Windows

Access cloud storage

• Cyberduck
• GoodSync

Windows Power Shell

• Scraping the web using PowerShell 3

Windows 8

Keyboard shortcut.

• Ctrl+C: charm bar
• Ctrl+w: search

Securely transfer files to Linux on Windows command line

putty

Use psftp or pscp with a script.

Use winscp with script or in command line

See http://winscp.net/eng/docs/feature_index

C:\Program Files\WinSCP\winscp.exe" /console /script=YOUR_SCRIPT_FILENAME 

Example from http://winscp.net/eng/docs/scripting#example

# Automatically abort script on errors
option batch abort
# Disable overwrite confirmations that conflict with the previous
option confirm off
# Connect using a password
# open sftp://user:[email protected] 
# Connect
open sftp://[email protected] 
# Change remote directory
cd /home/user
# Force binary mode transfer
option transfer binary
# Download file to the local directory d:\
get examplefile.txt d:\
# Disconnect
close
# Connect as a different user
open [email protected]
# Change the remote directory
cd /home/user2
# Upload the file to current working directory
put d:\examplefile.txt 
# Disconnect
close
# Exit WinSCP
exit

See http://wiki.vpslink.com/Automate_Backup_Retrieval_with_WinSCP#Test_WinSCP_Backup_Script for use winscp with Windows scheduler.

Putty with tabs

• Putty nd Works well
• MTPuTTY/Multi-Tabbed Putty Has a problem with cursor

Find public IP address

• http://superuser.com/questions/165986/command-prompt-command-for-external-ip
• http://superuser.com/questions/404926/how-to-get-my-external-ip-address-over-nat-from-the-windows-command-line

Create a VB script text file "ip.cbs" with a content like

Option Explicit
Dim http : Set http = CreateObject( "MSXML2.ServerXmlHttp" )
http.Open "GET", "http://icanhazip.com", False
http.Send
Wscript.Echo http.responseText   'or do whatever you want with it
Set http = Nothing

Open a command line and run

cscript ip.vbs

The output will look like

C:\Users\mli>cscript ip.vbs
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.7
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

2601:a:3780:5b:b856:6a09:3ea3:5e26

Notepad++

How to increase font size? Just hold Ctrl and use scroll wheel. See here. It even save the status when you restart Notepad++.

And for convenience, we can change the default language to R in Notepad++'s Settings.