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All Your Email Are Belong To Gmail

Wednesday December 27, 2006

As written about previously, I’ve decided to let Google’s Apps For Your Domain handle all of the e-mail for my domain. What this means is that for all incoming and outgoing e-mail I’ll have them saved permanently (as permanently as 2 gigs of space allows at least) stored in GMail for my domain users and also stored on my web hosts’s IMAP server. Cool beans, yes. But what about the e-mail that I’ve been keeping on my IMAP server for the last 8+ years, eh? It sure would be nice to get all that e-mail into GMail as well so that I can take advantage of GMail’s searching. Well, along comes some spectactular 5+year-old(?) technology by Mark Lyons called GMail Read more…

Google, KDE, Life in General

Using GMail Hosted With Your Hosted-Elsewhere Website

Sunday December 3, 2006

I fought this stupid thing for a good few days with no luck (and loss of sleep, etc.) and I finally found the solution. I’m using Google’s Apps For Your Domains as the e-mail server for my domain. First, there’s the 2 gigs of storage per user. Also, it’s a nice solution for long-term backup and storage. And I’m most interested in using GMail’s spam filters and spam training, since that’s one thing that is VERY non-simple (non-possible, honestly) with every web hosting solution I’ve seen yet. Unfortunately, GMail doesn’t allow an IMAP interface (yet, hopefully?? come ON gmail guys!!!). I check my e-mail from multiple machines and POP3 is very unsuited for this purpose (even with the recent:username@ hack Read more…

Google, Life in General

Moving Moving Parts

Friday December 1, 2006

As posted previously, it’s been a good 2 years with vortexhost.com, but I’m feeling the need to get more and possibly spend less. Now, the thing that is not negotiable with all of this is my e-mail. I can stand downtime on my website every once in a GREAT while, but if I am ever inconvenienced by e-mail problems, I’ll be looking for a new solution within the next hour. So, what I think I’m going to try is using Google’s Apps For Your Domains and use them as my MX handler. For web space (not as mission-critical as e-mail), I think I’m going to find a cheap solution with a decent amount of space. 1and1 seems to fit the Read more…

Apples, Google, Life in General

Apple’s Exceptional Attention to Detail

My most favoritest headphones just died on me recently. They were cheapo Jensen behind-the-head headphones, but they had amazingly good sound and fit me perfectly (like comfortable, broken-in shoes). I used them with my iPod, and everything else. *sniffle* But alas, one side of the stereo headphone has stopped working entirely (which sort of defeats the purpose of “stereo”, doesn’t it?) and the faithful Jensen headphones now reside in a landfill in MA somewhere. So I was getting all ready to go on a conquest for new headphones. Then I realized that my iPod nano came with Apple-sanctioned mini-headphones that I’d never even opened. I tried them out today and was once again impressed with Apple’s attention to detail and Read more…

Apples, Google, KDE, Life in General, Linux, Movies, Music, Video Games

Warning: a brain dump followeth: Blockbuster has sweetened their deal by allowing in-store trade-ins of online-rented movies. This, to me, blows NetFlix out of the water, since NetFlix does not yet have a brick-and-mortar presence anywhere (?). And, because we signed up with Blockbuster a while ago, we still get to keep our 2 free movie-or-game rental coupons per month too. Pretty cool! As a result, we’ve been watching tons of movies as of late, including the Indiana Jones trilogy (forgot how good they were!!). I’ve been a busy little beaver over the last few weeks, OSS-code-wise, anyway. Adriaan and I have whipped kpilot into shape proper-like, it seems. I’ve spent a decent chunk of time twice now and merged Read more…

Google

Kludge Around Google Firefox BrowserSync Error

Wednesday June 28, 2006

So, yes, I’ve joined the Borg once again and have started playing with Google’s BrowserSync Firefox extension. I decided to import all of my old Opera bookmarks and then (silly me) expected BrowserSync to be able to feed them all up to The Borg Collective (I mean the main Google server). What I kept getting was a very naughty little error message that was the opposite of helpful: Error ‘-1Unexpected error’ Riiight. So, I found this newsgroup posting and following the following steps, some of which also complained with unhelpful errors, but in the end, it seems to be working now. it didn’t work :\ but i have anouther Possible ‘FIX’! so i will call it Possible ‘FIX II’! just Read more…

Google, Linux

Google Video Player For Linux

Friday June 16, 2006

Got your attention, did I? I run Linux on my Apple G4 Powerbook, which means that I don’t have the luxury of such niceties as… oh, I don’t know… FLASH!?!?! So I was happy to find that even though I can’t view Google Video’s Flash-based movies, I can easily enough still play them on my G4 Powerbook running PPC Linux. I whipped up a very simple and quick little script for it, as follows: #!/bin/bash PLAYER=kaffeine INFILE=$* TMPFILE=”/tmp/$(basename $0).tmp” echo “got->${INFILE}< -... going to work..." cp "${INFILE}" "${TMPFILE}" URL=$(grep 'url' ${TMPFILE} | sed 's,url:,,' ) ${PLAYER} "${URL}" I then saved in in ~/bin/google-video-player.sh and chmod +755’d it. I then clicked on the download link on google video’s pages, told Konqueror Read more…