Just bought a new Canon 5D Mark III or Nikon D800 camera and surprised that your RAW files don't have any thumbnails? Fortunately, Microsoft has released its latest Camera Codec Pack for free. While there are a few good commercial products out there, … [Continue reading]
In one of my SSIS 2008 applications, I had to extract data from Oracle which would be processed and dumped to SQL Server. In order to do so, SSIS will need have access to an Oracle Provider for OLE DB. I also needed to do a few simple checks here and … [Continue reading]
The most often asked question when configuring a firewall for SQL Server access is what ports are used by SQL Server? If your SQL Server uses default port numbers, it's important to have TCP port 1343 & UDP port 1344 at the minimum opened. The … [Continue reading]
A special link that's clickable on any iOS devices such as iPod, iPhone, or iPad and go straight to Apple's Appstore can be built via iTunes Link Maker (Create links for the iTunes Store, the App Store, the iBookstore, and the Mac App Store). The … [Continue reading]
One important aspect of SEO basics is that we use "WWW Resolve" on our domain name. While we know that domain.com and www.domain.com may be pointing to the same website, search engines don't know that and they will treat them as two duplicate … [Continue reading]