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 29 Mar 2009 @ 1:01 AM 
 

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-29

 

– Weather When Posted –

  • Tem­per­a­ture: 62°F;
  • Humid­ity: 29%;
  • Heat Index: 62°F;
  • Wind Chill: 62°F;
  • Pres­sure: 29.77 in.;

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Categories: Tweets Posted By: Eric
Last Edit: 29 Mar 2009 @ 01 01 AM

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 22 Mar 2009 @ 1:01 AM 
 

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-22

 

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  • Tem­per­a­ture: 63°F;
  • Humid­ity: 44%;
  • Heat Index: 63°F;
  • Wind Chill: 62°F;
  • Pres­sure: 29.9 in.;

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Categories: Tweets Posted By: Eric
Last Edit: 22 Mar 2009 @ 01 01 AM

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 18 Mar 2009 @ 12:03 PM 
 

Import Google Reader, Delicious, and Other Services Into Facebook

 

Thanks to this infor­ma­tion, I have linked a few of my 3rd-party sites and ser­vices to my Face­book account. Reminds me of the 90’s when we used to do Webrings – remem­ber Webrings? Remem­ber Webrings on Geoc­i­ties? Remem­ber the city names? Ha! That’s a mem­ory! I digress. This infor­ma­tion is grand!

From: How Do I Import Google Reader, Deli­cious, and Other Ser­vices Into Face­book? | Stay N’ Alive

With the new Face­book home page design, the vis­i­bil­ity of all my updates is mak­ing other peo­ple aware that I import my

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Ser­vices avail­able in Face­book as of this post

Google Reader, Deli­cious, and other activ­ity into Face­book. It is one of my most fre­quent ques­tions asked in the mes­sages I get on Face­book. For this rea­son I thought I’d share how I do it. Believe it or not, no app install is required for this – it’s built right into Facebook.

Ser­vices Available

First of all, the ser­vices you can import into your Face­book wall feed:

  • Yelp
  • Pho­to­bucket
  • Flickr
  • Digg
  • Picasa
  • Deli­cious
  • Google Reader
  • Youtube
  • Stum­ble­upon
  • Last.fm
  • Pan­dora
  • Hulu
  • Blog/RSS – you may choose one blog to import (in addi­tion to any note imports)

Start by choos­ing which of those you belong to and use, and which you would like to share with your friends. Now to set it up.

Set Up

Set up is easy.  Click on the “Pro­file” link in the top nav bar.  Then, under the “Write Some­thing” pub­lisher box, on the right, there is a “Set­tings” link. Click on that, and you’ll now see a list of sites you can import.  In the list of sites, just click on the one you want to import, and fol­low the instruc­tions.  Click “import”, and you’re done!  If you ever want to edit or remove your set­tings, just click on any of the ser­vices and you can change any of the set­tings you want.

Import­ing the other sites you fre­quent can be a great, viral way to ini­ti­ate dis­cus­sion amongst your friends and fam­ily.  It can also be a great way to bring more expo­sure to your brand or busi­ness if the arti­cles and links on the sites you share belong to your busi­ness, and oth­ers can always re-share on their pro­files, so it is viral as well.  So there you have it – you too can import these sites into your own pro­file.

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Enter­ing account info in Facebook

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  • Tem­per­a­ture: 85°F;
  • Humid­ity: 16%;
  • Heat Index: 84°F;
  • Wind Chill: 85°F;
  • Pres­sure: 30.02 in.;

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Categories: Internet / Blogosphere, Technology Posted By: Eric
Last Edit: 18 Mar 2009 @ 12 09 PM

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 15 Mar 2009 @ 9:30 PM 
 

Pushing Contacts and Calendars with Google Apps

 

Here we go Google Sync! Time to see how close we can get to killing off MobileMe!

 

 

Looks great right? One warn­ing caught my eye:

Google Apps user? This ser­vice needs to be enabled for your domain before you can use it. Please con­tact your domain administrator.

K, so I am said Admin­is­tra­tor. What do I need to do here? Please don’t tell me I need to upgrade to a Pre­mium Account, not after all this work Google. Don’t do it to me. Don’t!

Whew!

From: Google Sync via ActiveSync – Google Apps Help

If you’d like to enable Google Sync for your domain, fol­low these steps:

1. In the Ser­vice set­tings sec­tion of your Dash­board, click the Mobile link.
2. Select the check­box next to Enable Google Sync.
3. Click Save changes.

