Adil Hindistan's Technology Blog

Update 2021-07-21: Not sure why I bother but it annoyed me that my last blog post here was about yet another service in Google Graveyard. I...

Before Windows 7, max length of the PATH environment variable was 1024 chars. Many years ago, we found ourselves troubleshooting a huge prob...

One of the new cmdlets in PowerShell v5 is ConvertFrom-String. It's using a Microsoft Research Technology called "FlashExtract...

TL;DR:  Remove the relevant .sfl file located under the following directory: ~/Library/Application Support/com.apple.sharedfilelist/com.ap...

I made it a habit to add my Google account to "Internet Accounts" in OS X, which also enables me to see calendar events on the not...

Last night, I noticed my iMac was a bit unhappy as it had run out of (250GB) SSD space. I recalled that the night before I had installed Goo...

NAS It's been several years since I was sold on using a NAS to solve the data sharing problems at home. QNAP TS-439 Pro was my choice....

Last year Yahoo revived Flickr, and they offered something none other are offering even now: 1TB free space for your pics and videos. I ha...

I hate it when Terminal in my mac scrolls up when I hit 'Home' key, or all the way to the bottom, when I hit 'End' key. As m...

I wanted to move my iPhoto Library from my SSD disk to secondary SATA disk on my iMac. It's pretty easy to do: Create a folder in th...

I was testing one of my PowerShell scripts and noticed a problem, a PowerShell gotcha if you will, that's actually quite easy to miss. ...

One of the interesting things, when you run "GET-ADCOMPUTER" cmdlet to find out the last time computer password was set, is that t...

These are my notes from bricking my router and bringing it back! How it all began?  I have a love-and-hate relation with DD-WRT. I have b...

PSBoundParameters are useful, simple and could trip you! Here is our test script t.ps1 param( $Name="foo", $LastName=...

In the last couple of days, I started to see a couple of weird issues on my my fully patched Windows 8.1 Update 1 PC. I may blog more about ...

Just another quick tip today. I wanted to create a Runspace to run some PowerShell code from C#. When I launched Visual Studio, and tried r...

If you are seeing messages from your Visual Studio (Express) complaining that your trial expired after 30 days, you need to sign in to your...

There are tons of resources on the web on how to use -whatif parameter in Powershell functions. I won't go over them but here is a mista...

I noticed today that my iPhone 5S had some missing contact information. I checked and double checked, and sure enough some contacts I had on...

Recently, we had a discussion in a Microsoft Certified Professionals group about how to detect who joined a computer to domain. One of the f...

I installed Python 2.7 on my computer, but install path was not added to environment variables. A couple of quick notes on doing this with P...

Daily PowerShell tips from PowerShell.com are a great way to learn PowerShell tips and tricks. They sent a tip yesterday about 'quser...

Recently I ran into an issue while doing regex on Bios Serial Numbers. A couple of machines returned a special character as their serial num...