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Software

I'm a software developer, and aside from doing it professionally I often create little applications to improve my own personal experience of the computer.  Items which I've decided to share with the world I'll place here.

Besiex Touch Pack - Free Viliv S10 Blade Software

A collection of little applications I wrote to make the most out of my Viliv S10 Blade tablet. Many of the applications will benefit people with any netbook or tablet PC, while others are customizations which only apply to Viliv owners (of the Viliv S5, Viliv S7, Viliv X70, and Viliv S10 Blade).

ExactTouch - Making Tablet PCs Finger Friendly (early beta!)

Your fat little finger will never press the wrong on-screen button again!  This is a brilliant idea of an app which is still a little early in development...  When enabled any touch you make on the screen will provide you a brief moment where you can correct your touch using a magnified image of the region you just clicked!  Do nothing and the click goes through, or easily fix the click by touching the right location in the greatly enlarged image of the region.  Try it out and give me feedback, I've got a lot of improvements I'm planning to make.

ProcessSuspender - Keep your PC Fast by Suspending Background Processes (coming soon)

Another genius of an app...  Windows has the ability to safely suspend processes and resume them later.  If you're not going to be using  Firefox in the next few minutes because you need to use Microsoft Word why not suspend Firefox and have it automatically resumed when you switch back to it later?  A backgrounded application can still use plenty of CPU and plenty of RAM, while a suspended process will use zero CPU and potentially zero RAM (since all of its memory is not being actively used the OS can page it to disk thereby freeing the RAM for active processes).  To suspend a process just hit ALT + PAUSE, and it will be suspended and minimized, then just switch back to the task and it will be automatically resumed!

Warning: Suspended apps won't be doing autosave, checking your email, or whatever other functions they might want to do.  And you should NOT suspend critical processes on which other processes depend (like anti-virus, Windows Explorer, etc.).  And there's always a chance of losing your data if you haven't saved recently or if the application is not well designed.  So use wisely and test the processes you are suspending to make sure they seem to play well with suspend/resume.