Recently Updated and Whatnot

Local Time	Where	What
February 21^st, 2024 11:46am CST	Karen’s Network Tray: DispatcherTimer isn’t Timely (EP 2)	Blog post about a new video.
February 2^nd, 2024 10:34am CST	Calculating Bits per Second for Karen’s Network Tray (Episode 1)	Blog post about a new video.
November 16^th, 2023 2:14pm CST	Improved QR Code Talker v1.0.3 can save QR codes.	New version of QR Code Talker was released.
November 1^st, 2023 2:30pm CDT	Newsletter published about QR Code Talker generator for Windows.	Yay, I published a newsletter.
October 25^th, 2023 11:59am CDT	RELEASED! Karen's QR Code Talker	Today is the day for QR Code Talker's release. More to come.
October 13^th, 2023 2:16pm CDT	Karen’s QR Code Talker Progress: Added Generation Options to UI	This is a link to another blog post about a live-streamed, programming thing I did on YouTube.
October 10^th, 2023 2:14pm CDT	Timer added to Karen’s QR Code Talker	This is a link to a blog post about a live-streamed, programming thing I did on YouTube.
September 11^th, 2023 5:48pm CDT	Site moved to Debian 12 Bookworm and Upgraded	Today has been pretty exciting.
August 30^th, 2023 3:20pm CDT	Bounce! Return-Path! Complaints!	I'm working on software to handle the Bounce! Return-Path! Complaints!
August 30^th, 2023 12:42pm CDT	Site Updated to PHP 8.2 and Fall colors.	This site was running PHP 7.4 and now it's 8.2.
August 1^st, 2023 4:36pm CDT	How to Create a Video Background With CSS	This is a post on my own blog about how I added a full-screen video background for ABigHairy.com where the media storage API for the new KarenWARE.com site will operate.
June 29^th, 2023 10:33am CDT	Windows logo key + P to Project!	Choose a presentation display mode.
June 28^th, 2023 2:10pm CDT	Replicator 2 Console and GUI (30 sec video)	A blog post about a 30 second video about Replicator 2
June 27^th, 2023 4:33pm CDT	Replicator 2 Command Line Demo	A blog post about a video about Replicator 2
June 26^th, 2023 4:07pm CDT	Karen's Replicator 2	A blog post about a video
June 14^th, 2023 5:15pm CDT	Karen's Feeder is an Atom/RSS Reader	Karen's Feeder will be an Atom/RSS feed reader. More later.
June 14^th, 2023 11:37am CDT	Karen’s Complaint Management System	You know how 'Karen' has become slang? In other news: It's been 11 months since I've used sketchy drugs.
June 14^th, 2023 10:45am CDT	Karen's QR Code Talker is a QR Code Generator	Here’s 30 minutes of me programming on Karen’s QR Code Talker.
June 13^th, 2023 12:00pm CDT	Karen's Power Tools Podcast topics?	I'm working on the format for an audio-mostly podcast. What topics would you like to hear discussed?
June 13^th, 2023 10:30am CDT	QR Code Talker: Karen’s Next Power Tool Utility for Windows	QR Code Talker is a simple QR Code generator. You type in some text and it shows you a QR code. Simple.
May 23^rd, 2023 4:50pm CDT	Server Rebuilt Again	Blog post: Yet Another Server Instance
May 19^th, 2023 10:40am CDT	New Web Server Instance at Linode.com	Blog post: New Server Instance
May 18^th, 2023 1:50pm CDT	Site Certificate Renewed	Blog post: Site Certificate Renewed
May 14^th, 2023 4:50pm CDT	Blog! Launched for this site!	Launched this WordPress thing to replace the (poor) functionality Recently page.
April 13^th, 2023 5:00pm CDT	My blog on TeddyBear.com	You can read some stuff about me on TeddyBear.com. Karen Kenworthy owned TeddyBear.com when she died in 2011. Now I'm the caretaker for her family's online properties.
April 13^th, 2023 4:30pm CDT	We're back after Easter break!	Had some stuff going on and forgot to pay the domain registration. I apologize. The site was down almost 4 days from Easter night, April 9 until today, the 13th.
December 21^st, 2022 4:20pm CST	FAQ Page Added, already has 1 answer!	I know. It's about time.
December 5^th, 2022 4:42pm CST	December 5^th Newsletter	I'm actually going to send it!
