Found my Windows Mobile Utility

Late last year I was looking for a Windows Mobile utility… without much luck. I wrote:

Perhaps a more interesting utility would be one that changes notification sounds/styles depending up on the time of the day. Sure, keep on getting that email every 10 minutes, but after 7pm just flash the alert light and don’t vibrate

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Revisiting Documenting Job Schedules with Google Calendar

About a year ago I wrote about my new method of documenting scheduled jobs with Google Calendar. Since that article I’ve been diligently updating my calendars as jobs have been added, deleted or changed.

Earlier today I was modifying the schedule of a job when I realized my idea had a fatal flaw. I noticed some

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Looking for A Windows Mobile Utility…

I’m a big fan of using my Windows Mobile phone and IMAP to keep current with my work email. Regardless of where I am, I always see my mail within 10 minutes — and that has been a real lifesaver a time or two.

However, there’s one huge drawback to the WinMo IMAP implementation: No real

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Document Scheduled Jobs with Google Calendar

I’ve literally spent years trying to come up with a rational and simple way to document the scheduled jobs that I have running on multiple servers.

My jobs tend not to be anything fancy – in fact, Windows Task Scheduler and the scheduler in SQL Server tend to satisfy my requirements just fine. But lordy, I

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Maybe I Contributed to the Windows-based Kitchen Client

Mary Jo Foley, the Microsoft watcher over at ZD Net, wrote an article yesterday about the upcoming “kitchen client” Windows platforms.  These two paragraphs should sum it up if you’ve not read it yet:

The ?Kitchen Client? software will extend the Windows operating system and integrate with current and future Windows Live services, according to sources

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