EggBird's nest

Utilities

XVDM is a virtual desktop manager. Why yet another virtual desktop manager?
Well, I've never found a desktop manager that I really liked. The ones I tried, either didn't move the windows the way I wanted, or they put their own windows on the desktop, or they were too complicated, or... And most of them were just too large, ranging from 70Kb to the megabyte range. So, I decided to write my own.
Fine, but what does a virtual desktop manager have to do with XML. XVDM uses a configuration file, XVDM.xml , written in XML. Yes, that's right, XVDM contains its own XML parser. How is all that possible in less than 60Kb? Well, apparently you don't know about Modula-2!
Starting from version 2.00, XVDM also allows you to make screenshots.
Download (version 2.00.00) XML Virtual Desktop Manager

Do you ever need to find a file that contains a specific piece of text? Here's a utility that can help you ( screenshot ). It works particularly well with PFE, which is a very nice text editor. Unfortunately, it looks like PFE won't be maintained anymore, you can download a copy of PFE 1.01.00 here .
Download (version 2.00.00) FSearch.zip

Sync is a utility that synchronizes one or more directories. You can specify a filter for each directory to exclude or include files in the synchronization. This simple utility can, for example, synchronize directories on your laptop with directories on your main system.

Optionally, Sync executes external programs or batchfiles after synchronization, this can for example be used to zip the contents of the mirror and ftp the zip file to an FTP server. The following example batchfile uses winzip to zip the contents of a mirror directory and the built-in ftp client of windows to ftp the zip file to an FTP server.

"c:\program files\winzip\winzip32.exe" -a -r documents.zip documents\*.*
ftp -s:docs2ftp.txt your.ftp.server

The ftp client reads its instructions from the file docs2ftp.txt that contains the following commands:

your-ftp-user-name
your-ftp-password
binary
put documents.zip
bye

Download (version 2.00.00) Sync.zip

DeWiggle is a very small utility that removes temporary files from your temp directory. Lots of applications show the annoying habit of leaving their temporary files on your hard disk. Look in your temp directory and see those lists of ~dbf827.tmp files. Instead of having to remove those files by hand every once in a while, you can put DeWiggle in your StartUp directory and have them removed automatically each time Windows is started.
Download DeWiggle.zip

Mail is a small command line utility, which can be called from batch files. It reads the file given on its command line and mails a small message to the person defined in the file.
Download mail.zip

Usage: mail 

The format of the file is very simple:

smtp:smtp server, e.g. smtp.your.provider
name:login name on smtp server
pass:login password on smtp server
from:from mail address, e.g. from:you@your.provider
to:to mail adress(es), e.g. to:to@mail.address
subject:subject, e.g. test
message:message (max 2048 chars), e.g. this is a test message