NerdyHearn Blog

IPhone SMS To Gmail V3.0 Released!

Fri, 3 February 2012 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

Today we are very excited to announce the release of IPhone SMS To Gmail V3.0. Version 3 adds many bug fixes as well as a feature many users have been requesting since our original release: MMS message and iMessage attachments. All attachments included with any message to your IPhone will now be included with the text message during backup. V2.X users can upgrade for $4.99, new users can purchase V3 for $9.99. Thanks! The NerdyHearn Team...

January Sale!

Fri, 20 January 2012 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

We are placing all of our products on sale today through the end of January for 50% off. Buy 1 for $4.99, 2 for $8.99, or all 3 for $11.99. This includes IPhone SMS To Gmail, IPhone Calls To Calendar, and IPhone Voicemail To Gmail. Happy Backing! Cheers, The Team at NerdyHearn...

IPhone SMS To Gmail V2.2 Released

Thu, 5 January 2012 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

We have released a new version of IPhone SMS To Gmail to address a bug with the proper year output while parsing the date of an iMessage. This bug did not affect pure SMS messages. Users of version 2.0 or greater will automatically be prompted to update their software. V1.X users will need to upgrade in order to receive these updates. Thanks! The NerdyHearn Team ...

Updated Version of IPhone Calls To Calendar

Mon, 2 January 2012 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

We have released an update to include timezone offsets for users of our IPhone Calls to Calendar application. For those of you who have already purchased the program this is classified as an optional update although we highly recommend that you do so. Happy New Years to all! Cheers, The NerdyHearn Team...

New Product Release: IPhone Voicemail to Gmail

Sat, 12 November 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

We are pleased to announce the release of our 3rd product based on the IPhone: IPhone Voicemail to Gmail. This new application will upload all of your backed up voicemail messages to a folder in Gmail to allow for lifetime archiving of your important voice messages. We are offering this product under our normal pricing structure for $9.99 for the individual product, $14.99 for the purchase of 2 products, and $19.99 for the purchase of all 3! Thank you all for your continued support! ...

IPhone SMS To Gmail V2.1 Released

Mon, 7 November 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

We have released a new version of IPhone SMS To Gmail to address a new feature request as well as a few bug fixes: - Ability to ignore address book and use pure numbers (as V1.X behaved) - Bug fix for iChat messages when users do not have a phone number as an address (IPad and IPod where user IDs are not a phone number) - Bug fix for error message "Domain contains illegal character" Users of version 2 will automatically be prompted to update their software. V1.X users will need to upgrade...

New Product Release: IPhone Calls to Calendar

Sat, 5 November 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

We are pleased to announce the first release of our brand new IPhone Calls to Calendar. This new product has a number of useful features for IPhone users: - Backup IPhone calls to Google Calendar - Includes start and end time of calls, as well as duration - Integrates with address book for names in Gmail and Google Apps - Will read all IPhone backups from a single run - Will distinguish between incoming, outgoing, and missed calls We have been overwhelmed by the demand for IPhone SMS ...

IPhone SMS To Gmail v2.0 Released!

Sat, 29 October 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

In the spirit of the halloween season we've made a large number of upgrades and released v2.0 of IPhone SMS To Gmail. Among the new features are: - iChat support for iOS 5 - Users will now show up in Gmail as their true names if their number is in your address book - Bi-directional view (users now show as senders or receivers) - Ability to automatically mark messages read - Ability to reset your counter if you want to re-sync your entire SMS backup - A number of bug fixes. We've put ...

IPhone SMS To Gmail V1.3 Released

Sat, 15 October 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

We have released an updated version of IPhone SMS To Gmail which makes the program compatible with iOS version 5. The new installer is available here: http://www.nerdyhearn.com/files/installers/IPhoneSMSToGmail.exe. Thank you all for your continued support! iOS5' Tom Out. ...

Announcing Mac OSX Support for IPhone SMS To Gmail

Sat, 15 October 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

I am proud to announce that IPhone SMS To Gmail now fully supports Mac OSX. Thank you to all of the users that have waited so patiently for this addition and our apologies it took so long. A number of interesting bugs and issues were discovered and they are now all fixed! You can download either version for Windows or Mac OSX here. Cross Platformin' Tom Out....

