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2023-10-13 17:47
Long-time vim or neovim users are probably already aware that visually selecting a block of text then pressing CTRL + A in vim will result in any numbers in the selected block of text being… Read More
2023-10-08 18:53
Image courtesy of Hack A Day
This blog post was a bit delayed in the pipeline, but a new release of tcproxy, our educational async (tokio) rust command line proxy project, is now available f… Read More
2023-09-11 17:17
This post is for the C# developers out there and takes a look at the interesting conjunction of [CallerArgumentExpression] and static extension methods – a mix that at first seems too… Read More
2022-09-29 20:11
Low-level or systems programming languages generally strive to provide libraries and interfaces that enable developers, boost productivity, enhance safety, provide resistance to misuse, and… Read More
2022-08-08 19:00
See discussion on r/rust or on Hacker News
A few days ago, we published a new version of both the securestore library/crate and the ssclient CLI used to create, manage, and retrieve secrets… Read More
2022-06-27 16:59
Hot on the heels of an update to our rust port of PrettySize we have a new release of PrettySize.NET that brings new features and capabilities to the best .NET library for formatting file si… Read More
2022-06-22 23:07
I’m happy to announce that a new version of size, the PrettySize.NET port for rust, has been released and includes a number of highly requested features and improvements.
The last majo… Read More
2022-02-05 20:50
Easy Window Switcher, our Windows “power toy” that brings macOS-like switching between open windows of the same application with Alt+` to Microsoft Windows, has just been updated… Read More
2022-01-24 22:31
In the world of network security, it pays to always remember that many (if not most!) security bugs start off their lives as seemingly innocuous “regular” bugs, and it’s o… Read More
2022-01-24 22:31
In the world of network security, it pays to always remember that many (if not most!) security bugs start off their lives as seemingly innocuous “regular” bugs, and it’s o… Read More
2022-01-04 22:49
NeoSmart Technologies is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the latest additions to its Easy Recovery Essentials for Windows line of bootable repair and recovery tools for Mi… Read More
2021-11-02 18:17
Windows 11 is here and it comes with a new version of Segoe UI Emoji, the font that’s used across the OS to render various emoji from Unicode codepoint sequences to the emoji you… Read More
2021-08-30 18:57
NeoSmart Technologies’ open source (MIT-licensed), cross-platform tac (written in rust) has been updated to version 2.0 (GitHub link). This is a major release with enormous performance… Read More
2021-02-19 18:15
One nice thing that’s come about from the increased scrutiny that online security has been receiving is that it’s gone from being considered paranoid to becoming completely expec… Read More
2020-12-15 21:39
An updated version of AsyncLock has just been released on GitHub and Nuget with improved support for reentrancy detection.
AsyncLock is a async/await-native anonymous lock for .NET and .NET… Read More
2020-11-23 22:12
Perhaps one of the biggest difficulties in setting up a Linux system for desktop/home use is the fragmentation of the ecosystem, with many different options claiming to get you from point a… Read More
2020-03-16 17:39
I have a soft spot in my heart for rust and a passionate distrust (that has slowly turned into hatred) for interpreted, loosely typed languages, but it’s hard to deny the convenience o… Read More
2020-01-28 17:09
It’s been awhile since we first released our SecureStore.NET library for C# and ASP.NET developers back in 2017, as a solution for developers looking for an uncomplicated way of safel… Read More
2020-01-01 00:28
Microsoft’s official documentation on adding custom model binding providers to convert between (typically) a string and a custom type for complex model binding in ASP.NET Core as of .N… Read More
2019-06-30 01:27
One of the nicest things about ASP.NET Core is the availability of certain singleton models that greatly simplify some very common developer needs. Given that (depending on who you ask) one… Read More
2019-06-12 16:53
Have you ever needed to compare the contents of two files (or other streams), and it mattered how quickly you got it done? To be frank, it doesn’t normally come up in the list of… Read More
2019-06-10 23:55
Just a quick heads-up: Easy Window Switcher 1.2.2 has just been released and it brings correct hotkey support for the following keyboard layouts:
Swedish
German Swiss (QWERTZ)
International… Read More
2019-06-08 03:50
For yesterday’s NeoSmart.Collections release announcement, we had need of an updated logo for Microsoft’s .NET, and were unable to find something corresponding to .NET Standard… Read More
2019-06-07 05:14
NeoSmart Technologies is pleased to announce the immediate availability of its open source NeoSmart.Collections library/package of specialized containers and collections designed to eke out… Read More
2019-02-06 23:49
NeoSmart Technologies’ Easy Window Switcher, a nifty utility which brings macOS-like switching between windows of the same application with Alt–`, has been updated to version 1.2… Read More
