Hi folks,
Today, I'm still using a nokia E71, almost up to date thanks to some interesting softwares like:
- Pixepiles to upload pictures on the web, like facebook,
- Gravity for twitter, facebook
- Roadsync for mail gmail account via exchange,
- Mail for exchange version 3.00.50 for my corporate exchange account,
- Sports tracker,
- Sugarsync
- Splashid
- Bloomberg
- Smart connect
- Maps booster
- Location tagger to tag picture with gps info
- Nokia maps
- Communicator for corporate IM
- Whatsapp
- Chat, native application for gmail chat
- Here and now for weather and movies on my closest cinema
- Opera mini for web browser
but today I m looking for a more up to date phone. I have found two options:
- Nokia 701, which is light, with up to date symbian Belle, full touchscreen, and an FM transmitter (NFC, but not important for me)
- Blackberry 9320
I will describe here why i may buy the blackberry :
- Cheaper than the nokia 701. It is only 190 euros in France! ( no contract)
- You add asoftware for exchange like astrasync or notifysync. I will go for notifysync as it supports mail encryption, and after 4 years is cheaper than astrasync,
- Faster webbrowsing than the nokia E71, with support of m.clipperz.com
- Full keyboard, which i really appreciate,
- Good autonomy: should be as good as the nokia E71,
- BB9320 + notifycorp over 4 years is as expensive as the nokia 701 is 400 euros on amazon.fr!
- Bbm, even if all my friends are using whatsapp,
- Big drawbacks are : bb maps doesn't work offline, no FM transmitter (cool at home or in the car, bluetooth over FM transmitter use more battery)
- Small form factor and light
I will waut if by december the price goes down, and i think I will buy it at this time.
Enjoy!
Labels: 3G, 701, 9320, blackberry, Cellphone, E71, gsm, mobile, nokia, phone, rim
Hi foxes!
I have bought a Magic TrackpPad from Apple few days ago. And today, I'm using it under WinXP on my laptop.
It was quite tricky to set up, but now, I'm very pleased to use it. Definitely,using one figer as a left click, 2 fingers as a right click, vertical scrolling in application using 2 fingers is really nice. You should give it a try, even if 69 euros is expensive.
To set it up under windows, here are the main steps :
- 1. install the apple driver. You can extract them from BootCamp.exe. Or you can download it from here.
- 2. Turn ON the bluetooth hardware.
- 3. From Control Panel > System info menu, look for an USB bluetooth device
- 4. Write somewhere the name of your hardware device ID. For me, it was :
- USB\VID_0DB0&PID_A97A&Rev_3164
- USB\VID_0DB0&PID_A97A
- 5. Edit the following file : C:\WINDOWS\Inf\bth.inf
- 6. In a section such [Toshiba.NT.5.1] add the previous lines such as :
- TOSHIBA MSI U100 Integrated Bluetooth 4= BthUsb, USB\VID_0DB0&PID_A97A&Rev_3164
- TOSHIBA MSI U100 Integrated Bluetooth 5= BthUsb, USB\VID_0DB0&PID_A97A
- 7. Save the changes.
- 8. Remove any bluetooth stack different from the WinXP one (the reason). For example, I had to remove the "Blutooth Stack for Windows by Toshiba" on my laptop, from the Add/Remove Application menu.
- 9. Reboot your laptop OR turn off/turn ON the bluetooth hardware.
- 10. The bluetooth hardware will be automatically detected. Windows will look for driver installation. You should point to the following folder : C:\WINDOWS\Inf
- 11. driver will be successfully installed.
- 12. You will get a "Bluetooth Menu" in the "Control Panel"
- 13. You can pair the magic trackpad now, and you will get everything available under Windows with the Magic Trackpad.
Enjoy the new experience :)
Labels: apple, bootcamp, driver, magic trackpad, mouse, win, windows, winxp, xp
Hi,
For some weeks now, I'm trying to use emacs as a mail reader. I want to remove
sylpheed as I don't use it very often. Plus, I would like to become more power using emacs too.
As today my main machine is running under windows, things are a little bit more complex than using any unix.
So, here is my configuration : emacs 23.3.1.
To be able to get your mails from IMAPS servers, you need to be able to open a SSL connection. You can read
Configuring Gnus and Gmail With IMAP on MS Windows. I prefer to use
stunnel. So, I can manage a simplier gnus.el configuration.
Example for gmail:
- stunnel file
- [imaps-gmail]
- accept=localhost:12345
- connect=imap.gmail.com:993
- gnus.el for email reading
;;limit the number of fetch email (too avoid to slow down the system and to run in out of memory)
(setq gnus-newsgroup-maximum-articles 30)
;;here, only 30 mails are fetched
;;gmail account
(setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "Example GMAIL"
(nnimap-address "localhost")
(nnimap-server-port 12345)
(nnimap-authenticator login)
(nnimap-stream network)
(nnimap-authinfo-file
"~/.imap-auth")
))
- the imap-auth file
machine localhost login GMAIL_LOGIN password GMAIL_PASSWORD port 12345
You must have at least one gnus-select-method in this file before using the gnus-secondary-select-methods !!! It is hardly said on the web.
A great tutorial,
My experiences from setting up Gnus with nnimap and Courier IMAP, about the splitting feature provided by emacs. Splitting is like an automatic sorting according to rules, like in outlook.
