss, web, feed, convert, pipes, scrape, dapp

I am big fan of Yahoo Pipes (when they are not silently deleting code of mine on bogus copyright complaints :) Anyway for all benefits of using Pipes there is one notably lacking area – scraping data of HTML pages. There are limits on data size and...
Blog (briefly) hacked

Posted on Saturday August 29th, 2009 at 10:00 in php, blog, hack, web, Security, wordpress, log

It was one of those awful Fridays yesterday – I had work and then work after work and after even more work I had to attend family event. And when I came home at last my own blog DOSed my browser with endless pop-ups. I am extremely sorry if you got...
Topsy.com – search engine for tweeted links

Posted on Thursday August 27th, 2009 at 10:00 in search, web, link, twitter, topsy

This blog had recently got few trackbacks from Topsy, which brought it to my attention. With all of that micro-realtime-search craze and numerous online services doing nothing except leeching data of Twitter it takes some quality to keep my attention...
Remove and fix Layered Service Provider (LSP) entries

Posted on Wednesday August 26th, 2009 at 10:00 in Software, fix, network, winsock, lsp

Layered Service Provider is Windows feature that allows software to tap into all of network traffic. It is widely used by antivirus monitors, network monitors and malware (what isn’t?). It is also likely to ruin network connectivity if anything in ...