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Here are some pieces of my home-made software that have been conceived under brand names VLAK&co. and Miha Inside and have accumulated in dark, cold places of my hard disks (not to mention the floppy disks and tapes) over time. Most of them are products of "Blimey! Even I can do better than that!" or "Let's see if this can be automated!" situations. The majority of them (every single one, that is) are written in various dialects of BASIC, because it's the programming language that makes writing bad programmes the most fun. Since I have to use them frequently I tried to make them suit my needs (after all, blaming Mr. Gates for missing features wouldn't make much sense here, would it?).
They are all free for you to have and do whatever you want with them (even disassemble, reverse engineer, pierce, burn or expose to direct sunlight for prolonged period), but I can't guarantee they will work with your equipment properly (or at all). If you want to have the source of any of them, please feel free to write me an e-mail with some good reasons why I should give it to you, and you may well get it.

 Clipboard text editor (Win 2000 and above). A utility for automatic or manual editing of copied clipboard text before it is pasted. Useful whenever you wish to convert those long titles of downloaded articles into valid file names.

 Renamer (Win 2000 and above). A utility for bulk file renaming. Also does automatic file name sanitization and semi-smart conversion to CamelBackCase.

 Measure (Win 2000 and above). A utility for on-screen measuring. Useful whenever you wish to know the exact pixel size of something on your screen.

 Duration (Win32). A utility for calculating event duration. Useful for those rental and travel expense forms.

 Radio (Win16, Win9x). The less-awkward-than-the-bundled-software control program for AIMS Lab RadioTrack (a.k.a. Reveal FM Radio Card or Escom FM Radio Card). Includes features like Timed Recording, Auto Scan, Manual RDS and a smart and intuitive Graupunkt Goisern front panel.

 MacParser (Win32). The one-click batch converter of Central European texts written on Windows PC to character encoding suitable for use on Macintosh.

 Eee Display (Win XP). Resolution switching utility for the Asus Eee PC running Windows XP. Does exactly the same as the supplied utility but can make use of drivers that support downscaling to 800x600.

 Slovenian to English phoneme converter (DOS, WinNT command line). The ultimate converter of Slovenian texts to be read by English text-to-speech software (works well with less smart text-to-speech programmes like Creative's SBTalker).

 Diesel Simulator (Win32). One of the most accurate diesel engine simulators available for Windows PC systems. Features advanced technologies like Vintalyzer(TM) and SpizdoMatic(TM).

 Wiper (Win32). A package that includes all you need to convince your friends that something is very wrong with their monitor.

 ROT 13 (Win32, MS Word 97 and above). Did you notice that newer mail and news readers don't do ROT 13 any longer? Jryy, hagvy gurl qrpvqr gb oevat gur srngher onpx, lbh pna uryc lbhefrys jvgu guvf.

 ROT 13 0.1.1 (Linux). The same thing as above but for Linux. (Made with Gambas and therefore requires its runtime components.)

 CpuFreq 0.0.15 (Linux). A tray application for adjusting the cpufreq parameters in the lines of Kima that's been sadly missed in KDE 4. (Made with Gambas2 and therefore requires its runtime components.)