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For all Wateen WiMAX users out there in Pakistan, this small desktop utility will keep you logged in without having to relogin or to find out that your connection was down while you were trying to do something and gave up on it. It is very simple and just uses the web interface to log in and check uploaded and downloaded bytes which are shown on the screen, the green / red square is a status check to see if the connection is up or not. You have to define preferences for username, password, always autologin, and refresh time in seconds. Tested on Windows XP, Ubuntu 7.10, MacOS Tiger.
I also have a J2ME version to be used on WIFI enabled cell phones / PDAs but currently no preference changes are implemented so can not make it available for download, if I get more than 10 comments here asking for it, I’ll take out some time to implement it.

Download the desktop version here:

Screenshot for eye candy (click on image for full version):

If you have heard the term “Mashups” then you need to checkout Yahoo! Pipes do not worry about what programming language you do know or do not know, all you need is:

• Know how to use a computer mouse
• Have a free Yahoo! account
• Some idea what Feed, RSS, CSV, String, URL, etc. mean

You actually use the most simplistic IDE that is out there and draw your “pipe” which is like the basic definition of a computer:

1. Input
2. Processing
3. Output

The ouput is pre-defined by Yahoo! and can be an RSS Feed, an email, or a JSON (leave that to javascript or Ajax guys)

The input can be a URL which publishes a feed (auto-detection is available as well) or a CSV, although being an advanced developer I would have wanted to see more like what WebWag has to offer so a div or segment of a web page could be used as input.

The processing is what you have to define using the modules on the left and your imagination, you can combine search results of Yahoo! and Google in a unified web page with your user interface or multiple feeds or translate from a language to another and what not, give it a shot to see more. Every module has an example available which can get any body starting to create pipes

And that is not all, Yahoo! has taken care of us developers of the object oriented and software engineering era to give RE-USABILITY! your pipes become modules in other pipes, and you can publish your pipes to be used by others. Which means that soon various pipes are going to show up on the Internet which can make your task even easier of creating a pipe of your imagination!

One other thing could be improved by letting advanced developers write some kind of code themselves, this could open the door to mashups of mashups, e.g. the APIs mentioned on Programmable Web could be integrated in Y! Pipes.