CFYves

Useful Android App – SMS Backup +

Yves — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:33:09 PST

I used to have an iPhone3G and had down graded to a cheap pay as you go phone for some time. I just wanted a simpler cheaper phone for texting and calling. Last summer I decided to get a new smartphone… so I ended up with an HTC Incredible S. I haven’t completely loaded the More >

Get a Custom Google+ URL with gplus.to

Yves — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:27:42 PST

I was digging into trying to find custom URLs for Google Plus today and didn’t see any options to do this. I remember back when custom URLs came out in Facebook. It’s certainly much easier and nicer to link to your social media site with a custom/easy to read URL then some long string of More >

What is “Hosted AdSense for Content”?

Yves — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 06:15:33 PST

As so many people do, I have a Google Adsense account and recently I had made some changes adding some YouTube Monetization to it. While looking in the Adsense account, which I do on occasion, I noticed a new line that I just didn’t recognize. “Hosted AdSense for Content”. Turns out that this is actually More >

Adding a sidebar to post view in Twenty Eleven WordPress Theme

Yves — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:31:20 PST

Something else I missed when looking at themes for my new blog was post template options. Seems as though the Twenty Eleven theme won’t display the sidebar when viewing a post/article. Thankfully, it’s not a huge modification and there is lot’s out there on how to do it. Basically, you modify the theme’s single.php file More >

How to add custom banners to Worpress TwentyEleven theme

Yves — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:05:36 PST

I’m setting up a new personal blog and settled on using WordPress’s Twenty Eleven theme that ships with current downloads. I wanted to create custom banners to be displayed in the “Header” settings under the “Appearance” menu. I thought they could be uploaded, this was something I simply presumed and didn’t actually check. I had More >

Dying Brands – Blackberry?

Yves — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:56:37 PST

Blackberry’s sales and popularity has been in decline for sometime. Well, in markets here in North America and Europe… but in some other countries they are still strong. But, one has to wonder in this age of mobile apps and fast moving technological advance. Once the ball has started rolling backwards, just how far can More >

Blog comment spam – Internet annoyance

Yves — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 07:07:04 PDT

Something that I’ve noticed over these last 5 or 6 years since I started blogging as a hobby is that the rise of “spam bots” submitting comments to blogs is just a continual annoyance. Not that many have ever made it through filtering and/or manual checking. But it’s almost as constant as the air itself. More >

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer thinks you need to be a computer scientist to use an Android phone

Yves — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:53:35 PDT

Found this interview with Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, and thought it was interesting. It’s neat to hear him talk about Microsoft’s products and take questions reflecting some of the technology giant’s future. But I just couldn’t help but be amused by some of the question/answers. For instance, when it came to questions about Windows phones… More >

How do I de-authorize a computer on iTunes?

Yves — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:40:58 PDT

I came up against this question very recently. You see, I had signed up for an apple ID quite a few years back and have been buying music from them since. Lately, I had noticed I maxed my Apple ID to the 5 computers that an account has as it’s authorized limit. 3 of those More >

Truncate a table on a remote server in MS SQL Server 2008

Yves — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:38:55 PDT

I’ve been learning alot since I’ve been in my new job and I must say I love it. I’m working with a completely different set of tools. For instance, most of the development I will be doing will be in .NET and looking in the occasional Delphi apps. Over the years I’ve worked with MySQL More >