Search and Replace in MySQL

Sun, 9 October 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

I often find myself looking for the proper syntax while attempting to do a search and replace in MySQL, and figured that I would help out by posting the syntax for someone else in the same situation: UPDATE `schema`.`table` set column = replace(column, "find", "replace"); That syntax will find any values "find" within the schema and table, and replace them with "replace" A pretty short post but hopefully helpful to some of you out there. Replacin' Tom Out....

IPhone SMS To Gmail V1.2 Released

Fri, 26 August 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

We have released an updated version of IPhone SMS To Gmail with a number of bug fixes. The old program will not run unless you update with the new installer from http://www.nerdyhearn.com/files/installers/IPhoneSMSToGmail.exe. Please note for those of you who had previously backed up messages: We changed how the last backed up message is stored in order to allow users with multiple phone backups under a single profile to behave properly. ALL users will have their last message backed up r...

IPhone SMS To Gmail V1.1 Released

Sun, 14 August 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

We have released an updated version of IPhone SMS To Gmail with a number of bug fixes. The old program will not run unless you update with the new installer from http://www.nerdyhearn.com/files/installers/IPhoneSMSToGmail.exe. Please note for those of you who had previously activated licenses: You will need to activate your license again. If you have lost or deleted the email please contact support and we'll be glad to send it to you again! Mac Users: A new zip file has been posted...

An Update on IPhoneSMSToGmail

Tue, 26 July 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

First of all, for those of you that have been sending questions about when IPhoneSMSToGmail will be ready as well as those of you that have been helping with beta testing and sending files, thank you. I have been very humbled by the response of those interested and the amount you have all been willing to help in the testing process. I released the first version of IPhoneSMSToGmail almost a year ago and after Apple changed the format they used to store data I thought the project would die. I r...

LastPass Extension not enabled after installation in Chrome

Sun, 10 July 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

After a long time of not blogging I figured I would share my issue with a recent LastPass re-installation now that I have my new super nerdy machine. I installed LastPass as I have normally on the past 5 computers I've used, but for whatever reason Chrome wasn't like the recent install. I'm running Chrome on Windows 7 x64. I tried reinstalling a number of times, repairing, using different options, but the popup to install the extension was still not working. I ended up digging into the...

Resolving Avaya Denial Event 2378

Mon, 28 February 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

We have been working on resolving a faxing issue with our new Avaya system over the past 3 weeks which has been an interesting problem at best. We are running dual 8800 servers, with CM 5.2 and MM. Upon our original deployment faxes over SIP were working perfectly, and roughly a week after the implementation (and a number of different hardware changes) they were no longer functioning properly, returning a denial event 2378 (RejReqT38) in the trace snippet below: 14:48:39 SIP>SIP/2.0 100...

Resolving IIS SSL Handshake Error

Sun, 13 February 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

We recently came across an issue which all new SSL certificate applications were failing and presenting users with an SSL Handshake error. IIS was accepting the certificates properly but there was still an error on the user end. Upon a lot of further investigation and a support call from Microsoft we determined that someone had revoked permissions on the following path: C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataMicrosoftCryptoRSAMachineKeys Resetting to the default ...

Starting SharePoint workflow for each item in a list

Thu, 14 October 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

I recently came across a scenario in which we created a new workflow for a list that had over 5,000 items, and as a result of having to start the new workflow for each list item I didn't want to manually have to click all the workflow initiations, so I went to the trusty ol' console. The console app is .NET 3.5-based and will work as follows: 1) User provides the site, list name, and workflow name in the App.config 2) The console app will open the site, then the web, then the list and ite...

Fixing "The given key was not present in the dictionary" error in SharePoint 2010 Installation

Wed, 13 October 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

We are currently working on standing SharePoint 2010 to start working on our migration paths internally, and I encountered an odd error. I followed the instructions provided by Microsoft verbatim and SharePoint 2010 Enterprise installed properly, but once I was ready to configure the farm after selecting my services, I received the error "The given key was not present in the dictionary." Some messing with options finally let me to the service account itself. Go to your AD account in Active ...

Web form to help audit permissions in SharePoint 2007/MOSS

Wed, 6 October 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

Determining an overall view of SharePoint's permissions can be quite a nasty task. Without the use of paid tools it becomes almost impossible to view the breakdown of an entire Site Collection's permission structure. We recently came across the need to determine permissions of a number of sites that are customer-facing as we are going to re-organize the site and I decided it was time to build a tool to help us in this process once and for all that we could use in the future (as this is not a...

