What programs did you write to make your life easier

[Maximation]

Looking at the final page of the programming thread I came across this question.

But because that question was from a year ago I thought I would ask this question again, a lot of people have joined the forum since then and I am curious to what you have developed to make your life easier.

 

Here is the original post I reference to : http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/3464-using-programming-to-make-everyday-life-easier/

[brownninja97]

I programmed my mouse so that the sniper button is a ctrl+o macro, thats it 

[shouldervalley]

I know a man who made a program that tells him if he can solve a soduku puzzle ( and note it doesn't give him the answer it only does the precessing and then tells hi yes or no)

[Extingquish]

Not sure if its considered a program, but I wrote a simple bat file to open blender with opencl rendering

[Maximation]

I know a man who made a program that tells him if he can solve a soduku puzzle ( and note it doesn't give him the answer it only does the precessing and then tells hi yes or no)

 

Wait, what? Interesting, how does it work?

[LukeTim]

At work I can sometimes get tedious jobs involving appending something to many files, chopping up YUV files to specific frames, running a reference decode, checking the MD5 and then writing information to a database etc...

I've written quite a few of my own Python scripts to do various jobs like this... I keep them on my PATH in C:\bin to make them easily accessible. 

Also, I have added a couple of extra features to my Windows context menu, where I can instantly calculate a file's MD5 or SHA1 hash or a CRC32, for example...

At home, though, I've not really found much need. Though I have written a PHP script for randomizing and e-mailing out my family's yearly secret santa.

[alpenwasser]

I have a PHP script that generates the BB Code for all the different

forums on which I post my build logs. So I only write one template, then

run that through the script, then copy-paste the results to the forums.

Has saved me a ton of work.

Also, this week I wrote the Perl script which generates our storage

ranking list, ordered and properly formatted for copy-pasting

into the forum.

[shouldervalley]

Wait, what? Interesting, how does it work?

I don't actually really know he just mentioned it

[Ciccioo]

i used to play bitefight (ah...)

after i spent some time (a lot of time, way too much time) playing it, i figured that the "game logic" was so simple that i could write a bot/autoworker for it, so i did, it was a firefox extension

[rockking1379]

picking my college classes can be a pain sometimes. so i wrote a small program that took a CSV file and put it into a database. then i can run some more advanced searches to find specific days and times for classes

[WanderingFool]

I have two programs for cookie clicker...one that just clicks when hovering over the cookie, and one that moves the mouse to the golden cookies

 

I also have bat files that do renaming of files, programs that just search through text files for keywords, programs that just dump the tree list of explorer, best scrabble words, hangman solver, webpage scrappers (it saves a lot of time, instead of having to go copy paste every day), emulator launcher (very handy, it sets the controllers to their proper settings and everything...since I use DS3 controllers and each emulator has a slightly different controller setup)