Sushovaner JibonJatra

It seems that many of the internal stores on the iPhone are actually SQLite databases. The database that stores your text messages are located in /private/var/mobile/Library/SMS/sms.db and can be manipulated with any SQLite client. Similarly, Voicemail database is located at /private/var/mobile/Library/Voicemail/voicemail.db. That same folder also contains all your voicemail audio files, so you can back them up too, if you want.

Now that powershell comes pre-installed on all copies of Win7, we can use it to perform day-to-day tasks. Here is the first tip: to batch rename a bunch of files, such that the first 3 characters are deleted from the filename, issue the command: dir | foreach -process {mv $_.Name $_.Name.Substring(3)} Update: I will be updating this post with more snippets as I come across them 1. Here is how to create a graphics object in powershell, and draw a bunch of lines on it. $bmp = new-object System.Drawing.Bitmap(264, 264) $graphics = [System.Drawing.Graphics]::FromImage($bmp) for($i=1; $i -lt 9; $i+=1) { $graphics.DrawLine($pen, 33*$i, 0, 33*$i, 264); } 2. Here is how to set the current directory so that .NET objects know it [Environment]::CurrentDirectory = $pwd 3. Here is how to download a file $c = new-object System.Net.WebClient $c.DownloadFile( url, filename ) 4. Concatenate a bunch of files together cat misc*.txt | Out-File allmisc.txt -Encoding ASCII or cat misc1