Tuesday's Tech Tips: Windows Batch Files, Part 2: Command-Line Tools and "Helpers"

In part 2 of our ongoing Windows Batch Files series, we'll see that with a wide variety of free command-line tools available, your batch files can become more powerful than ever.

Links mentioned in this week's Tuesday's Tech Tips:

"Tuesday's Tech Tips: Windows Batch Files, Part 1: The Basics":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND6SKCnGXQ4

"Tuesday's Tech Tips: Give your PC the Gift of Speech":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjmUTZ2-_oc

eSpeak:
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/

Festival:
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
http://festvox.org/festival/

Sleep:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=9d467a69-57ff-4ae...

Random Number Generator:
http://www.optimumx.com/downloads.html#Random

MessageBox:
http://www.optimumx.com/downloads.html#MessageBox

RemoveDrive:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/drivetools_e.html

Clip:
http://thebackroomtech.com/2007/09/14/howto-use-clipexe-to-redirect-command-l...

WakeOnLan:
http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/wake-on-lan-cmd.aspx

GNU wget:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm

lynx:
http://fredlwm.iblogger.org/lynx/

cURL:
http://curl.haxx.se/

Blat:
http://www.blat.net/

CMDOW:
http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/

NirCmd:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

Music:

E_volution by BS
From the album "Best of":
http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/56529
Creative Commons Licensed CC-BY 3.0


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.| Future |. by Clix
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/487218/
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