September 23^rd, 2022 4:42pm CDT	YouTube: September Update	This is a link to the playlist on YouTube containing the 3 videos I uploaded today: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-Fi6LBnJ1FXLbRSMojyou96UGVv_7bbK
September 18^th, 2022 8:45am CDT	Deleted Facebook Page	I've deleted Karen's Power Tools from Facebook because Meta's business model is evil. Every time I post on Facebook or Instagram or use Messenger, it sickens me. I'm deleting all their apps from my devices. - Joe Winett https://winett.com/2022/09/delete-your-facebook-and-instagram/
September 17^th, 2022 9:15pm CDT	We've switched to Linode.com	Everything appears to work correctly running on a Debian 11 instance in Dallas on Linode.com instead of Ubuntu 21 in Virginia on Amazon Web Services. Whew.
September 13^th, 2022 6:00pm CDT	We're spreading out to another cloud provider, Linode.	Here is the link to that server, which could change, of course. https://dallas-linode.karenware.com/
September 5^th, 2022 5:17pm CDT	September 5^th Newsletter: Everything is looking up!	Everything is looking up!
September 1^st, 2022 7:05am CDT	Labor Day Sale until Sept 6	Licenses to use at work on sale for $18, normally $25 each.
July 21^st, 2022 6:42pm CDT	End July Now Sale	$10 off licenses until August 1st
July 20^th, 2022 6:12am CDT	Dear Karen's Fans: Thank you	Thanks again.
July 14^th, 2022 7:06pm CDT	June hosting bill paid, thanks	Karenware.com will not be off the air soon.
July 10^th, 2022 11:43am CDT	Farewell Joe Winett	Karenware.com will be off the air soon.
February 25^th, 2022 2:55am CST	February 25^th Newsletter	Here's Some Good News: Big Green Button, Half Price Sale until March 1st
February 24^th, 2022 10:42pm CST	Payment Factors Added based on $7.25/hr minimum wage	I did some math to help people in other countries estimate the local value of our license fee to make alternate donation amounts easier to figure.
February 21^st, 2022 11:22am CST	Fixed the Donate page	I'd broken the donation page with the DuckDuckGo search thing. Doh!
February 8^th, 2022 4:12pm CST	Positive Website Attitude, No Cooties	Expect many changes to this website, in leaps and bounds, mostly positive, as if it were a 14 year old suddenly interested in the school dance, cooties be danged.
February 8^th, 2022 2:20pm CST	Site Search Now DuckDuckGo.com	The site search box in the menu bar above is now posted to privacy-first search provider DuckDuckGo.com instead of Google.
January 30^th, 2022 12:52am CST	Licenses on Sale for 2 Days	Special use for work licensing prices on Sunday and Monday, the last two days of January.
September 14^th, 2021 3:53pm CDT	September 2021 Newsletter!	Here is at least proof of life.
August 12^th, 2021 2:50pm CDT	Shutdown helpdesk.	There were hundreds of tickets opened up this last year and thousands of direct emails. Your request will not be individually responded to, I'm sorry, I can't (I won't) do it. I'm working on a public forum thing. Sorry, I cannot change Karen's license to open source. So, I'm going to rewrite Replicator under another name, maybe. I dislike all Macintosh and iOS cloud backup everything. Newsletter soon. Newsletter soon. Newsletter soon. Newsletter soon. Newsletter soon. Newsletter soon. Newsletter soon. Newsletter soon. Newsletter soon.
June 2^nd, 2020 2:12pm CDT	June 2^nd Newsletter	Directory Printer v5.4.4 Adds Unicode Characters Support; Replicator v3.7.6 Eradicates Bug that caused Error 3
May 25^th, 2020 10:12am CDT	Karen's Directory Printer v5.4.4 Released	New version 5.4.4 posted: See page for what's new.
May 25^th, 2020 9:15am CDT	Karen's Replicator v3.7.6 Released	Fixed logic error in ApiFolderExists(): On some machines reports a missing folder as exists, so the destination folder isn't created. Literally: Error 3 - The system cannot find the path specified
November 3^rd, 2019 11:59am CST	November 3^rd Newsletter	GodMode! Explorer's Quick Change Buttons! Replicator v3.7.5 Released!
