All articles by wgalyen@gmail.com
Tab Pocket Now Available
I’m excited to announce that **Tab Pocket**, a new browser extension for organizing and managing your open tabs, is now available on both **Chrome Web Store** and **Firefox Add-ons**! We’ve all been there—you’re deep in a research session, a coding marathon, or just exploring the web, and suddenly you have 47 tabs open. Tab Pocket...
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ColorSnatch Release 1.2.0
What’s new in 1.2.0 Added: Screen freeze — freeze screen updates to sample the color of elements that change on mouse‑hover Point lock — monitor a color at a fixed screen location independently of cursor movement Auto‑name colors — automatically generate names for new colors or rename existing ones using a color dictionary Averaged...
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LogSight Release 1.0.0
LogSight Release 1.0.0 This is to announce the official launch of LogSight version 1.0.0! This first stable release, brings powerful log analysis and monitoring capabilities to your development workflow. Motivation Like many developers, we often face the challenge of analyzing application log files—especially archives sent by users when troubleshooting elusive bugs. Searching for unusual behavior...
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Recall Wifi Release 1.0.0
I’m please to announce the launch of Recall Wifi, a compact and portable Windows tool that lets you instantly recover your saved Wi‑Fi passwords, manage network connections, and secure your wireless credentials. What Recall Wifi Can Do Recover WEP, WPA, WPA2, and WPA3 passwords stored on your system. Analyze your saved networks for weak or vulnerable passwords. Import or export...
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ColorSnatch 1.1.0
Color Snatch 1.1.0 I’m happy unveil the latest update for my lightweight desktop color picker and editor. Here’s what’s new in this release: Added Harmonious Color Scheme Generator Modify hotkeys for color capture and copy Load colors from stylesheets (.css files) Optionally capture color on mouse click Changed Scroll to newly added color in list...
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ColorSnatch 1.0.0 Released
ColorSnatch 1.0.0 Released Announcing the first official release of ColorSnatch, a lightweight cross-platform desktop color picker and color editor utility designed for developers, designers, and digital creatives! Feature Highlights Wide range of color code formats: RGB, HEX, HSL, CMYK, RGB Decimal, and HSV/HSB 3x, 6x, and 9x magnification cursor preview Color list for saving, cataloguing,...
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Secure Synchronization using SSH
Allows you to synchronize a directory over a secure shell connection. It also has functionality to allow you to run commands remotely, all without leaving the comfort of your local machine. Installation 1. Ensure Python 3 and pip are installed. 2. Install with the following command pip install -r requirements.txt 3. Run with python secure-sync.py...
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Dropbox Folder Restoration using Python
Restores any dropbox folder to a previous state. If a file did not exist at the specified time, it will be deleted. Handles unicode parameter input and processing of subfolders. Example To restore the folder /photos/tokyo to the way it was on March 7th, 2016: python dropbox-restore.py /photos/tokyo 2016-03-07 Note: the path /photos/tokyo should be...
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Recursive Folder Synchronization using VBScript
This is a script written years ago that I still find useful; I had a need to apply updates to many local machines that had no network access from an external hard drive. It synchronizes the contents (files and subfolders) of two folders. Each folder is traversed recursively and any missing subfolders and files are...
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Oil Painting Filter in C#
Converting an image to make it look like an oil painting is not only a nice effect, but is also an easy to implement algorithm. This article demonstrates how to create an oil painting effect from an image. The oil painting filter consists of two main components: color gradients and pixel color intensities. Result images...
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iTunes 11 Style Scroller
Spent a couple of hours seeing if I could recreate the album scroller found in the store view of the latest version of iTunes. Uses CSS3 transforms for animation and some jQuery to handle interaction. Definitely needs tidying up, and probably only works in WebKit and latest browsers for now....
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Kuwahara Filter in C#
The Kuwahara filter is probably one of those things that you haven’t heard of much, if ever. It’s a noise reduction/blurring technique for images that preserves edges, similar to a median filter. It acts like a box blur, except we take that box around the center pixel and divide that into four smaller boxes (with...
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Craigslist Monitor using Ruby
Overview To add to my ever expanding knowledge base of languages, I decided to spend the last day and a half teaching myself Ruby and this was the result. A script to watch Craigslist for relevant posts so you don’t have to. My first ever Ruby program. Watching Craigslist can be a time-consuming task. The...
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