While enjoying my free month of Google Play music, I tried to play something on YouTube, which has now become “YouTube Red” because of my free music trial. The song played for three seconds and then I get this:
How could it be? Wi-Fi is showing up as consuming 10% of your Android battery when wifi is turned off! What gives? Android is sneaky, that’s what. The Wi-Fi setting is more like a “use Wi-Fi for internet” setting. In other words, your selection of that setting has nothing to do with the phone actually stopping the use… Read More »
Strange clicking noises can sometimes be heard in headphones while sitting at your computer. It often is fast clicking that slows over the course of five seconds or so, then stops, and then restarts in a few seconds. This annoying noise wrecks a nice song experience. The solution? Move your cell phone away from your… Read More »
SSMS Boost is an add-on for SQL Server Management Studio. I used it for quite some time but I got tired of using it as freeware. The reason SSMSBoost as freeware didn't work for me was because they require that you continually re-download the new version and re-register every 120 days, otherwise it renders your existing… Read More »
Launch Flickr Searchr! Now you can search your own Flickr photos by camera model. Strangely, Flickr has had the ability to search public photos by camera model, but not your own private photos by camera model. So, I have created a little tool that does the work for you at: http://benjf.com/flickr_searchr/. Simply fill out the form… Read More »
So what happens when you run a query to check TempDB file sizes and SQL tells you that each file is 101 MB, but when you look in the file system, they’re actually a 45 GB each? Also, when you try to shrink the file, the shrink file dialog window shows free space as a… Read More »
Just a quick note on a scenario I ran into, and what I did to fix it: Scenario A user was running a stored procedure that created a table. Rather than having a table created in the "dbo" schema, it was creating a table with their user name as the schema, as in: DOMAIN\Username.TableName. The… Read More »
EDIT 2017-07-30: I believe that Youmail has changed their Android interface. The “History” section has been removed, which is a major bummer. It still shows on the Android Market screenshots but it does not really exist. How do block robo calls now? Not sure yet. Ugh, the bane of my existence. Robocalls. They make me… Read More »
Perhaps a bit off topic for this site, but maybe it will help someone who was stuck like I was. My laptop is an Asus Q301L (Sonic Master). Occasionally, when disconnecting the wireless keyboard, my "fn" key is stuck on, so the zero key becomes a forward slash, and other keys are changed, as well.… Read More »