Great Free Tool for RDP Management

Mon, 4 October 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

I've been a remote desktop power user for as long as I can remember (at least back to when I started coding and working on multiple servers). Since that time Windows RDP has slowly improved to include encryption, proxying for RDP servers (via RD Gateways) and the list goes on. While these are all great, the RDP client has changed very little in the past 10 years. I spend a decent amount of time each day on anywhere between 5 and 20 servers via the remote desktop client, so I was thrilled ...

New Job, More Posts To Come

Sat, 10 July 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

It's been a long time since I've updated the blog, and I apologize to those of you who have been so great in providing feedback and ideas for my blog over the past few years. The lack of blogging doesn't come without reason, as I started a new job 3 months ago. I left Rho looking to expand my career horizons beyond what they were and challenge myself to take things to the next level. I will greatly miss the incredible IT team at Rho and wish them all the best. My new role is IT Manag...

Resolving "Tracing Service lost trace events" in MOSS 2007

Sat, 1 May 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

I recently came across an issue while attempted to debug some MOSS workflow. My workflow was terminating with an error, but upon doing some deeper digging into the log files I realized that the only error appearing was "Tracing Service lost trace events. Current value 1." An incredibly useful and descriptive SharePoint error, as expected. This occurs when the SharePoint tracing service is erroring for whatever reason. Restarting the service named "Windows SharePoint Services Tracing" fi...

Code Analysis with NDepend V3

Tue, 16 March 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

Patrick Smacchia recently sent me a free license to try out NDepend v3 and I have to say I am impressed with the product. NDepend basically allows you to query against your code base, and can be used to run a number of different rules pertaining to structuring of classes, functions, interfaces, and a plethora of other factors. Providing these metrics allows a developer to determine the portability of their code, while at the same time ...

Restoring Specific Documents from a MOSS 2007 Content Database Backup

Wed, 24 February 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

I recently came across a situation in which a user needed files that were on a site that was deleted from a SharePoint site collection. Normally documents can easily be recovered via the recycle bin, and worst-case scenario via the second stage farm recycle bin, but because an entire site was deleted, the recycle bins could not be used, as recycle bins are based on the site. I had a recent backup of the SharePoint server's content database, so it was possible to attach the content database to ...

First Version of SharePoint Validator now available on CodePlex

Tue, 2 February 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

I recently created a small javascript project to allow NewForm.aspx and EditForm.aspx client-side validation in SharePoint using jQuery and a custom javascript class. SharePoint has no builtin validation that can be used to verify fields without posting back to the server, so I figured it was time to implement this myself. I put the project up on CodePlex here so that anyone who wishes can contribute. This class allows...

Adding jQuery to SharePoint

Thu, 14 January 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

Recently I have been doing some more client-side validation to spice up the required fields and the format of required fields while a user creates a new list item, edits a list item, and a few other operations. Obviously to do this using jQuery the first step is to actually embed the jQuery library so it can be used in SharePoint. There are really 2 different approaches that I find feasible, each one has it's advantages and disadvantages. There are a few other options that I found while Goo...

Configuring Nintex Request Approval Action Permissions in SharePoint

Wed, 13 January 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

I was recently deploying a workflow using Nintex Workflow which each submitted item first required the user's approval using the "Request Approval" action before the workflow would continue down the path. The problem we encountered was as each user was receiving their task announcement, they would go to the Nintex workflow approval page, they were receiving the error "* You are not authorized to approve this item." This was odd as the first action in the workflow was giving the user full permi...

Validate a Windows Username and Password against Active Directory

Fri, 8 January 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

I came across a need to validate a windows username and password explicitly against a domain server for the purpose of verification. I have had to implement just about every other scenario with regards to authentication in the past already, but normally because the user is already authenticated, .NET will handle Domain negotiation on it's own so you don't have to get into this, until you reach the scenario that you want to verify the user's credentials in whatever type of application. This t...

I'm Quitting Netflix and I'm Boycotting Warner Brothers

Wed, 6 January 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

I learned today that Time Warner and Netflix have "reached an agreement" that will force Netflix to delay new releases by 28 days. I hate to hear this, because I am a huge fan of Netflix, and have loved the service since I started using it. My main reason for using Netflix: receive new releases (as well as some older movies I want) from the comfort of...

Resolving Odd 5 Minute Timeout in HttpWebRequest.