2018-12-24 22:33
Rust, both by design and by convention, has a fairly strongly defined model for strict error handling, designed to force developers to deal with errors up front rather than assume they don&r&hell…Read More
2018-11-29 23:55
One of the unique characteristics of Rust (both the language and the community that has evolved around it) is a strong acknowledgement of multithreading, synchronization, and concurrency, as… Read More
2018-10-04 19:16
While no one expects a language that formed organically via iteration and evolution to be free of logical errors, over time conventions have been formed to deal with most of them such that f… Read More
2018-09-12 23:35
C# developers have long been spoiled when it comes to quickly and easily getting up and running with encryption thanks to the .NET CryptoStream class, which wraps a Stream instanc… Read More
2018-08-28 01:59
Let’s start this article with an error message right off the bat:1
~> cargo install ripgrep --features 'avx-accel simd-accel'
Updating registry `https://github.com/rust-lang/cra… Read More
2018-08-11 20:56
We’ve just published a rust port of our PrettySize.NET library, now available via cargo and github. Like its .NET predecessor, PrettySize-rs aims to provide a comprehensive API for dea… Read More
2018-02-22 23:17
A recurring theme in just about all discussions revolving around the comparison of programming languages – apart from using the wrong tool for the job, adamantly pushing a language ob… Read More
2018-02-12 21:29
A year and a half ago, I heeded the growing warning signs that indicated the looming demise of macOS, née OS X, as a platform for developer and true computer enthusiasts, and set abo… Read More
2018-01-06 23:01
Security-conscious Windows users attempting to protect themselves against Meltdown and Spectre attacks in the wild are being met with a deceptive “Your device is up to date” mess… Read More
2017-12-03 05:57
Ask your favorite typophile about the difference between Arial and Helvetica, and you’re sure to regret it… unless you have a latent appreciation for the differences between fon… Read More
2017-10-07 23:24
The sandy text editor is an open source project from the team over at suckless.org, which make painfully minimal1 alternatives for popular tools and applications for unix-ish plat… Read More
2017-09-22 02:16
At NeoSmart Technologies, we’re huge fans of the new Windows Subsystem for Linux,1 and have spent a lot of time trying to make the transition between the native Win32 subsystem an… Read More
2017-09-12 14:05
We may not know for sure what it’s going to look like or what it will cost, but we do know that the new iPhone 8 – Apple’s 10 year iPhone anniversary edition – is on… Read More
2017-08-28 16:19
HTTPS is the future and the future is (finally) here. Secure HTTP requests that provide end-to-end encryption between the client making the request and the server providing it with the requ… Read More
2017-08-16 14:19
If you haven’t heard of tac, it’s a pretty nifty command-line utility that ships with the GNU utils and it’s used to print a file backwards, line-by-line. It’s especi… Read More
2017-08-16 02:35
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2017-08-09 21:24
Have you ever wanted to quickly find out how long your system has been up and running for? Did you come back to a suspiciously empty desktop when you could have sworn you left some apps open… Read More
2017-06-23 20:45
If you’re still stuck on .NET 2.0, 3.0, or 3.5 for any reason and don’t have access to the .CopyTo method for System.IO.Stream objects, the Stream.CopyTo extension… Read More
2017-06-22 20:23
Just a quick heads-up for all our readers: our recently released RunInBash utility – which makes mixing-and-matching PowerShell/Windows/CMD commands with WSL/Linux/Ubuntu command… Read More
2017-06-21 21:06
Continuing our promise to open source parts of our libraries and applications where possible, we’ve just released PrettySize, a C# and .NET library for representing file sizes in a hum… Read More
2017-06-14 07:26
If you have any skin invested in the high-performance computing game, you’ve almost certainly heard of the likes of MMX and SSE, the original “extensions” to the x86 assemb… Read More
2017-05-26 20:12
1Password and LastPass are probably the two best known names in the password storage business, both having been around from 2006 and 2008, respectively. Back in 2008, the internet was a very… Read More
2017-05-25 19:37
One of the biggest improvements to C# and the .NET ecosystem in recent years has been the introduction of the async/await programming paradigm and the improvements it brings to both performa… Read More
2017-05-11 14:51
We are proud to present the latest addition to our open source portfolio, the Unicode.net library! We’ve extracted a number of encoding- and emoji-related namespaces and functions from… Read More
2017-05-08 22:45
This post is chiefly directed at .NET developers and others involved in the various stages of .NET deployment, in particular, anyone that’s been keeping tabs on the situation with the… Read More
2017-04-25 01:41
