Create timelapses with this handy tool

February 7, 2016 — Last month I released the Time Lapse Tool (free and open source) which builds time lapse movies from JPG images that you provide. Start the tool, set some options, browse to add your image files and let it do it’s thing. Presto! You have a time lapse movie.

Do Your Exchange Online Admin Tasks with PowerShell

January 26, 2016 — There are some things in Exchange that you just need to use PowerShell for. If you use Exchange Online or Office 365, the web portal exposes a lot of the admin functionality that you might need, but there are certain actions that require PowerShell. Accessing the Exchange PowerShell cmdlets on a local server is one…

Getting a BIOS version of a Dell machine with PowerShell

January 5, 2016 — Easy code snippet on how to retrieve the BIOS version with PowerShell. Get-WmiObject win32_bios This will output the BIOS version, manufacturer, name, and serial number.

Stupid Windows Tricks – Taskbar Labels

September 28, 2015 — I actually stumbled across this setting recently, and it reminded me of a Windows “throwback”. It seems to simple, but I forgot that things actually used to be like this. Somewhere along the way, probably with Windows 7, Microsoft started to try to utilize the taskbar space more efficiently. With that, you saw the use…

Using the Disk Cleanup Tool to free up precious space

September 10, 2015 — It’s amazing the amount of stuff on a hard drive that can be overlooked, until you run out of space. The Disk Cleanup tool that is built into Windows can help keep your machine extra tidy, but can also be a powerful tool when you’re in a space crunch. Think of the Disk Cleanup tool’s…