Apple Copies Android, Tries to Keep Up

I'm a phone junkie. I like to read about them, see what's going to be released next, compare different phones, and carriers. It probably drives my wife a little insane at times. So naturally, when Apple was doing their big announcement I wanted to watch what they were releasing. Also, because specifically for Apple, I've noticed that their announcements are tied directly to changes in their stock.I'm going to go through the event in order, thanks to Engadget, and pick out that things that really struck me.The first thing I saw was that the "Mobile Installed Base" was iOS 43% and Android... [Read More]

SQL Server Agent Sending Error Emails

I've been having an issue recently and I just decided to try to address it today. It was on a development server so I wasn't that concerned with it. My problem was that when errors were happening it wasn't sending out an email letting me know. I check the job to make sure that it was setup to email the error. It was. So then after a little searching I found that in the SQL Server Agent properties there's a setting to enable the mail profile. This wasn't enabled. Once I enabled it and restarted the agent all worked well!... [Read More]

Facebook Messages and Forwarding

So, anyone that knows me knows that I don't really like Facebook. I don't really trust them as a company and I don't like having to go to their website all the time to see notifications and more specifically to see messages. I have an email. ONE email that I use (other than work). If I have any other email addresses they still end up in the same one location. Therefore I don't log into 5 places to check different emails. This is the way I like it. Reduces wasted time. Now with that said, Facebook has all ways been... [Read More]