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One of the great new features MS has added in Windows 10 is virtual desktops. This has been supported in other OSs for a long time so it is good to see that MS has caught up to this. In fact it was available with addons as far back as XP but now it is…

Lovely error message on Google Drive this morning Which doesn’t make sense until you realise this operation must have taken place on another computer or in another browser. It wouldn’t take much effort for the phraseology to be less terse and more user friendly, frankly.

As you may have noticed most of my blogs use the “Simple” template (this one currently uses “Picture Window”). With various upgrades to Google’s blogger posting system over the years we can set some of the text sizes without having to directly hack the template’s HTML code. One of the changes I have been making…

If you know the Mac platform well, then you know that PostScript is the preferred printing system for OSX and all its precedessors way back to the very early Macs. This comes about because Apple virtually invented PostScript printing and desktop publishing about thirty years ago partnering with Aldus, the inventors of PostScript (which later…

So I am trialling out Tbird again. For some reason I disliked it for quite a long time even though I used it a lot, years ago. I suspect the interface was kind of clunky, but of course there are all these styles available now. Really easy to set up with Google and Hotmail accounts,…

Last week I posted about creating object tables in Powershell. This was mainly for the purpose of being able to use Export-CSV to send the data out to a CSV file. This time I am going to have a brief look at some of the other things you can do with an object table, which…

I have found torches purchased from Jaycar to be the best quality and useful LED small torches that I have owned lately. On the right you have a small pocket torch that has a slide-zoom head and runs on 3xAAA batteries (similar to ST3483). In the middle a more powerful equivalent with a twist zoom…

One of the useful things you get with Powershell is lots of functions that create data tables in memory that you can cycle through using Foreach to get an instance (equivalent to a record or row in a regular database) and then interrogate its properties (equivalent to columns). The Foreach loop automatically steps through all…

For some time Windows has supported in the Win32 API various events that are triggered when files or directories in a filesystem are changed and this appears to be supported in .NET as well. This then leads us to a natural question of whether we can support that in PowerShell. Due to PowerShell being essentially…

With the limitations of Google’s console to manage Google Apps for system admins, scripting and command line tools have naturally become a topic for the system admin community. Previous posts here have discussed the options for use of various tools and so far I have used both Dito GAM and PowerShell with extensions as a…