Powershell: How to rename all files in a folder

Powershell Header

Sometimes you need a fast way to rename a lot of file. With Powershell this is pretty easy. You list all files in the directory and you can use this object with a foreach loop.

This script basically changes the extension from .JPEG to .jpg:

$files = Get-Content
foreach ($file in $files) {
	$newFileName=$file.name.replace(".JPEG",".jpg")
	Rename-Item $file $newFileName
}

HP iPrint iOS App

HP iPrint 3.0

Yesterday Hewlett-Packard released iPrint version 3.0. And this is a perfect App for printing and scanning documents directly from your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. You can print to HP Network Printers or USB Printers. For example printers which are connected with the Apple Airport Extreme or Express USB port.

What’s New In Version 3.0

  • Print PDF and text documents
  • Native iPad resolution & user interface for enhanced iPad viewing and use
  • Document Support – View and wirelessly print attachments (text and PDF files) from mail clients and apps compatible with iOS “Document Support” feature (requires iPad and/or iPhone iOS 4)
  • WebDAV – Turns your device into a wireless flash drive. Copy documents directly from your PC or Mac to/from your device and take them with you
  • File Sharing support – When connected via USB cable, transfer documents to iPad & iPhone (iOS 4) from PC or Mac
  • Scan to device – Scan photos & documents wirelessly from HP e-All-in-One printers to iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad)
  • Available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish

Here you can find a list of printers which are supported with HP iPrint 3.0:

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Flipboard – An awesome iPad App

Flipboard is an awesome iPad App. Its like your own social media magazine.

More about Flipboard:

Convert Word Documents to PDF with Automator

I got a lot of Microsoft Word Documents form one of our professors at KTSI. But Evernote only supports text recognition inside PDFs. So I converted all Word Documents to PDF with the Mac OS X Automator.

How to convert Word Documents to PDF:

  1. Open Automator under Mac OS X
  2. Add a “Get Specified Finder Items” object
  3. Select the Word Documents
  4. Add another “Convert Format of Word Documents” object
  5. Set the Format to ” Portable Document Format (PDF)”
  6. Now click run and the Automator will convert all your Word Documents and you can find them in the same folder as the Word Documents

Mac OS X Automator

DreamOn (Dreambox Remote) Update

Pulse-O-Meter released an update for DreamOn (DreamOn is an Dreambox Remote App for iOS) and they added support for the iPad. I think this is one of the best iOS apps for a Dreambox.

Here some Features:

  • Full featured remote control
  • Electronic Program Guide (EPG) for all services
  • Zapping (support for User-Bouquets)
  • Timer management (Create, Edit, Delete)
  • Movielist (View or delete recorded movies)
  • SMS (Send shortmessages to the TV-Screen)
  • Control the Dreambox (Standby, Reboot etc.)
  • Manage configuration of several dreamboxes
  • iPad Support

Here some Screenshots iPhone:

GForge gets support for iOS

Good news for GForge users. GForge gets mobile support for iPhone and iPad. This was something I missed for a long time. This will make working with GForge even better.

Gforge

Here is the Blog post:

We are currently developing a client GForge Application for one of the most popular mobile devices platforms, iPhone and iPad. GForge mobile application will have the following features:

  • User management
  • Project Browser
  • Tracker Browser
  • Tracker Item View and Modification
  • Tracker Item Creation

Fast communication and information sharing are the keystones of GForge tools. Today’s mobile devices and smart phones provide a new way to take these two features to a higher level, allowing people to stay in touch even while they are on the road or away from a regular computer.

Since GForge Community opinions and feedback has been always very important for us we would like to know what other cool features you would like to see on this release.