I would very much like to find a way to post Apple iChat tran­script files so that they are both read­able within the Word­press post and down­load­able as the orig­i­nal name.ichat file.  So a but­ton when I am com­pos­ing or edit­ing a post that says “Post iChat Tran­script” would be ideal.  I won­der if some­one could write the Word­press plu­gin that would accom­plish this as I am sure it would be popular.

So this Word­press Plu­gin Project would Entail:

1. Cre­ate the plu­gin that would include a “Post to iChat” but­ton within the post edit­ing screen.
2. On Click, plu­gin would ask for the local loca­tion of the xxx.ichat file.  Worth not­ing here is that the xxx.ichat files are sim­ple ordered xml for­mat so this can be done.
3. Use the cod­ing that rajbot cre­ated here to dis­play the con­tents of the chat within the post (uses CSS to style the tran­script in order to look like an ichat inter­face (includ­ing rounded edges on the bubbles).
4. In addi­tion to dis­play­ing the tran­script within the post, the plu­gin should include a link to the orig­i­nal (now on server) for down­load by read­ers as an option.

The Chat Bub­ble css code ref­er­enced in point #3 above looks like this when posted to Word­press (orig­i­nal posted here):

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

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.

Enter­ing account info in Facebook

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.

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.