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Miscellaneous Utilities

Although you can download and use these utilities for free, it is encouraged that you make a donation to the author. Please see the Participate page for more information about how to make donation. It will certainly help the future development of those utilities.

If you are using these products in commercial/office environment, please consider to make a donation .

  • CD Tray
    CD Tray is a Windows program that can be used to open and close the CD drive by clicking the popup menu from Windows system tray. By using CD Tray, you can open and close your CD/DVD Drive by using a popup menu accessible from Windows' system notification area.

  • Character Viewer
    Character Viewer is a Windows program that can be used to view characters inside a font. By using Character Viewer, you can view the character contained in a font file in enlarged form.

  • HTML Color Picker
    HTML Color Picker is a program for Windows, which can be used to select web safe HTML color. The colors are displayed in grid (color grid), which can be set into 4 display modes. The display modes are based on how the color code are grouped into the grid.

  • Kana PopCloser
    Kana PopCloser is a Windows program which can be used to monitor opened browser window. If the window is in Kana PopCloser database, then it can be closed automatically. Kana PopCloser currently detects 4 browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera. It detects base on browser class and browser title. The title can be configured, so it will also work on customized browser.

Command Line Utilities

  • Kana StartDelay
    This program can be used to launch other program with a delay when starting that program. This program is useful when you have some programs conflict each other, especially when launched automatically with Windows. By using this program, you can arrange the sequence the programs will be launched.

  • Kana CDisk
    This is a command line utility to open or close CD drive with tray mechanism. This program is useful if you want to create a shortcut to open or close CD drive. For example, you can use this program to create shortcut to open or close CD drive in Kana Launcher.

  • Kana SendKey
    This is a command line utility which can be used to send a system wide hotkey. This program is useful if you want to create a shortcut to Windows' system wide hotkey. For example, you can use this program to create a shortcut to send WIN+L hotkeys to lock the desktop (in WinXP).

  • Kana Utils
    This is a command line utilities that can be used to launch various Windows' settings. This program is useful if you want to create a shortcut to open various Windows' setting directly. For example, you can create a shortcut to access screen saver setting directly.

  • Kana Virtual Drive
    This is a command line utility which can be used to map a folder into drive letter. This program is similar to CDSUBST.EXE program in DOS. By using this program, you can shorthen a path to a folder and make it a root drive.

  • Winamp Extension
    This is a Windows command line program, which is intended to be integrated with Kana Reminder to control three functions of Winamp (increase/decrease volume, and close it). This program is useful if you want to gradually decrease the volume of Winamp before closing it. For example, you can play a music before go to sleep, and after some time, gradually decrease the volume by using Kana Reminder (by creating an entry and specifying this program in its option), then later shutdown the computer.

  • WinHide
    This is a command line program which can be used to hide/unhide a window base on its title. This program is useful if you do not want to see a window but cannot hide it either.

Last updated: Friday, November 2, 2007 17:41:12 -0700

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