August, 2012

Windows 8 tip: 1 Weather app

The Windows 8 start screen has a nice looking app to display the weather.

You can search for towns and cities to add to the display. My home town (or even the nearest big town) doesn’t show in the results returned by the search. The nearest town I can find is 50 miles away. In England...

Windows 8 Networking cmdlets

Windows 8 brings PowerShell v3 and a whole bunch of PowerShell modules.  One such module is NETTCPIP and as the name suggests is about networking.

PowerShell v3 automatically loads modules for you so as soon as PowerShell opens try

Windows 8 upgrade experience: #1

I’ve upgraded two machines to Windows 8

The first is my main working laptop:

• Windows 8 Enterprise can’t do an in place upgrade of Windows 7 Ultimate. So had to re-install all my applications. Took the opportunity to upgrade to Office 2013 and Visual Studio 2012
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PowerShell v3 goodness

Downloaded and installed PowerShell v3 and its associated new operating system (Windows 8) from MSDN in the week.

One nice new cmdlet is Unblock-File.

Download a bunch of files from the Internet and you have to unblock them.  Its now this easy

Get-ChildItem -Filter...