Saturday, May 4, 2013

RefurbMe

RefurbMe offers a service to check on refurbished products from the Apple Store.

http://www.refurb.me/us/

TouchFreeze

TouchFreeze is an application for Windows that automatically disables touchpad while you are typing text.

 http://code.google.com/p/touchfreeze/

vCLIDROID

vCLIDROID is an Android application that is a command line interface reference for VMware ESXi.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vminfo.dashboardexample&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS52bWluZm8uZGFzaGJvYXJkZXhhbXBsZSJd

Friday, May 3, 2013

Open Source VMFS Driver

This driver enabled read-only access to folders and files on partitions formatted with VMFS.  A local Java plug-in is required.

http://code.google.com/p/vmfs/

Corefig

Corefig is a PowerShell-based GUI tool to configure the 2012 releases of Server Core and Hyper-V Server.

http://corefig.codeplex.com/

Swiss File Knife

Swiss File Knife is a single executable that is available for Windows and Linux that offers options such as search and convert text files, instant simple FTP/HTTP server, find duplicate files, compare folders, directory sizes, etc.

sfk

Below is an example of the web server option.

sfk_http

http://stahlworks.com/dev/swiss-file-knife.html

http://sourceforge.net/projects/swissfileknife

Creating a shortcut for a PowerShell script

By default, Notepad is used when double-clicking on a .ps1 PowerShell script.  To get around this issue, create a new shortcut and use the following parameters.  This method does not require the modification of the execution policy.

%SystemRoot%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "C:\users\username\desktop\script.ps1"