This fea­ture is cur­rently avail­able only in the Next Gen­er­a­tion ver­sion of the con­trol panel.

Did it, done. Whew!

Migrat­ing my MobileMe and Local Cal­en­dars to my Domain-Controlled Google Apps Google Calendar

So let’s start with get­ting my calendar.forsbergville.com Google Cal­en­dar set-up. I log-in and it con­firms the time zone, etc. and bam! Up.

Next I down­loaded a neat tool that basi­cally adds Google Cal­en­dars to your Apple iCal (10.5 and up only) pro­gram. Note that in 10.5 and up iCal, you can also do this man­u­ally as the new iCal sup­ports ical: sub­scrip­tions (love you Apple – had the Kool Aid made into con­ve­nient pop­si­cles and poured into baby bot­tles just so I can be near it more – you rock). The tool was called Cal­ab­o­ra­tion. Any­way, that got each newly cre­ated Google Cal­en­dar into iCal all talk­ing back and forth. Sweet. Next, I exported the cor­re­spond­ing cal­en­dars I already had either on MobileMe or locally into sep­a­rate .ics files vis iCal’s great Export… fea­ture. Once done, I used the Google Cal­en­dar Import… fea­ture and imported to each Google Cal­en­dar cal­en­dar. Again – whew! K, done.

After ver­i­fy­ing that each one looked good in iCal (I should and did have dupli­cates of every item as I should not see the orig­i­nal in iCal as well as the newly sub­scribed to items. I did. Sweet. I delete the local/Mobile me cal­en­dars com­pletely, quit iCal, start it again just to be sure, and walla. Cake.

Migrat­ing my MobileMe and Local Address Book Data to my Domain-Controlled Google Address Book

Will go here – need a break at the moment but will edit this post soon to round it off.

– Weather When Posted –

  • Tem­per­a­ture: 62°F;
  • Humid­ity: 33%;
  • Heat Index: 62°F;
  • Wind Chill: 62°F;
  • Pres­sure: 29.77 in.;

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Categories: Site News, Technology Posted By: Eric
Last Edit: 06 Dec 2009 @ 04 10 PM

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 15 Mar 2009 @ 3:33 PM 
 

Enabling Jabber Federated Chat to my Domain

 

I would like to have inte­grated chat ser­vices on my domain. Users can con­nect via any Jabber-able client and inter­act with friends on other mes­sag­ing net­works (AIM, Yahoo, MSN, IRC, etc.). How? Well, I have already mar­ried a num­ber of sub-domains to my Google Apps account (cal­en­dar, email, etc.) and that’s work­ing awe­some. Now for chat.forsbergville.com. At first I thought I would install a Jab­ber server on my host. Then I real­ized that Google Talk may be able to do the leg-work for me. I can marry chat to Google Talk now, but Google Talk is under-populated and I want those other networks.

Enter the process of fed­er­a­tion. Google Apps Admin Help tells me that:

From: How can my users chat out­side the Google net­work? – Google Apps Help

How can my users chat out­side the Google net­work?
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Google makes it pos­si­ble for your users to chat with peo­ple using other mes­sag­ing ser­vices through a process known as fed­er­a­tion. Go to Google Talk and open com­mu­ni­ca­tions to learn more about fed­er­a­tion and who we’re fed­er­at­ing with.

While we’re fed­er­at­ing with a num­ber of other ser­vices, some ser­vices aren’t cur­rently acces­si­ble through the Google Talk net­work, and your users won’t be able to chat with users of those services.

If you’d like your users to have the abil­ity to chat with peo­ple con­nected to the Google Talk net­work through fed­er­ated net­works, you’ll need to edit your Ser­vice (SRV) records. You don’t need to edit your SRV records for your users to chat with other Google Apps and Gmail users. SRV records are man­aged by your domain host. We sug­gest con­tact­ing your domain host to find out if you have access to SRV records and how you can make modifications.

When you enter the fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion, make sure to replace gmail.com with your domain. Don’t replace google.com.

_xmpp-server._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 5 0 5269 xmpp-server.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server1.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server2.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server3.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server4.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 5 0 5269 xmpp-server.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server1.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server2.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server3.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server4.l.google.com.