We’ve raved about Microsoft’s latest take on a Linux subsystem for Windows, this time in the form of the oddly-dubbed “Bash on Ubuntu on Windows” Windows Subsystem fo… Read More
2017-03-27 17:13
Hello international users of EWS! We’re really happy to announce the immediate availability of Easy Window Switcher 1.1.0, which brings support for internationalized keyboards to EWS u… Read More
2017-03-22 15:35
From the “they clearly didn’t think this one through” department,1 comes news of the federal government’s new ban on “electronic devices larger than a cellphon… Read More
2017-03-19 19:57
We’ve just released the inevitable bugfix build for any product launch with Easy Window Switcher 1.0.1, which adds the ability to cycle between maximized windows. Hat-tip to Chris Boll… Read More
2017-03-16 14:53
Today, while browsing the internet and looking at some “old” guides from 2012 I came across a familiar sight: a forum thread with hundreds of inline images, all of them once hos… Read More
2017-03-15 22:19
Dedicated followers (and anyone making the switch from Mac to PC) – this Pi Day 2017 gift is just for you! A new day means a new free app for our favorite peeps on the internet. M… Read More
2017-03-15 18:48
Dell has two top-of-the-line laptops that are currently competing for king-of-the-hill status — quite the odd choice from a marketing perspective, no doubt — but how do the two c… Read More
2017-02-23 19:42
Let’s say you’ve got a terminal open and you want to sort the contents of a file before you email it to a friend. The file can contain anything and it could be of any length, it… Read More
2017-02-20 21:25
Lenovo’s ThinkPad T570, the much-awaited, supposed MacBook killer that was first announced at CES in January, is now available for pre-order via Lenovo Hong Kong – meaning users… Read More
2017-02-18 19:13
Today while browsing a (compromised) WordPress site that shall remain unnamed, I came across a very interesting “hack” that was pulled off with a bit more finesse than most of th… Read More
2017-02-15 18:08
SecureStore is our open-source (MIT-licensed) solution to secrets management for .NET developers. It’s intended to be dead simple and boldly embraces the KISS principle. We’ve be… Read More
2017-02-13 16:12
Everyone, say hello to betterpad – an open, fast, & free replacement for notepad that doesn’t suck. Inspired by text edit on Mac, this recent convert back to the Windows ecos… Read More
2016-11-21 02:51
Quick, if you had to pick one thing Internet Explorer has that Chrome doesn’t, what would it be?1 For us, it has been a dearth of common navigation shortcuts that can make life filling… Read More
2016-10-28 13:37
Much has been made of “home field advantage” in baseball – in particular, does playing at home vs away significantly affect a team’s outcome? Just how much impact do… Read More
2016-10-27 19:21
Apple is famous for making awesome hardware. Or at least, they were. Today, it seems that Apple is officially trying to become famous for making hardware you can’t change, in configura… Read More
2016-07-22 18:54
This is just a small public service announcement for any web developers or eCommerce website owners using PayPal Express Checkout to accept payments on their websites: don’t… Read More
2016-06-04 17:13
An update to our Windows 10 Product Key Utility has been issued that addresses a number of minor issues. Since its initial release in December 2014, the BIOS-Embedded Product Key lookup… Read More
2016-06-02 05:30
I first discovered FeedDemon in the summer of 2004, probably via a promo or plugin in author Nick Bradbury’s other application, HomeSite, while “learning” HTML after ditchi… Read More
2016-03-28 22:43
Have you suddenly found yourself with an unwanted, un-needed, or unasked for copy of Windows 10? Friends or family complaining of an unexpected update to an operating system they don’t… Read More
2016-03-28 22:43
Have you suddenly found yourself with an unwanted, un-needed, or unasked for copy of Windows 10? Friends or family complaining of an unexpected update to an operating system they don’t… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
One of the few products at Google that doesn’t stagnate and is always seeing new features, improvements, and changes (sometimes so often that it gives the appearance of being change fo… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
One of the basic principles of computer security is that if someone has physical access to a machine, compromising it is simply a matter of time (yes, even technologies like whole-disk encry… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, you’ve certainly seen all the hullaballoo that took place when Google shut down Google Reader for good. Aside from… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
A year ago, Google’s incredibly thorough April Fools’ 2013 prank would have easily won the title of awesomest April Fools’ prank ever. But today? Maybe not. This year&rsquo&hell…Read More
2016-03-18 20:35
Facebook Messenger, from the team notorious for using 18,000 classes to create a simple iOS app, is back to teach you one more lesson: how to stupidly use up as much valuable screenspace as… Read More
2016-03-14 16:23
In keeping with the yearly tradition, we find it part of our mission on this earth to make bring the good news to all: Happy Pi Day 2016!
