Archive for the 'Utilities' Category

All content is moving to a new home.  In an effort to reduce the number of blogs I personally maintain I am eliminating them all in favour for Ventrino.  In fact, Ventrino is the only site I maintain outside of the day job now :-)

If you create a lot of Wordpress blogs you probably like to prepare a list of categories for inclusion.  This plugin simplifies the process by allowing you to add them all at once.

Add one category per line then click the “Add Categories” button.  All categories will be created for you turning a 30 minute job [...]

Ever need to send a one-line email from a DOS/CMD batch file? If your PC or Server has .Net 2 installed you can use this application.
It’s straightforward. Place the cmdSendmail.exe in your path or working directory and then type something like this at the command line:-
cmdSendMail you@emailtest.com~you@somewherelse.com~The Subject~The main text of the message~you@somewherelse.com~pass123~mail.somewherelse.com
Usage
cmdSemdMail {command string [...]

Sometimes it’s useful to extract a web page to a file from a Windows batch.
For example I have a batch file that downloads financial figures every day, processes them and updates a database.
vbcurl http://myfinancialfigures.com/something.php >mydatafile.htm
If you don’t have a copy of Opera handy use a statement like the following to read the source from a [...]

Encrypt HTML
Click the above link to download a small tool for encrypting small chunks of HTML such as PayPal and AlertPay buttons. It doesn’t actually encrypt code it obfuscates it which is a fancy way of saying it jumbles it up a bit. It’s enough to deter the casual thief from checking out [...]