This is an “Armchair Coder” I’ve been working on this since the holidays, so today I’m releasing the beta of Camever. Camever is a webcam capture tool designed to work with most Foscam and Amcrest cameras that support the retrieval of an image from it’s snapshot.cgi in a web browser.
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Create timelapses with this handy tool
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.
Continue readingDo Your Exchange Online Admin Tasks with PowerShell
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 thing, but accessing those cmdlets in a hosted environment can be a little trickier. After I had to type these
Continue readingGetting a BIOS version of a Dell machine with PowerShell
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.
Continue readingStupid Windows Tricks – Taskbar Labels
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 of combined taskbar icons, meaning that if you had three separate documents opened in Word, you’d see a single Word
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