November 2^nd, 2019 3:15pm CDT	Karen's Replicator v3.7.5 Released	See the Changes section on its page to find out what's new!
October 24^th, 2019 1:50pm CDT	Karen's Replicator YouTube Videos	Posted links to instructive YouTube videos made by Replicator users.
September 6^th, 2019 1:45pm CDT	September 6^th Newsletter	Windows 10 May 2019 Update v1903 · Clipboard History · Emoji, Kaomoji, and Symbols
April 22^nd, 2019 10:22am CDT	April 22^nd Newsletter	Windows-Key Searching · Disabling Web Search · Karen's Directory Printer v5.4.3 Released
April 15^th, 2019 1:38pm CDT	Karen's Directory Printer v5.4.3 Released	New version 5.4.3 posted: See page for what's new.
April 3^rd, 2019 10:46am CDT	Source Code download for Directory Printer v5.4.2	Source code installer available for download.
April 2^nd, 2019 10:24am CDT	Source Code download for Replicator v3.7.4	Source code installer available for download.
February 18^th, 2019 4:25pm CST	February 18^th Newsletter	Valentine's Day-Industrial Complex · Shift Right-Click · Replicator Updated · Text-Only Newsletters
February 18^th, 2019 10:00am CST	Karen's Replicator v3.7.4 Released	New version 3.7.4 posted: Replicator no longer cycled behind other windows after using Browse... to select a source or destination folder.
February 16^th, 2019 1:15pm CST	Everywhere	Also showing count of minor updates in the Recently box in the right margin (i.e. "Also, there were 6 minor updates").
February 16^th, 2019 12:55pm CST	Everywhere	Added security-oriented HTTP headers as suggested by https://securityheaders.com.
February 14^th, 2019 7:04pm CST	Open Source	Added html2text PHP library to convert HTML to formatted plain text Michael Tibben (@mtibben) (used for converting newsletters to plaintext alternative during email sending).
February 10^th, 2019 4:01pm CST	Everywhere	Added right column sidebar to every page.
February 10^th, 2019 1:33pm CST	Open Source	Added timeago JQuery JavaScript plugin by Ryan McGeary (@rmm5t) (replaces dates with how long ago).
February 10^th, 2019 1:18pm CST	Recently Updated	Recent changes table stored in generic data rather then rendered into HTML so these can more easily be used elsewhere. Also added timeago JQuery JavaScript plugin by Ryan McGeary (@rmm5t) (replaces dates with how long ago).
January 16^th, 2019 8:35pm CST	January 16^th Newsletter	Published Karen's Power Tools Newsletter: Font Explorer Updated · Replicator Performance Boosted · Unicode for Directory Printer · Thank you, Earthlings.
January 14^th, 2019 6:33pm CST	Karen's Replicator v3.7.3 Released	New version 3.7.3 posted: Installer improvements, removed some keystrokes rarely used.
January 9^th, 2019 1:47pm CST	Karen's Replicator v3.7.2 Released	New version 3.7.2 posted: Huge performance increases and mo-better progress indication!
December 30^th, 2018 4:05pm CST	Karen's Font Explorer v2.2 Released	New version 2.2 posted!
December 8^th, 2018 4:40pm CST	December 8^th Newsletter	Published Karen's Power Tools Newsletter: WhoIs Whom? Karen's WhoIs v2.7 Released. Karen's Replicator v3.7.1 Released.
December 6^th, 2018 4:02pm CST	Karen's Replicator	New version 3.7.1 posted: Yay!
December 5^th, 2018 9:28pm CST	Karen's WhoIs	New version 2.7 posted: More awesomeness!
November 16^th, 2018 3:11pm CST	November 16^th Issue	Published Karen's Power Tools Newsletter: What is Karen's Replicator? Karen's Directory Printer v5.4.2 Released
November 15^th, 2018 10:34pm CST	Karen's Directory Printer	New version 5.4.2 posted: More accessible for those using keyboard or depending on screen text-to-speech readers.
November 4^th, 2018 5:42pm CST	Karen's Directory Printer	New version 5.4.1 posted: Bug fixes.
October 30^th, 2018 3:54pm CDT	Karen's Directory Printer	New version 5.4 posted: Enhancements and bug fixes. Sweet.
