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lmrobins Oops...nope. Apples iTunes will not give me MP3s. Too bad, so sad. Yay for Amazon MP3! about 17 hours ago

lmrobins iTunes might actually get some of my money after they go DRM free about 17 hours ago

lmrobins Grillin up some pork chops! Mmmmmmm about 4 days ago

lmrobins Lance thinks PowerShell and RSSBus together make a powerful punch! about 4 days ago

lmrobins @Scobleizer attrs of enterprise 2.0 could be social collab, but also data portability, exposed data normalization, simple services, etc about 4 days ago

lmrobins @Scobleizer enterprise 2.0 does not require social collaboration be baked in about 4 days ago

lmrobins Dear God, in the winter when it gets dark before I get off work, please only let it rain on weekdays when I am sitting at my desk. Thanks. about 4 days ago

lmrobins somebody just asked me this: How can I download your podcasts with my iPhone 3G? about 4 days ago

lmrobins @twhirl please stop showing read tweets after a restart. about 4 days ago

lmrobins and a twitter -> smpp service about 4 days ago

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RSS feeds for package tracking numbers (FedEx, UPS, USPS)

I published SimpleTracker, is a simple service that will accept a tracking number or package id from major shipping companies (FedEx, USPS, and UPS), and spit out an RSS feed which you can then subscribe to in your favorite feed reader (FeedDemon, Google Reader, Outlook, Bloglines, etc).

Oftentimes I’m obsessed with knowing where my packages are and why they aren’t on my doorstep yet. Now I’ll always know, without having to keep visiting the tracking website over and over! :)

Technorati Tags: FedEx, UPS, USPS, Tracking, Package Tracking, Shipment Tracking, RSSBus

posted @ Thursday, October 09, 2008 1:21 PM | Feedback (0) |

PowerShellPlus

So I’ve been using PowerShellPlus for the last few days, and in short – its awesome. The ability to put my script editor on one monitor, click run right there and see the results of the script on the other monitor made me very happy. :) If you haven’t checked it out, you definitely should. Its basically an integrated development environment for PowerShell scripting and debugging. A PowerShell console combined with an editor complete with watch window and step-through debugger.

As soon as you type “get-“ (or any other verb), PowerShellPlus intellisense kicks in, giving you a list of available cmdlets to choose from. Finish your cmdlet and type in the “-“ for an attribute, and intellisense kicks in again, giving you a list of available attributes you can use.

Another great feature is that PowerShellPlus integrates the help of all of your installed snap-ins into one central “learning center”. No matter what snap-in you need documentation for, its all in the same place in a much more readable chm format.

Technorati Tags: PowerShell, PowerShellPlus, NetCmdlets

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