For the longest time I refused to see the value in Twitter. Over the last six months I have changed my tune on that. Now I use Twitter primarily as a PR tool for my articles. And since my renewed belief in micro-blogging, I have found plenty of tools with which to enact with Twitter.
One [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Nov 13th, 2009
- Comments: 4
Tweet from the command line with Twidge
Matt’s System Helper Outer
Matt’s System Helper Outer has been developed to make it a tad easier to issue all those console commands in Windows. The program is basically a graphical user interface for several of the most common commands that users issue on the command line. The portable software program uses a basic interface that seems a bit [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Aug 20th, 2009
- Comments: 12
Search google (and update twitter) from the command line
There are some of us who prefer to do as much as possible from the command line. For whatever reason, this type of person wants to prove to the world the GUI is not necessary. For that reason, I thought I would illustrate how, with the help of curl, you can search Google and update [...]
Download All 4chan Pictures With 4chan.org Dumper
You either hate or love 4chan, the popular anonymous image posting bulletin board. It is basically an image posting forum with the ability to post replies that also include images. The website itself is divided into subforums that range from Japanese culture to creative forums and also the notorious random forum which has received some [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jul 9th, 2009
- Comments: 3
Linux Tips: Handy ways to grep
The grep command is one of the handiest Linux commands you will use. The grep utitility was originally writing for UNIX and stands for Global Regular Expression Print. What grep does is search for strings in practically anything you need to search. You can search nearly any type of file, output, logs…you name it, grep [...]
Nirsoft Command Line Tool
Nircmd is a impressive command line tool considering its size of just 29 Kilobytes. It can be used to launch an incredible amount of commands from the Windows command line or by utilizing the program from a batch file. The best option would be to copy it into a system path folder so that the [...]
ID3 Mass Tagger
There are many excellent tools to tag a music collection. Tools like the excellent mp3 tag can be used to tag an entire collection thoroughly. If you are more a command line junkie who likes to tag music from the command line or build his own scripts to tag his music collection you might like [...]

