Windows Vista Team Blog : IT Forum Day One: Windows Vista and Windows PowerShell

 

I have recently discovered the new scripting tool from Microsoft called – Powershell. This is not an add on to DOS – this is an extremely powerful shell that competes with it’s Unix and Linux counterparts. I was just starting to mess around with vbs scripting when I cam across this and now I’m totally distracted. I’m not a sys admin so I only play with this kinda stuff so much but it has some pretty nifty features for the power user. Of course all the ADFS, file management, etc. , but it also can work with the Win32 com objects – like hooks to Windows Media Player (they have a demo of that in the link.) …and it works in Vista

One that is particularly funny is messing with the vista speach COM object –

PS> $spVoice = new-object -com “SAPI.spvoice”
PS> $spVoice.Speak(“Go to hell you bastards”)

I am already planning to bust this baby out in a lot of meetings.

If you want to see the video demo, check it out at the channel 9 DFO Show

Link to Windows Vista Team Blog : IT Forum Day One: Windows Vista and Windows PowerShell

Download of the Day: sTabLauncher (Windows) – Lifehacker

Since upgrading to Vista I have noticed that I now have most all the UI features I find cool is OSX….except the Doc. This free download is actually way cooler than the mac dock because it is organized into tabs. The transparent effect goes good with the vista Aero glass.

Ignore the gay rabbits….that is optional : ) and if you have kids you know that the rabbit is Miffy…recognize bitch

 

Link to Download of the Day: sTabLauncher (Windows) – Lifehacker