Because there are many dif­fer­ent domain hosts offer­ing vary­ing options for SRV records, we rec­om­mend con­tact­ing your domain host directly for assis­tance. This includes enter­ing the SRV record data, assign­ing pro­to­cols and weights, and other con­fig­u­ra­tion ques­tions. Some domain hosts will allow you to copy and paste the infor­ma­tion above exactly as it’s offered while other domain hosts require gran­u­lar data entry.

I use GoDaddy to host both my web­server and domain. This trick is exclu­sively involv­ing the domain. So here you go:

How to Enable Mes­sag­ing Fed­er­a­tion on your GoDaddy Hosted Domain

1. Copy this code snip­pet to your favorite plain-text editor:

_xmpp-server._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 5 0 5269 xmpp-server.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server1.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server2.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server3.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server4.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 5 0 5269 xmpp-server.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server1.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server2.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server3.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server4.l.google.com.

2. Per Google’s instruc­tion in the cited quo­ta­tion above, change the “gmail” bits to your domain (Impor­tant to leave the “google” parts intact).

3. Save the file as a plain-text file.

4. Login to GoDaddy, get to your domain’s Domain Man­age­ment area, click “Import” and import the file.

5. Bask in your glory:

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Imported SRV set­tings for Fed­er­ated chat

– Weather When Posted –

  • Tem­per­a­ture: 72°F;
  • Humid­ity: 27%;
  • Heat Index: 76°F;
  • Wind Chill: 72°F;
  • Pres­sure: 29.97 in.;

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Categories: Site News, Technology Posted By: Eric
Last Edit: 15 Mar 2009 @ 03 33 PM

