Just lately I had to download a billion updates for steam, it said it would take 3 hours, it actually took nearer 5!
Anyway, as I'm a laptop user I have my laptop set to conserve energy by switching off the hard drive and the monitor and such after a bit of inactivity.
This is usually great as it saves me a bunch of battery time, but 5 hours....hmm.
I could go into the power settings and change it but then I remembered the "Mouse Jiggler" from a Digg article.

At the time it seemed so pointless, and it cost $30!
Now I needed one, so I found VB6 and got playing

Mouse Jiggler Pro
It soon became apparent I needed settings on this thing. So you can alter the jiggle speed and the amount of jigglyness.
There's also options to lock it to it's current position, so it doesn't stray too far off into a corner, or to have it free floating.
You can also set it to smooth which makes it do tiny jiggles.

Anyway, enough talk, download and play: http://software.palmnet.me.uk/files/Mouse_Jiggler_Pro.exe

NetTest
I also had a bit of a play with some old projects, and found I did a network tester app for when I wrote my VB6 webserver a year or so ago.
It still worked but it was buggy as hell and lacked some vital features.
So here's a re-design, in case any windows users here need to manually test some servers!
http://software.palmnet.me.uk/files/NetTest.exe