October 4^th, 2018 2:43pm CDT	October 4^th Issue	Published Karen's Power Tools Newsletter: Karen's Replicator v3.7 Released, Replicator Workboard
October 3^rd, 2018 12:48pm CDT	Karen's Replicator	New version 3.7 posted: Bug fixes.
July 26^th, 2018 3:50pm CDT	July 26th Issue	Published Karen's Power Tools Newsletter: Karen's Hasher Updated, Thought Experiment Correction
July 26^th, 2018 3:50pm CDT	Karen's Hasher	New version 2.3.1 posted: Bug fixes.
June 27^th, 2018 1:12pm CDT	June 27th Issue	Published a new issue of Karen's Power Tools Newsletter, topic is New Power Tool: Karen's Traceroute
June 26^th, 2018 11:59pm CDT	Karen's Traceroute	Added the new Power Tool, Karen's Traceroute v0.1.0, available for download. Probe the inner guts of the circuit between you and Internet destination hosts of your choosing. Traceroute works by sending ping packets with ever increasing hop count limits in order to elicit ICMP error responds from the routers along the way.
June 26^th, 2018 10:56am CDT	Everywhere	Removed APC user caching functionality from KarenWarePage class. This only saved 5-10ms per call, and while every millisecond counts, purging the cache didn't always clear the cache for the PHP process or thread I wanted, so I found this to be confusing in development. Combined all JavaScript files into thankyou-1.js. Loading one file instead of five saves more than 5-10ms per page call.
June 24^th, 2018 5:23pm CDT	Everywhere	Added APC user caching functionality to KarenWarePage class. This only saves 5-10ms per call, and while every millisecond counts, I hope this doesn't cause problems. Obeys the "Pragma: no-cache" header. Adds a comment, `<!--APCU-->` immediately following the `<head>` element in the page if the page was served from the cache.
June 24^th, 2018 3:03pm CDT	Site Licenses	This morning, the rest of the site was converted to the new design. During testing, I noticed the site license agreement didn't specifically state how many seats were licensed. Fixed that, too.
June 22^nd, 2018 10:22pm CDT	Newsletters	All newsletters imported into database, now rendered with new design.
June 18^th, 2018 8:25pm CDT	Everywhere	Updated website design from Karen Classic to Generic Bootstrap.
June 9^th, 2018 1:52pm CDT	Purchase	Privacy Protection: Added detailed confirmation dialog before loading PayPal's JavaScript API so PayPal isn't tracking all our website visitors.
June 9^th, 2018 1:35pm CDT	Donate	Privacy Protection: Added detailed confirmation dialog before loading PayPal's JavaScript API so PayPal isn't tracking all our website visitors.
June 9^th, 2018 11:59am CDT	Privacy	Updated Privacy Policy to better describe what's up, Google, and PayPal usages.
June 9^th, 2018 8:43am CDT	Compatibility	Added notations for Windows 8, Windows 10, and Windows Server 2016.
June 9^th, 2018 8:32am CDT	Search	Formatting fixes completed in preparation for new site design.
May 16^th, 2018 9:13am CDT	Contact Us	Removed Facebook mentions from the site because I'm not allowed to log into the monster unless I upload a picture of my face. They said they wouldn't even display the image to anyone, but that they needed to know what I look like so they can secure my account. That statement was so absurd that I sent them a picture of George Washington and decided not to use their service for anything. Since I won't be responding to any queries posted there, if you have trouble, please visit https://helpdesk.karenware.com/kb/.
February 13^th, 2018 1:14pm CST	Home Page (default page)	Added Related Sites, including our Support Helpdesk, User Forum (removed later), Blog, and Development tracking sites. Also, a mention of the Sendy application URL because of some confusion when people see sendy.karenware.com links in Newsletter emails (Sendy no longer in use).
January 19^th, 2018 5:17pm CST	Recently Updated	Published this here Recently Updated and Whatnot page.
January 19^th, 2018 4:14pm CST	Contact Us	Added Facebook Page, Twitter, Tumblr, and my email address.
January 19^th, 2018 3:59pm CST	Site License Calculator	Added my email address and phone number to results page in case you have questions about site licensing.
January 8^th, 2018 3:53am CST	Subscribe Now	Added ability to subscribe to new issues of Karen's Power Tools Newsletter.
December 23^rd, 2017 11:17pm CST	Karen's Replicator	Noted that the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update is the solution to problems created in April by the first Creators Update.

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