Posted in code(ish) on Mar 14th, 2009
After getting tired of searching through my email for my WTS Bookstore blogpartner id every time I link to a book on their site, I decided to make a bookmarklet to make the process a bit easier. (A bookmarklet is like a mini javascript application that can be built in to a web browser bookmark.) [...]
Posted in code(ish) on Aug 19th, 2006
Hit by that annoying “Automatic Updates has encountered a problem and needs to close” loop when you start up your rig? Try the following: Create a new text document on your desktop, title it fixmyrig.bat, and drop the following code in it: net stop WuAuServ cd %windir% rd /s /q %windir%\SDold ren %windir%\SoftwareDistribution SDold net [...]
Posted in code(ish) on May 8th, 2005
Ever wanted to fall asleep to your mp3 playlist? Now you can. Here’s how: 1. create a new text file and type ‘shutdown -s -f -t 2000′ 2. save it as ‘shutdown.bat’ (no .txt file extentsion) somewhere convenient 3. click it to shutdown! Notes: – the -s means to shutdown the local pc – the [...]
Posted in code(ish) on Apr 13th, 2005
Many people have problems with getting duplicate emails in Outlook 2002/2003. I don’t know why this happens, and I don’t know how to stop it from happening. However, I have modified some code I found (somewhere) that will loop through your Inbox (and subfolders) and delete any duplicate emails it finds. If you have a [...]
Posted in code(ish) on Apr 8th, 2005
[UPDATE: This is no longer available for distribution--sorry. -AG 7.14.05] Just developed this little tool – “TimeSheet” – for a friend of mine. It loops through your calendar for a selected date range and outputs the total hours by category (or subject, company, location, whatever–I could change it for whatever you need). If you put [...]
Posted in code(ish) on Apr 4th, 2005
Ever get an email with 24 pictures attached? Now you can click a button and save them all to the directory of your choice AND remove them from your inbox. This little VBA code will save the pictures to the directory you choose, remove the pictures from the email, append a permanent link to the [...]
Posted in code(ish) on Apr 4th, 2005
Sick of seeing fax numbers as valid email addresses in Outlook 2003? This code will prepend “fax: ” to all of the fax numbers in Outlook (BusinessFax, HomeFax, and OtherFax) so it won’t be recognized as a valid email address. To do this: 1. Copy the text from this file: fixfax.txt 2. Open Outlook and [...]
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