Tiny Tools
This is a small collection of tiny utilities for programmers, system administrators and skilled PC users.
Many of these software programs may not have been updated for a long time, but they are generally well tested for everyday use, and some are even available on some third-party free software websites.
An interactive Bash script that wraps ffmpeg to apply the most common "personal video" operations (resize, rotate, aspect ratio, trimming) and re-encode to mp4 with sensible defaults. This project is meant to be a practical, hackable starting point for your own needs.
download from GitHub: mp4-reencode-helper
This small Bash script uses 7z to conveniently manage the encryption of personal and private notes. It has been tested on Linux (native and on WSL) and on Android via Termux app, but should also work on other platforms where a Bash shell is installed and the commands used by the script are available.
download from GitHub: criptednote
This software temporarily disables the screensaver. It can also be useful in situations where the user does not have the necessary grants to change Windows settings. Tested on Windows 11.
for Windows x86 64-bit (executable + source code): noscreensaver-0.2.zip - 23 KB
Sometimes the computers run too fast and a developer cannot test what happens to his/her program if the computer is busy (e.g. high volume websites, high CPU concurrency situations and so on) or simply if the hardware is too old and slow. This tool tries to simulate these scenarios: it makes your CPU cores work heavily on arithmetic calculations. The user can decide the number of threads.
MZKillProcess-1.0-BETA.zip for Windows x86 32-bit (4 KB). This tool kills processes by name. It does it brutally, immediately, without posting any kind of message to the process. I found it's mostly useful in emergency batch files, when I need a quick and guaranteed result: the process must die instantaneously, regardless it has time to close in a safe way.
clock.zip for Windows x86 32-bit (3 KB). Very basic text-only clock. I had to write this because I needed to display the time and the system on which I was logged on did not show it - and I had not the possibility to make it appear in the menu bar (too few grants, and I was not the administrator).
shortpath.zip for Windows x86 32-bit (5 KB). This tool displays the short path for files and folders. It supports drag & drop. Very useful for unfortunate software developers :-)
simplesleep-1.0.zip for Windows x86 32-bit (4 KB). Similarly to the sleep command in Linux environments, you can use this tool inside batch files to stop the execution, indicating a number of seconds or a time.