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Twitter Script – Who’s following you (or not following you)?
Find out who your friends really are with this handy PowerShell script! Essentially it will go through your friends and followers and produce two “difference” lists; people who follow you that you’re not following and people you follow but don’t follow Read More...
Updated Twitter PowerShell Script
I’ve made a few updates to my Twitter PowerShell script , including a fix to ensure it complies with a change to the Twitter API and switching to tinyurl. Unfortunately my code highlighter doesn’t work so well with PowerShell so here it is in all it’s Read More...
I Didn't Appreciate that TinyURL had an API
When I created my PowerShell script I opted for SnipUrl as it has a nice API that returns a POX response with your shiny new shortened link ( Digsby uses SnipUrl and as I use Digsby for most of my Twittering, most of my URLs are SnipUrls). However, Duncan Read More...
Twitter PowerShell Script
Here's the PowerShell script I came up with that I referred to in my previous post that integrates with the social networking scripts to additionally generate a Twitter update with a link to the post. I'm sure this script could be improved - I'm no PowerShell Read More...
A Bit of an Experiment
I spent a bit of time this afternoon dusting off the PowerShell script I created (that's not accurate, I cribbed it and changed it slightly - see my original post ) to get it to generate a Twitter status update when I post a new blog entry. Much messing Read More...
PowerTools for Open XML
Eric's blogged about a new open source initiative on CodePlex for processing Open XML documents using PowerShell. Very interesting. He's even made a video showing how to get up and running with it quickly. The PowerTools include a host of PowerShell cmdlets Read More...
PowerShell and Social Bookmarking
I was messing about with PowerShell the other day (when I ran into my batch rename problems ) having been inspired by James's post on " Powershell to add social bookmarking tags ". What he was doing (using some code originally created by Lee Holmes ) Read More...
Powershell Batch Rename
I keep forcing myself to use PowerShell from time to time as I know it'll pay big dividends if I just get over the initial (steep) learning curve. So, faced with the task of renaming some files in a folder today I turned to PowerShell. About an hour later Read More...
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