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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:

1. stunnel file
1. [imaps-gmail]
2. accept=localhost:12345
3. connect=imap.gmail.com:993
2. gnus.el for email reading
1. 
   ;;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
   
2. 
   ;;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")
   ))
   
   
3. the imap-auth file
1. 
   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

1. Official emacs wiki : GnusGmail
2. emacs wiki : gnus nifty tricks: the basics
3. sample gnus.el config file
4. another gnus.el sample
5. 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