Escape Special Characters using [RegEx] in PowerShell
Here is a quick tip to escape all special characters in a string using the .Net Type accelerator for Regular expression [RegEx]
Powershell Auto Mute, when headphones are accidentally unplugged
Do you know mobile phones have an inbuilt feature to Auto mute a playing song/music, if by mistake you plug out your earphones from the jack, that prevents your phone to keep playing the music on speakers, which could be quite embarrassing in some surroundings and situations, but unfortunately we don’t have such a feature available on our desktops/laptops 🙁
And I was victim of such an embarrassing situation a few days back, So I thought why not to look for a solution available to fix this for me? Really I didn’t care much about finding one but was more interested in making one with Powershell! 🙂
Send WordPress posts to Twitter using PowerShell
How about if I can automate sharing Mulitple Random blog posts to twitter, few times a day, without even investing the time I would’ve actually spent doing that manually. Sounds great, right? ( Well, to me 🙂 )
Pumping Reddit user trend to AWS CloudWatch with Powershell
This blog post is in continuation of my last blog post Capturing & Analyzing online users Trend on Reddit with Powershell . According to the advice from one of the best IT pros I know – Trevor Sullivan (Twitter handle @PCGeek) who suggested me to pump all the data points script captures from Reddit’s Powershell Community page to AWS Cloud Watch, I decided to give it a shot.
Just to give you an idea AWS CloudWatch is Amazon Monitoring service and it can do much more than just plotting graphs using the data points you send to the cloud. You can use Amazon CloudWatch to collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log files, set alarms, and automatically react to changes in your resources.
Capturing Reddit User Trend with Powershell
INTRODUCTION : Well if you write a blog and share your content on variety of social media websites and forums/communities craving maximum interaction on your content, you must have at some point in time have thought about “Man what is the best time to share…
Web Scraping Twitter with PowerShell – User Profiles, Images, links
INTRODUCTION : I’m Big Fan of REST API’s , they are efficient, reliable and fun. Recently I have been playing with Twitter REST API’s and was thinking is it possible to get the required information from Twitter without using the API? without setting up the authentication model…
Powershell Tip : Parsing HTML from a local File or a String
INTRODUCTION to Parsing HTML : If you are familiar with PowerShell Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet then you must be aware that you get a parsed HTML from the requested Web URL. DOM structure of the web page is utilized to get access to HTML elements of the web page or Parsing HTML, like in…
Get Online Dictionary Words using PowerShell
PROBLEM : I am working on a personal project where in I require common/popular dictionary words for lookups and performance is a concern. INITIAL THOUGHTS : Figure out a way in which I can use In-built dictionary on Microsoft Word, but couldn’t find much on…
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