Pi Day, derived from the co-incidence of March… Read More
2016-02-26 17:24
It’s a story of two Apples: an Apple that makes consumer products and Apple that makes enterprise products. Devices under or around the $1000 mark like the iPhone, the MacBook Air, an… Read More
2016-02-26 17:24
It’s a story of two Apples: an Apple that makes consumer products and Apple that makes enterprise products. Devices under or around the $1000 mark like the iPhone, the MacBook Air, an… Read More
2016-02-22 23:37
As most people are aware, Google search results are constantly changing and evolving. In the past couple of years, there has been a conscious and very deliberate shift – and not just b… Read More
2016-02-20 21:55
We’ve just open-sourced some code we’ve been using in-house in the form of srtresync, a smart and easy-to-use utility that can correct both traditional “fixed offset”… Read More
2016-02-15 17:42
At NeoSmart Technologies, we have a special affinity for ecosystems running both Windows and *nix in unison, each doing things they excel at. Half of this website is running ASP.NET MVC unde… Read More
2015-11-06 23:41
Every computer-savvy keyboarder has run into this problem before: you’re typing your merry way through a credit card payment form, pounding out your address and credit card numbers, ta… Read More
2015-10-20 20:53
It’s our distinct pleasure to announce the release and immediate availability of EasyBCD® 2.3 for download. Development on EasyBCD 2.3 has been ongoing for the past three year… Read More
2015-10-06 21:52
Modern hard drives are shipping with newer features, some of them more confusing than others. One such feature that’s causing a lot of head-scratching and confusion amongst the ranks i… Read More
2015-09-10 01:46
Apple has just released OS X 10.11 El Capitan GM, but users and developers running beta builds will not be able to upgrade directly from the App Store. In order to upgrade from a El Capitan… Read More
2015-08-28 14:38
Good news! With Windows 10, we finally see the return of the “in-place upgrade,” more commonly known as the ability to repair install!
Windows XP was the last version of Windows… Read More
2015-08-14 23:46
Windows 10 is here. But unlike any other Windows release ever before, the situation with licensing and upgrades is quite different – and rather unclear. Who is entitled to a free copy… Read More
2015-08-04 23:21
Easy USB Creator 2.1 has been released and is available for immediate download, complete with support for Windows 10, improved support for creating more-reliable bootable USB sticks than eve… Read More
2015-07-21 10:29
pevents, our implementation of Windows manual- and auto-reset events for Mac and Linux, is now officially pevents, our truly cross-platform win32 lightweight events library for Windows, Mac… Read More
Answers To Password Reset Questions Are Passwords Too — So Why Aren’t We Treating Them That Way?
2015-06-25 21:14
If you’re a developer working on or maintaining a website catering to the general public, chances are you’ve implemented some form of password reset via security question-and-ans… Read More
2015-05-25 17:34
iReboot 2.0.1 is now available for download. This release addresses one critical issue and introduces one new feature. Under certain undetermined conditions, some versions of the .NET Framew… Read More
2015-03-14 14:26
Everyone, please say hello and welcome to iReboot 2.0! Officially under beta since May 2010, iReboot 2.0 commemorates Pi Day 2015 with the spirit of less is more and simply brings fit and f… Read More
2015-02-15 01:46
Possibly one of the biggest hurdles that stands in the way of fostering innovation and discovering newer and better techniques of doing old things is the ease with which developers and desig… Read More
2015-02-12 03:43
Ever wanted to shop on Amazon.com with bitcoin? Well, now you can. AMZ Bitcoin is a service that lets you buy Amazon.com gift cards in exchange for bitcoins – any value, any time. Unl… Read More
2015-02-05 02:04
With Windows 10 just around the corner, we’re mighty happy to report that our award-winning Easy Recovery Essentials for Windows is now currently available for absolutely free to… Read More
2015-01-26 17:16
Have you ever wondered just what is it, exactly, that happens when you press that simple “power” button on your PC? How does your computer go from electricity reaching the power… Read More
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