Recent Posts Tagged With 'autoit'

• Moved to another hosting

  Posted on Sunday August 16th, 2009 at 10:00 in blog, web, wordpress, hosting, autoit, wpwebhost

  Rarst.net is more or less settled in new place by now, courtesy of WPWebHost and my WordPress story that landed me in winners of their recent contest. Move was (luckily) uneventful so just a short recap and few links on topic. Hosting I probably won...

• Read data from Excel in AutoIt

  Posted on Wednesday July 29th, 2009 at 10:00 in script, excel, autoit

  I am not much good with Excel, but I encounter it a lot as data source. AutoIt is not too shabby for fast for-the-task programs that handle arrays. So I had looked into automated way to read data from Excel sheet into AutoIt array. Native way AutoIt...

• Simple plain text to HTML conversion in AutoIt

  Posted on Sunday July 5th, 2009 at 10:00 in html, script, text, convert, autoit, regexp

  I had recently posted about minimalistic Q10 text editor for writing. My only gripe with it that for all benefits of plain text it needs cumbersome reformat when pasted in Windows Live Writer. So I decided to make AutoIt script to remove manual part ...

• Browser memory benchmark (plus lies and damn lies)

  Posted on Sunday June 21st, 2009 at 10:00 in Software, Firefox, script, opera, browser, benchmark, autoit, ghacks

  Recent browser memory usage benchmark from Dot Net Perls is generating buzz (as such things do). I tried to stay away (as I do) but Martin’s post on discrepancies in it from incorrect measuring of multithreaded Chrome mentioned Opera memory consump...

• Checking and logging server uptime with AutoIt

  Posted on Wednesday June 17th, 2009 at 10:00 in script, ftp, server, ping, http, uptime, log, autoit

  Peter Owen of String of Theories had asked in comments for PingInfoView post if it can mail when pinging fails. I could use something like that myself and indulged today in coding AutoIt script that can perform multiply types of check on remote serve...

• Shortcut to enable/disable hardware

  Posted on Thursday May 28th, 2009 at 10:00 in windows, hardware, network, script, lan, autoit, devcon

  Local networks are wonderful but when out of your personal control they might come with nasty side effects (like automatic updates trashing processor or proxy choking browser). I couldn’t toggle network connection either (even with admin rights) so...

• Update FeedDemon Watches with AutoIt

  Posted on Monday May 11th, 2009 at 10:00 in rss, script, autoit, feeddemon, newsgator

  FeedDemon RSS reader among others things has Watches functions. Instead of specific RSS it searches feeds for keywords and combines found items together into mashup. It works very well except that manual input of keywords is too troublesome to create...

• Simplify CureIt update process with AutoIt

  Posted on Sunday March 22nd, 2009 at 11:00 in script, update, autoit, wrapper, drweb, cureit

  Featured giveaway from Rarst.net Promote yourself and win business cards or canvas art print (deadline March 22nd) Featured giveaway from Rarst.net Promote yourself and win business cards or canvas art print (deadline March 22nd) I had previously c...

• SendTo file’s name with path to clipboard with AutoIt

  Posted on Friday December 19th, 2008 at 10:00 in script, file, path, copy, autoit, send to

  Karl of AskTheAdmin had recently answered question about how to copy file’s path to clipboard in Vista . Windows XP doesn’t have such function natively and post had some 3rd party software suggestions in the comments. It reminded me how easy it i...