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 15 Mar 2009 @ 1:01 AM 
 

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-15

 
  • Oh my God! Fun­ni­est SNL EVER tonight! Even w/o a dig­i­tal short! Ha ha! #fb #
  • … and great musi­cal guest too! Had never heard of him before. Bought his album on iTunes just now. Great SNL ep! #
  • … and the seri­ous Jenny Craig com­mer­cial after­ward made it dou­bly funny, I mean; just on the whole. #
  • RT @chrispirillo: RT @sher­ry­main – Dreamweaver dying, accord­ing to @slash­dot cuz of the change in the ways of the Web: http://bit.ly/3YiUz7 #
  • RT @jaslorax: $4.50 for a 1 liter bot­tle of water so I can stay lubri­cated dur­ing Watch­men. WTH? #
  • @jaslo­rax Lubri­cated how tho bro? I mean, not sex­u­ally I mean/ hope. It’s one thing to love a comic book, but quite another to be that xcitd in reply to jaslo­rax #
  • Off to play some ten­nis in the park. Beau­ti­ful out! #fb #
  • Play­ing ‘Unreal Tour­na­ment© 3 ‘ http://tinyurl.com/cgv9eq #
  • @pghuggen You get there OK? in reply to pghuggen #
  • @kev­in­rose Bring beers to the show. Dig­gna­tion style. in reply to kev­in­rose #
  • Watched the sun­set *after* work. Tears. Just tears. I like DST! #fb #
  • I see a lot of tweets pre­fixed w/, “Read­ing:”. Is there a tool that does this w/ short­en­ing the URL and includ­ing the title? #
  • There’re OSX apps for #Word­press? I know … late to the game on this one, obvi­ously, but REALLY – why didn’t I think to check B4 now? #
  • Good #Word­press app? Word­press Noti­fier: http://www.wpnotifier.com/ Growl noti­fi­ca­tions when some­one com­ments? Excel­lent! #
  • RT @wilw “I don’t know who these guys are in the Kings uni­forms, but I sure do like their pixie drink”<- see @ryan­py­ly­pow –told ya he hockey #
  • Play­ing ‘Unreal Tour­na­ment© 3 ‘ http://tinyurl.com/cgv9eq #
  • @lempe oh F Yeah! That’s my music right there!! in reply to lempe #
  • Play­ing ‘Braid’ http://tinyurl.com/3q6×9j #
  • @kev­in­rose re: your speed test: So YOUR’RE the rea­son why the net­work is so slow on this flight. in reply to kev­in­rose #
  • @Flo­ri­an­Boyd re: Honda Ele­ment: just don’t for­get to take it down before you drive down the free­way! :) in reply to Flo­ri­an­Boyd #
  • RT @jaslorax: Men­tally, mid­night Cherios [sic.] were a good choice. Gas­troin­testi­nally [sic.], not so much. Men shouldn’t have milk. #
  • (con­tin­u­ing @wilw) …so that he can warn us about the apo…calypse. <–how’d I do? #
  • @cas­cio Happy Birth­day and many more in your *future* endeav­ors (oh that was good irony, ya gotta admit). #
  • @wilw Trader Joe’s Peach Salsa is amaz­ing eh? in reply to wilw #
  • Much fun workin on tem­plate css refine­ments in #word­press, now off to lunch! #
  • @Gavin­New­som re: sav­ing teach­ers jobs: good on ya! Good lead­er­ship! in reply to Gavin­New­som #
  • @problog­ger if u find a good twit­ter badge, mind shar­ing what u found? in reply to problog­ger #
  • Play­ing ‘Unreal Tour­na­ment© 3 ‘ http://tinyurl.com/cgv9eq #
  • @lempe take some pics of the snow and get ‘em up on Flickr man! I miss snow drifts. Not snow in gen­eral, but drifts? Miss them. in reply to lempe #
  • RT @kgo­ra­dio Why is SF Mayor Gavin New­som using Twit­ter? KGO Radio inter­view from this morn­ing: http://tinyurl.com/c9rgtl #
  • Good God @dlprager! On the one hand, good on ya for being human/coo but damn bro, damn, f-damn! http://is.gd/mRWp #
  • RT @jaslorax: There have been some thefts locally. So, 2 all thieves fol­lowin me on twttr: I’m naked & when I was5i took karate. Do the math #
  • @Cac­heAd­vance re: Hint #104: … unless you are caching here in the desert. In that case, camo = yel­low shades every­time :) in reply to Cac­heAd­vance #
  • I can’t get the hang of morn­ings ever since DST began. I am inhu­man the first 2 hours of each a.m. #fb #
  • Try­ing to get MarsEdit to include #word­press attach­ments but strug­gling with how to get the “#” work­ing w/ [cap­tion id=”attachment_#”… #
  • …read­ing about #word­press Image Set­tings (http://snurl.com/doend) to get MarsEdit to respect the cap­tion ID# vari­able. Good fun! #
  • I framed my #word­press <-> MarsEdit inte­gra­tion involv­ing attach­ment ID# issue here and am hop­ing for help if u can: http://snurl.com/dogj1 #
  • Why does @jaslo­rax have this new Twitter-esce “What’s on yo mind” biz on his FB pro­file, but mine is unchanged? Inter­est­ing… #
  • Play­ing ‘Unreal Tour­na­ment© 3 ‘ http://tinyurl.com/cgv9eq #
  • @Cac­heAd­vance I like #gc in reply to Cac­heAd­vance #
  • I still don’t see the new Face­book fea­tures on my account, but have seen them on friend’s screens. Maybe Face­book left me behind. #
  • This week’s fore­cast. Sweet! Pool time! http://twitpic.com/227kk #
  • My daily cof­fee stop. Fri­day is Breve Latte Day for me. http://twitpic.com/227mq #
  • @ryan­py­ly­pow as in curl­ing your hair? in reply to ryan­py­ly­pow #
  • If u have HBO, u must see “Tak­ing Chance” (HBO film). Pro­found and deeply mov­ing. Just watched. #
  • RT @lempe: “My uneeded pur­chase of a new iPod shuf­fle turned into that+new Air­port Extreme. Damn you Apple.” <-big­ger fan­boy than @kev­in­rose #
  • http://twitpic.com/22ven So … the new iPod Shuf­fle is small then… (link f-ing hillar­i­ous!) #
  • Love that my iPhone cor­rects the mis­spelling of “shat” acce­den­tally typed with an “r” at the end. Steve Jobs is, now lit­er­ally, the shat.#fb #
  • Play­ing ‘Unreal Tour­na­ment© 3 ‘ http://tinyurl.com/cgv9eq #
  • @cedge318 First thing I do on my builds is dis­able the OSX Dash­board as u described. Resource hog. Good info! in reply to cedge318 #
  • RT @jaslorax: Beware the Ides of March: http://tinyurl.com/6nxff #ides­of­march #

– Weather When Posted –

  • Tem­per­a­ture: 57°F;
  • Humid­ity: 57%;
  • Heat Index: 57°F;
  • Wind Chill: 57°F;
  • Pres­sure: 29.86 in.;

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Last Edit: 15 Mar 2009 @ 01 01 AM

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 14 Mar 2009 @ 12:59 PM 
 

Sub-Domain Ideas

 

So obvi­ously I own my domain (forsbergville.com). After read­ing about map­ping my MX records for email to Google Apps, I started think­ing of other ideas for my sub­do­mains (cur­rent and future).

