Archive for the ‘scripts/batch’ Category
Monday, August 6th, 2007
In my last post, I discussed how you can use AutoHotkey and SlickRun to quickly display useful text information. Although I've been using that technique for months to show me my credit card number, and often-called phone numbers, I recently decided that I wanted to do more. Specifically, ...
Posted in GTD, autohotkey, calendar, remind, scripts/batch, slickrun | 3 Comments »
Monday, August 6th, 2007
Do you ever wish there was a way to quickly see some information, without having to navigate to some other application? I've found that there are several types of information that I want at my fingertips over and over again. Things like my credit card number, or a ...
Posted in GTD, autohotkey, scripts/batch, slickrun | 4 Comments »
Sunday, June 10th, 2007
One of the posts that keeps coming up in comments and email is the one I wrote about using the FOR command to rename files from the command line. I just got another request about it that intrigued me: how can you rename files that have spaces in them? ...
Posted in dos, scripts/batch | 3 Comments »
Friday, March 30th, 2007
Although I mess around with DOS batch files and the command line, I've never really gotten into the FOR command. Wow, what a powerful little puppy that is. I read a post at LifeHacker today that has inspired me to figure out how to use the FOR command ...
Posted in dos, scripts/batch | 10 Comments »
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
One of my favourite older posts is called Ubiquitous Capture Tool at Your Fingertips - Tweaking for my Taste; in it, I describe how to use SlickRun to add bits of text to a scratch.txt file. There were some comments on that post about how to do this, while ...
Posted in GTD, scripts/batch, slickrun | 1 Comment »