Mon, 7 December 2009 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

Recently I have been using the HttpWebRequest class a large amount, and we came across a scenario in which I was continually getting a timeout, but I had been setting the Timeout property of the HttpWebRequest to much larger than 5 minutes, but was still receiving the timeout. In this case we were using an synchronous call through a StreamReader to get back all of the data as simple text: HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse(); StreamReader reader = reader.ReadT...

Resolving ASP.NET Web.Config Inheritance

Thu, 3 December 2009 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

I recently came across an issue with the following error: "Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.BusinessFramework' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified." I received this error while deploying a custom ASP.NET application on top of our existing SharePoint installation, in the root of our SharePoint site. After doing some digging, even though my ASP.NET application was a separate ASP.NET application, it still inherits from the root application, whi...

Awesome .NET 4: Named and Optional Parameters for Classes and Methods

Mon, 16 November 2009 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

.NET 4.0 packs a plethora of new awesome features for developers, but my favorite is by far named and optional parameters for both functions and classes. This addition in .NET 4.0 allows developers to drastically shorten the coding time on classes, default constructors, method overloads, and overall coding while calling these methods and classes. I would like to jump right into an example, so for my purposes, consider this .NET 3.5 class: public class Dog { private string m_Name; pri...

Determining if MOSS is Standard or Enterprise

Mon, 9 November 2009 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

You will often come across licensing questions regarding your MOSS installation from a number of different sources which will normally change the cost of products based on if your MOSS SharePoint installation is Enterprise or Standard edition. In the neverland that is Central Administration I never seem to be able to find what I am looking for, so for those of you in the same boat, the easiest way to tell which version you are running is by doing the following: Open up Central Admin G...

Configuring ASP.NET (And SharePoint) to use SQL-based Sessions

Thu, 29 October 2009 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

ASP.NET allows for servers to store their session variables and state information on a SQL server, which is a very useful ability, especially in the case of running clustered servers, or a server farm of web front ends in the case of SharePoint. When you move to a clustered or server farm scenario, you can no longer use InProc, or single-server-only session solutions, as they must be shared across multiple physical machines in order to prevent continuity errors for end users. It is not a v...

Configuring Reporting Services for Email Subscriptions

Fri, 23 October 2009 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

Reporting Services has many powerful features, especially when it comes to something that we use on a regular basis: report subscriptions. Report subscriptions allow users to subscribe to a specific report with specific parameters and have that report scheduled to be delivered on a regular basis. We came across one issue while enabling subscriptions for our users which was putting in the user's AD username, and was graying out the To field so it would only show up, as "username" instead of ...

Time for a change in our Domain Name System

Sat, 26 September 2009 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

Real-time updates, social status changes across multiple websites instantly, push notifications, even instant RSS notifications. There are many things in the leaps and bounds we have made with technology today (even since last year) which prooves that we have truly moved to an instantly-notified world. My question is why have these changes not applied in the world of ICANN, domain registrars, and domain name systems? I am not talking about DNS, as there is a reason these changes often hav...

Deploying Reporting Services WebParts to SharePoint WSS and MOSS

Thu, 24 September 2009 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

SharePoint does not natively have the web parts available to display Reporting Services reports within web parts, but this can be easily fixed. There is a WebPart Pack that ships with the reporting services installation which can easily be deployed to SharePoint. For Reporting Services 2008, this pack is available here: C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server100ToolsReporting ServicesSharePointRSWebParts.cab. If your SharePoint server is on a different server then Reporting Se...

Reading IPhone Text Messages using C# and SQLite

Fri, 18 September 2009 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

As a much more interesting follow up post to my previous post I thought it would be interesting to share my method of accessing IPhone text messages using C# and SQLite. This is not a "live" method of accessing the text messages, in that it requires that your IPhone be synced using iTunes to get the latest backup of your IPhone. When the backup is completed it backs up all data from your phone's databases, which are based upon SQLite. A...

Reading A Database Schema in SQLite with C#

Wed, 16 September 2009 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

As an introduction to my next, still secret, blog post, I would like to go over how you can read the schema from a SQLite database, using C# and System.Data.SQLite. This is a fairly simple process, but not immediately apparent if you are trying to do what I needed to do. In my case, I simply wanted to open an SQLite database (if you aren't familiar with SQLite, it is just a file-based DBMS), and read all of the tables withi...