Sub-Domain Ideas
  • www.forsbergville.com should resolve to pri­mary domain on web­host (of course)
  • eric.forsbergville.com should resolve to this blog
  • angela.forsbergville.com should resolve to her blog
  • hik­ing.forsbergville.com should resolve to my hik­ing blog
  • files.forsbergville.com should resolve to my Drop­box (www.getdropbox.com)
  • music.forsbergville.com should resolve to Apache run­ning at home on my media server
  • chat.forsbergville.com should resolve to to jab­ber server run­ning on my web host
  • mail.forsbergville.com should resolve to google apps per this post
  • legacy.forsbergville.com should resolve to a Telnet/ssh java-based con­trol on a black back­ground web­page that is auto­mat­i­cally attempt­ing to login to the web­server using ssh (green let­ter­ing – yeah). Installed tools would include Gopher, Lynx, Pico, Pine, etc. Just for fun.

The ideas will keep com­ing I’m sure, but I think that this is a great start!

– Weather When Posted –

  • Tem­per­a­ture: 60°F;
  • Humid­ity: 51%;
  • Heat Index: 60°F;
  • Wind Chill: 60°F;
  • Pres­sure: 30.17 in.;

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Categories: Web Design Posted By: Eric
Last Edit: 16 Mar 2009 @ 09 52 AM

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 14 Mar 2009 @ 12:22 PM 
 

Installing Plugins for WordPress

 

Busy installing and test­ing plug-in’s for the blog today. The list is quite large, but I am sat­is­fied that, despite the amount of plug-in’s, I have the bare essen­tials for my design and usabil­ity desires. I snatched a few ideas from this won­der­ful arti­cle as well:

From: The 13 Most Essen­tial Plu­g­ins for Word­Press – NETTUTS

Word­Press is a very pow­er­ful and flex­i­ble blog/content man­age­ment sys­tem, but the thou­sands of plu­g­ins really help to extend the basic func­tion­al­ity. Here are 13 essen­tial plu­g­ins that you should imme­di­ately install after fin­ish­ing the Word­Press installation.

– Weather When Posted –

  • Tem­per­a­ture: 77°F;
  • Humid­ity: 10%;
  • Heat Index: 77°F;
  • Wind Chill: 77°F;
  • Pres­sure: 29.87 in.;

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Categories: Site News, Web Design Posted By: Eric
Last Edit: 14 Mar 2009 @ 01 02 PM

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 14 Mar 2009 @ 12:11 AM 
 

GoDaddy Domain to Google Apps to Email Bliss

 

So I am seri­ously con­sid­er­ing now renew­ing my MobileMe/.Mac account when it comes up in 9 months. This is – indeed – quite a bit of type-a over-planning-in-advance, I real­ize, but please bear with me here: I need to get my saved IMAP fold­ers off MobileMe now! I want it on my GoDaddy account now because I get free email there with my host­ing and domain plans! My f-ing domain is there man … I want my username@mac.com saved mes­sages moved – now.

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My Fin­ger — YOUR Eye!

See there? Just had a mas­sive type-a attack – right there, lit­er­ally via my fin­ger­tips thru the key­board out over the Inter­nets and to your inter­net con­nec­tion to your high-speed modem (prob­a­bly) then to a router (still – most have one, nut I real­ize I am now lim­it­ing my audi­ence, yes, how­ever if you are a red­neck on dial-up — still — ? You won’t ever read my blog any­how. I didn’t code it for you bro – you are lit­er­ally learn­ing e-Bay at this very moment, try­ing des­per­ately to fig­ure out why it takes so very long to load-up every image) .. [where was I? Oh yeah!], to your com­puter, up its cir­cuitry (not min­i­miz­ing the audi­ence now tho am I?), to your dis­play and INTO YOUR EYES.

