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  • How to set the image number you want on a Canon camera

    As we all know the Canon cameras number images sequentially and this counter can be useful to know how many images you have taken on a camera. However when you take a memory card that has been used in a different camera and put it into your camera, the counter gets reset according to the…

  • Replacement for Ixus 135 Camera – SX170IS

    Around 20 months ago, beginning of October 2013, I bought my very first Ixus, the 135 in a very fetching blue colour. The Digital Ixus series of cameras were first produced by Canon in 2000 and like some other Canon models the name was previously used on a series of film cameras. The Ixus has…

  • Manipulating object tables in Powershell.

    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…

  • Three Jaycar Torches

    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…

  • Creating object tables with Powershell

    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…

  • Nokia Lumia 635 a worthy replacement for Lumia 520

    Not quite two years ago I blogged that I was getting a Lumia 520 phone, which was thrown in free with the Smart 45 plan I was on. The Lumia 520 held up quite well; it got dropped more times than I would have liked, but spending most of its time in a pouch meant…

  • Using Powershell to monitor AD account creation

    http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/76915-automatic-report-about-newly-created-user-accounts-to-an-e-mail Here’s a neat article about how to monitor event logs on a domain controller that cause a script to run whenever a new user account is created. The main limitation I see is it will only work on the DC that the account was created on. We really need a generic one that will…

  • Logitech M185 Wireless Mouse

    Well after the struggle of another Microsoft mouse that didn’t do what was advertised, I purchased a Logitech M185 – allegedly the successor to the M215. And what a brilliant progression it is. The M185 is more like the MS Mobile Mouse 3500 – refreshingly basic and cheap, retailing around $25 – but without the…

  • Microsoft Sculpt Mobile Compact Mouse

    I’m trialling one of these as a replacement for the Mobile Mouse 3500 I purchased six months ago. The MM3500’s main problem was simply that it would become bogged down when the computer was busy and therefore be difficult to use at that time. The SM is in its physical shape virtually identical to the…

  • Detecting file change management in PowerShell

    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…