Free Painful Software

Arkan by Pixmart LLC

Arkan is designed to convert border of a raster mask (selection of an object in scene) or any closed polyline into B-spline (piecewise cubic Bezier curve) representation spread widely in vector graphics packages. Arkan chooses the best position both for node points (junctions of adjacent Bezier polynomial pieces) and for control points, which don’t lie on the curve but only affects its shape.

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SoundBreak by The Lost Continent of

SoundBreak helps remind you to take those little stretch and relax breaks that have been shown to help prevent the effects of Repetitive use injuries. It reminds you by unobtrusively playing random sound files of your choice - I use sound bites from old movies. I used a similar utility for a while that someone else had written, but found it very frustrating to be *forced* to take a 30 second break in the middle of a thought.

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FontLoader by Moon Software

FontLoader an utility to make your TrueType font installation a snap. It consists of a shell extension and a font loader module that sits in the system tray, providing you to quick acces to font groups that can be loaded/unloaded on the fly.

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Web Log Filter by DonationCoder.com

Web Log Filter is a helper utility for people who have huge (Apache) web log files, over a gigabyte in size, and want to be able to analyze these logs in standard web log analysis tools. Web Log Filter runs simple scripts that will rip through a log file at blazing speed and extract just the lines you care about (discarding the rest) and create one or more new log files, which are smaller and more manageable.

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Userful Pre-Book Windows Client by Userful Corporation

Userful Pre-Book Windows client eliminates time cosuming sign-up sheets and painful policing of computers. It allows library terminal reservations to be placed both from within the library and anywhere on the Internet. It works across all web browser platforms.

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