Yes, you felt, just now, quite deeply; a type-a attack. But I digress: I want my saved mail moved! So I’m fol­low­ing the arti­cle below – now. Well actu­ally – fu%k – I bet Godaddy has timed my ses­sion out by now and all because of my damned type-a fin­ger­tips to eyes rou­tine.

From: Mike’s Tech Blog » Blog Archive » Using IMAP with GoDaddy email accounts

Using IMAP with GoDaddy email accounts

I really enjoy using GoDaddy for my domain and host­ing provider. How­ever, there has always been one aspect of their ser­vices that gets on my nerves: email. Let me count the ways:

1. Their email ser­vices limit SMTP for­ward­ing to 250 times per day (that is how many emails you can send each day.)
2. Each mail­box only can store up to 10 MB, unless you pay extra.
3. You can­not use IMAP with their accounts, only POP3 or the website-based email.

For­tu­nately, I found out today how over­come all of these prob­lems in one felled swoop. To sum­ma­rize the process, you use Google Apps instead of the GoDaddy email sys­tem. GoDaddy lets you set all the nitty-gritty details of your account set­tings, includ­ing how your email is han­dled. There is a nice tuto­r­ial how to do this here: http://howbits.com/solved-godaddy-email-step-one-get-google-apps/

Or, if you don’t want to fol­low the instruc­tions at the site above, then you just cre­ate a Google Apps account at http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/index.html , enter your domain name, go to the “Dash­board” page, click on the “Acti­vate email” link, and fol­low the directions.

Another great rea­son to do this is because now you’ll have all the ben­e­fits of hav­ing a Gmail account, but with your own domain’s email addresses instead of @gmail.com addresses. I have never owned a Gmail account, and I still don’t. Yet I use many of Google’s online appli­ca­tions: the search tool on my web­site, my per­sonal cal­en­dar, and now to main­tain my domain-specific email addresses. And yes, that means that I now get the same amount of email stor­age space for each account as some­one a Gmail account gets (over 6 GB at the time of writ­ing this), unlim­ited SMTP for­ward­ing, and IMAP access via my email client (I use Mozilla Thun­der­bird.) And all of this is for free! Who would’ve thought such a thing would be so read­ily avail­able to the pub­lic?
Kudos to Google! They may be get­ting mas­sive and over-controlling of many things, but there are still treat­ing their cus­tomers well.

– Weather When Posted –

  • Tem­per­a­ture: 62°F;
  • Humid­ity: 33%;
  • Heat Index: 62°F;
  • Wind Chill: 62°F;
  • Pres­sure: 29.77 in.;

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Categories: Internet / Blogosphere, Technology, Thoughts Posted By: Eric
Last Edit: 06 Dec 2009 @ 04 17 PM

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 12 Mar 2009 @ 11:59 AM 
 

Working with [caption id=“attachment_###”

 

From: Word­Press › Sup­port » Work­ing with cap­tion id=”attachment_###”

I am using MarsEdit (OSX stand-alone blog­ging soft­ware) to pub­lish to my WP blog and have every­thing work­ing with the excep­tion of one issue I am just con­fused about.

I use cap­tions for all embed­ded images in my posts and love the fea­ture. The first part of the cap­tion code reads:

caption id="attachment_###" where “###” is a seem­ingly ran­dom num­ber. How is that num­ber gen­er­ated (where does it come from)? Is it nec­es­sary for post­ing new pho­tos with cap­tions? While MarsEdit lets me tem­plate how each image is inserted, I don’t know what num­ber to put in this part of the code.

I found this doc­u­men­ta­tion: Word­Press › Sup­port » Work­ing with cap­tion id=”attachment_###”

Image Set­tings – Titles, Descrip­tions, Cap­tions, etc.

You can add cap­tions to your images by using the “Image Cap­tion” field in the “Add an Image” or the “Edit Image” window.

Word­Press Heart But­ton
When you add a cap­tion to an image, cap­tion short­code is inserted into the source code. The cap­tion is also used as the alter­nate text for the image by default. Here is the source code for the image above right after insert­ing it.

caption id="attachment_945" align="aligncenter" width="161" caption="WordPress Heart Button"”WordPress[/caption]

Unfor­tu­nately, this doesn’t tell me why the num­ber “945″ is used in both places above. Any tak­ers please?

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Categories: Technology, Web Design Posted By: Eric
Last Edit: 12 Mar 2009 @ 12 08 PM

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