It’s one of those apps you forget you have installed. You only remember you use it when you work on a computer that doesn’t have it. Zooom does two things. It lets you resize a window without the need to point exactly to that small square in the right bottom corner. And it lets you drag your windows without the need to point exactly to the title bar. You need it too.

UPDATE: check out the extended version of this script: fitting URL.

Since I started twittering a few days ago, and Twitter allows just a few letters for each tweet, the need arose for a small URL generator, a service that replaces a long URL (like http://vasilis.nl/fotos/digitaal/kiki/kiki-2009/in-de-hangmat-05-09018.jpg/) with a small one (like http://vasilis.nl/a/6). I tried two services (tinyurl.com and tr.im) but both didn’t work as I wanted them to work, which is strange because I don’t want much. Fortunately I’m a nerd so I just wrote my own short URL service. I’ll explain what I did so you don’t have to figure out how to write your own. The other reason I write this blogpost is that I hope somebody will explain me if things can be done easier or more secure: I’m just googling for solutions, I’m no programmer. And I really hope that somebody with a math knob can help me count with the base 64 system I choose to use.

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