Sources
- Official emacs wiki : GnusGmail
- emacs wiki : gnus nifty tricks: the basics
- sample gnus.el config file
- another gnus.el sample
- a discussion about "the gnus-secondary-select-methods and use of variables"
Labels: emacs, gmai, gnus, imap, mail, microsoft, MS, nnimap, split, splitting, ssl, stunnel, win, windows, xp
Hi,
This
blog is describing how to set up push mail using nokia messaging. This solution is using IMAP protocol, which needs a specific subscription in France if you don't want to be in bankrupt.
On a GMAIL account, you can use
MFE (Mail for Exchange) too. This way is only using https protocol, so it will be great for any internet / data subscription on your cell phone.
Enjoy your emails ;)
Nokia Messaging Push Email Setup on Nokia E5
There are lots of issues and problems reported about people have trouble setting up Nokia Messaging account on Nokia E5, below are the steps to follow for successful configurations: (Assuming you have Internet Setup/GPRS Configuration / WLAN done on your device)
- Goto Control Panel, Setting, General, Personalization, Messaging Key, Messaging Key, Short Press.
- Set short press to Email Setup.
- Exit from Control Panel and short-press the messaging key
- It will bring the Nokia messaging setup, enter Gamil credentials
- Follow the instruction and you're done
- Sing in to (https://email.nokia.com/account/login.action) with your step 4 Gmail credentials
- Setup other email account (Max 10 including first Gamil one)
- All of configured Email accounts are will be available on your device shortly
- Perform step 1 and set short-press to default
- Cheers
Labels: active, exchange, messaging, mfe, microsoft, nokia, push mail, sync
Thursday, July 14, 2011
How to optimize mail reading
Hi Foxes!
When you are dealing with many mail account, you know, it takes a lot of time. Firrst, you have to found an efficient email client, and that is very difficult. Plus, today, everyone is using IMAP protocol to deal with email, if it is not the HTTPS provided from GMAIL or another webmail gateway.
So, according to some reading, the best combo is to use a local IMAP server which will retrieve/fetch mails from a remote server to the local server, then use a regular mail client to read mail which are on the local computer. So, reading is fast, search is fast too, and you can read your mails offline too :D.
I let you read this
comment.
So, one nice solution may be to use :
- offlineimap to create a maildir mail database from a remote IMAP server. It needs Python.
- use an email client which fully support maildir database OR use a POP/IMAP local server such :
- an email cliant such GNUS (emacs), Mutt, Alpine, etc.
Such combinaison is described
there for MacOS.
Another solution is to use a local mail server which can retrieve mails from a remote server, such as :
- hmailserver is working pretty nice under windows. You should read ALL the documentation. Everything is on the website. It is quite easy to configure everything.
Labels: gnus, imap, linux, local, mail, maildir, mutt, offlineimap, outlook, pop, server, thunderbird, windows, xmail
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Light - small footprint MP3 / Music player for windows
Hi foxes!
Since web browsing is more and more ressource consumming, I was looking for a way to save some CPU and RAM memory when I was listening music and browsing internet under windows. Usually, I was using the great
VLC software. Now, I'm using
Evil Player. It can plays OGG, MP3, FLAC files.It has a very small footprint (around 3Mo once it has been minimize in the system tray), it is efficient. Today, it fills my need.
You can have a look to other mp3 players :
Labels: 1by1, coolplayer, evil player, FLAC, foobar, foobar2000, light, mp3, music, player, small footprint, spider player, tiny, windows
How to Get Things Done and be Zen To Done
Hi Foxes!
I'm always looking for advices and feedback about how to get things done and how to balance work life and private life. So, few months ago, I have read some articles about the
GTD (Getting Things Done) think tank from David Allen. So, I have decided to read a little bit more about it, and I have found a new think tank, much easier to apply : Zen To Done. Because I think that everything must be kept as simple as possible, overall in organization topic and technical topic, I think I will try to apply this method in a few days. I will later talk about my personal experience.
Labels: david allen, early person, emacs, get things done, GTD, morning person, org mode, vim, vimoutline, ZTD
Sunday, June 05, 2011
Light newsgroup software
Hi Foxes,
Tired of heavy newsgroup clients such as pan, grabit and so on...let's have a try to;
- slrn, a blazing fast newsgroup reader. It downloads messages very quickly, it is very easy to use it and with a lot of features.
- nzbget very efficient to donwloads binary files using newsgroup. It is light and impressive.
- nget may be a useful software, but I have not found it easy to use.
I'm using
stunnel on the top to add SSL feature. I prefer to do so, because I think that stunnel is well optimize about speed and memory usage compare to any homemade implemantation in a third software. I prefer to use the a dedicated software for that when it is possible.
About the configuration of the softwares, it is regular config files. You can have a look to :
Labels: gnus, grabit, newsgroup, nget, nntp, nzbget, pan, slrn
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Watching streaming video with a low power computer
Hi foxes!
Today, webpages are becoming heavier. Plus, streaming video, such youtube videos, often required a quite powerful computer. Watching youtube on a netbook can be very painfull!
So, one solution is to use
tinyogg. This website will convert a flash video from youtube to a ogg/theora video. So, it needs less computer power and so more interesting for netbooks ;)
Have fun!
UPDATE 11/06/2011:
the tinyogg service had ended now. Please use the HTML5 version of youtube http://www.youtube.com/html5 .
Labels: ogg, streaming, theora, tinyogg, youtube
